Chinook Jargon in the news: Skookumchuck String Band
Victoria, BC’s weekly “Monday Magazine” brings us our latest Chinuk Wawa in the news.
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1897, Chilliwack BC: I delate cumtuxed or heap sabed
I’m sorry that all I have is this tantalizing British Columbia snippet from an obscure book for you today.
‘HIDDEN’ :: ‘SHUT’, an Indigenous metaphor
Rats & mice have a reputation of thievery in the Pacific Northwest.
Chinuk Wawa in the arts: “The Sun is Setting on the British Empire”
Here’s quite an interesting work of art that you may not have known of.
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2D: Le Jeune 1924: more French (B))
The implication behind Father JMR Le Jeune’s presenting this list of words seems to be that they’re considered to be Chinook Jargon somewhere else than British Columbia…
1857, Olympia, WA: Kultiss Skookum!
From the earliest days of journalism in muddy Washington Territory, folks were slinging Chinook Jargon at each other.
$ “Pʰey” and “peyei” in British Columbia $
In Northern-dialect Chinook Jargon, you can find 2 nearly identical words meaning ‘pay (for)’…
Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 10: Synonyms)
There are very few synonyms in Chinook Jargon.
1889, Wash. Terr.: On the naming of the new state
Among the many ideas for what to name Washington Territory when it became a state later in 1889 was a facetious suggestion of “Siwash”!
More evidence of Métis French in BC? “Ember Days”
Readers of the old Chinook Jargon newspaper, “Kamloops Wawa” often saw the word likatrta in the calendar section.