1881: From Alaska — Why a Washington [DC] Clerk Went to a Far-Off Country
When Alaska was still a newly acquired territory of the USA (since 1867), most Americans to be found there were located in its southeast panhandle.
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1912, Siletz, OR: Native minstrel show in Jargon?!
Most unexpectedly, we find Native people in Oregon doing a minstrel show in Chinuk Wawa…
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: How the priest wound up selling beer
This one’s also in a non-Chinook Jargon language, but it’s from the Chinook newspaper, and it’s quite a funny true experience!
1916: How to say “Ish Kabibble” in southern-dialect Chinook Jargon
Very important, as John Peabody Harrington might say in his field notes: here’s Grand Ronde’s style of Chinuk Wawa, spotted in the wild…
1855, OR: Where is the fault?
Genuine early-creolized, Grand Ronde area, Chinook Jargon had already crept into Pacific NW English by the time our first newspapers were being published (and complained about).
January 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part 1 of 3 (St Agnes’s weird story)
Kamloops Wawa #124, page 2, promises us:
Places called “Tenas Illihee / Tenas Illahe(e)”
The Chinook Jargon term for ‘island’, tənəs-íliʔi, has a literal meaning of ‘little land’.
1883: John Slocum’s return from death + competition with White guys
This “Wiggins” stuff is an interesting wrinkle!
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 5 “Whiskey” [B])
Song #5 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1876 German letter quotes SW Washington Native’s CJ
On our CHINOOK listserv 22 years ago, Sue Schafer shared an 1876 German letter from her Satsop, WA, area great-great-grandmother Anna Schäfer.