AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 4)
More of this wonderful previously unknown document, backing up everything I’ve been saying for years about the uniqueness of northern Chinook Jargon.
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1903: An 1856 Oregon memory
A saltcellar (shaker) that belonged to President Madison’s wife Dolly; famous Oregon pioneer Joe Meek’s rifle; and a Grand Ronde-area Chinuk Wawa story…what do they have in common?
Circa 1850: I was quite a Siwash linguist!
“Rambling Notes on Olden Times” is the headline on a sometimes humorous piece by W.L. Adams in 1875.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 7: the use of catechisms)
The Chinuk Wawa newspaper was used in early residential-school classrooms…
1871: An Oregon word for ‘log cabin’?
During the frontier era, several words of Chinuk Wawa dropped into a news report may have documented an expression we ought to know.
Herbert Hoover: yet another US president who (probably) knew Chinuk Wawa
One of the weirder trends we’ve found in our Chinook Jargon researches: lots of US presidents were exposed to this language!
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Published at Chinook House
Okay, this installment of fun is not in Chinook Jargon, but it’s from “the Chinook paper”…
1890, Grand Ronde area: Quoted Native elder speech
Don’t know how I missed this valuable quotation of Grand Ronde-area speech till now!
1897: More Chinook doggerel
An honorary member of our collection of Chinuk Wawa doggerel poetry is this political paean to the Chinook salmon… THE CHINOOK SALMON. Just before the holiday recess Senator Mitchell of Oregon introduced in… Continue reading
1872, Washington DC: The Pacific Coast Club
Was this a political organization?