Harry Guillod’s journal of a trip to Cariboo, 1862
Harry/Henry Guillod (1838-1906) came from Britain to BC in the Cariboo gold rush of 1862, and wrote about it charmingly.
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October 1894: “Our Monthly Budget” (Part 1 of 3, New Letter from Belgium)
There are a few tiny quirks in this enthusiastic young French fella’s Jargon, but let’s just read & enjoy his letter! [Our Monthly Budget] < New Letter from Belgium. > Chi wixt chako… Continue reading
1907: Grandma Nye outdoes them
My rule of thumb that 1890 was, as some historians have said, “the closing of the frontier”, holds up when we see how quick a lot of Settlers lost familiarity with Chinook Jargon.
1924: Sky phenomena in northern CW
A rare clear glimpse at how northern Chinuk Wawa expresses various things that go on in the sky…
Chinook Jargon in the news: “Mákook pi Sélim” #5
Just published: issue #5 of the Vancouver, BC magazine of Indigenous business, “Mákook pi Sélim”…
Quinault ‘to gamble with a bone or stick’
Here’s a Chinuk Wawa and/or Lower Chinookan loan word in Quinault Salish that I’d missed before!
1933 doggerel: “Chinook and Chinee”
This post-frontier poem amounts to a southeast Alaska variation on the classic Pacific Northwest “sitkum dolla” joke!
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 9: Sechelt church
Pictures were a valued commodity in the early days of Chinuk Wawa literacy, in southern British Columbia.
1892: Les Crees ilihi
Is this “les Cris” (the Crees)?
1922: The Indian Shaker religion
There is very good information here about Indian Shaker Church use of Chinuk Wawa…