“tuməch” in Chinuk Wawa
A charming multifunctional loan from the kind of English that was spoken around Native people in 1890s British Columbia is “too much”…it leads us to much insight into Grand Ronde’s Jargon, too.
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Chinook Jargon in the news: and due respect for PNW history
All the way over in New Jersey, we find Chinuk Wawa showing up in a current news item.
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.
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.