More humor in Chinuk Wawa: The culture of literacy
Something that often comes up in the old Chinook newspaper is an ability to see what’s funny in a negative experience.
Something that often comes up in the old Chinook newspaper is an ability to see what’s funny in a negative experience.
Christmas-themed, if you squint 🤣
The action here takes place at the Duwamish Tribe’s temporary place of exile, Seattle’s Ballast Island. “Indian Camp on Ballast Island” (image credit: Duwamish Tribe) (Ballast Island is not to be confused with Ballard.)… Continue reading →
Explaining new religious ideas to Native people involved trying to use their languages…
The Chinook Jargon in the post-frontier article from southern interior BC didn’t need to be translated to be understood.
From early Settler days in southwest Oregon, specifically from the Rogue River War, comes a new meaning of “skookum house”.
Song #3 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
The loaded headline “LOST TRIBE OF INDIANS” introduces a long article reprinted from the Portland Oregonian in the early post-frontier era.
An unsigned but no doubt genuine memory of quite early Settler days naturally makes use of plenty Chinuk Wawa!
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