Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 10: ‘to make’)
In his short but punchy 1892 article reporting newly noticed Chinuk Wawa words in the lower Columbia River region, Franz Boas says as basic an idea as ‘make’ has new expression…
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1893: Gill vs. Hale, debating pre-contact Chinuk Wawa
(Image credit: Internet Archive) Too bad if you haven’t yet read JC Pilling’s 1893 “Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages” (it’s for free at that link).
1872: A Métis French word in Shoshoni
A word in the Shoshoni/Shoshone language (Uto-Aztecan family), spoken in western Utah, is almost correctly attributed to Chinuk Wawa.
Suquamish traditions
From a tribe quite close to modern Seattle, WA, come today’s picturesque bits of Chinuk Wawa.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 8: Sechelt village, BC
From a coastal town where Chinuk Pipa writing was popular…
Alaskan Haida bark-gathering song w/Chinook Jargon
A traditional Haida song for gathering the bark from young cedar trees uses Chinuk Wawa.
1889, BC: The boss potlach
It’s not difficult to find news articles about Native “potlatching” in the second half of the 1800s.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 10)
Here’s the tenth pair of page images from Father Honoré-Timothée Lempfrit’s copy off of the presumable Modeste Demers original Chinuk Wawa vocabulary made at Fort Vancouver circa 1838-1839.
Chinook Jargon in the news: Klahowya at Fort Nisqually
Very sorry I missed announcing this in advance — it looks great!
“Covered Wagon Women” 1840-1849
I’m glad I picked up volumes 1 & 2 of “Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails”, edited & compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes (Lincoln, NB: U. of Nebraska Press).