Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 8)
The 8th pair of page images from this overlooked document of Fort Vancouver-era Chinuk Wawa is quite a discovery…
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RIP Martha Clayton of Puget Sound and Alaska, 1858?-1948
One of the first Settler kids born on Puget Sound in Washington Territory went on to work in Alaska as an interpreter.
The Mission Field and “Chinhook” (Part 6 of 6)
The last installment in this mini-series about British Columbia’s Protestant missionaries in the frontier period…
‘Pinning’ down a Lower Chehalis trace in early-creolized Chinuk Wawa
From their Fort Vancouver experience starting in 1838, Catholic missionaries Demers and Blanchet published (with the editing help of L.N. St. Onge) a wonderful little Chinuk Wawa dictionary in 1871.
Blankenship, “Early History of Thurston County, Washington” (Part 2)
Settlers not uncommonly pidginized the pidginized northern-dialect version of Chinook Jargon; today we’ll see reminiscences from two fellas who did so.
1911: “Slings Chinook like pitching quoits”
Funnest simile for talking good Jargon that I’ve seen…
Kamloops Wawa pictures, Part 6: Chapel at North Bend
Our latest vintage photo of Chinook Jargon-speaking country shows an important little village in British Columbia…
Crowdsourcing challenge: a Lingít Chinuk Wawa song!
My reader Alex Code shared a Chinook Jargon song that I don’t think I ever knew about…
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 8: ‘grandchild’)
In Franz Boas’s neglected masterpiece, the one-page article “The Chinook Jargon“, we learn another Salish-sourced word…
1876: “Snass” in the classical Chinook
Kind of unusual to see “cole snass” ‘snow’ abbreviated to “snass” (‘rain’)!