1906 [1866], WA: It took a party to get Chief Seattle to talk Chinook
A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!
CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!
From Stó:lō Coast Salish country:
(Dedicated to Paul.) You know who I appreciate? My readers!
Thanks to Professor Peter Bakker for an email in 2022 that got me thinking in a new way about a seldom-researched Chinook Jargon book…
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading →
Congratulations to Agostino Pizzolato!
Neat stuff, definitely Northern Dialect.
Patl “full (of)” is almost always immediately followed by a Noun telling what something (or someone) is full of.
We’ve seen a number of ads that used Chinook Jargon. Image credit: Redbubble Also advertisements 🙂 Here’s more, thanks to our reader Alex Code. CHECHACOS and HYAS SNOW (Newcomer) … Continue reading →
Eyeballing all recorded “Nootka Jargon” (pidginized Nuuchanulth of Vancouver Island, BC) and the earliest documented history of Chinook Jargon, I see an obvious difference…