So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (part 6: Tsilhqot’in Dene)
It’s goofy, but also makes sense, that I’ve overlooked the “Chilcotin” language in my examination of influences from Métis languages on the tribal languages of BC.
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1912: Chinook address to HRH the Duke of Connaught
Thanks to Alex Code for pointing out this fun piece. [FYI: this article took me an entire day to write.]
1949: “Chief Chinook” ad in Jargon
Long after the frontier days, Chinuk Wawa remained a powerful symbol of Pacific Northwest identity.
1849-1855: California letters of Lucius Fairchild
Do you enjoy rough and ready frontier prose? I have just the book for you.
The most-translated song into Chinuk Wawa? “Lilly Dale”
I’ve now found at least 4 separate translations of this 19th-century sad pop song into the Jargon.
1908: Jargon was goin’ to be the standard language
One of the first books of its kind — a motorist’s travelogue of the American Far West.
pre-1889: Reminiscences of an old timer including Shoalwater Bay
This fella had experience of just about all of Washington Territory, including the early-creolized Chinuk Wawa-speaking Shoalwater Bay (page ix); he was sheriff of Pacific County around the same time CW expert James… Continue reading
How Father St. Onge’s “Chinuk Pipa” texts link early-creolized with northern Jargon (Part 1 of 2)
A veteran of frontier preaching in the middle- to lower Columbia River region went on to write to BC’s Native people in the province’s “Chinuk Pipa” alphabet…
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (part 5: Saulteau First Nation/Plains Cree)
It should be no surprise that a Plains Cree dialect would carry marks of Métis culture.
1891 doggerel poem: “The Sigh of the Siwash”
Today we advance the cause of recognizing a Pacific Northwest poetic genre: half-Chinook doggerel!