1911: The vampire used a combination of Chinook and sign language :)
Extra Halloween / Chinook material for you…
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1893: It’s easy to ridicule linguistics — but let’s leave Chinook out of it!
The best tie-in here is, to my surprise, to Chinuk Wawa.
1851: Good lower Columbia CW sentences
Preserved from the frontier period in the mind of a sharp observer…
1895: Spoke for Oregon — which hymn is that?
A somewhat humorous anecdote raises a neat research question…
19th c.: THE BRITISH COLONIST (Part 3: A Card, 1859)
There may be a snide pun between Chinook and English here…
1792: Galiano’s expedition, and a controlled experiment in pidgin formation
There’s an admirable awareness of Indigenous people’s languages in this early contact account…
1865: Olympia store ad in Chinook
Frontier-era clothiers in Olympia, Washington couldn’t go wrong by using Chinook Jargon to draw attention to their wares!
1874: Idaho Jargon doggerel
“Cowboy poets” had a vogue around the year 2000, as I recall…
1927: Correcting one Chinook etymology, inventing lots more
Way to give a linguist a headache, guys…
1858 US ad for Jargon guide to Fraser River goldrush: a reason why French didn’t remain BC’s language
Just to prove the claim (no pun intended) that BC’s Fraser River gold rush of 1858 was conceptually tied to Chinuk Wawa use…