Russians speaking Chinuk Wawa in Alaska
One of the persistent urban legends about Chinook Jargon has been that there are Russian words in it. Uh-uh.
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1878, OR: How does “Chenook jargon” connect with Thomas Jefferson?
The American Naturalist of December 1878, page 825, makes the following novel connection.
1928: Edward Harper Thomas on CJ dictionaries
I’m not the biggest fan of his Chinook Jargon dictionary, although it was the first one that I ever got hold of…
1902, BC: Chinese Pidgin English + Chinook Jargon, again
Thanks to Alex Code, appropriately enough, for this item as well.
1860: The Abridgement — Chenook jargon — cussin’ — and back-translation
I don’t know why a title “The Abridgement” comes up online for this 750-page item; it’s one of those US government compendiums of reports from the various “Indian agents” and land surveyors.
Northern Chinook Jargon: Do “go” and “come” only encode destinations?
Cutting to the chase:
Sequim Press, Part 3 (06/10/1921): Jamestown S’Klallam and local Chinook Jargon
An engaging little series on a smalltown paper that ran untranslated Chinook Jargon pieces well past the frontier era.
WA: Ned Chambreau’s phenomenal 1876-1880 journals
Some great information from an eyewitness of the later frontier era of Washington is to be found in Ned (Edouard) Chambreau’s journals.
1873, OR folklore: Earliest known version of the “sitkum dolla” joke?
I think we may have just antedated the classic Pacific NW “sitkum dollar” joke by 24 years!
Shaky shaking hands?
One of the first expressions I was taught in Chinuk Wawa was from a Southern-dialect speaker: ískam ləmá.