1879: The Kittitas “Wau-Wau”
Before Kamloops, another Northwest town had a newspaper called the “Talk” in Chinook Jargon.
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1912: Crazy co-inky-dink Indian schwa ad!
By a bizarre coincidence, this racist advertisement that (I’m guessing) puts Chinuk Wawa into the mouth of a wooden Indian also has the earliest “schwa” symbol I’ve ever seen!
1899: Taking a “clatawa kopa Spokane”, and other things Whites did to the Jargon
Why was a Ritzville lawyer reported as taking ‘a clatawa copa Spokane’?
1895: Wenatchee Joe’s mine
What a find!
1871: A Negro boot-black (& a missing pidgin)
There’s at least one pidgin missing from the flock of languages in this astonished mention of a Portland Black man.
1909: Chinuk Wawa in support of race-mixing
Iʹm fascinated to find Chinook Jargon brought to bear in an editorial advocating what was called “race-mixing”…
Warm from wine
Here’s a fun drinking metaphor in (I ain’t sayin’ nothin’) BC Chinuk Wawa.
1902: Red Men headline
What I love about this Jargon headline:
100 bucks up front: A rule they didn’t teach you in Jargon school
Or: quantities tend to be hot topics.
1888: Teddy Roosevelt spoke Chinuk Wawa! In the Kootenays!
For real? Yet another US bigwig involved with Jargon?!