“In the sticks” and back to Chinuk Wawa
My friend muskwatch posted a question on this blog: Does anyone know if the phrase “in the sticks” comes from Chinook Jargon?
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LBDB: prose, not lyrics (Part 1)
Pioneer baby Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s Chinuk Wawa has long interested me…
“Kamloops Wawa” in The Stenographer magazine (Part 2)
Father Le Jeune of Kamloops Wawa heard about The Stenographer’s interest in his shorthand-written Chinook Jargon newspaper, and wrote a letter to the editor…
Arabella Clemens Fulton
Arabella Clemens Fulton (1844-1934) took the Oregon Trail relatively late, in 1864…
One Grand Ronde word, and implications for Jargon adverbs
A use of a neat Jargon word that hasn’t been pointed out before…
“Bringing Home the Wishing Rock”
Is there a Chinuk Wawa tie-in to this cool public sculpture in Spokane?
1890: Notes & Queries … and Salish?
I’m going to present an old article here, and then talk about one word in it…
1911: Cultus Chikamen doggerel
A short post-frontier poem called “Cultus Chikamen” [‘Worthless Money’] by W.R. Gordon expresses an old-timer’s nostalgia for seemingly more prosperous days.
1906: California Hobucket mamook iskum dhuoyuatz
A photo of an apparent Chinuk Wawa speaker, tucked away in a multi-volume work on West Coast ornithology, is rare evidence of an uncommon, useful Jargon phrase…
Is Chinuk Wawa’s “dago” Spanish, or Salish?
There’s a fairly rare word of Chinook Jargon that’s pretty much known only from James G. Swan’s mid-1850s stay on Shoalwater Bay, Washington.