Join us @ 7pm tonight on Zoom: Chinook reading!
You know what? The great thing about a Chinook Jargon reading session is — you don’t have to be great at Chinooking!
You know what? The great thing about a Chinook Jargon reading session is — you don’t have to be great at Chinooking!
From Alex Code, I received this anecdote of Ned Atkins in the book “The History of Port Coquitlam” by Edith Chambers [1973].
Firsthand memories of the frontier era in northwestern Oregon, from Warren N[icholas]. Vaughn (1823-1907), mention a number Jargon-related people and events.
Western Washington state’s Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, home of the Klahowya Event, has a new book you’ll be interested in:
We’ve seen H-T Lempfrit’s manuscript dictionary; and now for some rare old Chinook Jargon texts on its following pages!
By chance I came across a copy of JK Gill’s well-known Chinook Jargon dictionary, with this autograph in it:
The usual and grammatical way to say “very bad” in Spanish is “muy malo”.
Last night, working through a section of the incalculably precious Joe Peter recordings from 1941 in Central-Dialect Chinuk Wawa, we were stumped by a sentence that we kept hearing as…
A year after the USA took over Alaska from the Russians, a letter arrived in one of the eastern states from one of the first Army personnel to be stationed in the territory’s… Continue reading →
REALLY RACIST, FYI.