More clues in Franchère 1820
I’ve long owned a copy of Gabriel Franchère’s memoir of life at Fort Astoria (Pacific Fur Co.) in the early 1810s…
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Pâquet on Demers, and me on the recency of Chinuk Wawa
Also thanks to Prof. Peter Bakker: this book excerpt…
1820: Franchere, Relation d’un voyage…
Another thanks is due to Prof. Peter Bakker, for sending me this original French-language version of Gabriel Franchère’s valuable early Chinuk Wawa vocabulary.
Nice example of tíki = ‘try’
I’ve recently written about how Chinuk Wawa expresses ‘attempting to do’ something…
1927: How to say ‘sea serpent’ in CW
How one Nuučaan’uɬ man described a sea serpent in Chinuk Wawa…
El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (4 of 6)
Swastikas on the Boys’ and Girls’ Page!
1935: A fella with a Chinook nickname
I found this summary of a news article about a person known by a Jargon nickname…
1913: “The British Columbia Orphans’ Friend”, and Salish and Nuučaan’uɬ folks
The “Historical Number” (issue) of a post-frontier Catholic charity’s periodical preserves interesting scraps of Chinuk Wawa…
1866: Hiyou blankets and multilingual Settlers
We continue to find untranslated pidgin words and quotations in West Coast newspapers of the later frontier era…
Pre-1900: Genuine-looking old SW Oregon CW
A short quotation in a dramatized frontier-era scene looks like real Chinuk Wawa…