Show up at Fort Langley National Historical Site of Canada, tomorrow (Friday 9/12) @ 9:30 onwards… Purchased at an antique shop in Fort Langley, BC today! We’ll be doing all things Chinook Jargon,… Continue reading →
Talk about quick action!
Within 24 hours recently, I met two new people with interesting Chinook Jargon connections.
Shasta speakers were one of the Indigenous groups who wound up at Grand Ronde and Siletz Reservations in Oregon, thus participating in the re-creolization there of Chinuk Wawa.*
In Kamloops Wawa newspaper issue #126 of March 1895, the included issue of the charming mini-newspaper Shugirkin Tintin (‘The Sugarcane [BC] Bell’) is a glimpse into how the Jargon was spoken in that more northerly part of… Continue reading →
Listening to a podcast in American English, I was struck by a phrase used: “doing God knows what“.
Still another version of the Civil War “code talking” Chinook Jargon anecdote/joke!
The Seattle Times’ Nick Deshais (who used to report here in Spokane) has a great article in that paper’s “Traffic Lab” series:
Let me echo the sentiments of Bright and Olmsted!
The farthest southeast that I’ve found accounts of people speaking Chinuk Wawa is in Modoc-Klamath country of far south-central Oregon, which abuts Achumawi territory, in the northeastern corner of California.
