William Mason Colvig (1845-1936) and a 1920 “Skookum Potlach” (Xmas) card from Oregon
Leo Barker “came upon this by happenstance” regarding a Settler immigrant of 1851 to southwest Oregon:
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1917 BC Xmas card!
Click here for other Chinook Jargon Christmas stories, but…
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 11: an 1896 flood)
Today’s bit of information comes from the Chinook paper, although not in Chinook Jargon…
NCW kanawi-qa-ilihi vs qa-sun
A reason for the puzzlingly clunky Northern-Dialect expression for ‘everywhere’, kanawi-qa-ilihi?
SW WA Salish root ʔúm̓ and Chinuk Wawa mékʰmək: a shared Indigenous concept?
Whether or not we claim that it came from Salish, the Chinook Jargon use of a single verb for both ‘drink’ and ‘eat’ has a close parallel in local tribal languages.
“The Survey of Vancouver English”: Part 1 — saltchuck
“The Survey of Vancouver English” is subtitled “A Sociolinguistic Study of Urban Canadian English”.
1911, WA: An Unique Salutation, gestures + grimaces, and Settler non-fluency
Sometimes we hear that the speaking of Chinook Jargon was accompanied by “sign language”.
1915, OR: Bartlett + McFarland sing Chinook at pioneer party
The notorious Mrs. Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett performed some of her atrocious Chinook Jargon translations of popular Settler songs for her buddies…
Crowdsourcing: How would you track down these 27 Belgian Chinook writers of 1895?
These 27 young fellas were pen pals with the Chinook-writing Indigenous folks of southern British Columbia.
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Quilchena, automobile, what have you
Today’s tidbit is from an issue of Kamloops Wawa that was only in French…