1884: “You don’t know the chances” in Victoria, BC…if you can talk some Chinuk Wawa

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I wonder if this enthusiast about Victoria, British Columbia got his info about Chinook Jargon dictionaries from a speaker of CJ? 😁😁…

1909: “Histoire Générale de la Sténographie” + Kamloops Wawa

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Among the takeaways from today’s find are a couple of senior Catholic officials who supposedly were Chinook Jargon pen pals with Indigenous people of BC…

1892, WA: Kikisoblu (daughter of Chief Seattle) speaks

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Early settler Henry L. Yesler’s death is reported in the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer of December 18, 1892, page 8, columns 1-2, in an article headlined “House of Mourning”, with Chinook Jargon prominent.

Cutting deeper into the etymology of t’ɬəmínxwət “tell a lie”

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Taking a sec to point out something I’ve not said out loud before…

Chinook Jargon in the news: BC teachers get a CJ workshop

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Pages 24-25 of BC Teacher magazine’s January-February 2025 issue report on a recent conference of social studies teachers from around that province.

1895: “Chinook Hymns” in Chinuk Pipa (Part 4: Naika Chako Wawa)

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Pages 2, 3, and part of 4 in the small book “Chinook Hymns” (6th edition, 1895, Kamloops) show us the song, “Naika Chako Wawa”…

You can buy this piece of Chinook Jargon history

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Darrin Brager’s find of Vocabulario Chinook

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Dleit haiyoo naika wawa masi kopa Darrin Brager!

Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 11) (published out of sequence as Part 22A!)

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Among the very early sources to point out that ‘1’ also means ‘(an)other’ in Chinuk Wawa —

1865, BC (west coast of Vancouver Island): Shipwreck and loss of life, and no Chinook!

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Here we learn of the wreck of the American bark Iwanowna of San Francisco, on a trip out of Port Townsend (Washington Territory), at Nootka Island, British Columbia.