1864 + 1883: Chinuk Wawa cussin’ in a California newspaper or two
Truly rough “frontier” humor wasn’t rare in print at one time…
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1910: A Spokane Wobbly bomb threat in Chinook?
Chinuk Wawa was sometimes suspected of being an enemy code during the US Civil War…
1910: ‘stop’ stops nonstop in BC Chinuk Wawa
Here is yet another neato frito confirmation that “stop” was a very common BC Chinook Jargon synonym for the various uses of míɬayt…
1886 [circa 1867], SE Alaska: The Yiddish Merchants’ Union?
A decade pre-Klondike gold rush, a Montana newspaper article about Alaska has little else to do than reminisce about how the Jews, supposedly, were taking over that Territory at the time of the… Continue reading
1893: Newly discovered — more Betseyannspikes
“She” spoke really good Chinuk Wawa, and “Deer Ed.” didn’t need to translate it for his readers.
1890: “Icta” in Notes and Queries
From the wonderful old language discussion forum, American Notes and Queries, comes this note on a Pacific Northwest English borrowing from Chinuk Wawa: Icta (Vol. v, pp. 66, etc.). — Icta, or icter, is a… Continue reading
Stories: 1897 “Foks pi Kayuti” + “Coyote and Fox”
It’s time to update the first linguistic study I ever published on Chinuk Wawa. (That’s a live link, if you want to go read some scholarly prose.)
1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 3 of 15 “Ole Kull Stick Tamolitsh”
IMHO: this one is right up there with the greatest productions of Google Translate, or of any nonsense verse writer.
Explicit Métis influence on Secwépemc culture + language
These local tribal people had long acquaintance with the fur trade, and they were consistent in identifying Métis influence.
1866: “A Song-ish Legend” translated into English verse
Compare this with the 100% Chinook Jargon “Songish Legend” that I’ve separately written about…