At an anti-booze convention, there was entertainment of another sort…

From Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…

Whoops ‘n’ hymns, mixin’ it up!

Tradition! Tradition!

Our friend Dale McCreery PhD has sometimes sent reports on bits of Chinook Jargon he notices in the area of Bella Coola, British Columbia.

A Chinuk Wawa-only notice in a southern BC newspaper was well understood by the locals.

A US court case involving a Settler cannery at The Dalles, Oregon, trying to oust Yakama tribal people from their usual and accustomed fishing places in the post-frontier era, involved a considerable bit… Continue reading →

And still more new discoveries!

Here’s a new discovery in Jargon.