1893: Real-world Northern Chinook Jargon (Part 3, litmus paper)
Now for the third of 3 segments from Kamloops Wawa #84 (June 25, 1893), pages 104.
Now for the third of 3 segments from Kamloops Wawa #84 (June 25, 1893), pages 104.
Shortly into the post-frontier era, there’s still an excellent use for Chinuk Wawa in the south Puget Sound area.
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!