Old postcards (Part 3: what we call Indigenous women around here)
The sender wrote an explanatory message on this one, involving Chinook Jargon…
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qʰa-____ is pretty old in Jargon
“hihi-pʰikcha” by Tyla LaGoy, on page 13 of Lane Community College’s magazine “Chinuk Wawa” #2, has the expression qʰa-ikta (literally ‘where-thing’), ‘whatever’…
1910: “Chinook” = Spokane Salish?!
This memory from Spokane, Washington, has to do with the earlier time when it was known as Spokan Falls, Washington Territory.
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 12: varying ways of pronouncing)
Words from Chinook Jargon that our friend Dr Dale McCreery has found in the Nuxalk (“Bella Coola Salish”) language…
Hood River Valley, Oregon, 1915 [1852]: quoting remembered Native speech in translation
Here’s a newspaper excerpt from a book, “Reminescences [Reminiscences] of Eastern Oregon“, by Mrs. Elizabeth Laughlin Lord.
1896: Recalling “some jargon” from K’alapuya people
Just after the frontier era, non-Natives in the Grand Ronde (Oregon) area still had a vivid grasp of local Chinook Jargon.
1943, Alaska: “Barbs”
The ever-popular “folks talk weird on the frontier” trope!
1911: Dominion Day (Canada Day) invitation in Jargon
Identifiably Settler-style Chinuk Wawa augments some poetic excesses in English, in today’s “Chinook invitations” entry.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 14: playing music)
It’s kind of fun to learn how to talk about playing music in Chinook… (A link to all instalments in this mini-series.) You may learn a new word here…Look at my comments after… Continue reading