More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Published at Chinook House
Okay, this installment of fun is not in Chinook Jargon, but it’s from “the Chinook paper”…
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1890, Grand Ronde area: Quoted Native elder speech
Don’t know how I missed this valuable quotation of Grand Ronde-area speech till now!
1897: More Chinook doggerel
An honorary member of our collection of Chinuk Wawa doggerel poetry is this political paean to the Chinook salmon… THE CHINOOK SALMON. Just before the holiday recess Senator Mitchell of Oregon introduced in… Continue reading
1872, Washington DC: The Pacific Coast Club
Was this a political organization?
October 1894: “Our Monthly Budget” (Part 3 of 3 — News from here and there)
How many of these Native communities of British Columbia can you find on a map?
“I should remark!”
Frontier-era untranslated Jargon…
1880: Meriar has her hair banged
Are you going to clattawa to the party?
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 1: Jesus Chako Kopa Saghalie)
Previously here, we’ve taken close looks at the quality of various song lyrics in Chinuk Wawa, some superb, some rather questionable…
1869: Wisconsin tauntin’
A wedding announcement is a poor place to make fun of the groom, no?
1895: Col. B.F. Shaw in town, reminiscing [1840s, 1850s]
This man was a main Chinuk Wawa interpreter for the “Stevens Treaties” in Washington Territory, and he knew the language well, but…