1897: Inuit pidgin?
A Klondike-era news report, in trying to illustrate “Eskimo” language, unwittingly seems to add to the small known stock of data on Inuit pidgin!
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1880: Another Lord’s Prayer, Grand Ronde style
Out of the many Chinook Jargon versions of the Christian “Lord’s Prayer”, this one from the Grand Ronde, Oregon area stands out for its unique spellings…
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 4: Three against the Wilderness)
My friend and colleague Dale McCreery shared some thoughts about a classic of BC literature…
1899: Jargon speech by Rinehart for a stolen totem pole
One of the very few examples we have of someone talking about totem poles in Chinuk Wawa…!
1870: “his clutchman” and “he potlatched, and hiac clatawad”
In the frontier era, Chinuk Wawa in newspapers was usually NOT translated for the readers.
AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 4)
More of this wonderful previously unknown document, backing up everything I’ve been saying for years about the uniqueness of northern Chinook Jargon.
1903: An 1856 Oregon memory
A saltcellar (shaker) that belonged to President Madison’s wife Dolly; famous Oregon pioneer Joe Meek’s rifle; and a Grand Ronde-area Chinuk Wawa story…what do they have in common?
Circa 1850: I was quite a Siwash linguist!
“Rambling Notes on Olden Times” is the headline on a sometimes humorous piece by W.L. Adams in 1875.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 7: the use of catechisms)
The Chinuk Wawa newspaper was used in early residential-school classrooms…
1871: An Oregon word for ‘log cabin’?
During the frontier era, several words of Chinuk Wawa dropped into a news report may have documented an expression we ought to know.