1886, Tacoma, WA: Another northern “or”, and racial stereotyping
The other day, I showed the English word “or” showing up in the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon.
The other day, I showed the English word “or” showing up in the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon.
Sometimes we find a new, important document of Chinook Jargon inside an item that we already knew of!
Song #6 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
A bit north of Walla Walla, withing frontier times, a local Settler newspaper undermined its own message by complaining in a language Indigenous people understood.
This one is Chinuk Wawa in the news in a roundabout way!
Indigenous readers of “Kamloops Wawa”, circa 1890’s, absolutely loved the rare treat of seeing pictures and photos.
The entry yə́xa, yə́x- ‘only, nothing but’, in M. Dale Kinkade’s 2004 “Cowlitz Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch”, has got me asking for some explanations…
The Pacific Science Center, in Seattle, announces a new museum exhibit that involves Chinook Jargon.
The 19th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
We’ve found a remarkable number of German people associated with Chinook Jargon, but today’s clipping uses Jargon against those folks…