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Portland, Oregon · PortlandI think we may have just antedated the classic Pacific NW “sitkum dollar” joke by 24 years! It’s a crime to explain a jest…which I’ll do after you get a chance to read this & see if it makes you laugh: A friend tells us a good story on Capt. Whyte, of the Forward. While at Astoria a clootchman stepped up to him and presenting to his notice a basket full of crabs, offered to sell the lot for sitkum dolla — half dollar. The Captain planked down a …Read Article
1873, OR folklore: Earliest known version of the “sitkum dolla” joke?
British Columbia · British ColumbiaYou might enjoy the very informative post recently published by BCLC, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. You can click to read their “Not Just a Pamphlet”: How Indigenous Languages Found a Place in B.C. Casinos. This photo is from the article, and features our fellow Chinook Jargon speaker Darrin Brager: Here, Darrin’s holding BCLC’s GameSense brochure in Chinook Jargon and in Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim. He’s in a video that’s included in the …Read Article
Chinook Jargon in the news: BCLC GameSense brochures
Kamloops · KamloopsHere’s an Indigenous young man’s Chinuk Pipa letter that got published in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper. Our Stó:lō correspondent tells of his friend Baptiste George on his deathbed. Image credit: Wikipedia “Baptiste Emory”, as he was also called, is written about also in the Kamloops Wawa of April 1895, as a teacher of Chinook Writing to his people around Yale, BC. The letter is introduced by Father Le Jeune of Kamloops: Batist Chorch kopa Imori…Read Article
