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ADDITIONAL CHINOOK REFERENCE WORKS
SOME PERIODICALS:
In 1872, George S. Phillips published a derogatory article "The Chinook Jargon and the Oregon Indians" in The Ladies' Repository: a monthly periodical, devoted to literature, arts, and religion. October, 4: 299-301.
In 1888, anthropologist Franz Boas published "Chinook Songs" in the Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1:3.
John Muir included a list of Chinook jargon at the end of Travels In Alaska covering the period 1879-1890.
In 1892, E. Meliss published a condescending article entitled "Siwash" in the Overland monthly and Out West magazine. November.
In 1894, Myron Eells published "The Chinook Jargon" in the American Anthropologist 7: 300-311.
In 1942, B.C. historian F.W. Howay published "The Origin of the Chinook Jargon" in the British Columbia Historical Quarterly, 6:4.
Robie L. Reid published "The Chinook Jargon and British Columbia" in B.C. Historical Quarterly, 6:1.
BOOKS: (Chronologically)
Kerr, Robert. "Vocabulary of the Language of Nootka, or King George's Sound. April, 1778." A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Edinburgh: London: W. Blackwood; T. Cadell, 1824. Robert Kerr lived 1755-1813. The words he lists here have the note "April, 1778".
Dunn, John. "A few specimens of the language of the Millbank and Chinook Tribes." History of the Oregon Territory and British North America fur trade: with an account of the habits and customs of the principal native tribes on the northern continent. London: Edwards and Hughes, 1844.
[1849] Ross, Alexander. "Chinook Vocabulary." Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813. Cleveland, Ohio, A. H. Clark, 1904. 321-329. A London edition of same. Alexander Ross lived 1783-1856. In the appendix, two seperate wordlists are provided: one deemed to be Chinook, and the other deemed to be a more general "lingo". The notes read: "Reprint, including facsimile of t.-p. of original London edition of 1849."
A Comprehensive, Explanatory, Correct Pronouncing Dictionary, and Jargon Vocabulary, to which is Added Numerous Conversations Enabling any Person to Speak Chinook Jargon. (Portland: S.J. M'Cormick, 1852). At least seven editions were released with various titles up to 1879. A copy of the fifth edition in the British Columbia Archives is entitled Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: to which is added numerous conversations, thereby enabling any person to speak Chinook correctly (Portland, Oregon: S. J. McCormick, 1879). Later editions were compiled by John Kaye Gill (1851-1929). An 18th edition was published in 1960.
Vocabulary of the Chinook jargon: the complete language used by the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and British Possessions. San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1860.
Dictionary of Indian tongues: containing most of the words and terms used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook : with their meaning or equivalent in the English language. Victoria, B.C.: Hibben & Carswell, 1862.
Stuart, Granville. "A dictionary of the Chinnook jargon: in use among the tribes of Oregon, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and the north Pacific coast, with critical and explanatory notes." Montana As It Is. New York: C. S. Westscott and Co., 1865. 99-130. Granville Stuart lived 1834-1918.
Winthrop, Theodore. "A partial vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon." The Canoe and the Saddle: adventures among the northwestern rivers and forests, and Isthmiana. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866, c1862. 299-302. Winthrop lived 1828-1861.
Demers, Modeste. Chinook dictionary, catechism, prayers and hymns. Ed. Francis Norbert Blanchet & Louis Napoléon St. Onge. Montreal, 1871.
Schele De Vere, Maximilian. Americanisms; The English of the New world.. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.
Eells, Myron. Hymns in the Chinook jargon language. Portland, Or.: Geo. H. Himes, 1878. Reverend Myron Eells lived 1843-1907, and was a Missionary of the American Missionary Association at the time this was published.
Bauquier, Joseph. "Le Jargon Chinook." Revue des Langues Romanes 2. La Société l'étude des Langues Romanes. Montpeller, 1879; Nendeln/Lichtenstein: Kraus/Thomson, 1970. 172-175.
Good, John Booth. A vocabulary and outlines of grammar of the Nitlakapamuk or Thompson tongue (the Indian language spoken between Yale, Lillooet, Cache Creek and Nicola Lake) together with a phonetic Chinook dictionary, adapted for use in the province of British Columbia. Victoria, B.C., 1880.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël. Practical Chinook vocabulary: comprising all & the only usual words of that wonderful language arranged in a most advantageous order for the speedily learning of the same, after the plan of Right Rev. Bishop Durieu O M.I., the most experienced missionary & Chinook speaker in British Columbia. Kamloops, B.C.: St. Louis' Mission, 1886.
Tate, Charles Montgomery. Chinook as spoken by the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia and Alaska: for the use of traders, tourists and others who have business intercourse with the Indians: Chinook-English, English-Chinook. Victoria, B.C.: M.W. Waitt Canadiana dates this publication tentitavely 1889. Charles M. Tate was also known as Reverend Charles M. Tate.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël and Paul Durieu. Chinook vocabulary, Chinook-English: from the original of Rt. Rev. Bishop Durieu, O.M.I., with the Chinook words in phonography. Kamloops, B.C., 1892.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël. Chinook hymns. Kamloops, B.C., 1892. Kamloops, B.C., 1893.
Pilling, James Constantine. Bibliography of the Chinookan languages (including the Chinook jargon). Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1893.
Hale, Horatio. An international idiom: a manual of the Oregon trade language, or "Chinook jargon." London: Whittaker & Co., 1890. Horatio Hale lived 1817-1896.
Pocket dictionary of the Chinook jargon: the Indian trading language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the northern Pacific coast. San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël. Chinook and shorthand rudiments: with which the Chinook jargon and the Wawa shorthand can be mastered without a teacher in a few hours. Kamloops, B.C., 1898.
Palmer, Joel. "Words used in the Chinook Jargon." Palmer's Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846. Cleveland, Ohio: A.H. Clark, 1906.
Shaw, George C. The Chinook Jargon and how to use it: A complete and exhaustive lexicon of the oldest trade language of the American Continent. Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, Inc., 1909. As his chief authorities, Shaw cites Myron Eells, George Gibbs, Horatio Hale, Charles M. Buchanan, Dr. Franz Boas, Alexander Francis Chamberlain, Rev. Paul Gard, W. S. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Alfred, and "Indians (numerous), Puget Sd., Neah Bay and West Coast".
Jacobs, Melville. Texts in Chinook Jargon. Seattle: University of Washington, 1936.
Ray, Verne Frederick. Lower Chinook Ethnographic Notes. Seattle: University of Washington, 1938. The introduction of this book argues for the existence of a pre-contact Jargon.
UNDATED:
Richardson, Albert Deane. "Chapter XLI. The Chinook Jargon." Beyond the Mississippi: from the great river to the great ocean. Life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific coast. Hartford, Conn., American publishing company; Newark, N.J., Bliss & company. 502-503.
For more significant Chinook references in this data base, search for "Chinook".
In 1872, George S. Phillips published a derogatory article "The Chinook Jargon and the Oregon Indians" in The Ladies' Repository: a monthly periodical, devoted to literature, arts, and religion. October, 4: 299-301.
In 1888, anthropologist Franz Boas published "Chinook Songs" in the Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1:3.
John Muir included a list of Chinook jargon at the end of Travels In Alaska covering the period 1879-1890.
In 1892, E. Meliss published a condescending article entitled "Siwash" in the Overland monthly and Out West magazine. November.
In 1894, Myron Eells published "The Chinook Jargon" in the American Anthropologist 7: 300-311.
In 1942, B.C. historian F.W. Howay published "The Origin of the Chinook Jargon" in the British Columbia Historical Quarterly, 6:4.
Robie L. Reid published "The Chinook Jargon and British Columbia" in B.C. Historical Quarterly, 6:1.
BOOKS: (Chronologically)
Kerr, Robert. "Vocabulary of the Language of Nootka, or King George's Sound. April, 1778." A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Edinburgh: London: W. Blackwood; T. Cadell, 1824. Robert Kerr lived 1755-1813. The words he lists here have the note "April, 1778".
Dunn, John. "A few specimens of the language of the Millbank and Chinook Tribes." History of the Oregon Territory and British North America fur trade: with an account of the habits and customs of the principal native tribes on the northern continent. London: Edwards and Hughes, 1844.
[1849] Ross, Alexander. "Chinook Vocabulary." Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813. Cleveland, Ohio, A. H. Clark, 1904. 321-329. A London edition of same. Alexander Ross lived 1783-1856. In the appendix, two seperate wordlists are provided: one deemed to be Chinook, and the other deemed to be a more general "lingo". The notes read: "Reprint, including facsimile of t.-p. of original London edition of 1849."
A Comprehensive, Explanatory, Correct Pronouncing Dictionary, and Jargon Vocabulary, to which is Added Numerous Conversations Enabling any Person to Speak Chinook Jargon. (Portland: S.J. M'Cormick, 1852). At least seven editions were released with various titles up to 1879. A copy of the fifth edition in the British Columbia Archives is entitled Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: to which is added numerous conversations, thereby enabling any person to speak Chinook correctly (Portland, Oregon: S. J. McCormick, 1879). Later editions were compiled by John Kaye Gill (1851-1929). An 18th edition was published in 1960.
Vocabulary of the Chinook jargon: the complete language used by the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and British Possessions. San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1860.
Dictionary of Indian tongues: containing most of the words and terms used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook : with their meaning or equivalent in the English language. Victoria, B.C.: Hibben & Carswell, 1862.
Stuart, Granville. "A dictionary of the Chinnook jargon: in use among the tribes of Oregon, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and the north Pacific coast, with critical and explanatory notes." Montana As It Is. New York: C. S. Westscott and Co., 1865. 99-130. Granville Stuart lived 1834-1918.
Winthrop, Theodore. "A partial vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon." The Canoe and the Saddle: adventures among the northwestern rivers and forests, and Isthmiana. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866, c1862. 299-302. Winthrop lived 1828-1861.
Demers, Modeste. Chinook dictionary, catechism, prayers and hymns. Ed. Francis Norbert Blanchet & Louis Napoléon St. Onge. Montreal, 1871.
Schele De Vere, Maximilian. Americanisms; The English of the New world.. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.
Eells, Myron. Hymns in the Chinook jargon language. Portland, Or.: Geo. H. Himes, 1878. Reverend Myron Eells lived 1843-1907, and was a Missionary of the American Missionary Association at the time this was published.
Bauquier, Joseph. "Le Jargon Chinook." Revue des Langues Romanes 2. La Société l'étude des Langues Romanes. Montpeller, 1879; Nendeln/Lichtenstein: Kraus/Thomson, 1970. 172-175.
Good, John Booth. A vocabulary and outlines of grammar of the Nitlakapamuk or Thompson tongue (the Indian language spoken between Yale, Lillooet, Cache Creek and Nicola Lake) together with a phonetic Chinook dictionary, adapted for use in the province of British Columbia. Victoria, B.C., 1880.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël. Practical Chinook vocabulary: comprising all & the only usual words of that wonderful language arranged in a most advantageous order for the speedily learning of the same, after the plan of Right Rev. Bishop Durieu O M.I., the most experienced missionary & Chinook speaker in British Columbia. Kamloops, B.C.: St. Louis' Mission, 1886.
Tate, Charles Montgomery. Chinook as spoken by the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia and Alaska: for the use of traders, tourists and others who have business intercourse with the Indians: Chinook-English, English-Chinook. Victoria, B.C.: M.W. Waitt Canadiana dates this publication tentitavely 1889. Charles M. Tate was also known as Reverend Charles M. Tate.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël and Paul Durieu. Chinook vocabulary, Chinook-English: from the original of Rt. Rev. Bishop Durieu, O.M.I., with the Chinook words in phonography. Kamloops, B.C., 1892.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël. Chinook hymns. Kamloops, B.C., 1892. Kamloops, B.C., 1893.
Pilling, James Constantine. Bibliography of the Chinookan languages (including the Chinook jargon). Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1893.
Hale, Horatio. An international idiom: a manual of the Oregon trade language, or "Chinook jargon." London: Whittaker & Co., 1890. Horatio Hale lived 1817-1896.
Pocket dictionary of the Chinook jargon: the Indian trading language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the northern Pacific coast. San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898.
Le Jeune, Jean-Marie Raphaël. Chinook and shorthand rudiments: with which the Chinook jargon and the Wawa shorthand can be mastered without a teacher in a few hours. Kamloops, B.C., 1898.
Palmer, Joel. "Words used in the Chinook Jargon." Palmer's Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846. Cleveland, Ohio: A.H. Clark, 1906.
Shaw, George C. The Chinook Jargon and how to use it: A complete and exhaustive lexicon of the oldest trade language of the American Continent. Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, Inc., 1909. As his chief authorities, Shaw cites Myron Eells, George Gibbs, Horatio Hale, Charles M. Buchanan, Dr. Franz Boas, Alexander Francis Chamberlain, Rev. Paul Gard, W. S. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Alfred, and "Indians (numerous), Puget Sd., Neah Bay and West Coast".
Jacobs, Melville. Texts in Chinook Jargon. Seattle: University of Washington, 1936.
Ray, Verne Frederick. Lower Chinook Ethnographic Notes. Seattle: University of Washington, 1938. The introduction of this book argues for the existence of a pre-contact Jargon.
UNDATED:
Richardson, Albert Deane. "Chapter XLI. The Chinook Jargon." Beyond the Mississippi: from the great river to the great ocean. Life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific coast. Hartford, Conn., American publishing company; Newark, N.J., Bliss & company. 502-503.
For more significant Chinook references in this data base, search for "Chinook".
Submitted on May 26, 2004 in By David.
