Historical Chinook Material Online?

[Peter Cawley]

The following message was copied onto the BC Teacher-Librarian list. There
seems to be an exciting quantity of historical text  available on-line.

A subject search of "Chinook" brought up eight titles. I have not had time
to examine all of them yet, but a quick preliminary survey indicates the
the kind of material that will interest readers of the Chinook list.

Peter Cawley
pcawley at island.net


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1)  Dictionary of the Chinook jargon
   36 pages.
   (Victoria, B.C. : T.N. Hibben, 18-- )

 2) Bibliography of the Chinookan languages (including the Chinook jargon)
   Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895.
   97 pages.
   (Washington : G.P.O., 1893.)

3)  An international idiom : a manual of the Oregon trade language, or
"Chinook jargon" / by Horatio Hale.
   Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896.
   107 pages.
   (London : Whittaker, 1890.)

4)  Chinook first reading book : including hymns, syllabary and vocabulary
/ by J.M.R. Le Jeune.
   Le Jeune, J. M. R. (Jean Marie Rapha=EBl), 1855-1930.
   7 pages.
   (Kamloops B.C. : s.n. , 1893.)

5)  Esquisse d'une grammaire de la langue innok .
   Henry, Victor, 1850-1907.
   41 pages.
   (Paris? : s.n., 1878? )

6)    Chinook dictionary, catechism, prayers and hymns
   Demers, Modeste, 1809-1871.; Blanchet, Francis Norbert, 1795-1883.
   76 pages.
   (Montreal : s.n. , 1871.)

7)  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 / by J. B. Good.
   Good, J. B. (John Booth), 1833-1916.
   48 pages.
   (Victoria, B.C.?: s.n. , 1880)

 8)  Dictionary of the Chinook jargon : to which is added numerous
conversations, therby enabling any person to speak
   Chinook correctly.
   Blanchet, F. N. (Fran=E7ois Norbert), 1795-1883.
   29 pages.
(Portland, Or. : S.J. M'Cormick, 1869? )