Fwd: Directory and Notes to On-Line Jargon Dictionaries
David Lewis
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>Directory and notes to the on-line Jargon dictionaries and journal articles
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>A collection of historic Chinook Jargon dictionaries and articles,
>presented complete for viewing on-line. All are scanned page images except
>entries marked [In HTML].
>
>Jargon Dictionaries:
> * Blanchet, François Norbert, <blanch.htm>Dictionary of the Chinook
> Jargon, to Which is Added Numerous Conversations, Thereby Enabling Any
> Person to Speak Chinook Correctly. Portland, Oregon: S.J. M'Cormick
> [1869?]. [NOTES]
>
> * Demers, Modeste, Blanchet, F.N. and St. Onge, L.N.,
> <demers.htm>J.M.J. Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers and Hymns.
> Montreal, 1871. [NOTES]
>
> * Gibbs, George, <gibbs.htm>Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade
> Language of Oregon. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1863. [In HTML]
> [NOTES]
>
> * Good, J.B., <good.htm>A Vocabulary and Outlines of Grammar of the
> Nitlakapamuk or Thompson Tongue . . . Together with a Phonetic Chinook
> Dictionary, Adapted for use in the Province of British Columbia.
> Victoria: St. Paul's Mission Press, 1880. [NOTES]
>
> * Hale, Horatio, <hale.htm>An International Idiom: A Manual of the
> Oregon Trade Language, or "Chinook Jargon". London: Whittaker & Co.,
> 1890. [NOTES]
>
> * Hibben & Carswell (publ.), <hibcar.htm>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, 1862. [NOTES]
>
> * Hutchings & Rosenfield (publ.), <hutch.htm>Vocabulary of the Chinook
> Jargon: The Complete Language Used by the Indians of Oregon, Washington
> Territory and British Possessions. San Francisco, 1860. [NOTES]
>
> * LeJeune, J.M.R., <ljpcv.htm>Practical Chinook Vocabulary . . . .
> arranged . . . . after the plan of Right Rev. Bishop Durieu. (Kamloops,
> B.C.: St. Louis' Mission, 1886). [NOTES]
>
> * LeJeune, J.M.R., "<ljcr24.htm>Chinook Rudiments." Kamloops Wawa, No.
> 1739 (3 May 1924). [NOTES]
>
> * Shaw, George, <shaw.htm>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 Co., 1909. [In HTML] [NOTES]
>
> * Stuart, Granville, "<stuart.htm>A Dictionary of the Chinook 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 [1865?] 100-127. [NOTES]
>
> * Anon. ["Old employee, formerly of the Hudson Bay Company"],
> <huds.htm>Chinook Jargon: Language used by the Different Indian
> Tribes--French and Half-Breeds of Frazer's River, Puget Sound and
> Surrounding Country, as the Means of Conversation with Americans. [18??].
> [NOTES]
>Journal Articles:
> * Eells, Myron, "<eells.htm>The Chinook Jargon, The American
> Anthropologist, Vol. VII (July 1894), 300-312. [NOTES]
>
> * Trumbull, J. Hammond, "<trumbull.htm>On Some Words Derived From
> Languages of N. American Indians," reprinted from Transactions of the
> American Philological Association (1872). [NOTES]
>
>
>
>Introduction and General Notes:
>
>
>
>I am pleased to be able to offer on the Internet several historic Chinook
>Jargon dictionaries and journal articles as a supplement to the on-line
>edition of the "<.htm>Tenas Wawa" and also to my
>"<jargintr.htm>Introduction to the Jargon" Web page.
>
>These materials and several others not included may be found in most U.S.
>university libraries or in larger or older city libraries here in the
>Pacific Northwest, and a few of the items offered here are already
>available on-line from the University of Toronto Library via the gateway
>and search engine of <http://www.canadiana.org>Early Canadiana Online, a
>collaborative project of historical foundations and Canadian libraries. A
>couple historic Jargon references are available in reprint (such as Shaw's
>facsimile edition from Coyote Books; Thomas and Shaw intermittently appear
>in reprint from Binfords and Mort in Portland and the Shorey Book Store in
>Seattle, respectively).
>
>But for the most part, Jargon materials must be obtained by means of
>photocopying reference desk copies in libraries or by scouting for used
>editions. Therefore the most commonly cited materials are collected here
>for ease of retrieval and reference, and for the benefit of the distant
>student or researcher.
>
>(A selection of Jargon books available by mail order may be seen at the
><bkshelf.htm>Jargon Bookshelf page.)
>
>Format: The materials offered in this section are presented in two
>formats: HTML conversion and scanned page images. Gibbs and Shaw have been
>converted to HTML, and the remainder are as of yet presented as page
>images, which reduces considerably the time required to prepare these
>matrerials for Web presentation. It is hoped that several of the more
>popular works currently presented as images may be converted to HTML in
>the future for greater readability as well as quicker retrieval time. (The
>unique shorthand script utilized in most of Fr. LeJeune's work consigns
>these materials to remain in page-image form, and works utilizing many
>nonstandard characters which cannot be presented on a PC screen will
>necessarily remain at least in part in such form, as is the pronouncing
>vocabulary portion of Shaw's dictionary, currently on-line in mostly HTML
>format).
>
>Frames: All the works presented here use browser frames for easier access
>and navigation. An alternate menu is provided for frames-incapable
>browsers. The scheme utilized to display the page image versions
>incorporates JavaScript, although an alternate menu is provided for
>non-JavaScript-capable browsers. (To ensure compatability, the coding of
>these pages disables some or all of the JavaScript features for Web
>browsers prior to Netscape 3 and Internet Explorer 4.)
>
>Copyright: All the materials presented here are in the public domain
>today, the copyrights having long since expired. The page images of
>several works were obtained from the University of Toronto Library
>archives (as noted in detailed descriptions below) but cropped,
>straightened and reformatted for convenient viewing, printing and
>navigation. Other Web authors are welcome and encouraged to link to these
>pages, but please do not copy these files to your own Web site.
>Corrections or additions may be forthcoming, and I do reserve a copyright
>on the HTML conversions and on the formatting and presentation of the
>page-image versions displayed here.
>
>Printing: These dictionaries and articles may be printed by means of
>clicking anywhere on the text body (the right frame) and then selecting
>"print" from your Web browser's "File" pull-down menu. The materials
>presented as page images might appear to paginate incorrectly when viewed
>in "Print Preview" mode, but the images have been formatted for Web
>browser viewing and printing and I believe when actually printed they
>should paginate reasonably well. (At least they do when played out to my
>HP1200C.) An experimental method for printing out the works presented as
>page images all at once is attempted: To try this, select the option "All
>pages" from the end of the page selection menu to receive all the images
>chained together upon one very long Web page. (This may take quite a while
>to receive, perhaps half an hour for the longer documents.)
>
>Revisions: The works presented as HTML conversions bear a revision date in
>light grey at the bottom of each page. Any substantial changes made after
>posting these works will be reported here in these notes, but very minor
>corrections (such as insignificant typographical errors) will be reflected
>simply by a change in this date.
>
>Bibliography: My bibliography of Jargon works has been stalled for two
>years, mostly awaiting the time when I am sufficiently familiar with the
>works to be able to adequately catalog and describe them, though I am
>getting closer to that point as I work more with these materials here. At
>present I display the catalog cards of the books indexed as referring to
>the Jargon in the the Multnomah County library (in Portland, Oregon) on my
>current <bib.htm>Chinook Jargon Bibligraphy page. Brad Coon has compiled a
>fine <http://www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/nwcst.html>research bibliography
>of North Coast native language references which includes a
><http://www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/nwcst.html#NW80>Chinook Jargon section.
>(He is no longer adding to the Jargon section, but it remains an
>instrumental reference.) Additionally, Duane Pasco described many of the
>various Jargon works in two "Tenas Wawa" articles, both of which are
>presented in "Tenas Wawa" On-Line: "<jn04.htm>A brief history of Jargon
>dictionaries," and in the letter sent to his subscribers upon ceasing
>publication of his Jargon magazine in 1995, presented here as
>"<jn14.htm>Epilog to the Tenas Wawa."
>
>Feedback: The assistance of the reader is welcomed; in particular,
>volunteer proofreaders are solicited to aid in the future conversion of
>works to HTML, and reports of any errors or omissions which have escaped
>us in the conversions currently displayed will be gratefully received.
>Also, background information or details regarding these other Jargon works
>will be most helpful in enhancing these notes and in the preparation of a
>proper bibliography. I would also appreciate hearing of any difficulties
>viewing or printing the materials presented here; please describe your
>problem as completely as possible and include mention of your Web
>browser's version and release number.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeffrey Kopp
>September, 1999
>
>
>Notes regarding individual documents:
>
>
>
><blanch.htm>Blanchet: This dictionary is presented as page images. These
>images were retrieved from the University of Toronto Library via the Early
>Canadiana Online Web site, but subsequently cropped and resized for this
>presentation.
>
><demers.htm>Demers: Page images, also from the University of Toronto
>Library via Early Canadiana Online.
>
>The book from which these images were scanned was apparently the Rev. L.N.
>St. Onge's personal copy. The endleaves bear his stamp and also his
><demers80.htm>inscription in hand requesting any borrower to return the
>book, "as it is the only copy I have and the edition is out of print."
>
>The cover, frontispiece, and an illustration have also been moved to the end.
>
><gibbs.htm>Gibbs' dictionary was retyped from a photocopy I made of an
>original edition which is in the Multnomah County Library. While I was
>able to obtain my photocopy with relative ease in my local library, this
>book is apparently quite rare as few of my friends have seen a copy.
>Apparently it was once reprinted in 1911.
>
>This brief volume was published about halfway through the Jargon era, and
>is considered one of the best references on the Jargon, as it was
>carefully and thoughtfully compiled and accurately reproduced. At the time
>of this book's publication, Mr. Gibbs had resided in the Oregon country
>for a dozen years and also acted as interpreter to the Washington
>Territory's governor Isaac Stevens.
>
>I have seen references to this book which include mention of a Cramoisy
>Press (New York) edition, also of 1863. However, I found in the Multnomah
>County Library a dictionary by George Gibbs from that publisher in that
>year which is of the Chinook language proper ("old Chinook"), instead of
>the Jargon. (It is entitled, "Alphabetical Dictionary of the Chinook
>Language.") I would be most interested to learn if there was indeed a
>Cramoisy edition of the Jargon dictionary, or if the other book was merely
>confused for it.
>
>In preparing this version only the slightest corrections were necessary;
>bolding or italicization were corrected in just two or three places. Mr.
>Gibbs' misspelling of "medecine" (two occurrences) has been left as is. In
>two places, a long o (an o with a horizontal bar over it) appears, which
>cannot be reproduced on a Web page without resorting to the use of the new
>dynamic (downloadable) font method or insertion of a graphic (the second o
>in "OKOK" and the o in "SHOLBE").
>
>Also, the note regarding source citations which appears at the end of Part
>I in this version appeared opposite the first page of Part I in the
>printed book.
>
><good.htm>Good: Page images, also from the University of Toronto Library
>via Early Canadiana Online. This book was arranged so that the Chinook
>(Jargon) lexicon appeared on each left page, and the Nitlakapamuk ("or
>Thompson tongue") appeared beside it on the right page. To facilitate
>on-line viewing, the pages have been resquenced here in linear fashion,
>with all of the Chinook lexicon preceding the Nitlakapamuk, though the
>pages are still identified by their original numbers in the selection
>menu. Page 36 was a blank leaf and has been omitted.
>
><hale.htm>Hale: Page images, also from the University of Toronto Library
>via Early Canadiana Online. This book is listed in their catalog as 107
>pages, but the last 32 contain merely adverting.
>
><hibcar.htm>Hibbens & Carswell: Page images, also from the University of
>Toronto Library via Early Canadiana Online. No author is attributed.
>Perhaps composed by the publishers.
>
>"<huds.htm>Hudson Bay Employee": Page images, also from the University of
>Toronto Library via Early Canadiana Online. A very short but apparently
>original work. The name of its author is doubtless lost, but any clues or
>information regarding this work would be appreciated.
>
><hutch.htm>Hutchings & Rosenfield: Page images, also from the University
>of Toronto Library via Early Canadiana Online. No author attributed.
>Perhaps composed by the publishers.
>
><ljcr24.htm>LeJeune's Chinook Rudiments (1924): Fr. Jean Marie LeJeune was
>also a missionary and a very prolific writer in and about the Jargon. His
>remarkable "Kamloops Wawa" newspaper appeared irregularly but quite
>frequently for decades. Bishop Durieu and Fr. LeJeune developed a method
>of writing the Jargon in Duployan script, a French phonetic shorthand, and
>it was reported that natives who knew the Jargon were taught to read in
>just three months by using this method. The Kamloops Wawa was printed
>mostly in this script.
>
>Fr. LeJeune produced several dictionaries, the first one presented here
>being his latest and most comprehensive work, from near the end of the
>Kamloops Wawa era in 1924. This presentation was scanned from a photocopy
>I made of a mimeographed copy which I believe was an original, loaned to
>me by Duane Pasco, whom I seem to recall obtained it from Mr. Ian Hancock.
>
><ljpcv.htm>LeJeune's Practical Chinook Vocabulary (1886): An earlier work
>by Fr. LeJeune. This is a booklet set in type (Roman characters). Also
>appearing at this time were several readers and writing tutorials composed
>almost entirely in the Kamloops Wawa script. Page images, these from the
>University of Toronto Library via Early Canadiana Online.
>
><shaw.htm>Shaw: Set in HTML, as is Gibbs. While Gibbs is currently
>presented in its final version (pending, of course, any late correction of
>errors which may subsequently be pointed out to me), Shaw's yet remains in
>"beta" (or draft) form, as it pends proofreading by my Jargon friends and
>re-proofreading by myself. While it may presently be of use to the
>student, please be aware that I expect several corrections to be
>forthcoming. This work was converted by OCR from a photocopy made from an
>original edition by Marv Plunkett for this project.
>
>While Gibbs' dictionary is presented verbatim, including the very few
>typographical errors in the original, putting Shaw's on-line presented a
>very different situation as the typography of the original is quite
>erratic. I have liberally adjusted the punctuation in an attempt to
>conform the document to a consistent style throughout. Several minor and
>obvious typographical errors have been corrected. I intend to note any
>greater changes which have been or to be made to the body of the
>dictionary here when this colophon itself is completed.
>
>The original does not contain a table of contents; I have added one to
>this on-line version solely for ease of navigation. Also, the original
>work divides the vocabulary into two sections, the main Lexicon and also a
>Supplemental Vocabulary of "Less Familiar Words--Not Strictly Jargon--or
>of Only Local Use." I have merged these two vocabularies together solely
>for greater ease of reference as the "Combined Vocabulary."
>
><eells.htm>Eells' and <trumbull.htm>Trumbull's period journal articles are
>presented as page images, also from the University of Toronto Library via
>Early Canadiana Online. Eells also produced an oft-cited early dictionary.
>
>
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