From JOLT (The Journal of Olympia, Lacey, and Tumwater), Friday, May 10, 2024, an article worth reading in full:

On April 30, 2017, our friend (now Dr.) Dale McCreery of BC shared in the big Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group… (Masmasalaaniq mamuk kau eli kopa lamotai = Masmasalaaniq mamuk-k’áw íliʔi kʰupa lámətáy = ‘Masmasalaaniq tied the land to the… Continue reading →

Last night, we had a super-exceptional appearance of Aurora Borealis down here in Chinuk Wawa country!

Is Chinook Jargon’s letʰlá ‘noise’ an Americanism?

A letter from Salem, in “Champoeg County”, reports on “an exploring tour” by some recently arrived Settlers in Oregon Territory.

There are a number of discoveries in this 9th installment of our look at Alexander Francis Chamberlain’s field documentation of the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon.

Today’s post is mainly in the interest of helping folks who read old Pacific NW documents.

Is this “Russellville” the modern neighborhood of Montavilla in Portland, Oregon?

“The Industrial School”, you understand, was the first of the names of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Newspaper editors used to libel each other freely in the USA.