Song #6 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):

A bit north of Walla Walla, withing frontier times, a local Settler newspaper undermined its own message by complaining in a language Indigenous people understood.

This one is Chinuk Wawa in the news in a roundabout way!

Indigenous readers of “Kamloops Wawa”, circa 1890’s, absolutely loved the rare treat of seeing pictures and photos.

The entry yə́xa, yə́x- ‘only, nothing but’, in M. Dale Kinkade’s 2004 “Cowlitz Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch”, has got me asking for some explanations…

The Pacific Science Center, in Seattle, announces a new museum exhibit that involves Chinook Jargon.

The 19th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.

We’ve found a remarkable number of German people associated with Chinook Jargon, but today’s clipping uses Jargon against those folks…

Reproducing a flier from Fort Nisqually — save the date!

An artist who we’ve seen use Chinook Jargon in his work does it again…