A Chinook Jargon phrase that I learned on a research trip in southeast Alaska makes its first known appearance in southwest Oregon…

When I posted this on the old CHINOOK listserv in 2008, we had no way to show pictures…

I’ve mentioned many times the outsized, but under-researched, role of Lower Chehalis Salish in forming “Chinook Jargon”.

A famous World War 2 slogan, familiar to Americans of a certain age, also showed up in Chinuk Wawa.

Dusting off the Chinook to reminisce about a fundamental tragedy…

A lack of foreign borrowed words in a language doesn’t necessarily tell you there were historically no foreigners present…

Giving credit where it’s due.

A language mostly documented by short lists of words can still surprise you!

Twenty-five years after the closing of the frontier era, this Chinook Jargon from Canadian-born pioneer Josiah Sawyer “J. Sox” Brown (1845-1932) had to be translated for newspaper readers…

Thanks to Dr. Wendy Wickwire…