MYSTERY: Lionnet’s 1853 Chinuk Wawa vocabulary, with translations in an unknown Indigenous language

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Could this be an overlooked Métis/Canadian French word in Chinook Jargon?

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Why do we need a Chinook-Peipa (shorthand) font?

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2 reasons why that atrocious Chinook housing name might have been in good faith

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Another PNW Indigenous “Marseillaise”, and it’s a doozy

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TRIUMPH OF THE IGNOROIDS!

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Reader poll: is “chum” salmon inferior?

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Flipping a 180°: máɬx̣wəli ‘from fire’

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1901, Sechelt: I’ll come back and shoot you when I know Chinook

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Etymologies: the huge family of Lower Chinookan -skan, and the huge value of back-translating

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