Who wants to do a simple project for our community?

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Turn “The Chinook Archives”, which was the first online community devoted to Chinook Jargon, into an easy-to-search database.

Whidbey Island and Chinook Jargon: a roundup

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I’ve never collected together all of my previous discussion of Whidbey Island, Washington in regard to Chinuk Wawa.

Coming soon (Chinook Jargon in the wild): Kla Ha Ya Days in Snohomish, WA

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Thanks to the wonderful community radio station KSER 90.7 in Everett, I heard this bit of Chinuk Wawa in the community.

Buy now for only $18,000! Autograph manuscript Chinook vocabulary, attributed to Dr. Joseph B. Brown, a surgeon in the 9th U.S. Infantry stationed at Fort Dalles on the Columbia River in Oregon Territory

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I understand that that’s the Canadian price. But I have many other questions.

Chinook Jargon in the wild: The Tyee hotel & restaurant, Coupeville, Whidbey Island, WA

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I’ve driven by this place many a time on my vacations!

Maybe a skooch more to the etymology of wálamsh ‘Rogue River tribe’

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A word you might not have noticed in the awesome 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary of Chinuk Wawa is wálamsh ‘Rogue River tribe’ (from southwest Oregon). 

1900, WA: Political commentary (snark/pun) via Chinook Jargon

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Just into the post-frontier period, one western Washington political candidate’s name made him a target.

“Klahowya” from Cultus Bay

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Today I’m on Whidbey Island, WA, on a research & writing trip.

t̓ilímuksh is a foreign pronunciation

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The Southern Dialect Chinuk Wawa word for ‘Tillamook’ people is t̓ilímuksh, which is not those Salish people’s own word for themselves (Hutyéyu as I recall). 

1909, WA: Inauguration of Spokane chief Jim Sam involves lots of Chinook Jargon

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At the inauguration of new Spokane Tribe Chief Jim Sam in the post-frontier days, many witnesses were present from other tribes.