1910 humor: Learn Chinook dancing from Mr. Foote of Chelan 😀
I appreciate that a dance instructor should be named Foote!
Chelan WinterFest (image credit: Only in Your State)
The “Chinook dance” wasn’t a particular style, at least as far as I’ve read about it.
It was a late-winter dance to encourage the arrival of the warm “Chinook wind.”
Chinook Dance Introduced.
M.M. Foote, of Chelan, has begun a dancing school in Brewster, which is unique from the fact that it is the Chinook dance practiced by the Indians of this country years and years ago. Mr. Foote is a past master in the art, his early experience in and among the Indians having given him an experience never to be forgotten.
He has a number of scholars who have expressed their willingness to join the class. — Brewster Herald.
— from the Wenatchee (WA) Daily World of April 6, 1910, page 6, column 2
I imagine the above notice was in joking response to a lingering cold winter.
M.M. Foote was a prominent founding father of Chelan, Washington.
