Monthly Archive: July, 2026

Third new song by William Wasden

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New Chinook Jargon music keeps getting created on Vancouver Island, BC.

I’m at sea looking for an etymology for < pousk > ‘ship’

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What may be the earliest known vocabulary collection of early CJ (Franchère 1820:204-205)* contains this entry:

‘Chamber’ in Lower Chinookan, retro English, and Central Chinook Jargon

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The things you learn when you’re researching Chinuk Wawa!

1913, WA: El Comancho’s new book

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There had been a major wave of interest in preserving Chinook Jargon just preceding the publication of this article in Washington state.

Fake Indigenous cafe with fake-ish Chinook-Peipa

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Chinook Jargon in the news. The headline nearly says it all:

A better etymology for tloosh / ɬush / tlus

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I put several known spellings of the Chinuk Wawa word for ‘good’ into my headline today, for a reason.

Oral history of early Chinook Jargon use for lying to enemies of the Haíɬzaqv

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I’ve heard certain people express the folksy idea that Chinuk Wawa, is a language you can only tell lies in. Well now, where did that ever come from?

Chinuk paia! It was a thing!

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The first time I came across this wonderful phrase, Chinuk paia (‘Chinook fire’), I wondered if it was a mistake for *Chaina paia* (‘Chinese fire’)…