In a previous post, I reported that US President Teddy Roosevelt spoke Chinook.

For real? Yet another US bigwig involved with Jargon?!

Here’s the dramatic conclusion to our 3-part sequence about Levi Ankeny (1844-1921, pioneer of 1850).

Are you familiar with the North American tradition of “Chautauqua”?

“It is Christmas Day on the cattle ranch at the Malheur agency…” So starts Part IV of a serially published piece of post-frontier cowboy fiction by the renowned Owen Wister.

Thanks to Alex Code for pointing out this fun piece. [FYI: this article took me an entire day to write.]

Mockery of the northwesternmost Natives to speak Chinuk Wawa is still evidence of how they spoke it!

Kikisoblu, a.k.a. Angeline (circa 1820-1896), oldest daughter of Duwamish Chief siʔaɬ, was a landmark of early Seattle.

Here’s another early Chinook Jargon vocabulary that deserves further examination, from which we learn quite a lot.

Nipo T. Strongheart (1894-1966) deserves an article of his own on this website.