The Cusick, WA Siwash Indians baseball team!
There was a baseball team in northeastern Washington state’s post-frontier era named the Siwash Indians.
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Ladies’ clubs named in Chinook Jargon
A turn-of-the-century convention of Washington State women’s clubs has a significant Chinuk Wawa component!
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Attention gearheads!
California CPE: Heap big Odd Fellow
Pidgins as street languages in the late frontier period…
My Dear St. Nicholas:–
So wonderful: a local girl tells about Chinuk Pipa shorthand in a national kids’ magazine.
