Touchingly, the Upper Chehalis Salish people have a word for the ‘pioneers’, the early non-Native Settlers:

#4 in our mini-series on paid Chinook Jargon expert George Gibbs’s illustrations of how to talk this language:

Mystifying to find Chinuk Wawa in a Los Angeles newspaper!

The 5th pair of pages in this overlooked gem!

Here’s a cool set of related words in SW Washington (“Tsamosan”) Salish:

I’m still asking, can you find evidence of Chinook Jargon in our tally of the described communications in these old journals?

I include a clipping of the entire article in case you want to read it…

I was looking at clams and such…

From Coldwater, BC, the village where Chinuk pipa literacy first got popular among Native people…