My esteemed friend Henry Zenk once wrote a book chapter examining Dr. William C. McKay’s 1892 address on the 100th anniversary of Captain Robert Gray’s (“)discovery(“) of the Columbia River. 

Another photo from Kamloops Wawa #130 (July 1895), on page [106], is this historical treasure:

Among the animals we’re told understood Chinuk Wawa, we’ve seen the Thunderbird, dogs, and wood rats. 

(Image credit: Chehalis River Mutual Aid) < ō’ma > is how Franz Boas’s really lovely 1892 article “The Chinook Jargon”, published in Science, writes úmaʔ (the modern Grand Ronde spelling).

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?