There’s so much Lower Chehalis Salish influence, largely undocumented before my research, in Chinuk Wawa.

As you read the following wonderful clipping, think of this: is the “Chahko Mika handshake” a firm one, or a complicated one?

Researcher (and up-and-coming northern-dialect CJ speaker) Jakob Svorkdal of UVic has sent along another excellent old newspaper find:

When I originally wrote up the “discovery” of potlatch house (pátlach-hàws) as a Chinuk Wawa compound noun, I left out a couple of details of interest.

This arrived in the mailbox! This article is inside the magazine: qʰata mayka təmtəm? What do you think?

nayka wáwa drét háyú mási kʰapa David Gene Lewis, PhD, for inspiring this mini-series.

All 3 examples of “siwashed” today come from a single newspaper, and all have the same meaning.

Charles G. Leland inserted fake cussin’ in his otherwise fairly accurate 1888 article “Der Chinook-Jargon“.

In our Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group the other day, Greg Cleveland quoted his late grandfather as addressing him and other kids decades ago with “Howh klat’-a-wa.”