An unpublished linguistic article that I’ve long thought deserved more attention is Lillie Dremeaux’s senior thesis in Linguistics from Swarthmore College:

See also “Novel Divorce Suit (Worn-Out Joke)“!

Pretty early in the frontier settlement period for Washington state, “our native reporter” contributes an awesome article about a Seattle fistfight.

No, this is not a newly revealed secret etymology of a Chinook Jargon phrase…

[Edited to correct my early-morning misreading! hayu masi to Alex, Norbert, and Darrin.] An early Oregon newspaper notice is about half Chinook! Hias Cumtux. ALL persons indebted to me are requested to potlatch black hiack. P.D.… Continue reading →

“The Clear Cut Future” book is a collection of visual art, poetry, prose. (Astoria, OR: The Clear Cut Press, 2003.) One of the contributors is the painter Michael Brophy, with selections from his… Continue reading →

Chinook was there! The cartoon accompanying the article Past Glimpsed as B.C. Native Sons Banquet Pioneers Tributes Are Paid by “Marks of Appreciation.” YOUTHS OF 80 IN ATTENDANCE Happy Toasts — Some Make… Continue reading →

I was looking through “BC Then and Now: Okanagan / Kootenay / Cariboo / Volume One” by Roland Morgan (Vancouver, BC: Bodima, 1978).

A very brief glance at a parallel between Lower Chehalis (Coast Salish) and a language that it helped give birth to, Chinook Jargon…