I believe the reference here is to the dance craze, not to Thanksgiving-season charitable footraces.

Sign up! Go talk good Chinuk Wawa to everyone!

Another of those words that have been in Chinuk Wawa for so long that they have both French & English roots…

In my article “Etymologies or ‘Oops’,” I suggested that Chinook Jargon nouns starting in /up/ preserve a sort of Chinookan ‘Instrument’ prefix.

In one of his more English-influenced spellings, Chinook Jargon expert George Gibbs reports (1863:26) a word “tomolla”.

First things first — go download the Chinuk Pipa font!

The body of the post-frontier news article only implicitly translates this leader’s Chinuk Wawa.

“George Gibbs’ Pacific Northwest Letters”…

Who was the “celebrity” on board the canoe?

A sub-type of the “invitations in Chinook genre”: challenges to sporting matches.