Well after the frontier period, a Chinook Jargon invitation in Alaska is quite a different animal from “the classic Chinook”.

I expect Native folks had already heard these called “bicycles” in English…

Fort Vancouver was so new that it wasn’t yet as big as Fort George (Astoria), at the time when naturalist John Scouler visited the Pacific Northwest.

This is a new discovery for me — should be possible to track down the answer.

wəx̣t hayu masi kʰapa ukuk lalang-tayi Peter Bakker, yaka munk-kəmtəks nayka qʰa pus nanich ixt ɬush skul-pipa…

A smart & interesting question was asked the other day by Luke Etxeberria in the “Chinook Jargon” group on Facebook.

Here’s part 2 of 2 in our examination of a really neat historical document of early contact…

For another early-contact account of “Nootka” (and south-central Alaska), we have a superb edition of…

(Don’t read this unless you want to talk fluent Jargon.)