I try to scour the world for every scholarly mention of Chinook Jargon…

This note is just to follow up on my previous piece, “1923: A re-discovered Kamloops Chinuk Wawa publication“.

There’s plenty more of value to examine in Prof. Franz Boas’s quite brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…

Keeping score, I count 2 jokes within this late telling of our venerable PNW joke.

The graduation ceremony of an Oregon medical school probably didn’t really contain this faux-dignified humorous address in “the classic Chinook“…

I’ll keep this as minimal as I can, in the spirit of the topic of “silent pronouns”.

How much do you know about the Sultan of Zulu?

Nahh! Our Chinook invitation files are bulging.

I’m in the business of checking everything that’s said in the scholarly world about Chinook Jargon, so today I’ll have a look at a paper by my friend Bill Poser.

Here’s a nice example of Indigenous leaders making public speeches in Chinuk Wawa during the frontier era…at the Settler celebration par excellence.