A Hawai’i newspaper tells of a disabled Haida-crewed sealing schooner limping into port there, and in turn rescuing 3 drifting Japanese fishermen…

A “Chinook” fella born before Fort Vancouver was founded gives every indication of having spoken good Chinuk Wawa.

Our motto was always the Chinook “Alki” (áɬqi, ‘in the future; bye and bye; eventually; mañana; just you wait and see’)…

Here’s a usage of úkuk not pointed out in the major dictionary…

“The renamed Tumwater Middle School in Portland, Oregon’s suburb of Beaverton honors the Chinuk Wawa language”, says the media headline.

Among the countless facts of Chinuk Wawa that only become clear once you leave dictionaries behind…

… and non-inanimate uses of both ikta ‘thing’ and “silent it”?!

And 2 polarities!

In one phrase of a story told by Victoria Howard, we have a beautiful illustration of the importance of “word order” in Chinuk Wawa.

It’s been weeks since I published the previous installment in this mini-series, but #5 is worth the wait: