In my PhD dissertation on Kamloops Chinuk Wawa, on page 134 I noted the rarity of words for ‘when?’.

One of the many corners of Chinuk Wawa grammar that’s been neglected…

Hemene Kawan or Old Wolf (the Settler writer Lucullus V. McWhorter, I infer) used Chinuk Wawa in a good newspaper obituary that he wrote of a Yakama Nation chief.

Definitely offensive now, and definitely useful data.

Chinuk Wawa used in yet another advertisement:

Symbolic logic was never my fortissimo 🙂

A post-frontier politician is anxious over his assignment to read a written Chinuk Wawa speech in public.

A frontier-era report on a major episode in early US-Alaskan history shows that Chinuk Wawa was already present when the Russians left.

A post-frontier popular magazine with more than the usual number of female writers was among the first to oberve that “cloochman” is a slur.

It was after “the closing of the frontier”, but Red Men’s Day at the Spokane Fair brought out the editor’s untranslated Chinuk Wawa for knowledgeable news readers’ benefit: