Eric Deane Sismey (1893-?) was a post-frontier surveyor in the Okanagan country of British Columbia, so his quotation of Chinook Jargon from a Native man seems worth paying attention to.

I have a simple insight to share today.

There’s very little going on here, linguistically. (But be sure to read on!)

Kikisoblu, a.k.a. Angeline (circa 1820-1896), oldest daughter of Duwamish Chief siʔaɬ, was a landmark of early Seattle.

Straight out, this is some wacky (and in some ways wack) Chinuk Wawa that reader Alex Code sent my way…

My home state of Washington was among the first to legalize voting by women…

News coverage of a day of beautifying the still new high school campus in one of Washington state’s “Tri-Cities” involves two obscure expressions.

The research I’ve been doing into the Métis linguistic presence in British Columbia leads to a timely discovery…

Well within the frontier period (some of Washington’s biggest cities hadn’t yet been founded!), Chinook Jargon was already being suppressed in some places…

Another Chinook Jargon artifact from Kittitas County that I’d like to find…