A couple of the Chinuk Pipa letters that we’ve found, written by Indigenous people of British Columbia, are datelined “Camp 16” in 1893. Ever heard of the place?

One Pacific Northwest language that I’ve had a harder time finding reference materials on is Northern Paiute.

Nah, we’re talking about dysgraphia!

At Mount Saint Michaels in Hillyard (Spokane), Washington, this week:

Suzanne Simard’s book “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest” (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2021) is a very good read if you’re interested in forest ecology and such.

Look what else emerged from Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…

I don’t care to engage with the obviously political goal of its author, but his scholarship is shoddy and needs correcting…

The other big West Coast pidgin language that everyone was familiar with…

Here’s a postcard of a scenic Oregon waterfall with a Chinook Jargon name…

David Pentland wrote a good article on “French Loanwords in Cree” that points out several things we can recognize in Chinook Jargon.