Page 3 of George Coombs Shaw’s northern-dialect dictionary of 1909 brings us another serving of full sentences to learn from.

At the late Duane Pasco’s JayHawk Institute website, there’s a pretty great photo of him.

Is the tribe name “Yahooskin”, as in “The Yahooskin Tribe of Snake Indians“, from a language other than their own Northern Paiute, at least in part?

William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was a US Army officer who wrote a neat book, “The Indian Sign Language”, about that pidgin language of the Northern Plains…

I had heard of Albert B Reagan (1871-1936) before, in my reading on Pacific Northwest cultures, but I hadn’t realized he was a relatively primitive anthropologist.

Local readers understood the Chinook tag line on this letter to the editor in the early post-frontier era…

I had thought the Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon word ashnu ‘to kneel’ was an anomaly…

For educational purposes only, I’d like to share an exciting find of a Chinook Jargon story from Cortes Island, British Columbia.

Umatilla Sahaptin is a language of tribal people who met non-Native newcomers fairly early…

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?