A famous World War 2 slogan, familiar to Americans of a certain age, also showed up in Chinuk Wawa.

Dusting off the Chinook to reminisce about a fundamental tragedy…

A lack of foreign borrowed words in a language doesn’t necessarily tell you there were historically no foreigners present…

Giving credit where it’s due.

A language mostly documented by short lists of words can still surprise you!

Twenty-five years after the closing of the frontier era, this Chinook Jargon from Canadian-born pioneer Josiah Sawyer “J. Sox” Brown (1845-1932) had to be translated for newspaper readers…

Thanks to Dr. Wendy Wickwire…

At this point, can we find any Commanders-in-Chief who haven’t been spoken to in Chinuk Wawa?!

Thanks to the great advocate of southwest Oregon languages, Patricia Whereat Phillips, for mentioning this new resource on her Facebook feed.

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