I was lucky enough to be invited to Whidbey Island, Washington for a summer vacation trip last month, and I took a few Chinuk Wawa-related tourist photos…

I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Said This Out Loud…

I’m not going to transcribe this German description of Chinook Jargon (any of my readers want to do that)…but…

Do we have to wait for the Covid-19 pandemic to abate, to find out if there’s Chinuk Wawa in the Stefánsson Collection?

Seems to me it would’ve been simpler to translate this as sil-haws aias-son…

One early frontier town in California combined 2 pidgin languages in its name…

Here’s a sampler of occurrences I’ve found of a common frontier-era California pidgin Spanish/English/Chinuk Wawa word for ‘food’…

Evaluate for yourself how substantial the connection between the famous adventure-story writer and our Jargon is…

Another in my surveys of Chinuk Wawa’s traces in Pacific Northwest tribal languages — this time in Alaska’s Eyak language — turns up the usual fascinating discoveries 🙂

One of the countless top-notch articles over at my colleague David G. Lewis PhD’s blog NDNHistoryResearch (go! read! learn! donate!) drew my attention.