With thanks to Jeffrey Kopp for making me aware of this sad event.

Tuck this into our file on telegrams in Chinook Jargon.

In the post-frontier era, you see, anything written in Chinuk Wawa caught the eye as an oddity.

The sender wrote an explanatory message on this one, involving Chinook Jargon…

“hihi-pʰikcha” by Tyla LaGoy, on page 13 of Lane Community College’s magazine “Chinuk Wawa” #2, has the expression qʰa-ikta (literally ‘where-thing’), ‘whatever’…

This memory from Spokane, Washington, has to do with the earlier time when it was known as Spokan Falls, Washington Territory.

Words from Chinook Jargon that our friend Dr Dale McCreery has found in the Nuxalk (“Bella Coola Salish”) language…

Here’s a newspaper excerpt from a book, “Reminescences [Reminiscences] of Eastern Oregon“, by Mrs. Elizabeth Laughlin Lord.

Just after the frontier era, non-Natives in the Grand Ronde (Oregon) area still had a vivid grasp of local Chinook Jargon.

New discoveries again