1871, OR: “Indian council at Salem”, for back-translation into Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa

by

1897, WA: Traditional “clisquis houses”

by

WA: Sitkum Siwash, Esq.’s “Yankee Doodle” about the 1859 Pig War in the San Juan Islands

by

1882, BC: “Chinooke Clahowyah Queen’s Tenass” to the Viceroy

by

1923, WA: Still another McCluskey – Eldridge letter in Jargon!

by

Culture lessons: Things Chinook Jargon doesn’t do…asking ‘WHAT to do’, ‘WHAT to say’, etc.

by

1884, OR: We just keep finding Lord’s Prayer translations; here’s a home-brewed one

by

1917, WA: Julia Pilchuck coins a word for a ‘truck’

by

1895, WA: David Denny’s Chinook canoe stolen (more Lushootseed / Chinook Jargon)

by

Chinook Writing: “Ces pattes de mouche”!

by