Untranslated Chinook Jargon, even well into the post-frontier era, meant that local readers understood the message already.

I don’t know the full background on this one, but the person with the pen name “Wake Quash” must have been so named for their boldness.

“Siwash home — a typical Indian bungalow, Washington”…

Another great bit of Northern Dialect spotted in the wild by our linguist friend, Dr. Dale McCreery.

There’s a great chance this is partial proof that Chinuk Wawa is a gold-rush language of British Columbia! (Hat tip to linguist William Turkel.)

Here’s how Chinuk Wawa’s word sitle(y) is a totally one-of-a-kind phenomenon.

Untranslated Chinook Jargon!

What do you think?

New discoveries again!

With a grateful tip of the hat to Professor Leslie Saxon of the University of Victoria’s Department of Linguistics.