I was interviewed for this excellent piece of science reporting from the Puget Sound Institute:

Song #7 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):

Early days on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, with a Chinuk Wawa quotation from a Native man.

I hadn’t heard of a Spokan(e) tribal elder called Sam Angdo, so it’s a pleasure to learn of him & his reliance on Chinook Jargon!

Here’s a contemporary photo of Coldwater, a Native village in the Nicola region of south-central British Columbia that was home to the first Indigenous “Chinuk Pipa” writer.

Yes, it’s a racist headline.

“César Cascabel” is an 1890 novel by the famous Jules Verne. It’s one of his less well known works, in the English-speaking world.

The 20th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.

Thanks to Alex Code for pointing out a very interesting source of info on frontier-era BC history!

Pacific Northwesterners, coming from the farthest fringe of frontier, could make New York City people feel like yokels, just by talking Chinuk Wawa!