Another of the precious, and popular, photos in “Kamloops Wawa”, the Chinook Jargon newspaper, showed its readers much more than the caption told.

A visiting group from an Iowa newspaper in the late frontier era witnesses the huge intercultual gathering of hops pickers talking Chinuk Wawa…

Thanks to JD Norton for this find!

The 21st pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.

Chinuk Wawa has a tendency to simplify /nd/, at the end of a word, to /n/.

Sort of a strange place to find example sentences of Chinuk Wawa: a civic history textbook for Seattle kids.

Thanks to Father Leo Barker for the link to this Chinook Jargon document.

Our Tuesday evening Zoom group was talking about this Sunday name the other day. (Email me for the Zoom link to join us!)

Let’s look beyond the heavily traveled transport corridor of the old fur-trade “brigades”…