Today’s selection from the always high-quality Chinuk Wawa sentences of George Gibbs focuses on giving orders. I reckon we’d say iskam (Ø)! to tell a dog to ‘fetch!’ Read on…

Victoria, BC’s weekly “Monday Magazine” brings us our latest Chinuk Wawa in the news.

I’m sorry that all I have is this tantalizing British Columbia snippet from an obscure book for you today.

Rats & mice have a reputation of thievery in the Pacific Northwest.

Here’s quite an interesting work of art that you may not have known of.

The implication behind Father JMR Le Jeune’s presenting this list of words seems to be that they’re considered to be Chinook Jargon somewhere else than British Columbia…

From the earliest days of journalism in muddy Washington Territory, folks were slinging Chinook Jargon at each other.

In Northern-dialect Chinook Jargon, you can find 2 nearly identical words meaning ‘pay (for)’…

There are very few synonyms in Chinook Jargon.

Among the many ideas for what to name Washington Territory when it became a state later in 1889 was a facetious suggestion of “Siwash”!