A nationally syndicated cartoon strip making a reference to World War One backs up my recent point that Robert Service’s poetry of the Klondike was hugely popular…

Without preamble, a local newspaper published what it called a “Letter Written by an Indian Chief”, in recognizably local Chinuk Wawa. You talkin’ about me?: T.H.B. Odeneal (image credit: Levi Odeneal page) The… Continue reading →

Let’s get into the wherefores and how-to’s!

One word in Lower Chehalis Salish (an ancestor language of Chinuk Wawa) has 2 uses…

At our friend Peter Bakker’s excellent LingoBlog, there’s a quiz you might want to try solving 😁

There’s more than one list highlighting “less familiar words” in JMR Le Jeune’s wonderful 1924 booklet, “Chinook Rudiments“, from Kamloops, BC. Le Jeune’s perspective, as a daily speaker and writer of Chinuk Wawa… Continue reading →

Unique spellings! Yay!

On the Rogue River of southwest Oregon, a Settler group heading to hunt gold in California has a violent run-in with tribal people.

I’m so happy we have reached a stage where we can learn from the learners of Chinuk Wawa!

Apparently I’ve yet to write about this folk-etymology of a Chinook Jargon phrase…