Chinook Jargon in the news: Who is Louis Creek named after?

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Hollie Ferguson has written an excellent regional news item about a respected kúkpi7 (chief) who spoke and wrote Chinuk Wawa.

1889: A Klonas affair

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An out-of-the-ordinary loan from Chinuk Wawa into English:

1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 1 of 5: earliest ‘room’)

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naika wiht wawa mirsi kopa ukuk Qalis pi Alik Kod…

How do you use “tu məch” in northern Chinuk Wawa?

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We may only have a couple of examples of tu məch (‘too much’), but they’re indicative…

1916: Annual Reunion of Oregon Pioneers

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Every meeting of these oldtimers involved Chinook Jargon …

Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 10: Philibert-Michel Termoz

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Chinuk Wawa is a language for talking about your real life — so how about learning to say ‘I had some hard work to do, so I’m running late’?

/said/ ‘side’, a Northern Chinuk Wawa word

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Straight thru the history of the Kamloops Wawa newspaper, we find the recent English loanword said ‘side’ used quite a lot.

Proof of the racialization of “Klootchman”

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Here’s the start of a local-color story in a Washington Territory newspaper:

Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 13)

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…And now for the 13th pair of pages in this remarkable early document of Chinuk Wawa…

Temporal sequences in Fort Vancouver CW, and such

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‘After’ is the subject of perennial questions from Chinuk Wawa learners.