Chinook; a history and dictionary of the Northwest coast trade jargon : The centuries-old trade language of the Indians of the Pacific. A history of its origin and its adoption and use by the traders, trappers, pioneers and early settlers of the Northwest coast

the Chinookan folk are a people native to Southwest Washington. This is an interesting little book on the Chinook culture. It also contains a translation of the entire Chinook language, which is composed of a mixture of Native American and European words. The language is frequently referred to as

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jargon. I used to assign my middle school students a bit of writing using only this dictionary as a guide. They always struggled with the missing common articles and words.

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