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The Chinook Trade Jargon - Introduction - http://chinookjargon.home.att.net
An introduction to the Chinook Jargon, a trading pidgin comprised of Native American, English and French words used by the pioneers and Indians on the western frontier. |
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Chinook Jargon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon
A description of Chinook Jargon with definitions of a few sample words. |
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Tenas Wawa - http://tenaswawa.home.att.net/
"Tenas Wawa" was a semimonthly newsletter about the Chinook Jargon- a mixture of French, Northwest native languages and English. This is an extensive site with grammar, vocabulary, history, news articles and maps. |
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Gibbs' Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon - http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/gibbs.htm
A complete reprint of: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (161), A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by George Gibbs. Washington: Smithsonian Institution: March, 1863. |
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Shaw's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon - http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/shaw.htm
A complete reprint of "The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It--A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Language of the American Continent by George C. Shaw. Rainier Printing Company, Inc., Seattle, 1909". |