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The article discusses the history of and culture in Chinookan villages in the lower Columbia River in Oregon and Washington existing during the first half of the 19th century. Topics discussed include a list of Chinookan villages in the published "Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia," the importance of villages on the life of Chinooks, and Chinookan languages spoken in village clusters.

"Speaking Chinook: Adaptation, Indigeneity, and Pauline Johnson's British Columbia Stories" argues against criticisms of this Mohawk writer/performer as insufficiently Indian. Recent scholarship on Johnson, critical frameworks provided by Philip Deloria (Dakota), Robert Warrior (Osage), and Chadwick Allen (Cherokee), and close readings of sentimental texts that seem aimed to please a white audience demonstrate Johnson's subtle resistance. The essay argues that like the Chinook Jargon, Johnson provides an example of adaptability to modern circumstances that promotes survival of indigenous identity, and it urges readers to examine related assumptions about groups excluded from modernity or denied historical agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay is about how stories and songs are shaped by language and land. It begins with Chinook, a language once commonly spoken and often written on the West Coast, and now mostly forgotten; and then turns to the influence of place on the development of literary traditions generally, and specifically those that have flourished in the Pacific Northwest, some of them seldom acknowledged in the canonical categories of the academy and all of them—like Chinook—integrating spiritual and material domains and incorporating local as well as literary languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents different peoples' perspectives on Canadian literature and archives. Memories of an archive and special collections room; Association of the Chinook language with the fur trade; Views on language; Lessons learned on working in archives.

Provides an overview of the development of the Chinook Jargon, a means of communication between the white traders and Indians and among various groups of Indians themselves, in Oregon country. Dispute over the origin of the jargon; Features of the jargon; Groups of people represented by the jargon; Dialects used in the newspaper 'Oregon Spectator.'