Chinook Jargon Collection 1863-2004

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Chinook Jargon Collection 1863-2004

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The Chinook Jargon is a trade language comprised of Chinook language words, Nuu-chah-nulth, French, English, and other languages. It was used extensively in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for communication between Pacific Northwest American Indians and their trading partners. The Chinook Jargon language consists of only a few hundred words (Edward H. Thomas records approximately 580) and so is highly limited compared to the actual Chinook language, which shares a complexity similar to other native and Indo-European languages.

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Portland State University LibrarySpecial Collections & University Archives

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Bushaw, Donald.

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Professor of mathematics, Washington State University. From the description of Donald Bushaw papers on the Greystone Foundation, circa 1990s. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 697682116 Donald W. Bushaw was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1926.  He received a  BA in Mathematics from Washington State College in 1949 and a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1952.  Shortly afterwards, Bushaw returned to Washington State College (later...