Sequim Press, Part 3 (06/10/1921): Jamestown S’Klallam and local Chinook Jargon

Sequim Press, Part 3 (06/10/1921): Jamestown S’Klallam and local Chinook Jargon

An engaging little series on a smalltown paper that ran untranslated Chinook Jargon pieces well past the frontier era. This was in Sequim, Washington, phonetically [skwιm]. Hiu snass wawa? (Image credit: Amazon) And that’s on the Olympic Peninsula, a region that was still pretty remote from mainstream Settler society. So local folks still used some Northern-dialect Chinuk Wawa, and understood it pretty well when it was used in reporting on the S…