List of Chinook Jargon place names

Terms from Chinook Jargon, a regional trade language of the Pacific Northwest, have been used as place names since contact between Europeans and Indigenous people began in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Anthropologist Douglas Deur has described the "toponymic complex" of Chinook Jargon place names as "perhaps the most extensive ...

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List of Chinook Jargon place names

Terms from Chinook Jargon, a regional trade language of the Pacific Northwest, have been used as place names since contact between Europeans and Indigenous people began in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Anthropologist Douglas Deur has described the "toponymic complex" of Chinook Jargon place names as "perhaps the most extensive ...

Source: Wikipedia "List of Chinook Jargon place names" · CC BY-SA 4.0

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