Word: chinook
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...Chinook Kennels in New Hampshire, where Admiral Byrd got the sled dogs for his expeditions, there now stands a Byrd memorial: "To All Noble Dogs whose lives were given [in] Little America ... to further science and discovery...
July 5-Medicine. Cheechako is not Eskimo for "tenderfoot." It's Chinook...
...choke off such loose talk Seattle last week opened a lip-zippering campaign. Its slogan: '"Halo Wawa!"-a Chinook phrase meaning, approximately, "I don't talk...
TIME, July 5, p. 40, says that the name of Dr. Good's boat Cheechako is Eskimo for "tenderfoot." Right you are about tenderfoot, but not Eskimo. Cheechako is pure Chinook Jargon; chee meaning new, recent, or just now, while chako means to come, or arrive, or approach...
Forty to 100 years ago, Chinook Jargon (based partly on but not to be confused with the Chinook tribal language) was spoken very extensively by whites and Indians alike throughout the coastal portions of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and southern Alaska. . . . But the Eskimos never spoke Chinook Jargon; those I have asked never even heard of it. The few Jargon words (such as Cheechako) which are familiar to the Eskimos today have been brought to them by their contact with the whites...