Word: chinooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Bonneville Dam was built in 1937, the great Chinook salmon, far & away the handsomest and most valuable fish in North America, has been fighting a game but losing battle for survival. As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty 17,000 tons a year to U.S. tables, are in the Columbia River's cool, green tributaries far up in the northwest mountains...
...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...
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...