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Chinook: The Indian Chinook is the best known and most widely used Indian word on the Pacific Coast of America. It origin¬ ated as the name of a tribe at the mouth of the Columbia River. Cap¬ tain Robert Gray, in discovering and naming the river on May 11, 1792, and Lieutenant W. R. Broughton, of the Vancouver expedition, who explored the river for a hundred miles in the same year, 1792, were probably the first white men to encounter the Chinooks. The Lewis and Clark ex¬ pedition spent the winter of 1805 to 1806 among those people and gave us the best early account of them. As knowledge of the Chinooks in¬ creased, it was found that their power and influence extended over many neighboring villages and tribes whose peoples spoke dialects of the same primitive language. Major J. W. Pow¬ ell, director of the bureau of American Ethnology, prepared a map of the ‘‘Linguistic Families of American Indians North of Mexico,” which appeared in the Annual Report for 1885-1886 and again (re¬ vised) in Bulletin 30, Handbook of American Indians. That map shows the Chinookan Linguistic Stock extending along the shores of the Columbia River from The Dalles to its mouth and thence along the coast to Willapa Bay on the north and Tillamook Head on the south. The principal chief of the original tribe and federation was Comcomly, who be¬ came famous at the time of the Astorians, following 1811. Early fishermen applied the name Chinook to the wonderful salmon (Oncor- hynchus chouicha) found in the Columbia River. The name was also applied to certain warm winds which melt the winter snows with remarkable rapidity. One of the most effective inter-racial trade languages produced in America is called the Chinook Jargon. It contains from 500 to 1000 words, about 200 being taken from the original Chinook language. In 1829, about four-fifths of the peoples of the Chinookan tribes lost their lives in an epidemic of fever. There are now but a few remnants of the tribes and those are living on the Yakima Reservation in Washington and on the Warm Springs and Grande Ronde Reservations in Oregon. We are indebted to Professor Edmond S. Meany, Head of the Department of History at the University of Washington . for the above article. Professor Meany is. without doubt, the greatest authority on Northwest history and he has kindly submitted this summary. Eight
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Page 13 text:
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Chinook: The Annual The first Chinook appeared on the campus in 1899 when the State College of Washington was a mere infant col¬ lege under the name of Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. As to the name Chinook,— it was not chosen from the Indian tribe of that name, nor yet from the warm winds so called. Back in the early days when the Hudson Bay Com¬ pany was establishing trading posts in the west, it became necessary to “make” a language for the use of the western pioneers and traders. Words from the French, some from the In¬ dians, and some from the English, formed almost a standard language. It was an intermediary of expression be¬ tween the American pioneers, the French and the Indian tribes. So Chin¬ ook was coined. The class of 1900, first editors of the year book, decided to use the name Chinook for their publication, thus implying that it was to be a form of expression of college life and activities to people out¬ side the institution as well as to students. In short, it was to be an intermediary of expression just as the language had been. The first Chinook was a medium sized book bound in a brilliant blue, the college color being blue instead of the present crimson and grey. The editor of this first Chinook was Daisy Busbey, and the manager was William M. Duncan. Financially embarrased from the first attempt at a Junior year book, the two following Junior classes did not publish a Chinook. It was not until 1902 that the after effects of the first Chinook were paid off. In that year the second volume of the Chinook appeared, edited by Lewis W. Hatch. This time the book was small¬ er in size and had a red cover instead of a blue one. From this time on the Chinook became a permanent yearly Junior edition. Having thrived as a small book, the size was increased year by year until in 1910 it acquired its present dimensions. The publishing of the Chinook has become almost a tradition on the college campus. Now it is one of the biggest publications of the school year. So origin¬ ated the Chinook, thus was it named, and thus each year it is published as a brief record of our college life. Nine
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