Chinook-English Songs


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Chinook-English Songs is a collection of traditional songs in the Chinook jargon, a pidgin language developed in the Pacific Northwest. The volume includes the lyrics to each song in both Chinook and English, as well as information about the history and culture of the Chinook people. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of the Pacific Northwest. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.




Chinook-English Songs


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Chinook-English Songs (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Chinook-English Songs The object in presenting to the public this little book of Chinook translations of folk lore songs is with the hope that it will interest the rising generation and thereby assist in perpetuating the life of the Chinook jargon, which has filled such an important part in the early life of the pioneers of this great Northwest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Chinook-English Songs


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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.










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Pacific Northwest Americana


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Indian's Friend


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