"Chinook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... metisse, ladino, mestizo, guacho, griffe, mameluco, half-breed. Associated Words: tepee, wigwam, tomahawk, lodge, wickiup, sachemdom, pueblo, calumet, totem, totemism, powwow, roanoke, coup, gens, Manito, pogamoggan, potlatch, chinook, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... huddled on a sled, was drawn by a native man and pushed by a native woman. They could hear him swearing at both impartially in broken English and Chinook. ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... me to his heart again." Alaric Hobbs reflected on his vain attempt to try the Tunguse, Chinook, Zuni, Apache, Sioux, and Esquimaux dialects on the handsome Prince Djiddin, whose Oriental magnificence was even now the despairing admiration of the two ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... hundred times he has said to me, 'John, when I die, I want to be buried on Memaloose Isle.' That's the 'Isle of the Dead,' which we just passed, and has been from times away back the burial place of the Chinook Indians. It's just full of 'em. And I says to him, 'Now, Vic., it's fame your after.' 'John,' says he, 'I'll tell you: I'm not indifferent to glory; and there's many a big gun laid away in the cemetery that ...
— Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist • E. L. Lomax
... big grin. "It's Royal Chinook salmon that I caught in the fish derby on the Columbia River ...
— The House from Nowhere • Arthur G. Stangland
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