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1891: A “Chinook and Clatsop” word for ‘legging(s)’

Summary by Chinook Jargon
Professor Franz Boas, long may his name be remembered with respect, was not perfect. Boas was engaged in an ideology-driven project of “salvage ethnography”. He and like-minded researchers in the late 1800s and early 1900s were working hard to document as much as they could of the oldest traditional cultural memory of Indigenous peoples. I’m glad they bothered! The gentleman would seem to be be-legging-ed (image credit: Mary Evans Picture Librar…
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Chinook Jargon broke the news in on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
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