A couple of CJ - to - English loans?

> Do we know if the English term "the sticks" maybe came from the
> Jargon?  It's a synonym for "in the country; in the backwoods; the =
toolies
> / Thules (sp?)"  When I think of the term "stick Indian" which almost
> surely is from Chinook Jargon, it leads my mind this way.

The earliest records of *sticks* in this sense in the OED are from 1905 &
1914, neither from a context suggesting a Pacific NW origin. (One was the=
 Sat.
Evening Post.) This certainly doesn't rule out a CJ origin, but it *does*=
 make
it less likely.

Alan