Jewitt etc

[Sally Thomason]

There is a small amount of literature on that Nootka jargon or
pre-pidgin or whatever it was -- an article by Sturtevant (in a
newsletter: I forget the title, but it's from about 15 years
ago, I think).  It's pretty clear, from the distorted phonology
of the Nootka words in Chinook Jargon, that they were introduced
into CJ by whites, or by Natives using Nootka Jargon, and not
by Nootka speakers themselves.  The other really interesting
thing about those Nootka-origin words in CJ is that, although
there aren't all that many of them (a couple of dozen, maybe,
or maybe fewer), they are mostly quite basic vocabulary items.

  -- Sally