Morris 1998 "Whooping it up in Chinook country"

[Dave Robertson]

homepage.smc.edu/morris_pete/papers/assets/apcg1998.pdf -

(His "Chinook country" is the Montana-Alberta borderland, named for the
Chinook wind, not for anything particular to the Jargon.)

A conference paper by a geographer.  Contains a neat map of businesses named
"Chinook" in North America.  A note about the distribution of this name:

"As the map shows, “Chinook” is not completely absent from the United
States. There is a modest concentration along the Rocky Mountain front in
Colorado, where similar “chinook” winds occur during
the winter. Indeed, a left-leaning “underground” newspaper appeared briefly
in 1969 under the name
“Chinook.” In contrast to Calgary’s 59 “Chinook” businesses, however, there
are but four in Denver, the
U.S. city most to which Calgary is most often compared. The real
concentration of “Chinook” names in
the United States is, not surprisingly, along the northwestern coast,
particularly the urban centers of
the lower Columbia River and Puget Sound. Thus, while “Chinook” in the
Canadian context is
typically a reference to the warm winter wind of the Rockies, in the
American context, it most often
carries a general coastal Pacific Northwest regional connotation. After all,
in addition to the Chinook
Indians themselves, coastal Oregon and Washington have been the primary home
to the Chinook
salmon and to the Chinook jargon—the nineteenth-century trading language
used by the native peoples
of the region and by European, American, and Canadian fur traders and
settlers. In a much broader sense
than that of the dry chinook wind—coastal Pacific Northwest is the heart of
its own version of
“Chinook Country” (Boas 1904; Durham 1921; Leechman 1926; Ruby and Brown
1976; Thomas 1935)."

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