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Creole dialects -- Northwest Coast of North America

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• Chinook Wawa language

• Chinook As Spoken By the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia and Alaska; for the Use of Traders, Tourists and Others Who Have Business Intercourse With the Indians: Chinook-English, English-Chinook (Victoria, BC: M. W. Waitt, ca. 1889), by C. M. Tate (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers and Hymns (1871), by Modeste Demers and Francis Norbert Blanchet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language, or "Chinook Jargon" (London: Whittaker, 1890), by Horatio Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon: the Complete Language Used By the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and British Possessions (San Francisco : Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon (Victoria, BC: T.N. Hibben, late 1800s) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: the Indian Trading Language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the Northern Pacific Coast (San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dictionary of Indian Tongues: Containing Most of the Words and Terms Used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook: With Their Meaning or Equivalent in the English Language (Victoria, BC: Hibben and Carswell, 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at rjholton.com)
• Chinook and Shorthand Rudiments: With Which the Chinook Jargon and the Wawa Shorthand Can be Mastered Without a Teacher in a Few Hours (1898), by J. M. R. Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It (Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, 1909), by George C. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests, and Isthmiana, by Theodore Winthrop (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at rjholton.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Pidgin and Creole Languages: Essays in Memory of John E. Reinecke (originally published 1987; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Glenn G. Gilbert (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
• Roots of Language (originally published 1981; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Derek Bickerton (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Peter Bakker, Finn Birchsenius, Carsten Levisen, and Eeva Sippola (PDF and Epub at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Peter Bakker, Finn Birchsenius, Carsten Levisen, and Eeva Sippola (PDF and Epub at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Creol Psalm-Buk, of een Vergaedring van Oùwe en Nywe Psalmen na Creol-Tael (in Danish Creole; Copenhagen: P. T. Brünnich, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annancy Stories (New York: R. H. Russell, 1899), by Pamela Colman Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jamaica Anansi Stories, by Martha Warren Beckwith, contrib. by Helen H. Roberts (HTML with sheet-music images at sacred-texts.com)

• The Grandisimmes: A Story of Creole Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880), by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandissimes (1899 edition), by George Washington Cable, illust. by Albert Herter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Monsieur Motte, by Grace Elizabeth King (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living With the Shores of Oregon and Washington (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Paul D. Komar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Picturesque Alaska: A Journal of a Tour Among the Mountains, Seas and Islands of the Northwest, From San Francisco to Sitka (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), by Abby Johnson Woodman (illustrated HTML with added map at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Voyage Round the World, But More Particularly to the Northwest Coast of America, Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon (London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789), by Nathaniel Portlock (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America, by Edmond S. Meany (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• Journal of a Voyage Between China and the North-Western Coast of America Made in 1804 (extract from the American Register, 1808), by William Shaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Pacific Coast Vacation (New York et al.: Abbey Press, c1901), by Mrs. James Edwin Morris, illust. by James Edwin Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 (San Francisco: The Private press of Thomas C. Russell, 1926), by Nikolaĭ Petrovich Rezanov, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)

• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1927), by A. M. Stephen (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)

• Appleton's Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (page images at LOC)

• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast, by Franz Boas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Siwash, Their Life, Legends and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Calvert, 1895), by J. A. Costello
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Legacy Washington

• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

• Gardening Without Irrigation: Or Without Much, Anyway, by Steve Solomon
  • PDF and frame-dpendent HTML at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text