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Voices of the Pacific Northwest
Language and Life along the Columbia and throughout Cascadia
from the 18th Century to the Present
A Curriculum of Historical and Linguistic Inquiry
Activity 3.2 - Use of Chinuk Wawa on Pacific Northwest fruit crates (c. 1930s)
Why would fruit producers want to advertise their products with Native imagery such as these, branding them with words from Chinuk Wawa? Consider the meanings of the Wawa words in your thinking. Would advertisers use these techniques today? Why or why not?
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