Dianavan, did your Bluejay story ever make its way to an audience? That seemed pretty hopeful, back in '04...
This thread came my way after my purchase of a reprint of the Chinook jargon book by George Shaw (1909) that Shorey's in Seattle reissued in 1983. It was in a little shop on Vashon Island. I learned "Seattle Illahee" in 1966, when playing in a jugband- one of whose members had an original of the Jargon book. In 2000 I bought a copy of The Chinook Observer (while visiting friends in Nahcotta) that had a picture of the Chinook representatives who had successfully petitioned Clinton to get the tribe reinstated; and I saved that paper. They were standing in the doorway of the old grade school in Chinook. It's a colorful picture of jubilant people. I hope only the best for them... ^..^