Friday, May 26, 2006

On this day in 1840...

Father Francis (or Francois) N. Blanchet arrives at Whidbey Island (Washington) as a missionary, and finds that the Indians can already sing Christian hymns in Chinook Jargon. A local chief had invited the Catholic priest.

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