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"Don't I feel just like a fresh green cheechako!
A person is a cheechako until they've lived here from freeze-up to thaw.
In the Yukon, cheechako is used for newcomers or greenhorns.
"A cheechako is a newcomer to the North, a tenderfoot.
Under their expert tutelage, especially Bobby's, she was fast redeeming her cheechako status.
"They don't call it an icefall for nothing, cheechako," said the Inuit engineer.
"Nothing uncool about being a cheechako then.
You're looking at a real cheechako."
Displaying a fine, if fraying sense of discretion for which Kate loved them all dearly, the hippie, the hillbilly and the cheechako let this pass.
It wasn't the first time that Dinah, eleven years her junior, white and a cheechako to boot, had come uncomfortably close to plucking out the heart of Kate's mystery.
Chechahco, more commonly spelled cheechako, is a Chinook Jargon word for "newcomer", and the film focuses on a group of would-be prospectors sailing for Alaska.
It wasn't just the tribe, either, it was the whole goddam Park, Native and white, cheechako and sourdough, ranger and miner and homesteader, fisher folk and fish hawk.
He recalls those experiences as a cheechako, a newcomer or greenhorn, in "Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man," a humorous memoir published last fall by Alaska Northwest Books in Portland, Ore.
