GEORGIANNA'S CHINOOKS, Robin Georgiana, Ashland, OR U.S.A.

Another smiling face from the past here, of Ms. Robin Georgianna, of Georgianna's Chinooks, Ashland, Oregon U.S.A.  Robin's pictured here with her foundation female, Yokayo Cheena, and Cheena's son, Georgianna's Bonehead.  'Boney' (as some of his later owners, Benjamin's, Northdown, & finally Bowerbank Chinooks used to call him) was born April 1984, so guesstimate date on this Ashland Mail Tribune article is late 1984.

Bonehead was sired by Singing Woods Nanook.

If memory serves, Benjamin's Chinooks later repeated the same mating of Cheena to Singing Woods Nanook (which litter resulted in Benjamin's Kuska and Tekoa's birth then late '95).

But this image and article here represent Georgianna's own auspicious beginnings, and I'm proud to share again this image of Robin, and beloved Cheena, & her young son then, Bonehead.  This is another beautiful 'snapshot in time' in the Chinook world too, therefore.  Robin and her dogs definitely in love, then and there.

NOTE:  More in times to come this page too then, for much of the breed in fact remains descended from these 2 Nanook x Cheena matings (Georgianna's, then Benjamin's), as well as from Bonehead's own subsequent lines (some of which remain represented in our own Tullibardine and Atholl Chinooks today).

As well, much of today's Chinook remains indebted to Bonehead's sister, Georgianna's Sheena.  Sheena went on to become foundation female for Ron McJunkin's North Wind Chinooks kennels.  More about Sheena later then, both here and on North Wind Post too, as I unpack more of my files of each of these kennels.  But suffice it to say, much of the breed also rests on an array of also North Wind offspring of Sheena today.  So the blood of Nanook x Cheena likely remains strong, thereby.

My brother and Tullibardine kennel partner, Jack Murray, used to say how all strong working lines of Chinooks also carried consistently strong blood of Nanook x Cheena.

Why again, it's more than fair to say how the Georgianna's and Benjamin's contributions to today's Chinook bloodlines remains considerable.  So here's to Ms Georgianna once more, with 2 of her own finest.  All key to breed survival, then as now...