There was (and is) no (Chinook) Bible (yet); here’s proof (if you’re paying attention)

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If you can read between lines and supply stuff in virtual quotation marks, you’re my kinda person, internet reader!

“The Nor’west” is probably Canadian/Métis French “nord-ouest”

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I just wanted to drop a note to point out that the much-overused phrase “The Nor’west” in relation to our region’s fur-trade history is probably Canadian/Métis French, nord-ouest!

1902, WA: David Denny confirms he spoke Jargon and some Lushootseed

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Here we have it from the horse’s mouth.

Circa 1836-1838, OR/WA: John Kirk Townsend’s early CJ vocabulary, and coexisting pidgin + creole (Part 1)

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Dakelh welcome song for monsignor solves a puzzle, poses a puzzle, we solve it

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Fortunately for us, the acute-epithetted Alex Code noticed and made a captioned video of a Northern Chinook Jargon song that’s of some importance to us. This is a type of Chinook Jargon song… Continue reading

1911, WA: Sagamores club motto is a mystery to the young

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A brilliant map shows why there’s no Russian in Chinook Jargon (and other stuff)

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“Russian in Alaska and in Alaskan languages” by the late, great linguist Michael Krauss of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is a brilliant demonstration.

The “AnKati Naika Tikki Whiski” song is a great way to learn “silent IT”!

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As sung by Skokomish elder Henry Ruben Allen (1864-1956) several decades ago, this song quickly teaches you how to use “silent IT”. (Symbolized by Ø here.)

1906 [1866], WA: It took a party to get Chief Seattle to talk Chinook

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A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!

Talking about Chinook Jargon in Halq’emeylem

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From Stó:lō Coast Salish country: