The next morsel in our buffet of delicacies from the highly fluent Chinuk Wawa speaker George Gibbs:

Let’s be clear: George Gibbs’s highly influential 1863 dictionary of Fort Vancouver-area early-creolized Chinuk Wawa doesn’t so much present us with didactic dialogues as fluent phrases…

Spoiler alert: there’s a real Grand Ronde connection here.

The second installment in our mini-series on instructional sentences of Jargon has an especially great importance…

(First in a mini-series.) The credited author disclaimed all responsibility…

There’s always something new to be found among all those old Chinook Jargon documents…

More investigation into just how well Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett, author of a book of hard-to-sing Chinook Jargon songs, spoke the language…