Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 16: the grand finale)
From the British Columbia coast, our friend Dr Dale McCreery noted this in 2017, worthy of including in this mini-series:
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Reading together @ 7pm tonight! A non-Indigenous letter from Williams Lake, BC
Join our amazing language nest, where we put our heads together to read & learn from old Chinook Jargon letters. Tonight’s will be from 1909. ZOOM: David Robertson’s Northern Chinook Jargon Meeting (“Snass… Continue reading
OR/CA: Another Jargon word in the Klamath-Modoc language
From M.A.R. Barker’s very fine dictionary of Klamath, something I missed when I previously wrote about such loans.
Another Nuučaan̓uɬ song with Chinuk Wawa in it
Naika wawa masi kopa Henry Kammler (thanks to Henry Kammler, a linguist who specializes in Nuu-chah-nulth) for pointing out another song in the same collection as the one I shared the other day.
What I did on my weekend
I was part of a group who represented Chinook Jargon at the 2025 BCSSTA Provincial Conference! We educated BC Social Studies teachers about the history, nature, and importance of Chinuk Wawa. A rewarding… Continue reading
Dale Kinkade’s 1963 dissertation shows there was no Chinook Jargon in Upper Chehalis country in the ?late 1700s?
M. Dale “Dale” Kinkade gave his 1963 PhD dissertation a very Dale title, very hard-nosed and direct:
Join us @ 7pm tonight on Zoom: Chinook reading!
You know what? The great thing about a Chinook Jargon reading session is — you don’t have to be great at Chinooking!
BC: “History of Port Coquitlam”
From Alex Code, I received this anecdote of Ned Atkins in the book “The History of Port Coquitlam” by Edith Chambers [1973].
“Klahowya: A Fort Nisqually Book”
Western Washington state’s Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, home of the Klahowya Event, has a new book you’ll be interested in:
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost legacy (Part 25b, Credo)
We’ve seen H-T Lempfrit’s manuscript dictionary; and now for some rare old Chinook Jargon texts on its following pages!