Category Archive: Chinook Jargon

2026 Chinook Jargon Gathering last weekend: Y’all come back now, hear?

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This photo from our gathering in Port Coquitlam, BC on Friday and Saturday sends the message: k’ilapai / k’ilapay “Come back” next time! It was wonderful as always to be in the same… Continue reading →

See you (by Zoom?) at the 2026 Chinook Jargon Gathering! Friday + Saturday

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I’m putting up this post as I hit the road for Port Coquitlam, BC, where we’ll have the 2026 Chinook Jargon Gathering — Here’s how we can see each other there.

-s ‘possessive of pronouns’ in Wakashan languages explains a BC Coast regionalism in Chinook Jargon

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Okey-doke, I guess I’ve put the whole story into the headline up there!

What do you make this mean?

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From the 1902 “Chinook Book of Devotions throughout the Year“, page 74: Drit nsaika sik pi kikuli tomtom What do you make this mean? I’m curious for a reason. Leave a comment with… Continue reading →

Talking about lahal songs (including Chinook Jargon ones) in Tla-o-qui-aht

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I feel lucky.

The land prayer

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This struck my eye:

Saying ‘birds’ to mean general ‘animals’ may be traditional Indigenous stuff

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Which is which? (Image credit: The Hall of Einar) Kiksht Upper Chinookan is a language where you can call horses ‘birds’.

Ad: “Kanaway Tillicum Tikke Kloosh Muk-a-muk”

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Here’s another advertisement in (Northern) Chinook Jargon.

“If it weren’t for…”: the clearest counterfactuals

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Humans have the ability to imagine alternatives to how things actually occur.

‘Labrador tea’ in western Oregon Chinuk Wawa

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Previously, in this space: ‘Labrador tea‘ {yes, that’s a link} has come up only in (other) Métis languages.