Chinook Jargon Gathering 2025 (Fort Langley), last thoughts
The 7th Chinook Jargon gathering in 27 years was a grand old time đ€©Â Naika wawa masi kopa kanawei-tilihum tlaska chako!Â
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Quigli Drive, Williams Lake, BC
It’s worth a moment of our time to acknowledge that the Williams Lake First Nation offices (in British Columbia) are located on Quigli Drive.
Ready for day 2 of our 2025 Chinook Jargon gathering @ Fort Langley, BC!
Yesterday was a great session, with lots of learning, practicing, and meeting new people. Here are a few acquisitions made… Come on over to Fort Langley National Historical Site of Canada, 9:30 AM… Continue reading
1898, BC: Another letter from StĂł:lĆ country
{In honour of the 2025 Chinook Jargon gathering, starting today here at Fort Langley, BC!}Â
“Kla-How-Ya” from Fort Langley — the gathering starts tomorrow morning!
Show up at Fort Langley National Historical Site of Canada, tomorrow (Friday 9/12) @ 9:30 onwards… Purchased at an antique shop in Fort Langley, BC today! We’ll be doing all things Chinook Jargon,… Continue reading
1869, AK: “A Desperate Fix” doggerel
Talk about quick action!
Chinook Jargon at the movies: 2 people I met…
Within 24 hours recently, I met two new people with interesting Chinook Jargon connections.
CA: traces of Chinuk Wawa in Shasta
Shasta speakers were one of the Indigenous groups who wound up at Grand Ronde and Siletz Reservations in Oregon, thus participating in the re-creolization there of Chinuk Wawa.*
Northern Chinook Jargon “kanawi tilikom” for ‘everybody’, and SecweÌpemc Salish influence
In Kamloops Wawa newspaper issue #126 of March 1895, the included issue of the charming mini-newspaper Shugirkin Tintin (‘The Sugarcane [BC] Bell’) is a glimpse into how the Jargon was spoken in that more northerly part of… Continue reading
“Doing God knows what” is real different in Chinook Jargon
Listening to a podcast in American English, I was struck by a phrase used: “doing God knows what“.