Another of the few direct quotes in Chinuk Wawa to be found in the pages of the old Kamloops Wawa newspaper,…

Two amazing members of the Indigenous community in Spuzzum, British Columbia were interviewed by the amazing Imbert Orchard in 1977.

(I urge you to cross-reference this article with the one I did on Jargon traces in Alaskan Haida.) The freely available Sealaska Heritage Foundation dictionary of Tlingit is a goldmine.

I recently picked up a trove of books related to BC’s Cariboo region, including one with a recipe that I think tells us something about Chinook Jargon.

Gleaning some odds and ends…

I’ve recently written how Kalapuyan speakers at Grand Ronde, Oregon, told “Petit Jean” stories in their languages, which show a good deal of Chinuk Wawa influence.

Locally, it was called “Jargon”.

From far northern Secwepemc territory, the winter’s sad tidings…