CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
The headquarters of TN Hibben, well known to us in the Chinook Jargon world for having issued…
The 7th Chinook Jargon gathering in 27 years was a grand old time 🤩 Naika wawa masi kopa kanawei-tilihum tlaska chako!
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.
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 →
{In honour of the 2025 Chinook Jargon gathering, starting today here at Fort Langley, BC!}
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 →
Talk about quick action!
Within 24 hours recently, I met two new people with interesting Chinook Jargon connections.
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.*
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 →
