Tradition! Tradition!

Our friend Dale McCreery PhD has sometimes sent reports on bits of Chinook Jargon he notices in the area of Bella Coola, British Columbia.

A Chinuk Wawa-only notice in a southern BC newspaper was well understood by the locals.

A US court case involving a Settler cannery at The Dalles, Oregon, trying to oust Yakama tribal people from their usual and accustomed fishing places in the post-frontier era, involved a considerable bit… Continue reading →

And still more new discoveries!

Here’s a new discovery in Jargon.

This was a well-illustrated article about the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa”.

Still early in the residential school era for British Columbia, we find this English-language report.

My first question to you is, do you understand this headline & sub-head? HIAS ANKUTTIES KLOSHE NANITSH: Nesika Tikegh Konaway Tillicums Nanitsh Okook Delate Hias Kloshe Illahee