From the British Columbia coast, our friend Dr Dale McCreery noted this in 2017, worthy of including in this mini-series:

Join our amazing language nest, where we put our heads together to read & learn from old Chinook Jargon letters. Tonight’s will be from 1909. ZOOM: David Robertson’s Northern Chinook Jargon Meeting (“Snass… Continue reading →

From M.A.R. Barker’s very fine dictionary of Klamath, something I missed when I previously wrote about such loans.

Naika wawa masi kopa Henry Kammler (thanks to Henry Kammler, a linguist who specializes in Nuu-chah-nulth) for pointing out another song in the same collection as the one I shared the other day.

Found in a privately published book, “Songs of the Neukluk“, by Ewen MacLennan and Charles Wilbert Snow, which I bet was funded by someone’s gold finds.

I was part of a group who represented Chinook Jargon at the 2025 BCSSTA Provincial Conference! We educated BC Social Studies teachers about the history, nature, and importance of Chinuk Wawa. A rewarding… Continue reading →

M. Dale “Dale” Kinkade gave his 1963 PhD dissertation a very Dale title, very hard-nosed and direct:

From Alex Code, I received this anecdote of Ned Atkins in the book “The History of Port Coquitlam” by Edith Chambers [1973].

Firsthand memories of the frontier era in northwestern Oregon, from Warren N[icholas]. Vaughn (1823-1907), mention a number Jargon-related people and events.