Western Washington state’s Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, home of the Klahowya Event, has a new book you’ll be interested in:

We’ve seen H-T Lempfrit’s manuscript dictionary; and now for some rare old Chinook Jargon texts on its following pages!

By chance I came across a copy of JK Gill’s well-known Chinook Jargon dictionary, with this autograph in it:

The usual and grammatical way to say “very bad” in Spanish is “muy malo”.

Last night, working through a section of the incalculably precious Joe Peter recordings from 1941 in Central-Dialect Chinuk Wawa, we were stumped by a sentence that we kept hearing as…

A year after the USA took over Alaska from the Russians, a letter arrived in one of the eastern states from one of the first Army personnel to be stationed in the territory’s… Continue reading →

REALLY RACIST, FYI.

In our fun (I say awesome because I’m from the 80s) Northern Chinook Jargon sessions, sometimes lately we’ve talked about how to say ‘a car’.

I care this much about gathering folks into our thriving NCJ language nest —

Short & sweet!