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Elders Speaking Chinook Jargon

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Elders Speaking Chinook Jargon [VIDEOS]Mungo Martin | Jimmy John | Dan Cranmer | Louis Miranda

Sametl

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Alex Code, a faithful participant in the Snass Sessions, has created an outstanding recording of “Sametl” as told by Thomas Paul and documented by the great linguist Melville Jacobs. Alex has recently become the head of the PoCo Heritage Museum. The recording he has made here includes some great sound effects!

Kamloops Wawa

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BC Chinook Wawa is inspired by the example of the Kamloops Wawa newspaper that was published in the later part of the 1800s and the early 1900s. Using a type of French shorthand, the newspapers, letters and advertisements from those days constitute the largest body of Chinook Wawa writing. The internationally recognized expert on Kamloops…

Ahnkuttie (history)

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Chinook Wawa was spoken widely by aboriginal and non-aboriginal people throughout the British territory of Columbia, which extended from California north including the Alaska Panhandle. The legal government was the Honourable Hudson Bay Company although its status was unsettled with the territory open to both US and British citizens. The first and second Governors of…