Chinook Jargon

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Canoes and Canoe Journeys

Alternate Title
NILI Canoe Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Northwest Indian Language Institute

Primarily designed for Kindergarten to Grade 5 students enrolled in Chinuk Wawa immersion programs.

What Do I Bail? student booklet in English. What Do I Bail? student booklet in Chinuk Wawa.

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A Chinook Jargon to English Glossary

Alternate Title
Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chris Wilmore
Thomas Napier Hibben

Adapted from the Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon by Thomas Napier Hibben, published in 1877.

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Chinook Rudiments, No. 1739

Documents & Presentations
First two pages gives list of Kamloops Wawa citations and related texts which include information about the history of Chinook jargon. Preface quotes from the history of Chinook jargon as described in James Constantine Pilling's "Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages." Phonetic Alphabet; Pronunciation. Chinook Rudiments: I. Numerals; II. Adjectives; III. Pronouns; IV. Verbs; V. Adverbs; VI. Ononmatopaeia. Remarks - Chinook Vocabulary: 1. The 163 original words; 2. Other Chinook Words; 3. H. B. French words; 4. Religious words; 5. Common English Words; 6.
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Chinook Songs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 1, no. 3, October-December 1888, pp. 220-226

Lyrics in Chinook Jargon, a synthesis of English, French, Chinook (proper), Nutka (Nootka) and Sahaptin.

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Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast

Alternate Title
Hibben's Guide to British Columbia
Guide to the Province of British Columbia for 1877-8: Completed from the Latest and Most Authentic ...
E-Books » Chapters

Lexicon of Chinook-English and English-Chinook for a mixed trade language spoken in the Pacific Northwest. 

Chapter from Guide to the Province of British Columbia for 1877-8.

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A Primer on the Chinook Jargon

Alternate Title
There Was a Time ... presents
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Salicco
Provides enough material on the language to understand and converse at a basic level.
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Tenas Wawa: The Chinook Jargon Voice

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Duane Pasco

Website includes links to: brief history of Jargon, dictionaries, origins and evolution, all episodes of the Moola John Saga, a fictional saga.

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