Re: Chilkoot Jargon

abrigon wrote:
>
> Anyone havc any info on the jargon called Chilkoot, spoken along the
> West Coast of what is now the US and Canada. As a trade lingo from the
> Tlinghits to the Baja?
>
> Mike
>
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I know of Chinook Jargon which was fairly widespread and Nootka
Jargon which appears to have had a very short lifespan.  Chilkoot
looks like a Tlingit word and my tired recollection is that it
refers to a village and also a blanket style (don't hold me to that, its
been a long day).  I used to specialize in NW Coast lgs in my first
grad student days and suspect I would have heard of it which is
not to say I know it all, I most assuredly don't.

There is an excellent Chinook Jargon web page and the language
is undergoing a mini-revival.  You can find references to both
Jargons and a link from my Northwest Coast Anthropology and Linguistics
Webpage (www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/nwcst.html).
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If its tourist season, why can't we shoot them?