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GROUP SAVING NORTHWEST LANGUAGE FROM EXTINCTION HOLDS THE THIRD ANNUAL CHINOOK JARGON WORKSHOP

(GRAND RONDE, OR - July 29, 2000)  The Third Annual Chinuk Wawa Lu'lu (Chinook Jargon Workshop) will be held at Grand Ronde, Oregon from August 25 to 27.     Chinook Jargon, or Chinuk Wawa as it speakers refer to it, was commonly spoken in the Pacific Northwest from northern California to southern Alaska.  As a Native American lingua franca, it was used among the various ethnic groups during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  The Workshop consists of language classes, discussion groups and presentations in h