info -- People in Northern CA

I have heard and spoken with people of the Karuk, Tolowa and Klamath who
have had experience with Chinook Jargon. I am not an authority but they
seemed to have some words they knew but maybe not fully fluent. Gibbs =
does
talk about meeting a boy and collecting an orthography of Chinook Jargon
while they were on the Upper  Klamath? In addition Loren Bommelyn of =
Smith
River, Crescent City area has knowledge of at least parts of the =
language.
But then again he has made his life into a study and preservation of
Tolowa language and culture.=20


"laska-lulu yaka kanamaqst" (we carry it together)

 "I am alive." Scott Momaday=20

"We must continue to struggle until we defeat those who have crowned
themselves, those who have helped to take the land from others, those who
make much money with the labor of people like us, those who mock us in
their estates."=20
>>From the:Fourth Declaration of the Lancandon Jungle, 1/1/96.

"haias-masi" (many thanks)

David Lewis
coyotez at oregon.uoregon.edu