Next Workshop....In tandem with the Salish conference

[David Robertson]

Hello,

Zvjezdana's point is excellent.  We might easily add half-a-dozen people
to our crowd at the Chinook Gathering, if it were held very soon before or
after the Salish conference.  And these would be linguists as well as
Native people, quite likely, as both attend the Salish conference in
numbers.

FYI, a great many or most of the linguists who have worked with NW Native
peoples on their languages have also wound up learning Chinook Jargon
material from them.  At last year's Salish conference alone, conversations
with a scholar of Makah, one of Saanich Salish, and one of Squamish
Salish, all resulted in "finding" wonderful Jargon material, from spoken
texts to 'drinking songs' as Tony calls 'em.

So I think you'd really enjoy and benefit from meeting all these folks.

Dunno whether we can manage to schedule our gathering in this way,
however.  The Salish conference is traditionally the 2nd week of August,
and this year it's to be held in Kamloops BC.  (Yes, that's a goldmine of
CJ, and you might consider attending if you care to hear linguists and
Indian language teachers give presentations for 3 days.)

Best,
Dave

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