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

[John Schilke]

WRT my previous message, the 2nd weekend in August would be fine for me, too.
John

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Robertson wrote:

> 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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