Forwarded forwarded email (in French) re Jargon resources

[forrest at TRINITY.UTORONTO.CA]

No nika skookum wawa Chinook Wawa; nika mamook ukuk tzum-papeh kopa
Pasaiook Lalang kopa King George Lalang:

As I remember it is in the last issue of "L'Actualiti" (a right-wing
Quebec magazine with some good articles from time to time).

Here it is:

"L'actualiti"
Volume 24, No. 13, Sept. 1, 1999.  Page 3.

Geographica

All that, it's in Chinook

Chinook, today disappeared, was a century ago a trade language widely used
throughout Coastal British Columbia by traders, sailors, loggers, as well
as civil servants and judges.

But it was not an Indian language, rather an American Indian equivalent to
pidgin or creole, formed from words borrowed from French, English, and
many local dialects.  Some examples....

The Oblate Father Jean-Marie Lejeune, who made himself an apostle (?) of
this language, even published, between 1891 and 1904, "Kamloops Wawa", a
Chinook newspaper.