speakers of CJ

[Alan H. Hartley]

Is there a consensus as to how many speakers of Chinook Jargon there are
at present? I know that's a nebulous question, given that CJ (as far as
I know) is no speaker's native language, and that the speakers'
abilities can vary greatly. At least one Oxford Univ. Press dictionary
says CJ is extinct which, obviously, it isn't. (Marianne Mithun
_Languages of Native America_ 1999, p. 587 says "there are still people
who can and occasionally do use it.")

Has anyone seen the _Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication
in the Pacific, Asia, & the Americas_ (Mouton de Gruyter, 1996, o.o.p.;
it *was* $784.30)? It is supposed to have an article by Bakker and Grant
"Interethnic communications in Canada, Alaska, and adjacent areas".