Jargon "was goin' to be the standard language" in Oregon

[hzenk at PDX.EDU]

Anything on where & when this guy Clifton was in school?  It is  
possible to imagine that kids could have been taught some semblance of  
Jargon at times & in places where it was still the main White-Indian  
medium.  Just speculating here.  H

Quoting Tom Larsen <larsent at pdx.edu>:

>
> I seem to recall from Henry Zenk's dissertation that back in the early
> days, school kids at Grand Ronde were punished for speaking Jargon.  So
> at least in that area it would be kind of hard to believe that Jargon
> was taught in the school or even used as a bridge to English.
>
> Tom Larsen
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> Dave Robertson wrote:
>> Agreed, so what was this fella trying to tell the interviewer?  Did  
>>  teachers try to build on pupils' knowledge of Jargon in order to   
>> teach them in English?  And was there a movement to make Jargon the  
>>  state of Oregon's official language?  ---Dave R
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:38:38 +0100, Anthony Grant   
>> <granta at EDGEHILL.AC.UK> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Taught in schools?  I'd be surprised.  ('Learnt in the school yard' I can
>> believe, as these things go.)  Anthony
>>
>>>>>> Dave Robertson <ddr11 at UVIC.CA> 06/01/07 6:22 PM >>>
>>>>>>
>>> Johnson, Clifton.  1908.  Highways and byways of the Pacific coast.  New
>>> York: MacMillan.
>>>
>>> Page 240: an old settler recalls in an interview:
>>>
>>> "We talked a jargon that was got up for the Indians; and that was taught in
>>> the schools.  I used to could speak that jargon better than I could English
>>> and we had an i-dea [sic] that was goin' to be the standard language here
>>> in Oregon."
>>>
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