still speakers?

[Yakima Belle]

Naika chako klak Yakima pi kumtux tenas Tsinuk. Naika
papa yaka munk kwolan kopa Tyee Beaver kuhnsih yaka
wawa ekhanim kahta Yakima kloshe illahee chako mamook.

(I come from Yakima and I know a little Chinook. My
father heard Chief Beaver tell the story of how the
Yakima Valley came to be created.)

--- Dale McCreery <dr_mccreery at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Hey, this is Dale McCreery, from Hazelton, and I was
> under the impression
> that there were still some older people in town that
> knew cj, as the
> language was used between the Babine and Gitksan
> tribes, who both have
> reserves in the Hazeltons. I was reading an
> autobiography of a local doctor,
> and it stated that jargon was still very useful to
> him in the sixties, and
> although I haven't looked hard, I know at least one
> man who's father was a
> good speaker (father died a few years ago).
> I'm on in the area now, but plan on checking if
> there are any people who
> still speak when I get back.
> Dale
> 
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