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Oral history of early Chinook Jargon use for lying to enemies of the Haíɬzaqv
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Oral history of early Chinook Jargon use for lying to enemies of the Haíɬzaqv
I’ve heard certain people express the folksy idea that Chinuk Wawa, is a language you can only tell lies in. Well now, where did that ever come from? Turns out, there’s a story remembered in Haíɬzaqv (“Heiltsuk”) communities of coastal BC that names names of those who mis-used Chinook Jargon this way! It must have happened later than 1855, because that was when the Jargon had an explosion of use in British Columbia. In reality, it was probably y…
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