Respected elder Dr Louis Miranda tells you what Northern Chinook Jargon is like (Part 1: tl’ap)

Respected elder Dr Louis Miranda tells you what Northern Chinook Jargon is like (Part 1: tl’ap)

From the Youtube video “Louis Miranda: Squamish elder teaches Chinook Jargon“. Image credit: North Shore News On June 18, 1973, Chief, and Doctor, Miranda of the Skwxwú7mesh people recorded this absolutely precious document of super-fluent Northern Chinook Jargon. In this mini-series, I honor his knowledge by examining what “Uncle Louie” teaches us, word by word. I’ll show words in their “BC Learners Alphabet” spellings, and I’ll make any comme…