from the help forum:
From: Haruo
Date: 19-May-04 - 12:10 AM

I keep trying to post the following to the thread "Folklore: Pacific Northwest songs and stories" and it keeps not showing up.

I spent the weekend in Portland at the 6th annual Chinuk Lu7lu. This is the main gathering of speakers, learners and teachers of the Chinook Jargon or Chinuk Wawa, the native trade language (and creole) of the Pacific Northwest. We had open mike at the Red & Black Café Friday night, and also sang some songs in the sessions at Portland State University's Native American Student Center.

The "Whiskey Song" and "Tomorrow" are old CJ favorites, I'll try to write them up in Mudcat-accessible form sometime soon. We sang several others, including what I guess was an adaptation of "Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb", and there were a couple of really neat blessing songs.

Haruo
(or lilEnd, as I call myself in CJ; the E is a schwa)