More about the flood of 1894
I blogged the other day about the great Fraser River flood of 1894; how about some Indigenous people’s eyewitness notes, in Chinuk Wawa?
From Kamloops Wawa #118b, July 1894, page 131:
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flood.> Kopa ukuk aias
With those highchok, ilo pipa chako kopa
waters, no letters came fromkah kakwa pus nsaika skukum
anywhere[;] it was like we were im-haws kopa Kamlups.
prisoned at Kamloops.Tlun Sondi kopit pi alta shako
Three weeks went by until there got totanas tlus oihat pi kansih
be slightly better roads and severalpipa chako. Kopa Cilis iht
letters came. From Chehalis [BC] apipa wawa chok klatwa drit
letter said that the water went rightkopa Sondi haws pi kanawi tilikom
up to the church and everyonemash shus pus klatwa kopa
took off their shoes to go toSondi haws.
church.Kopa Spisom kanawi gardin
At Spuzzum all of the gardenilihi chako ipsut kopa shok
plots got covered in waterpi ukuk aias brich mitlait
and that big bridge that standskopa aias stalo Frisir Rivir
over the big river, the Fraser River,iaka wik saia kakshit. Nsaika
just about broke apart. Wedrit yutl tomtom ilo iaka
are really glad that it didn’tklatwa ukuk brish.
go, that bridge!