Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 13: “Indian group at Douglas Lake”
More from Spahomin, also known as Douglas Lake, BC, in northern Syilx (“Okanagan”) country.
(Here’s a link to browse all installments in this series.)
Kamloops Wawa #125 (February 1895), page 24 carries a pictures of an “Indian group at Douglas Lake”.
Page 18 of the same issue tells us more about the above photo:
…kanawi Duglas Lik tilikom mituit kopa klahani
‘…it’s all of the Douglas Lake people standing outside of’taii Silista iaka haws.
‘chief Celestin’s (Johnny Chilihitsa’s) house.’
A large percentage of the folks you see above were writers and readers of Chinuk Pipa — the unique Chinook Jargon alphabet of British Columbia.
It was very widely known, and at peak popularity, in 1895 in this part of BC.
