A US court case involving a Settler cannery at The Dalles, Oregon, trying to oust Yakama tribal people from their usual and accustomed fishing places in the post-frontier era, involved a considerable bit… Continue reading
And still more new discoveries!
Crowd-sourcing challenge: Can you read these penciled notes?
Here’s a new discovery in Jargon.
This was a well-illustrated article about the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa”.
Still early in the residential school era for British Columbia, we find this English-language report.
My first question to you is, do you understand this headline & sub-head? HIAS ANKUTTIES KLOSHE NANITSH: Nesika Tikegh Konaway Tillicums Nanitsh Okook Delate Hias Kloshe Illahee
Read between the racially tinged lines of this glowing report on Father JMR Le Jeune of “Kamloops Wawa” fame…
From Kamloops Wawa #125, page 18:
I got to thinking, how weird is it that “arbutus” is in some Chinuk Wawa dictionaries…
