The Kamloops Indian agent may have spoken Creole
The Canadian federal government’s person put in charge of Indigenous affairs in the Kamloops, BC area was John Freemont (or Fremont) Smith (1850-1934).
The Canadian federal government’s person put in charge of Indigenous affairs in the Kamloops, BC area was John Freemont (or Fremont) Smith (1850-1934).
Here’s a sketch of a concept of an idea…
Made me laugh when I found this one.
I invite my readers’ thoughts about these.
“From the Dalles correspondent of the Statesman“, a.k.a. BUNKUM:
I’m glad I know people who watch videos online!
Sometimes cultural contact is funny.
The Central and Southern Chinuk Wawa word for a ‘yellow / dun / buckskin-colored’ horse is likʰrem.
Riddle me (with) this…
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading →