1913: Jimhillkameen!
A Chinuk Wawa-only notice in a southern BC newspaper was well understood by the locals.
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AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 12: mend, bad, strong water, tired)
And still more new discoveries!
Bob Nims’s 1891 Gill with German notes: Can you read them?
Crowd-sourcing challenge: Can you read these penciled notes?
1893, BC: “wowwow man” found
Here’s a new discovery in Jargon.
1894: To civilize Indians
This was a well-illustrated article about the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa”.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 15: brass band and Bengal fire; summer vacation)
Still early in the residential school era for British Columbia, we find this English-language report.
1910: Hias ankutties kloshe nanitsh!
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
1914: With the Indians of British Columbia
Read between the racially tinged lines of this glowing report on Father JMR Le Jeune of “Kamloops Wawa” fame…
February 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part A (busy busy; Sugarcane Bell; an apology for “turning Métis”)
From Kamloops Wawa #125, page 18:
Gibbs’s (and Gill’s) “arbutus” is misleading
I got to thinking, how weird is it that “arbutus” is in some Chinuk Wawa dictionaries…