Kamloops wawa

Kamloops wawa

Indigenous people
women
education
newspapers

his is a newspaper advertisement in black and white from 1896, offering shorthand lessons to natives. This shows the willingness for Europeans to interact with natives by offering them lessons in shorthand English writing. The article is featured in a native newspaper called Kamloops wawa and has detailed handwriting diction in order to learn the phonetics of English alphabet. Native languages were not allowed to be spoken when working on the railways and gold mines. This allowed for natives to always be exposed to the English language, therefore benefitting the European settlers in the long-term. Chinook Jargon was the bridge language when it came to trading between the English, French and first nations people in 19th century British columbia.

J.M.R. Le Jeune

Kamloops B.C : Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops
University of British Columbia Library

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/kwawa/items/1.0347398#p0z-4r0f:women

1 January 1896

Lauren-Ann Saunders

http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
Royal British Columbia Museum; British Columbia archives

Chinook, English, French

Textual - print

19th century British Columbia