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BC, 1899: another eyewitness note on Indigenous folks’ widespread Chinuk Pipa literacy
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BC, 1899: another eyewitness note on Indigenous folks’ widespread Chinuk Pipa literacy
Here is a really great eyewitness comment indicating what a large number of BC Indigenous people were literate in Chinuk Pipa, the “Chinook Writing”. From Kamloops Wawa #183 of December 1899, pages 132-133: the Secwépemc people of Chu Chua (a.k.a. “North Thompson” or “St John the Baptist”)… “are very willing to learn; we had a Chapter of Catechism in 48 questions…which they set to learn very readily. They copied the Questions in their scribbli…
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