Snass Sessions
September 2, 2023. Snass Session: Peter Cole Lillooet Letter
Snass Sessions 09.02.2023: Peter Kwal’s/Cole’s letter from Lillooet, BC, 18951 David Douglas Robertson, PhD Consulting linguist, Spokane, WA, USA Some background information: Peter Cole or Kwal wrote four letters that I have found so far in archives. Here we’ll be reading just one of them. Now, a couple of appearances he made in Kamloops Wawa:…
Read MoreAugust 26th, 2023. Snass Session: Johnny Peter Clinton Letter
Snass Sessions: Johnny Peter’s letter from Clinton, BC, 19121 David Douglas Robertson, PhD Consulting linguist, Spokane, WA, USA Some background information: Shoni Pitir of Clinton can be identified with the writer mentioned in Kamloops Wawa #123 (De94) p200: Shoni Shoni Pitirs kopa Klinton iaka mamuk-hilp kanawi iaka tilikom kopa Chinuk pipa. Taii Shosif, pi Kaptin…
Read MoreAugust 19th, 2023 Snass Session: Michel’s Soda Creek Letter, 1885
August 12th, 2023 Snass Session: Dog Creek Sam Letter
Snass Sessions: Sam Sergeant’s Dog Creek Hill letter, 1895 David Douglas Robertson, PhD Consulting linguist, Spokane, WA, USA Dog Creek B.C. / November 29th 1895 > Maika nim Pir Lshyun kopa Kamlups. ‘Your name is Père Le Jeune at Kamloops.’ O tilikom, tlus maika mamuk-nyus-pipa ukuk naika mamuk-pipa kopa maika. ‘Oh friend, you should publish…
Read MoreAugust 5th, 2023 Snass Session: Sign Lang Tree Message
July 29th, 2023 Snass Session: Sugarcane Melmorice
Sugarcane 1901: Charlie Melmorice’s letter, for the Snass Sessions1 Presented by David Douglas Robertson, PhD Consulting linguist, Spokane, WA, USA 1 This letter was certainly written by a newly literate Native person, as we can tell from many traits of its handwriting, grammar, and word choices. It shares a sheet of paper with a note…
Read MoreJuly 22nd, 2023 Snass Session: Port Hope Letter
Hope 1893: anonymous Stó:lō letter, for the Snass Sessions1 Presented by David Douglas Robertson, PhD Consulting linguist, Spokane, WA, USA 1 This letter was certainly written by a newly literate Native person, as we can tell from many traits of its handwriting, grammar, and word choices. For background on the main subject of this letter,…
Read MoreJuly 15th, 2023 Snass Session: Pipa Letter Chief Le Jeune Narcisse
Snass Sessions: Young Chief Narcisse’s political activist letter, May 19, 18941 David Douglas Robertson, PhD Consulting linguist, Spokane, WA, USA Page 1 1 This is one of several letters by Chief Narcisse that are preserved. He is also mentioned in other Indigenous people’s letters, as well as in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper. His descendants are…
Read MoreMay 27, 2023 Snass Session | Kamloops Wawa from July 1894, Pepa Reading by Regan, Alex
Snass Session, May 13, 2023: “Chinook Book of Devotions” selections David Douglas ROBERTSON PhD Thanks to Kevin Pittle for the idea. Pages 19-20: <Epistle Rom 1>1 Iakwa Sin Pol wawa kopa msaika, pus ‘Here Saint Paul says to you folks, so that’ msaika komtaks, Sh[isyu]K[ri] nsaika taii iaka mamuk ‘you’ll know, Jesus Christ our chief’…
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