Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages (Including the Chinook Jargon)
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Constantine Pilling
Historical note:
Edited version of a discussion paper prepared by E. Davie Fulton to assist in the resolution of the Lubicon Lake Band's struggle for tradition lands. The Lubicon Cree were missing from the original signing and negotiations of Treaty 8. Introduction by Peter Kulchyski.
Introduction and two documents related to the signing of the Agreement-In-Principal between the Déne and Métis of the North West Territories and Government of Canada resolving a land claim of the Native people.
Students of Onion Lake School, with school in background. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
In early 1893, issues of the Wawa began including word translations and prayers in phonetic orthographies for Aboriginal languages in southwest British Columbia such as Shushwap, N'lakapamux ["Ntlakapmah" or Thompson] and Halq'emeylem [Sto:lo].