Note
"Probably the best known Indian mission newspaper in BC was Kamloops Wawa. It was put out regularly under the supervision of Father LeJeune at the Kamloops mission between 1891 and 1904 (with occasionalissues appearing as late as 1917). The newspaper was apparently printed in an expanded version of Chinook jargon and its Indian readers werepresumably bilingual or trilingual. Kamloops Wawa varied from four to sixteen pages in length and contained news items of local interest from the scattered Indian reserves throughout the region. . . . Indian correspondents sent in news from their particular locales and a volunteer Indian staff at the Kamloops mission (initiallymainly women) set up and printed the newspaper. By 1898 it supposedly had a monthly circulation of 3,000 copies - its peak. Another mission bulletin printed in syllables was put out at the Fort St. James mission sometime before 1910, but was apparently short-lived." Knight, Rolf. Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1848-1930. New Star Books, 1996, pp. 159-60. Cited in Buddle, Kathleen. From Birthbark Talk to Digital Dreamspeaking: A History of Aboriginal Media Activism in Canada. 2001. McMaster U, PhD thesis.
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