Blog – Page 6 – The Kaltash Wawa

Wartime Chinuk Wawa – August J. Jules’s Letter From France

Another Chinuk Wawa letter from the front…

Chinuk Pipa in the Trenches – William Pierriche’s letter from the front

A Chinuk Pipa letter sent back from the front during WW1…

What is the Kaltash Wawa?

The Kaltash Wawa is a Chinook Jargon (aka Chinuk Wawa) language newspaper published in BC’s shorthand alphabet – Chinuk Pipa – once widely used to write Chinook Jargon and other Indigenous language in British Columbia. This paper is written in Chinook Jargon as spoken and written in British Columbia as we can see in historicalContinue reading “What is the Kaltash Wawa?”