Kakwa Til Kyootan – Shan

Shan made this song in Chinook Jargon. Stubs made the album cover. Zandman published the song on his Youtube channel. The words in Chinook are written down on the description for Shan’s song, and Zandman has written his own translation in the comments below.

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Kamloops Wawa

BC Chinook Wawa is inspired by the example of the Kamloops Wawa newspaper that was published in the later part of the 1800s and the early 1900s. Using a type of French shorthand, the newspapers, letters and advertisements from those days constitute the largest body of Chinook Wawa writing. The internationally recognized expert on Kamloops…

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