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Letters Written by Indigenous People

These are some of the 200 letters collected by David Robertson, PhD that were written between 1890s-1920s; mostly by indigenous people to other indigenous people.

  • William Letter, no date
  • Elizabeth Wai Letter, no date
  • Chief Narcisse Letter, no date
  • Harry Joseph Letter from Sts’ailes in Stó:lō country, 1894
  • Celestin Letter, no date
  • Salmon Arm Letter, 1903
  • Placitty Enderby Letter, 1895
  • Felix Lilooet Letter, no date
  • Cole Lillooet Letter, no date
  • Johnny Peter Clinton Letter, no date
  • Michel’s Soda Creek Letter, 1885
  • Sam Letter, Dog Creek, no date
  • Port Hope Letter, no date
  • Pipa Letter Chief Le Jeune Narcisse, no date
  • Quileute Letter, no date
  • Letter to Le Jeune, no date
  • Washington State Letter part 1, no date
  • Washington State Letter part 2, no date
  • Chinook Letters, North Bend, no date
  • August, Salmon Arm, no date
  • William Celestin, no date
  • Louis James Spuzzum, 1899
  • John Jackson Lillooet Letter, 1895
  • Francois Shilpahan Tappen Letter, 1909
  • Johnny Noel Adam Canoe Creek, 1894
  • Aleck Samson, Lilloeet, no date
  • Louis Lkaan, Soda Creek, no date
  • August Andre, Spuzzum, no date
  • Jean Baptiste Denis, Sechelt, 1904
  • William Pierrish Wilmer, 1906
  • Pete Nhinaskrit ,Alkali Lake, 1895
  • Sugarcane Melmorice, no date

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