1898, BC: A friend’s letter tells of Baptiste’s dying words

1898, BC: A friend’s letter tells of Baptiste’s dying words

Here’s an Indigenous young man’s Chinuk Pipa letter that got published in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper. Our Stó:lō correspondent tells of his friend Baptiste George on his deathbed. Image credit: Wikipedia “Baptiste Emory”, as he was also called, is written about also in the Kamloops Wawa of April 1895, as a teacher of Chinook Writing to his people around Yale, BC. The letter is introduced by Father Le Jeune of Kamloops: Batist Chorch kopa Imori…