The amazing Mazie Baker : the Squamish Nation's warrior elder
Record details
- ISBN: 9781987915068 (paperback) :
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Physical Description:
191 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia : Caitlin Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:august.17 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Baker, Mazie Indian women -- Canada -- Biography Squawmish Indians -- Biography Native activists -- Canada -- Biography |
Available copies
- 7 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Terrace Public Library | 971.004 BAK (Text) | 35151001034974 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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In 1931, Mazie Antone was born into the Squamish Nation, a community caught between its traditional values of respect'for the land, the family and the band'and the secular, capitalistic legislation imposed by European settlers. When she was six, the police carried her off to St. Paul's Indian Residential School, as mandated by the 1920 Indian Act. There, she endured months of beatings, malnourishment and lice infestations before her family collected Mazie and her siblings and fled across the border.
After the war, the family return to their home on the Capilano Reserve and Mazie began working at a cannery where she packed salmon for eleven years. Mazie married Alvie Baker, and together they raised nine children, but the legacy of residential school for Mazie and her generation meant they were alienated from their culture and language. Eventually Mazie reconnected with her Squamish identity and she began to mourn the loss of the old style of government by councils of hereditary chiefs and to criticize the corruption in the band leadership created in 1989 by federal legislation.
Galvanized by the injustices she saw committed against and within her community'especially against indigenous women, who were denied status and property rights'she began a long career of advocacy. She fought for housing for families in need; she pushed for transparency in local government; she defended ancestral lands; she shone a bright light into the darkest political corners. Her family called her ch'sken: Golden Eagle.
This intimate biography of a community leader illuminates a difficult, unresolved chapter of Canadian history and paints a portrait of a resilient and principled woman who faced down her every political foe, unflinching, irreverent, and uncompromising. - Independent Publishing Group
Comprehensive biography of Mazie Baker, one of Canada's most relentless leaders in the fight for the right to equality, prosperity and, in some cases, simple dignity for all First Nations Women.
Galvanized by the injustices she saw committed against and within her community'especially against indigenous women, who were denied status and property rights'she began a long career of advocacy. She fought for housing for families in need; she pushed for transparency in local government; she defended ancestral lands; she shone a bright light into the darkest political corners. Her family called her ch'sken: Golden Eagle.
This intimate biography of a community leader illuminates a difficult, unresolved chapter of Canadian history and paints a portrait of a resilient and principled woman who faced down her every political foe, unflinching, irreverent, and uncompromising. - Midpoint Books
In 1931, Mazie Antone was born into the Squamish Nation, a community caught between its traditional values of respectâfor the land, the family and the bandâand the secular, capitalistic legislation imposed by European settlers. When she was six, the police carried her off to St. Paulâs Indian Residential School, as mandated by the 1920 Indian Act. There, she endured months of beatings, malnourishment and lice infestations before her family collected Mazie and her siblings and fled across the border.
After the war, the family return to their home on the Capilano Reserve and Mazie began working at a cannery where she packed salmon for eleven years. Mazie married Alvie Baker, and together they raised nine children, but the legacy of residential school for Mazie and her generation meant they were alienated from their culture and language. Eventually Mazie reconnected with her Squamish identity and she began to mourn the loss of the old style of government by councils of hereditary chiefs and to criticize the corruption in the band leadership created in 1989 by federal legislation.
Galvanized by the injustices she saw committed against and within her communityâespecially against indigenous women, who were denied status and property rightsâshe began a long career of advocacy. She fought for housing for families in need; she pushed for transparency in local government; she defended ancestral lands; she shone a bright light into the darkest political corners. Her family called her châsken: Golden Eagle.
This intimate biography of a community leader illuminates a difficult, unresolved chapter of Canadian history and paints a portrait of a resilient and principled woman who faced down her every political foe, unflinching, irreverent, and uncompromising. - Midpoint Books
Comprehensive biography of Mazie Baker, one of Canadaâs most relentless leaders in the fight for the right to equality, prosperity and, in some cases, simple dignity for all First Nations Women.
Galvanized by the injustices she saw committed against and within her communityâespecially against indigenous women, who were denied status and property rightsâshe began a long career of advocacy. She fought for housing for families in need; she pushed for transparency in local government; she defended ancestral lands; she shone a bright light into the darkest political corners. Her family called her châsken: Golden Eagle.
This intimate biography of a community leader illuminates a difficult, unresolved chapter of Canadian history and paints a portrait of a resilient and principled woman who faced down her every political foe, unflinching, irreverent, and uncompromising.