Secwépemc people, land, and laws = Yerí7 re Stsqʼeyʼs-kucw
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773551305
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Physical Description:
xxxv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Spelling and formatting conventions used in this book -- An opening prayer -- Introduction -- The time of the ancient transformers -- What archaeology tells us about the intial peopling and life of Secwepemcúl'ecw -- The Shuswap language -- How we look(ed) after our land -- Trade, travel, and transportation -- Secwépemc sense of place -- The Secwépemc Nation and its boundaries -- How we are relatives to one another -- Secwépemc chiefship and political organization -- Secwépemc spirituality and how it was hidden in the church -- The unfolding of dispossession during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Indian Rights Movement of the early twentieth century -- Stories from the past, laws and rights for the future. |
Language Note: | Text in English; includes some short bilingual sections where Secwépemc language is presented first and followed by an English translation. |
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Terrace Public Library | 971.1004 IGN (Text) | 35151001064450 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |