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Informationen zum Autor Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale (Lummi) (1929–2016), was a historian, genealogist, artist, teacher, and conservator of Coast and Straits Salish knowledge and culture. In 2013 she was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a National Heritage Fellow, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. She is the author, with editor Gregory P. Fields, of A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire (Nebraska, 2013) and of A Century of Coast Salish History: Media Companion to the Book “Rights Remembered.” Gregory P. Fields is Distinguished Research Professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author of Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra. Klappentext This remarkable autobiographical history by Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale (Lummi Coast Salish), combines her life experiences, tribal oral traditions, and written records of federal–tribal relationships in the Pacific Northwest to provide a Native view of recent history. Zusammenfassung Offers a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline Hillaire. Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the US and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, treaties, and reservations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: American Indian History and the FutureA Short AutobiographyPrologue: The Abundance That Was the Great NorthwestPart 1. The Nineteenth Century and Before1. Forgotten Genocide2. The Building of America3. Centuries of Injustice4. Reservation Creation5. After the TreatyPart 2. The Twentieth Century and After6. Legal and Land Rights7. A Shrinking Land Base, Persecution, and Racism8. Aboriginal Fishermen9. Break Through AhistoryPart 3. Oral History and Cultural Teachings10. Scälla-Of the Killer Whale: A Song of Hope11. Earth, Our First Teacher12. Poems by Joseph R. Hillaire and Pauline R. Hillaire13. History in the Time of the Treaty of Point Elliott: An Oration by Joseph R. HillaireAfterword: And to My FatherAppendix 1: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855Appendix 2: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007Appendix 3: Events in U.S. Indian History and Policy, Emphasizing the Point Elliott Treaty TribesNotesBibliographyIndex...
