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Written As I Remember It

Teachings (Ɂəms TɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Long before vacationers discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. Elsie Paul is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. In this remarkable book, she collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style.Raised by her grandparents, who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, stories, and legends. Her adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism and racism. As Paul worked to sustain a healthy marriage, raise a large family, cope with tremendous grief and loss, and develop a career and give back to community, she drew strength from Sliammon teachings, which live on in the pages of Written as I Remember It.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-04-21
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt840 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWomen and Indigenous Studies
Antal sidor468
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774827102
UtmärkelserWinner of Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada)

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Elsie Paul, a Sliammon elder, has spent her life and career in service to others. In recognition of a lifetime of effort dedicated to supporting First Nations well-being, she received an honorary doctorate degree from Vancouver Island University in 2010. Paige Raibmon is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Harmony Johnson is Elsie Paul's granddaughter. She holds a BA from Simon Fraser University and has served in a number of policy and executive roles in BC First Nations organizations.

A Note on the Sliammon Language / Honoré WatanabeIntroduction: Listening to Ɂəms tɑɁɑw / Paige RaibmonWhere I Come From1 The Territory and PeopleLegends: A Man Taken by the Seal Family Twins Are GiftedChild2 Life with My GrandparentsSliammon Narrative: They Invited Them to a Feast3 Teachings on LearningLegends: Mink and Cloud Mink and Salal Mink and Eagle Mink and Pitch Mink and Grizzly4 Residential SchoolLegend: t'əl (The Wild Man of the Woods)Mother5 Teachings for MomsLegend: The Young Girl and Eleven Puppies6 Married LifeSliammon Narrative: qᵂʋl č'ɛ tɑwƟɛm kᵂut tɑmʌs (They [Spirits] Just Came and Told You Something)7 Teachings on Grief8 Community WorkLegends: Mink and Whale Mink and WolfChi-chia9 Naming My Family10 Healing WorkSliammon Narrative: č'ɛhčɛhʌ čxᵂ k'ᵂʌnɛtomoɬ (You Thank the One Who Looks after All of Us)11 Teachings on SpiritualityThoughts about Ma / Cliff Paul

Written As I Remember It is warm and honest, partly a memoir; part ethnography; part Farmer's Almanac. It draws on a Sliammon Elder's oral history of a skilled and prosperous people who lived and died here long before they built a company town and named it for an English surgeon…[it] captures a vanished world that survived for 10,000 years, and was just as worthy as mill towns with telephones.- Holly Doan (Blacklock's Reporter) Paul moves fluidly between these different affects in her narration, as any gifted storyteller and scholar might. - Joseph Weiss, Wesleyan University (Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal) A strong, independently minded woman, the first to sit on the Sliammon First Nation's Council, Elsie Paul has had an inspirational presence in her family and in her community. This charming book should be warmly embraced by all those who seek to comprehend the teachings that guided this Sliammon woman's life in the twentieth century. - Dorothy Kennedy, Victoria (BC Studies)