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Rights remembered : a Salish grandmother speaks on American Indian history and the future / Pauline R. Hillaire (Scälla of the Killer Whale, Elder of the Lummi Tribe) ; edited by Gregory P. Fields.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American Indian livesPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803285804 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rights remembered : a Salish grandmother speaks on American Indian history and the future.DDC classification:
  • 978.6004/979435 23
LOC classification:
  • E99.S2 H45 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: American Indian history and the future -- A short autobiography -- Prologue: The abundance that was the great Northwest -- Part 1. The nineteenth century and before -- Forgotten genocide -- The building of America -- Centuries of injustice -- Reservation creation -- After the treaty -- Part 2. The twentieth century and after -- Legal and land rights -- A shrinking land base, persecution, and racism -- Aboriginal fishermen -- Break through ahistory -- Part 3. Oral history and cultural teachings -- Scälla of the Killer Whale : a song of hope -- Earth, our first teacher -- Poems by Joseph R. Hillaire and Pauline R. Hillaire -- History in the time of the Treaty of Point Elliott : an oration by Joseph R. Hillaire -- Afterword: And to my father -- Appendix 1: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855 -- Appendix 2: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007 -- Appendix 3: Events in U.S. Indian history and policy, emphasizing the Point Elliott Treaty tribes.
Scope and content: "An autobiography of a contemporary Native American woman that combines her own life experiences, tribal oral traditions, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the native peoples of the Northwest Coast to provide a Native view of recent history"--Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers.



Hillaire's autobiography, although written out of frustration with the status of Native peoples in America, is not an expression of anger but rather represents, in her own words, her hope "for greater justice for Indian people in America, and for reconciliation between Indian and non-Indian Americans, based on recognition of the truths of history."



Addressed to indigenous and non-Native peoples alike, this is a thoughtful call for understanding and mutual respect between cultures.



Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: American Indian history and the future -- A short autobiography -- Prologue: The abundance that was the great Northwest -- Part 1. The nineteenth century and before -- Forgotten genocide -- The building of America -- Centuries of injustice -- Reservation creation -- After the treaty -- Part 2. The twentieth century and after -- Legal and land rights -- A shrinking land base, persecution, and racism -- Aboriginal fishermen -- Break through ahistory -- Part 3. Oral history and cultural teachings -- Scälla of the Killer Whale : a song of hope -- Earth, our first teacher -- Poems by Joseph R. Hillaire and Pauline R. Hillaire -- History in the time of the Treaty of Point Elliott : an oration by Joseph R. Hillaire -- Afterword: And to my father -- Appendix 1: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855 -- Appendix 2: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007 -- Appendix 3: Events in U.S. Indian history and policy, emphasizing the Point Elliott Treaty tribes.

"An autobiography of a contemporary Native American woman that combines her own life experiences, tribal oral traditions, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the native peoples of the Northwest Coast to provide a Native view of recent history"--Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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CHOICE Review

Pauline Hillaire's book is ostensibly an analysis of relationships that held between the United States and Native Americans in Puget Sound, with a focus on the mid to late 19th century, when treaties were written and ultimately ratified, and reservations established. However, it is more than that. Scalla, an elder of the Lummi Tribe, offers readers the culmination of years of research undertaken out of respect for her culture and her extensive and well-known family. This work, she asserts, caused her to walk a sometimes "desperate trail." Her book argues for reconciliation, healing, and justice, and draws on Hillaire's lifetime of attention to compendia of archived records of Indian policy and law. Though her focus is the Pacific Northwest and especially her Salish people, her words will resonate with many outside the region. Hillaire is a historian, but one who tells her story through the testament of her ancestors and the wisdom of her own long, considered personal experience. As such, readers will find biographical essays, poetry, and orations written by Hillaire's father, Joseph, and other memoir elements embedded in the text. Photographs, maps, and illustrations enrich the book. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. --Llyn De Danaan, Evergreen State College

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