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.
Hillaire, Pauline, 1929- author.; Fields, Gregory P., 1961- editor.
2016
E99.S2 H45 2016
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Title 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.
Author Hillaire, Pauline, 1929- author.
ISBN 9780803245846
9780803285798
9780803285804
9780803285804 (electronic book)
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (328 pages)
Call Number E99.S2 H45 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 978.6004/979435
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Fields, Gregory P., 1961- editor.
Series American Indian lives.
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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.

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