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Ernestine Shuswap gets her trout [6 books] (36440) |
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| | Physical
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82 pieces
| | Copyrighted
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2005
| | Distributor
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Talonbooks
(1481)
| | Country
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Canada
| | Audience
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Senior High (S)
| | Collection
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Booking Library
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| | Synopsis
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Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin
on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister
Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a
ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia
lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and
finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without
any treaties ever having been signed. It is one of the most
compellingly tragic cases of cultural genocide to emerge from the
history of colonialism, enacted by four women whose stories follow
each other like the cyclical seasons they represent. Written in the
spirit of Shuswap, a "Trickster language" within which the
hysterically comic spills over into the unutterably tragic and back,
this play is haunted by the blood of the dead spreading over the
landscape like a red mist of mourning.
| | Author
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Highway, Tomson
| | Dimensions
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21 cm.
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0889225257
| | Pub. Loc.
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Vancouver, BC
| | Notes
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Theme: Readers Theatre
| | Parts
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6 books ; guide.
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Tomson Highway
| | Subjects
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First Nations;
First Nations—Drama;
Readers' theatre;
Literature Circles(CK)
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LIT THEA 11-12
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