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Secwépemc people, land, and laws = : Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw
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| | Physical
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Color
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Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
(3798)
| | Language
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Spanish/French/German/Russian
| | Collection
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Professional Library
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McGill-Queens native and northern series
(1012)
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| | Synopsis
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"Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws" is a journey through the
10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British
Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous
storytellers, this volume details how a homeland has shaped
Secwépemc existence while the Secwépemc have in turn shaped their
homeland. Marianne and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from
ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and
geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwépemc
narratives about ancestors' deeds, and demonstrate how these stories
are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and
moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and
for social and political relations within the nation and with
outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past
transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with
written historical sources, and knowledge from archaeology,
ethnography, linguistics, Earth science, and ethnobiology. In
addition to a wealth of detail about Secwépemc land stewardship, the
social and political order, and spiritual concepts and relations
embedded in the Indigenous language, the book shows how between the
mid-1800s and 1920s the Secwépemc people resisted devastating
oppression, the theft of their land, and fought to maintain political
autonomy while tenaciously continuing to maintain a connection with
their homeland, ancestors, and laws. An exemplary work in
collaboration, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws points to the ways
in which Indigenous laws and traditions can guide present and future
social and political process among the Secwépemc and with settler
society. [Publisher's website, viewed Dec 8, 2017].
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Ignace, Marianne
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Ignace, Ronald Eric,; Shuswap Nation Tribal Council.
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25 cm
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9780773551305
| | Contents
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Introduction -The time of the ancient transformers -What
archaeology tells us about the initial peopling and life of the
Secwepemculecw -The Shuswap language -How we look(ed) after our land
-Trade, travel, and transportation -Secw©bpemc sense of place -The
Secw©bpemc Nation and its boundaries -How we are relatives to one
another -Secw©bpemc chiefship and political organization -Secw©bpemc
spirituality and how it was hidden in the church -The unfolding of
dispossession during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
-The Indian Rights Movement of the early twentieth century -Stories
from the past, laws and rights for the future.
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xxxv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace ; with contributions by
Mike K. Rousseau, Nancy J. Turner, Kenneth Favrholdt, and many
Secwépemc storytellers, past and present ; foreword by Bonnie
Leonard.
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Yerí7 re Stsqeys-kucw
| | Subjects
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First Nations—British Columbia—History;
Secwepemc (First Nations people);
Secwepemc (First Nations people)—History;
Secwepemc (First Nations people)—Social conditions;
French Resources(CK);
Ignace, Ronald Eric,—1946—-author(A)
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970.4117 IGN
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