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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780574303321

Autore

Pryce Paula

Titolo

"Keeping the Lakes' way" : : reburial and the re-creation of a moral world among an invisible people / / Paula Pryce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-281-99570-3

9786611995706

1-4426-7649-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

971.162004979

Soggetti

Sinixt Indians - History

Sinixt Indians - Funeral customs and rites - British Columbia - Vallican

Cemeteries - British Columbia - Vallican

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introductions: The Journey Home -- 2. Presence: Sinixt Interior Salish Ethnography, or the Contribution to Obscurity -- 3. The Latent Land: Towards a Lakes Diaspora -- 4. Competing Prophecies: The Case of the Vanishing Indian v. the Resurrection of the Ancestors -- 5. Emergence: Distress, Memory, and the Re-creation of Morality among an Invisible People -- 6. Afterthoughts on Here and Now -- App. 1. Selected Spelling Variations of 'Sinixt' -- App. 2. Selected Historical Sinixt Village and Resource Sites.

Sommario/riassunto

"Virtually unknown of First Nations in Canada, the Arrow Lakes or Sinixt Interior Salish of the North American Columbia Plateau have been declared officially extinct. This book investigates why this circumstance came about and how contemporary Sinixt have responded."--Jacket.