Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Pryce, Paula

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

x, 203 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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

Subjects

• Sinixt (Indiens)
• Sinixt Indians
• Cemeteries
• Indianer
• Begravningsseder
• Iwi taketake
• Cimetières > Canada > Colombie-Britannique
• Sinixt (Indiens) > Rites et cérémonies funéraires > Canada > Colombie-Britannique
• Cimitières > Colombie-Britannique > Vallican
• Cemeteries > British Columbia > Vallican
• Sinixt Indians > Funeral customs and rites > British Columbia > Vallican

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-187) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0802044190
• 9780802044198
• 0802082238
• 9780802082237

OCLC

• ocm41432000
• 41432000
• SCSB-928457

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library