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The Geography of Memory - by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation.
- Author(s): Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
- 288 Pages
- Social Science, Indigenous Studies
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About the Book
A provocative, historical investigation into the displacement of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People of British Columbia's West Kootenays.Book Synopsis
This compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes, the tribe lived along the upper Columbia River and its tributaries for thousands of years. In a story unique to First Nations in Canada, the Canadian federal government declared them "extinct" in 1956, eliminating with the stroke of a pen this tribe's ability to legally access 80 per cent of their trans-boundary traditional territory.
Part travelogue, part cultural history, the book details the culture, place names, practices, and landscape features of this lost tribe of British Columbia, through a contemporary lens that presents all readers with an opportunity to participate in reconciliation.