The geography of memory : reclaiming the cultural, natural and spiritual history of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First people

Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty 1961- (author.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781771605212 (softcover)
Physical Description: print
xii, 261 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction to the new edition -- Parting the veil of time -- Rivers as highways and byways -- Revelstoke to Fauquier : journey into the heartland -- Fauquier to Castlegar : long shadows in a broad valley -- Rossland to Omak, WA : following the salmon -- Slocan Lake to Sloan Pool : land of the living -- Bonnington Falls to the West Arm & Salmo : shifting geographies -- Spokane, WA, to Sinixt Territory : lines and shaded areas -- Gathering it all together.