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The geography of memory : recovering stories of a landscape's first people  Cover Image Book Book

The geography of memory : recovering stories of a landscape's first people

Summary: The Sinixt, or "Arrow Lakes Indians," are the original inhabitants of the Upper Columbia Basin. Decimated by disease, displaced by settlement, and devastated by the dams that flooded their village and burial sites and eliminated ocean salmon from their territory, they were as a final insult declared "extinct" by the Canadian government in 1956. Yet they have steadfastly maintained close cultural and spiritual ties to their homeland. In a quest for understanding, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes set out to find the lost story behind the Sinixt First Nation. With the help of contemporary Sinixt people, Pearkes travelled, researched, and interviewed her way through a course of discovery. Her personal account is imbued with a deep respect for the land and its First Peoples. Part history, part ethnography, and part nature essay, this compact book contains a chart of wild food plants, timeline, maps, illustrations, and rare archival photographs.

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  • ISBN: 097312220X (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780973122206 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 95 p. : ill., maps, ports., some col ; 22 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Nelson, B.C. : Kutenai House Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes bibliogrpahical references [p. 90-91] and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Parting the veil of time -- Journey into the heartland -- Long shadows in a broad valley -- Swimming upstream -- Land of the living -- Shifting geographies.
Subject: Indigenous peoples -- North America -- British Columbia -- Kootenay Region
Kootenay Region (B.C.) -- History
Sinixt
Sinixt -- History
Kootenay Region (B.C.) -- History
Kootenay Region (B.C.) -- Geography
British Columbia -- History
British Columbia -- Geography

Available copies

  • 14 of 16 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library. (Show)

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  • 1 current hold with 16 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Fort Nelson Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) BFN056453 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Beaver Valley Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) 35144000051784 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library 971.162004979 PEA (Text) 35146002021467 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Nakusp Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) 35160000540469 Adult Non-fiction Volume hold Available -
Nakusp Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) 35160000540618 Adult Non-fiction Available -
Radium Hot Springs Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) 35130000074066 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Rossland Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) 35162000095684 Non-Fiction Books Not holdable Missing -
Salmo Public Library LH 971.16 PEA (Text) SPL23367 Local History Volume hold Available -
Sechelt Public Library FN 971.162004979 PEAR (Text) 33260000087776 First Nations Volume hold Available -
Sparwood Public Library 971.1 PEA (Text) 35172000101325 Non Fiction Volume hold Available -

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