Written as I Remember It: Teachings (?əms ta?aw) From the Life of a Sliammon Elder (Women and Indigenous Studies)

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Long before vacationers and boaters came upon BC’s Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, known as it and surrounding regions home. On this remarkable book, Elsie Paul, one of the vital last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language, collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to inform her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style.

Raised by grandparents who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent her childhood immersed in Sliammon ways, stories, and legends. Paul’s adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism and racism. As she worked to sustain a healthy marriage, raise a big circle of relatives, deal with tremendous grief and loss, and develop a career and give back to community, she drew strength and guidance from the Sliammon teachings she learned as a child. She shares this traditional knowledge for the first time in Written as I Remember that It.

This rare glimpse into the life of Coast Salish woman and the history of the Sliammon people stands as a fruitful model for collaborative research and storytelling, a model that has the power to turn out to be relations between settlers and indigenous peoples in Canada.

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