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.
Most of the Arrow Lakes people have lived in diaspora for a
hundred years or more, due in part to destructive mining activity
in their historical territory. Since 1989, many have made
pilgrimages to an ancient burial ground and village site at
Vallican, British Columbia, where they have worked against many
obstacles to protect ancestral remains exhumed by archaeologists
and road-builders. Paula Pryce explores this history, showing how
time is culturally imbedded in the land. Social memory, time
perspectives, sense of place, and the act of reburial have enhanced
cultural continuity, meaning, and identity among the Lakes
people.
While telling a troubling story of dispossession and diaspora,
grave sites and reburials, this powerful narrative also looks at
the complex process of the construction and re-construction of
identity in a world of constantly shifting boundaries. It is the
first book devoted to the story of the Sinixt.
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