Social Science Native American Studies
Gatherings, Volume VII - Standing Ground
Strength and Solidarity Amidst Dissolving Boundaries
- Publisher
- Theytus Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1996
- Category
- Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919441835
- Publish Date
- Oct 1996
- List Price
- $12.95
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Out of print
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Description
Indigenous writers. this is our territory. this is indigenous land where our values, our ways of speaking, our oral traditions, our languages, our philosophies, our concepts, our histories, our literary traditions, our aesthetics are expressed and accepted and honoured each according to our nations. this is where we carve stories into the memories of our people. we sing songs our children will remember. it is to them we speak. it is for them we sing. mee iwih. mee minik. - From the introduction by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
About the author
Jeannette Armstrong is an award-winning novelist, activist and poet born on the Okanagan Reserve. Known for her literary work, Armstrong has always sought to change deeply biased misconceptions about Indigenous people. Her novel Slash is considered by many people to be the first novel by a First Nations woman. In 2013 she was appointed a Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy to research, document, categorize and analyze Okanagan syilx oral literature in Nsyilxcn.
