![]() | Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future Subjects: Hillaire Pauline 1929–; Salish Indians -- Biography; Salish women -- Biography; Indian grandmothers -- Northwest Pacific -- Biography; Salish Indians -- Social life and customs; Salish Indians -- Poetry; Indians of North America -- Northwest Pacific -; Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers. Pauline R. Hillaire , Scälla-Of the Killer Whale (Lummi) (1929-2016), was a historian, genealogist, artist, teacher, and conservator of Coast and Straits Salish knowledge and culture. In 2013 she was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a National Heritage Fellow, the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. She is the author, with Gregory P. Fields, of A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire (Nebraska, 2013). Gregory P. Fields is a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra . |
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