Written as I Remember It
Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Subjects
- Native American Studies, Post-Confederation (1867-), Native American, British Columbia (BC)
- Categories
- About indigenous people or experiences , About British Columbia
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- ISBN
- 9780774827133
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $39.99
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Description
Long before vacationers discovered BC’s Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. Elsie Paul is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. In this remarkable book, she collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style.
Raised by her grandparents, who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, stories, and legends. Her adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism and racism. As Paul worked to sustain a healthy marriage, raise a large family, cope with tremendous grief and loss, and develop a career and give back to community, she drew strength from Sliammon teachings, which live on in the pages of Written as I Remember It.
About the authors
Awards
- Winner, Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Winner, Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History
- Commended, BCHF Historical Writing Awards, British Columbia Historical Federation
Contributor Notes
Elsie Paul, a Sliammon elder, has spent her life and career in service to others. In recognition of a lifetime of effort dedicated to supporting First Nations well-being, she received an honorary doctorate degree from Vancouver Island University in 2010. Paige Raibmon is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Harmony Johnson is Elsie Paul’s granddaughter. She holds a BA from Simon Fraser University and has served in a number of policy and executive roles in BC First Nations organizations.
Editorial Reviews
Paul moves fluidly between these different affects in her narration, as any gifted storyteller and scholar might.
Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal
Written As I Remember It is warm and honest, partly a memoir; part ethnography; part Farmer’s Almanac. It draws on a Sliammon Elder’s oral history of a skilled and prosperous people who lived and died here long before they built a company town and named it for an English surgeon…[it] captures a vanished world that survived for 10,000 years, and was just as worthy as mill towns with telephones.
Blacklock's Reporter
A strong, independently minded woman, the first to sit on the Sliammon First Nation’s Council, Elsie Paul has had an inspirational presence in her family and in her community. This charming book should be warmly embraced by all those who seek to comprehend the teachings that guided this Sliammon woman’s life in the twentieth century.
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