Secw�pemc People, Land, and Laws: Year�7 Re St Q'ey's-kuce by Ignace, Marianne/ Ignace, Ronald E - 2017

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. (CAD) 2nd printing of the first edition No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, xxxvi, 588pp, index, colour photos. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume detail how a homeland has shaped Secwépemc existence while the Secwépemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwépemc narratives about ancestors’ deeds. They demonstrate how these stories are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and for social and political relations within the nation and with outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with written historical… Read More

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Edited, 2017. 1st. Soft Cover. New/New.