Okanagan women's voices : Syilx and settler writing and relations, 1870s-1960s /

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Imprint:	Penticton, British Columbia : Theytus Books, [2021] ©2021
Description:	xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Okanagan Indians -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History. Women -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History. Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) Frontier and pioneer life. Okanagan Indians. Women. Okanagan Valley (B.C. : Region) -- History. British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13317332

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Other authors / contributors:	Armstrong, Jeannette C., editor. Grauer, Lally, 1948- editor. MacArthur, Janet H., editor.
ISBN:	9781926886527 1926886526
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-448) and index.
Summary:	"During early settlement times, some women of Syilx Okanagan descent, rather than being "between" two groups of men, were women who stood between two worlds, the expanding frontier world of the settler and the shrinking Indigenous world of the Syilx Okanagan people. Few Syilx Okanagan voices exist to counterbalance the overwhelming number of settler voices recounting those times. The voices of those Syilx women, whose own standing within the Syilx secured a privileged view from between the two worlds, offer us this unique glimpse into those times. Their lives, their voices, and their stories are gifts they have left to us. The focus of this essay is to draw on the historical writings, letters, memoirs, stories and literature of four Syilx women who lived during the early generations of settlement by non-Syilx in the Okanagan. The words and stories left by these women 5 provide glimpses into a sense of their own standing in the social and cultural distances being intersected, as well as reflect the growing disquiet between Syilx and settler. Standing as these women were between two societies, the unique views revealed in their writing provide a way to read those times beyond the primarily non-Syilx and male dominated views of history. The spaces occupied by these Okanagan women appear filled with a sense of striving to close the widening divide through engaging a deeper conversation between the Syilx and settler. The essay discusses the writing of two daughters of marriages between Syilx and settler and the stories of two Syilx women who each married into the settler society. The writing of the two women of Syilx descent through their mothers includes the memoirs and letters of Marie Houghton Brent, and a published historical autobiographical article by Eliza Jane Swalwell. We include and discuss the writings of Brent and Swalwell as examples of their views of those times from their position of standing between as daughters of Syilx and settler. Brent's observations and opinions not only bring forward a glimpse into her own life, but also reflect her stance on the tensions of those times between settler and Syilx. In "Girlhood Days in the Okanagan," Swalwell provides us not only with a personal historical view of her times, but also, like Brent, a view of her position between the two cultures. The writing of these daughters of Syilx and settler, although told and published in English, also provide examples of the Syilx oral narrative style used to pass on historical story."--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Map
A Note to the Reader
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Syilx Voices
Standing Between
Josephine Shuttleworth (1865-1950)
Biographical Headnote
Folk Lore of the Days When Animal People Dwelt Here
When the Coyote Changed the Lives of the Valley Indians
How Chipmunk Got Markings
More Indian Tales
Chief Francois, Who Died at 105, Was Notable Old Figure
The Cranes Herald Spring
This Man Died When the Ice Moved off the Lake in Spring
He Dreamed-and Died-with the Falling of the Leaves
Eliza Jane Swalwell (1868-1944)
Biographical Headnote
Girlhood Days in the Okanagan
Marie Houghton Brent (1870-1968)
Biographical Headnote
Coyote and Reindeer
The Legend of Shuswap Falls
The Indians of the Okanagan Valley
My School Days
Indian Lore
Mourning Dove (1886-1936)
Biographical Headnote
From Cogewea, The Half-Blood
Under the Whispering Pines
Swa-lah-kin: The Frog Woman
From Coyote Stories
Chipmunk and Owl-Woman
The Gods of the Sun and the Moon
House of Little Men
The Red Cross and the Okanogans
Part 2. Early Settlement And Relations
Something Very Real
Susan Louisa Moir Allison (1845-1937)
Biographical Headnote
Sketches of Indian Life
From the Long Poems "In-cow-mas-ket" and "Quin-is-coe"
Introduction
In-Cow-Mas-Ket, A Poem of Indian Life [Part One]
In-Cow-Mas-Ket [Part Two]
Quin-is-coe, Part One
Quin-is-coe, Part Two
What I Know of Ogopogo
From "Some Native Daughters I Have Known"
G-he-nac-Sister of Quin-is-coe
Our Louisa
Emma Hutch or Hutchy
Kind Penquinac or the Princess Julia
From Susan Allison's Recollections
Some Recollections of a Pioneer of the Sixties
Some Recollections of a Pioneer of the Seventies
Memoirs of a Pioneer of the Eighties
Correspondence with Louisa [Allison] Johnston, 1930s
Part 3. Continuing Relations
Crossing Lines Lally Grauer
Hester Emily White (1877-1963)
Biographical Headnote
From "The Pioneer Trail: Reminiscences of Early Days"
June 26, 1947
July 3, 1947
July 10, 1947
September 11, 1947
October 2, 1947
Mail Day 1882
Over the Hope Trail
We Cross the Columbia in an Indian Canoe
[July 6, 1888,] Osoyoos
May 1st, 1895, Osoyoos
Stenwyken
Susap
Correspondence with Mourning Dove
Correspondence with Matilda Kruger
History of Early Days
Correspondence with Marie Houghton Brent
Isabel Christie MacNaughton (1915-2003)
Biographical Headnote
How an Ancient Indian Woman Taught Her People Wisdom
Why the Chipmunk's Coat Is Striped
From Wood Fires [1942]
The Crickets Must Sing
Why the Ant's Waist Is Small
"Incantation" R.C.A.F.
Okanagan Winter
Old Timers
Wild Geese
From Wood Fires [1948]
Oh Tell Me Do the Wild Geese Fly
The Greasewood Tree
Tribute to a Lady
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Okanagan women's voices : Syilx and settler writing and relations, 1870s-1960s /

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