1. Introductions: The Journey Home -- 2. Presence: Sinixt Interior Salish Ethnography, or the Contribution to Obscurity -- 3. The Latent Land: Towards a Lakes Diaspora -- 4. Competing Prophecies: The Case of the Vanishing Indian v. the Resurrection of the Ancestors -- 5. Emergence: Distress, Memory, and the Re-creation of Morality among an Invisible People -- 6. Afterthoughts on Here and Now -- App. 1. Selected Spelling Variations of 'Sinixt' -- App. 2. Selected Historical Sinixt Village and Resource Sites
Summary
"Virtually unknown of First Nations in Canada, the Arrow Lakes or Sinixt Interior Salish of the North American Columbia Plateau have been declared officially extinct. This book investigates why this circumstance came about and how contemporary Sinixt have responded."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index
