Title Xwelíqwiya : the life story of a Stó:lō matriarch / Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly

Published Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2013] Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (liii, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Our lives: diary, memoir, and letters series, 1921-6661 ; 5 Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters ; 5. Contents Born at a very young age -- Xéyteleq -- Devil's run -- School, work, and marriage -- Life of the spirit -- Breaking the silence -- Moving north -- They begin to listen -- Life cycles -- Epilogue Summary "Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lo matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lo, or Xwélmexw, as they call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoid persecution by the Canadian government, Point Bolton's mother and grandmother schooled her in the skills needed for living from what the land provides, as well as in the craftwork and songs of her people, passing on a duty to keep these practices alive. Point Bolton was taken to a residential school for the next several years and would go on to marry and raise ten children, but her childhood training ultimately set the stage for her roles as a teacher and activist. Recognizing the urgent need to forge a sense of cultural continuity among the younger members of her community, Point Bolton visited many communities and worked with federal, provincial, and First Nations politicians to help break the intercultural silence by reviving knowledge of and interest in Aboriginal art. She did so with the deft and heartfelt use of both her voice and her hands. Over the course of many years, Daly collaborated with Point Bolton to pen her story. At once a memoir, an oral history, and an 'insider' ethnography directed and presented by the subject herself, the result attests both to Daly's relationship with the family and to Point Bolton's desire to inspire others to use traditional knowledge and experience to build their own distinctive, successful, and creative lives"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English All rights reserved Print version record Subject Point Bolton, Rena, 1927- SUBJECT Point Bolton, Rena, 1927- fast Subject Stó:lō Indians -- Biography Indian women basket makers -- British Columbia -- Biography Indian women artists -- British Columbia -- Biography Indian artists -- British Columbia -- Biography Indian women -- British Columbia -- Biography Indigenous women -- British Columbia -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Indigenous women Indian artists Indian women Indian women artists Indian women basket makers Stó:lō Indians British Columbia Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Daly, Richard, 1942- author ISBN 9781927356579 1927356571 9781927356586 192735658X

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