Keeping the Lakes' Way: Reburial and Re-creation of a Moral World among an Invisible People (Heritage)
Keeping the Lakes' Way: Reburial and Re-creation of a Moral World among an Invisible People (Heritage) Keeping the Lakes' Way: Reburial and Re-creation of a Moral World among an Invisible People (Heritage) OTHER ARTICLES 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.Most of the Arrow Lakes people have lived in diaspora for a hundred years or more, due in part to destructive mining activity in their historical territory. Since 1989, many have made pilgrimages to an ancient burial ground and village site at Vallican, British Columbia, where they have worked against many obstacles to protect ancestral remains exhumed by archaeologists and road-builders. Paula Pryce explores this history, showing how time is culturally imbedded in the land. Social memory, time pers...