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Syilx -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History.
First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History.
Racially mixed women -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region)
Okanagan Valley (B.C. : Region) -- History.
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Syilx -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History.
First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History.
Racially mixed women -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region) -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia -- Okanagan Valley (Region)
Okanagan Valley (B.C. : Region) -- History.
MARC Display
Okanagan
women
's
voices
:
Syilx
and
settler
writing
and
relations
,
1870s
to
1960s
/ edited by Jeannette Armstrong, Lally Grauer, Janet MacArthur.
Theytus Books Ltd., 2021.
Call #:
971.15 O41
Subjects
Syilx
-- British Columbia --
Okanagan
Valley (Region) -- History.
First Nations
women
-- British Columbia --
Okanagan
Valley (Region) -- History.
Racially mixed
women
-- British Columbia --
Okanagan
Valley (Region) -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia --
Okanagan
Valley (Region)
Okanagan
Valley (B.C. : Region) -- History.
ISBN:
9781926886527 (trade pbk)
Description:
xvii, 460 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Other authors:
Armstrong, Jeannette C.
Grauer, Lally, 1948-
MacArthur, Janet H.
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