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Long before vacationers discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. Elsie Paul is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. In this remarkable book, she collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style.
Raised by her grandparents, who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, stories, and legends. Her adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism and racism. As Paul worked to sustain a healthy marriage, raise a large family, cope with tremendous grief and loss, and develop a career and give back to community, she drew strength from Sliammon teachings, which live on in the pages of Written as I Remember It.
Contents
A Note on the Sliammon Language / Honoré Watanabe
Introduction: Listening to Ɂəms tɑɁɑw / Paige Raibmon
Where I Come From
1 The Territory and People
Legends: A Man Taken by the Seal Family Twins Are Gifted
Child
2 Life with My Grandparents
Sliammon Narrative: They Invited Them to a Feast
3 Teachings on Learning
Legends: Mink and Cloud Mink and Salal Mink and Eagle Mink and Pitch Mink and Grizzly
4 Residential School
Legend: t'əl (The Wild Man of the Woods)
Mother
5 Teachings for Moms
Legend: The Young Girl and Eleven Puppies
6 Married Life
Sliammon Narrative: qᵂʋl č'ɛ tɑwƟɛm kᵂut tɑmʌs (They [Spirits] Just Came and Told You Something)
7 Teachings on Grief
8 Community Work
Legends: Mink and Whale Mink and Wolf
Chi-chia
9 Naming My Family
10 Healing Work
Sliammon Narrative: č'ɛhčɛhʌ čxᵂ k'ᵂʌnɛtomoɬ (You Thank the One Who Looks after All of Us)
11 Teachings on Spirituality
Thoughts about Ma / Cliff Paul
