Keeping the Lakes Way: Reburial and Re-Creation of a Moral World among the Invisible People
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...
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Officially extinct, Sinixt Interior Salish living in diaspora work to protect their history, identity, and social memory through the protection of, and the act of reburial at, an ancient burial ground.
Acknowledgments1Introductions: The Journey Home32Presence: Sinixt Interior Salish Ethnography, or the Contribution to Obscurity123The Latent Land: Towards a Lakes Diaspora364Competing Prophecies: The Case of the Vanishing Indian v. the Resurrection of the Ancestors705Emergence: Distress, Memory, and the Re-creation of Morality among an Invisible People976Afterthoughts on Here and Now142App. 1Selected Spelling Variations of 'Sinixt'149App. 2Selected Historical Sinixt Village and Resource Sites152Notes157References175Index189
