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Tulalip, From My Heart : An Autobiographical Account Of A Reservation Community
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2013
Book
Creators
Dover, Harriette Shelton
Description
"In Tulalip, from My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved in moving from their villages to the reservation on Tulalip Bay: inadequate food and water, harsh economic conditions, and religious persecution outlawing potlatch houses and other ceremonial practices. Dover herself spent ten traumatic months every year in an Indian boarding school, an experience that developed her political consciousness and keen sense of justice. The first Indian woman to serve on the Tulalip board of directors, Dover describes her story in a personal, often fierce style, revealing her tribe's powerful ties and enduring loyalty to land now occupied by others."

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ISBN
9780295990934; 0295990937
Statement of Responsibility
Harriette Shelton Dover ; edited and introduced by Darleen Fitzpatrick ; foreword by Wayne Williams.
Publication Information
Seattle : University of Washington Press,
Physical Description
xxxiv, 307 pages : illustrations, maps 24 cm
Contents
00$tForeword /$rWayne Williams --$tIntroduction /$rDarleen Fitzpatrick --$tPhonological key --$tPrologue : a sense of place --$tTreaty time, 1855 --$tSettling on the reservation --$tFinding work in the early days --$tFirst memories of white people --$tRemember (what we told you) --$tThe Tulalip Indian boarding school --$tTreaty rights are like a drumbeat --$tPublic school and marriage, 1922 to 1926 --$tPolitical and social conditions --$tLegacy --$tSeeing the world --$tAppendix : the Tulalip Indian School schedule --$tBibliography --$tIndex.
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