Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout - Highway, Tomson

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, this play is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed. A tragic case of cultural genocide, enacted by four women whose stories follow each other like the cyclical seasons they represent. Written in the spirit of Shuswap, a "Trickster language". 
Near Fine
Soft cover
Talonbooks, Limited
2005
Vancouver, BC