Tulalip, from my heart : an autobiographical account of a reservation community /
Harriette Shelton Dover ; edited and introduced by Darleen Fitzpatrick ; foreword by Wayne Williams.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 307 pages)
Foreword by Wayne Williams -- Introduction by Darleen Fitzpatrick -- Phonological Key -- Prologue : A Sense of Place -- Treaty Time, 1855 -- Settling on the Reservation -- Finding Work in the Early Days -- First Memories of White People -- Remember (What We Told You) -- The Tulalip Indian Boarding School -- Treaty Rights Are Like a Drumbeat -- Public School and Marriage, 1922 to 1926 -- Political and Social Conditions -- Legacy -- Seeing the World -- Appendix : The Tulalip Indian School Schedule.
The author describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, the author 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. The author 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, she describes her story in a personal, often fierce style, revealing her tribe's powerful ties and enduring loyalty to land now occupied by others.--description from publisher's website.
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Dover, Harriette Shelton, 1904-1991.
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