Xwnuts’aluwum: T’aat’ka’ Kin Relations and the Apocryphal Slave

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dc.contributor.authorFlowers, Rachel Joyce
dc.contributor.supervisorAsch, Michael
dc.contributor.supervisorTully, James
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-12T18:59:13Z
dc.date.available2014-12-12T18:59:13Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-12-12
dc.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Programen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores representations of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast within the discipline of Anthropology, with particular attention given to Hul’qumi’num’ speaking nations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. Through a critical engagement with ethnography, linguistic, archival and oral history sources, I offer a critique of the harmful concepts of war and slave as mistranslations from Hul’qumi’num’ into English. The consequences of this mistranslation and lack of understanding permeate our social, cultural and political lives and relationships with settler society. By looking at the original Hul’qumi’num’ words, our laws, and our stories about inter-village relations, I will provide a healthy alternative understanding to the apocryphal representations of Coast Salish nations in Anthropology. I will conclude this discussion with revival of traditional Hul’qumi’num’ laws and practices of relationality and coexistence in marriage and exchanges.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0326en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0740en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0290en_US
dc.description.proquestemailflowersrachel@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5754
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectSlaveryen_US
dc.subjectWaren_US
dc.subjectWarriorismen_US
dc.subjectHul'qumi'num'en_US
dc.subjectKinshipen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.titleXwnuts’aluwum: T’aat’ka’ Kin Relations and the Apocryphal Slaveen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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