Re-imagining S’ólh Téméxw: tunnel narratives in a Stó:lo spiritual geography

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dc.contributor.authorRobbins, Margaret Louise
dc.contributor.supervisorLutz, John S.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-24T22:25:43Z
dc.date.available2010-08-24T22:25:43Z
dc.date.copyright2010en
dc.date.issued2010-08-24T22:25:43Z
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Historyen
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractStories exist throughout S’olh Téméxw, the traditional territory of the Stó:lõ people in the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia, of subterranean tunnels connecting disparate locations. These stories, recounted in archival records and by contemporary Stó:lõ community members, provide a gateway into Stó:lõ spiritual connections to place. Through the tunnels, I will explore the complexities of a subterraneous spiritual geography – what is significant about the tunnel stories and what they can say about the way that Stó:lõ people relate to the place world of the valley. Central to this thesis is ideas of imagining and re-imagining space. Through the exploration of the tunnel stories, and the complex and often cross-cultural research relationships that they are recounted in, I hope to show that the connections the tunnels provide can bring distant places, both physical and mental, together in a social imagination. This thesis focuses on the relationships that the tunnel narratives describe – relationships between people and places, researchers and storytellers, physical and metaphysical landscapes, and cultural ways of imagining the space of the valley.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/2965
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectStó:lõ First Nationen
dc.subjectSpiritual Geographyen
dc.subjectTunnelsen
dc.subjectNarrativesen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada--Historyen
dc.titleRe-imagining S’ólh Téméxw: tunnel narratives in a Stó:lo spiritual geographyen
dc.typeThesisen

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