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Paddling to Where I Stand: Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw Noblewoman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774809139)
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xThe first-ever biography written about a woman of the Northwest Coast's Kwakwakawakw people, Paddling to Where I Stand presents the memoirs of Agnes Alfred (c.1890-1992), a non-literate noble Qwiqwasutinuxw woman of the Kwakwakawakw Nation and one of the last great storytellers among her peers in the classic oral tradition. Agnes Alfred documents through myths, historical accounts, and personal reminiscences the foundations and the enduring pulse of her living culture. But this is more than another anthropological interpretation; it is the first-hand account of the greatest period of change the Kwakwaka'wakw people experienced since first contact with Europeans, and Alfred's memoirs flow from her urgent desire to pass on her knowledge to younger generations.
Author: Martine J. Reid
ISBN-10: 0774809132
ISBN-13: 9780774809139
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
Author: Martine J. Reid
ISBN-10: 0774809132
ISBN-13: 9780774809139
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
By Martine J. Reid
xMartine J. Reid (editor) is an independent scholar whose interests are the field of Northwest Coast cultural and aesthetic anthropology. Daisy Sewid-Smith (translator) is Agnes Alfred's granddaughter, a cultural historian, and a Kwakwaka'wakw language instructor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria
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