Rights Remembered

A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future

Pauline R. Hillaire, Gregory P. Fields

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780803285781
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Native American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers. Hillaire's autobiography, although written out of frustration with the status of Native peoples in America, is not an expression of anger but rather represents, in her own words, her hope "for greater justice for Indian people in America, and for reconciliation between Indian and non-Indian Americans, based on recognition of the truths of history." Addressed to indigenous and non-Native peoples alike, this is a thoughtful call for understanding and mutual respect between cultures.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• A Short Autobiography
• Prologue
• Part 1
• 1. Forgotten Genocide
• 2. The Building of America
• 3. Centuries of Injustice
• 4. Reservation Creation
• 5. After the Treaty
• Part 2
• 6. Legal and Land Rights
• 7. A Shrinking Land Base, Persecution, and Racism
• 8. Aboriginal Fishermen
• 9. Break Through Ahistory
• Part 3
• 10. Scälla—Of the Killer Whale
• 11. Earth, Our First Teacher
• 12. Poems by Joseph R. Hillaire and Pauline R. Hillaire
• 13. History in the Time of the Treaty of Point Elliott
• Afterword
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About Pauline R. Hillaire
• About Gregory P. Fields
• Series List
• Illustrations