Standing Up with G_a’ax_sta’las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Standing Up with G_a’ax_sta’las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
596 pages

Table of Contents
Foreword / Nella Nelson
Prologue
Introduction: “Having Oneness on Your Face”
Part I – The Living Text: Traces of Jane Cook
Part II – Du?wa_’esa_la (Looking Around On the Beach): Ancestors
Part III – Stranger Than Fiction: Surviving the Missionary
Part IV – “Children of the Potlatch System,” 1888-1912
Part V – “We As the Suppressed People,” 1913-18
Part VI – “We Are the Aboriginee, Which Is Not a Citizen,” 1918-27
Part VII – “With the Potlatch Custom in My Blood,” 1930-39
Part VIII – One Voice from Many: Citizenship, 1940-48
Part IX – A Tower of Strength: Word Memorials, 1951
Part X – Dlax_w’it’sine’ (For Your Standing), Feasting
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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