| What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan Woman Contributor(s): Peter, Ruby (Author), DeMers, Helene (With), Peter, Molly (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 077267938X ISBN-13: 9780772679383 Publisher: Royal British Columbia Museum OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - Biography & Autobiography | Educators |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.79 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one's place in the world. This first-person oral history--the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum--documents a period of profound social change through the lens of Sti'tum'atul'wut--also known as Mrs. Ruby Peter--a Cowichan elder who made it her life's work to share and safeguard the ancient language of her people: Hul'q'umi'num'. Over seven decades, Sti'tum'atul'wut mentored hundreds of students and teachers and helped thousands of people to develop a basic knowledge of the Hul'q'umi'num' language. She contributed to dictionaries and grammars, and helped assemble a valuable corpus of stories, sound and video files--with more than 10,000 pages of texts from Hul'q'umi'num' speakers--that has been described as "a treasure of linguistic and cultural knowledge." Without her passion, commitment and expertise, this rich legacy of material would not exist for future generations |