Rights Remembered

Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale (Lummi) (1929–2016), was a historian, genealogist, artist, teacher, and conservator of Coast and Straits Salish knowledge and culture. In 2013 she was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a National Heritage Fellow, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. She is the author, with Gregory P. Fields, of A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire (Nebraska, 2013). Gregory P. Fields is a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.  

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: American Indian History and the Future

A Short Autobiography

Prologue: The Abundance That Was the Great Northwest

Part 1. The Nineteenth Century and Before

1. Forgotten Genocide

2. The Building of America

3. Centuries of Injustice

4. Reservation Creation

5. After the Treaty

Part 2. The Twentieth Century and After

6. Legal and Land Rights

7. A Shrinking Land Base, Persecution, and Racism

8. Aboriginal Fishermen

9. Break Through Ahistory

Part 3. Oral History and Cultural Teachings

10. Scälla—Of the Killer Whale: A Song of Hope

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: An Oration by Joseph R. Hillaire

Afterword: And to My Father

Appendix 1: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855

Appendix 2: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007

Appendix 3: Events in U.S. Indian History and Policy, Emphasizing the Point Elliott Treaty Tribes

Notes

Bibliography

Index