Sinixt
On May 2, 2019, a court of appeals upheld Desautel's hunting rights.[1]
Notable Sinixt people
In Washington, one particular family of Sinixt have figured prominently among recent-day "urban Indians". Bernie Whitebear (1937–2000), a Seattle Indian rights activist and founder of several "urban Indian" organizations, was declared Washington state's "First Citizen of the Decade" in November 1997;[2] his sister Luana Reyes (1933—2001) was, at the time of her death, deputy director of the U.S.'s 14,000-person Indian Health Services;[3] and their brother Lawney Reyes (b. c.1931) is a Seattle-based sculptor, designer, curator and author.[4] Lawney Luana and Bernie are descendants of Alex Christian, whose family lived at Kp'itl'els (Brilliant, B.C., near present-day Castlegar), a Sinixt village, for generations, until the Canadian Government sold their land to settlers.[5]
Novelist and memoirist Okanagan Mourning Dove, also known as Christine Quintasket, is described by anthropologist Paula Pryce as being of Sinixt-Skoyelpi descent, and Quintasket described her childhood and youth at Pia (now Kelly Hill, Washington) in the late 19th/early 20th century.[6] Quintasket (Humishuma) was one of the first Native American women to publish a novel.[7]
Joe Feddersen is a Sinixt/Okanagan sculptor, painter, photographer and mixed-media artist born in Omak, Washington.
Notes
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Bob Keating (2019-05-02). "Extinct' Canadian First Nation wins in court again". CBC News. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld Rick Desautel's right to hunt in Canada, even though he is an American citizen and his First Nation, the Sinixt, was declared extinct by the federal government in 1956.
- ^ Reyes 2002, p. 191, 192.
- ^ Reyes 2002, p. 185–186, gives her title as "assistant director", but the July 1999 Final Report Archived 2006-12-01 at the Wayback Machine of the National Congress of American Indians National Policy Work Group on Contract Support Costs (accessed online 11 March 2007) gives it as Deputy Director, as does Summary Report for the “Mobilizing American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Workshop on Improving Cardiovascular Health”, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — Indian Health Board Partnership Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, May 7–8, 2001 (accessed online 11 March 2007) and other similar official documents.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Hoxie, Frederick E. Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN, p401
References
- Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty. The Geography of Memory, Sono Nis Press, 2002 ISBN
- Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty. The Geography of Memory
- Pryce, Paula. Keeping the Lakes Way, University of Toronto Press, 1999 ISBN
- Pryce. Paula. Keeping the Lakes Way
- Reyes, Lawney. White Grizzly Bear's Legacy: Learning to be Indian, University of Washington Press, 2002. ISBN .
- Sinixt Nation. Sinixt Nation—The People of the Arrow Lakes
Further reading
- Sinixt: The Lakes People. Grand Forks, B.C.: Boundary Museum, [200-?].
- In the Stream: an Indian Story. Nancy Perkins Wynecoop, Spokane, Wa.: 1987.
External links
- Official Sinixt Nation website (Canada)
- First Nations Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Columbia
- Informational website: Sinixt Nation of British Columbia
