Rights Remembered

Pauline R. Hillaire, Scaella-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 editor Gregory P. Fields, of A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire (Nebraska, 2013) and of A Century of Coast Salish History: Media Companion to the Book "Rights Remembered." Gregory P. Fields is Distinguished Research Professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author of Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.

List of Illustrations 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. Scaella-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