We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us. Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia

Gordon, Katherine Palmer. Foreword by Shawn A-in-chut Atleo

ISBN 10: 1550176188 / ISBN 13: 9781550176186

Edité par Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C., 2013

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247 pages. 23 cm. Pictorial card covers. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Index. A bright, unmarked and crisp book.

N° de réf. du vendeur 004674

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us. Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia
• Éditeur: Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C.
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1550176188
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781550176186
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Fine

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Synopsis

First Nations are the fastest growing population in the country. There are thousands upon thousands of young First Nations people growing up today who, together with the kind of individuals whose stories are told in this book, represent a future for this country that is brighter than it has been for a long, long time.
--from the foreword by Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations

Since 2004, journalist Katherine Palmer Gordon has interviewed dozens of young First Nations people living in British Columbia--artists and community leaders, comedians and consultants, musicians and lawyers, people who are household names and those known only within their own communities. We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us collects sixteen candid stories gleaned from those interviews, stories of people who share an unshakeable belief in the importance of their cultural heritage to their well-being, to their success at what they do, and to their everyday lives.

Included are Kim Baird, former chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation; Lisa Webster-Gibson, spoken word artist and rock-and-roll drummer with Delaware-Mohawk and Scottish-Canadian heritage who lives and works on Gabriola Island as an Environmental Assessment Professional; and John Marston (Qap'u'luq), an artist and storyteller from the Chemainus First Nation who learned to carve from his father. What I put into each piece, he says, in his interview with Gordon, is 100 percent me.

Shattering stereotypes, We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us gathers the thoughts and hopes of young native people living in twenty-first century Canada. Each has a compelling, meaningful story that deserves to be told, understood and, above all, celebrated.

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of five books of non-fiction, including several BC Bestsellers: The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley, The Garden That You Are, and Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia, for which she was awarded the 2007 BC Haig-Brown prize. She is also an award-winning freelance journalist and lives on Gabriola Island, BC.