Rights Remembered

A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future

Pauline R. Hillaire (Autor)

Gregory P. Fields (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

486 Seiten

2026
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4500-7 (ISBN)

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Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, ScÄlla–Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative her own life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast. She tells of government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between the Coast Salish people and white settlers.

Hillaire’s book, although written out of frustration with the status of Native peoples in the United States, is not an expression of anger. Rather it represents, in her own words, her hope “for greater justice for Indian people in America, and for reconciliation between Indian and non-Indian Americans, based on recognition of the truths of history.” Addressed to Indigenous and non-Native peoples alike, Rights Remembered is a thoughtful call for understanding and mutual respect between cultures.

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 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. 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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	American Indian Lives
Zusatzinfo	16 photographs, 4 illustrations, 9 maps, 3 appendixes, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-4500-8 / 1496245008
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4500-7 / 9781496245007
Zustand	Neuware