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Winner of the NonFiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Memory Serves gathers together the oratories awardwinning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twentyyear period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people.Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremely timely book, not only because it is the first collection of oratories by one of the most important Indigenous authors in Canada, but also because it offers all Canadians, in Maracles own words, another way to be, to think, to know, a way that holds the promise of a journey toward a common consciousness.
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Winner of the NonFiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Memory Serves gathers together the oratories awardwinning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twentyyear period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people.Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremely timely book, not only because it is the first collection of oratories by one of the most important Indigenous authors in Canada, but also because it offers all Canadians, in Maracles own words, another way to be, to think, to know, a way that holds the promise of a journey toward a common consciousness.
