{"product_id":"xwel-qwiya","title":"Xwel�qwiya: The Life of a St�:lo Matriarch","description":"\u003cp\u003eXwelqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a St:lo (or, as\r\nthey are now called, Xwlmexw) matriarch, artist, and craftswoman.\r\nProceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters\r\nrecount Point Bolton’s early years on the banks of the Fraser River\r\nduring the Depression. While at the time the St:lo, or Xwlmexw, as\r\nthey call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoid\r\npersecution by the Canadian government, Point Bolton’s mother and\r\ngrandmother schooled her in the skills needed for living from what the\r\nland provides, as well as in the craftwork and songs of her people,\r\npassing on a duty to keep these practices alive. Point Bolton was taken\r\nto a residential school for the next several years and would go on to\r\nmarry and raise ten children, but her childhood training ultimately set\r\nthe stage for her roles as a teacher and activist. Recognizing the\r\nurgent need to forge a sense of cultural continuity among the younger\r\nmembers of her community, Point Bolton visited many communities and\r\nworked with federal, provincial, and First Nations politicians to help\r\nbreak the intercultural silence by reviving knowledge of and interest\r\nin Aboriginal art. She did so with the deft and heartfelt use of both\r\nher voice and her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of many years, Daly collaborated with Point Bolton\r\nto pen her story. At once a memoir, an oral history, and an\r\n“insider” ethnography directed and presented by the subject\r\nherself, the result attests both to Daly’s relationship with the\r\nfamily and to Point Bolton’s desire to inspire others to use\r\ntraditional knowledge and experience to build their own distinctive,\r\nsuccessful, and creative lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46622301683922,"sku":"9781927356562","price":34.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e4655928-5c37-4d74-9a77-0a0be384dc3e.jpg?v=1762879064","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/xwel-qwiya","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}