So you girls remember that : memories of a Haida elder / Gaadgas Nora Bellis with Jenny Nelson.

So you girls remember that : memories of a Haida elder / Gaadgas Nora Bellis with Jenny Nelson.

By
Bellis, Gaadgas Nora.

Publication Date
2022

Publication Information
Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Publishing,

Physical Description
xiv, 224 p. : ill., maps.

Subject Term
First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Biography.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Bibliography.

Additional Contributors
Nelson, Jenny, 1947-

Summary
So you girls remember that is an oral history of a Haida elder, Naanii Nora, who lived from 1902 to 1997. A collaborative effort, this project was initiated and guided by Charlie Bellis and Maureen McNamara and was years in the making. The resulting book, compiled by Jenny Nelson, is a window into Nora's life and her family--from the young girl singing all day in the canoe, bossing her brothers around or crossing Hecate Strait on her dad's schooner, to the young woman making her way in the new white settlers' town up the inlet, with music always a refrain. These are stories of childhood; of people and place, seasons and change; life stages and transitions such as moving and marriage; and Haida songs and meanings. This book also contains the larger story of Nora's times, a representation of changing political relationships between Canada and the Haida people and a personal part of the Haida tale.

Language
English

ISBN
9781550179774

General Note
Includes bibliographical references.


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