Talking in Context: Language and Identity in Kwakwaka'wakw Society valerie-lancaster Take Us to Your Chief

Take Us to Your Chief effortlessly buttresses Taylor’s argument that the philosophies and belief-systems of indigenous peoples can provide rich raw material for speculative fiction

the Canadian government outlawed the potlatch

and practice

and the hundreds of Indian tribes who opposed them were no more unified than their European colonizers

In the 1980s she became an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she founded the Ts’‘Kel Graduate Program and was a driving force behind the creation of the First Nations House of Learning

Talking in Context: Language and Identity in Kwakwaka'wakw Society valerie-lancaster Take Us to Your ChiefThis book explores the relationship between language, culture and identity through a case study of the current usage of Kwak'wala, an indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. Review "This study will be of interest to all those interested in the fate of the indigenous languages of the world." About the Author Anne Marie Goodfellow is professor of anthropology, Western Washington University.