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Based on a deposition signed by fourteen Chiefs of the Thomson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed. It is one of the most compellingly tragic cases of cultural genocide to emerge from the history of colonialism, enacted by four women whose stories follow each other like the cyclical seasons they represent.Highway, Tomson is the author of 'Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780889225251 and ISBN 0889225257.
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