As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

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Tags below are generally not prefaced with Indigenous, as the understanding is that tags are inherently Indigenous-based, unless otherwise noted to differentiate from settler focused tags, 00

alcohol

alcoholism, 00

home brew, 00

children and childhood

babies, 00

cultural identity

kinship networks (family), 00

languages, 00

living off the land, 00

longhouses, 00

rivers, 00

. See also traditional knowledge

death

grief, 00

diseases

smallpox, 00

dogs, 00

employment, 00

fish and fishing

clams, 00

eulachon oil, 00

fish oil, 00

herring, 00

oysters, 00

salmon, 00

seal oil, 00

food

bear grease, 00

berries, 00

fish and fishing, 00

fruits and vegetables, 00

hunting, 00

health and healing medicine

babies, 00

eulachon oil, 00

healers, 00

pregnancy, 00

hunting

bear grease, 00

deer, 00

duck, 00

mountain goat, 00

Indigenous governance

band councils, 00

self-determination, 00

Sliammon Band Council, 00

Indigenous Title (land rights), 00

Indigenous-settler relations

movie theatres, 00

restaurants, 00

languages

education, 00

Island Comox dialect, 00

Sliammon language, 00

legends

mink, 00

tricksters, 00

living off the land

berries, 00

cabins, 00

duck, 00

fish and fishing, 00

food, 00

fruits and vegetables, 00

hop picking, 00

hunting, 00

music and musicians

dance, 00

residential schools

alcoholism, 00

intergenerational trauma, 00

root digging

baskets, 00

settler governance

Catholic church, 00

discrimination, 00

education, 00

non-Indigenous, 00

ownership, 00

police, 00

residential schools, 00

segregation, 00

settler history, 00

treaties, 00

social services

welfare, 00

spirituality

burnings (offerings), 00

cleansing, 00

rivers, 00

vision quest, 00

trading

baskets, 00

canoes, 00

fish and fishing, 00

food, 00

meat man (mujo), 00

traditional knowledge

ancestors, 00

baskets, 00

burnings (offerings), 00

cleansing, 00

elders (hegus), 00

legends, 00

oral traditions (story-telling), 00

respect, 00

root digging, 00

vision quest, 00

. See also cultural identity; spirituality

youth, 00

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