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The Atrium, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC
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Join Marianne and Ronald Ignace for the launch of Secwépemc People, Land and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw. Presented by the Department of First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University, the event will take place in The Atrium (SWH 9082) located in Saywell Hall, Burnaby Mountain campus.
Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwépemc narratives about ancestors’ deeds. They demonstrate how these stories are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and for social and political relations within the nation and with outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with written historical sources and knowledge from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, earth science, and ethnobiology. An exemplary work in collaboration, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws points to the ways in which Indigenous laws and traditions can guide present and future social and political process among the Secwépemc and with settler society.
Marianne Ignace is professor of linguistics and First Nations studies at Simon Fraser University.
Chief Ronald E. Ignace is a Secwépemc historian, storyteller, and politician, and adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University.
"An impressive achievement that connects lessons preserved from a 10,000-year history to ongoing land rights struggles, this comprehensive work makes valuable contributions to cross-cultural understanding while providing an excellent model for other First Nations reclaiming and preserving their heritage." Publisher’s Weekly starred review
"Our young people will passionately accept their responsibilities as stewards of both our territories and teachings sacred to our ancestors when they know our languages and traditions. The Ignaces have brilliantly woven the Secwépemc oral histories with research, and written a work from which young people and all can learn." Perry Bellegarde, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
"The Ignaces have created a sweeping and powerful book that provides us with an opportunity to understand Secwépemc people’s relationship with the land." Susan Rowley, University of British Columbia