The Geography of Memory Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People 2nd edition 2016 ’ whom the residential schools

’ whom the residential schools were intended to civilize and assimilate

Cody O’Neil

David Newhouse

guiding words of Scofield’s aunt offer helpful hints set in cursive writing post-it note form

This is a manifesto

The Geography of Memory Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People 2nd edition 2016 ’ whom the residential schoolsThis compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes, the tribe lived along the upper Columbia River and its tributaries for thousands of years. In a story unique to First Nations in Canada, the Canadian federal government declared them extinct in 1956, eliminating with the stroke of a pen this tribes