Celia's song
By: Lee Maracle
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781770864160
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Indigenous women; Fiction; Indian women; Prophets; Nuu-chah-nulth Indians; Nuu-chah-nulth women; Femmes autochtones; Romans, nouvelles; Indiennes d'Amérique; Prophètes; Nootka (Indiens); Femmes nootka; Amerikanisches Englisch
Description: Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nu:Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who - despite being convinced she's a little "off"--Must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor. The occurrence signals the unfolding of an ordeal that pulls Celia out of her reveries and into the tragedy of her cousin's granddaughter. Each one of Celia's family becomes involved in creating a greater solution than merely attending to her cousin's granddaughter. Celia's Song relates one Nu:Chahlnuth family's harrowing experiences over several generations, after the brutality, interference, and neglect resulting from contact with Europeans.
Notes: Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the author name level (June 29, 2019) http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx

Issued also in electronic format.