White Grizzly Bear's Legacy
Subtitle: Learning to Be Indian
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780295982021
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples; Social Science; Sociology; Biography/Autobiography; Oregon; Washington state; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; People of Color; Senijextee Indians
Description: "Lawney Reyes, grandson of Pic Ah Kelowna or White Grizzly Bear of the Sin Aikst, relates the history of his family and his people. The Sin Aikst are now known as the Lakes tribe, absorbed into the Colville Confederated Tribes of eastern Washington. And where Kettle Falls once flowed and the Sin Aikst once fished are places that exist now only in memory, flooded when the Grand Coulee Dam was completed in 1941.

Reyes blends personal and family history with an account of the larger forces that have confronted all Native Americans: displacement, acculturation, and the potent force of self-renewal."--BOOK JACKET.