Memory Serves and Oratories

Synopsis:

Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people.

Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremely timely book, not only because it is the first collection of oratories by one of the most important Indigenous authors in Canada, but also because it offers all Canadians, in Maracle's own words, "another way to be, to think, to know," a way that holds the promise of a "journey toward a common consciousness."

Reviews
"Lee Maracle has provided a clear and eloquent voice of power that speaks of, speaks to and speaks with Indigenous peoples and indigenous women around the world. Her writing always provokes, awakens, stirs and enlightens our hearts and minds." - Linda Tuhiwai Smith, author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

"[a]t this fertile moment for change in the relationship between Canada's indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, Lee Maracle's new collection of oratories ... takes on even greater significance." - Brian Lynch, The Georgia Straight

Additional Information
272 pages | 6.00" x 9.00" | Paperback