Xwelíqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

• Main Author: Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2013
• Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• Subjects: First Nations; British Columbia; biography; women
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Xwel'qwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō,...