What is in a Name?Identity, Politics and Stó:lō Ancestral Names

Tataryn, Anastasia ORCID: 0000-0001-5870-4877 (2009) What is in a Name?Identity, Politics and Stó:lō Ancestral Names. The University of Fraser Valley Research Review, 2 (2). pp. 54-72.

This is the latest version of this item.

Text
4 Tataryn What is in a Name.doc - Unspecified
Access to this file is embargoed until Unspecified.
Download (106kB)

Official URL: http://journals.ufv.ca/rr/

Abstract

Scholars gain a deeper understand of identity and meaning in Stó:lō history by recognizing the role of ancestral names in Stó:l ō society — at “contact” in the nineteenth century, throughout the twentiethcentury, and in the twenty-first century. Currently, Stó:l ō are reviving traditions of naming ceremonies and carrying ancestral names. Ancestral names are critical to the existence of Stó:lō culture; they are thetangible manifestation of a Stó:lō person’s connection to ancestors, past and future. This paper explores thesignificance of ancestral names in Stó:lō tradition through conversations and interviews conducted in the spring of 2005 with members of the Stó:lō Nation, transcripts of earlier interviews conducted with Stó:lō elders held in the Stó:lō Nation Archives, the ethnography of the Stó:lō, and more recent scholarly works.This analysis seeks to contextualize the role of ancestral names in Stó:lō society to reveal a deep,multilayered, understanding of history.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	?? F1001 ??
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	23 Oct 2015 09:35
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2022 01:05
Related URLs:	Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2033259