In this Book
- Tulalip, From My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Washington Press
- Series: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved in moving from their villages to the reservation on Tulalip Bay: inadequate supplies of food and water, harsh economic conditions, and religious persecution outlawing potlatch houses and other ceremonial practices.
Dover herself spent ten traumatic months every year in an Indian boarding school, an experience that developed her political consciousness and keen sense of justice. The first Indian woman to serve on the Tulalip board of directors, Dover describes her experiences in her own personal, often fierce style, revealing her tribe’s powerful ties and enduring loyalty to land now occupied by others.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxxii
- Phonological Key
- pp. xxxiii-2
- Prologue: A Sense of Place
- pp. 3-18
- 1 / Treaty Time, 1855
- pp. 19-34
- 2 / Settling on the Reservation
- pp. 35-51
- 3 / Finding Work in the Early Days
- pp. 52-61
- 4 / First Memories of White People
- pp. 62-76
- 5 / Remember (What We Told You)
- pp. 77-104
- 6 / The Tulalip Indian Boarding School
- pp. 105-156
- 7 / Treaty Rights Are Like a Drumbeat
- pp. 157-179
- 8 / Public School and Marriage, 1922 to 1926
- pp. 180-198
- 9 / Political and Social Conditions
- pp. 199-229
- 10 / Legacy
- pp. 230-255
- 11 / Seeing the World
- pp. 256-296
- Appendix: The Tulalip Indian School Schedule
- pp. 297-302
- Bibliography
- pp. 303-304