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Rights Rememberedis a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers.Hillaire's autobiography, although written out of frustration with the status of Native peoples in America, is not an expression of anger but rather represents, in her own words, her hope \"for greater justice for Indian people in America, and for reconciliation between Indian and non-Indian Americans, based on recognition of the truths of history.\"Addressed to indigenous and non-Native peoples alike, this is a thoughtful call for understanding and mutual respect between cultures.

\"An exciting story that transports the reader to another time and place...Anyone interested in American Indian history, culture, religion, and literature should read this informative volume that was produced at such great cost.

The video, A Century of Coast Salish History, is a digital complement to the published book, Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Material in the video alternates between an interview with Pauline Hillaire, videographed in 2003, and an audio interview, recorded in 2011. The 2011 audio interview forms the soundtrack of an oral history narration accompanied by images of life at Lummi over the course of a century, beginning in 1911. The images were selected from Hillaire’s personal archives and from several institutional archives. They offer a glimpse into the changes –and the continuity– of life on the Lummi Reservation throughout the twentieth century. Hillaire opens the video singing “Red Cedar Tree Song,” and she discusses her family life. Other topics include language loss, Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon), the North Pacific Coastal region, Joseph Hillaire (Joe Hillaire), Edna Hillaire (Edna Price Hillaire Scott), marriage customs, motherhood, native regalia, the Setting Sun Dancers, Frank Hillaire (Haeteluk), U.S. Indian policy, Children of the Setting Sun Dancers, Benjamin Covington (Cuth Sells), Emma Balch, longhouses, Duwamish et al. v. U.S. (1927), Lummi Tribes of Indians v. U.S. (1951, affirmed 1972), repression of ceremonial gatherings, shovelnose canoe, food, seafood, salmon, fishing, reefnet canoes, smokehouses, sacred sxwaixwe masks, Mary Ellen Hillaire, education, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, Evergreen State College, deer, xexmein, Indian Consumption Plant, Wild Celery, colonialism, the Lummi flag, Scott Kadach’āak’u Jensen, Deborah Covington Paul (Hae’til’wit II), Western Washington University, the Iraq War (2003-2011), WWII, U.S. armed services, veterans, alcohol, prohibition, trade, rum, cotton, silk, velvet, fish, furs, survival, Indian-white relations, and the environment. Persons who appear in the photographs include Rebecca Chamberlain of Evergreen State College, Robin Wright of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Anna Halla (Tlingit), Mary Wagner (Saanich), Gregory Fields of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, carver Scott Jensen of Bellingham, artist Courtney Jensen of Bellingham, and Barbara Brotherton of the Seattle Art Museum. Among the final images are the Children of the Setting Sun, dancing in Pauline's honor in Washington, D.C. in 2013, when she was named the Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellow.

Published through theRecovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation InChehalis StoriesJolynn Amrine Goertz and the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Western Washington have assembled a collaborative volume of traditional stories collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas from tribal knowledge keepers in the early twentieth century. Both Boas and Amrine Goertz worked with past and present elders, including Robert Choke, Marion Davis, Peter Heck, Blanche Pete Dawson, and Jonas Secena, in collecting and contextualizing traditional knowledge of the Chehalis people.The elders shared stories with Boas at a critical juncture in Chehalis history, when assimilation efforts during the 1920s affected almost every aspect of Chehalis life. These are stories of transformation, going away, and coming back. The interwoven adventures of tricksters and transformers in Coast Salish narratives recall the time when people and animals lived together in the Chehalis River Valley. Catastrophic floods, stolen children, and heroic rescues poignantly evoke the resiliency of the people who have carried these stories for generations.Working with contemporary Chehalis peoples, Amrine Goertz has extensively reviewed the work of anthropologists in Western Washington. This important collection examines the methodologies, shortcomings, and limitations of anthropologists' relationship with Chehalis people and presents complementary approaches to field work and its contextualization.

During the turbulent Fifties, Congress moved aggressively to end federal supervision and support of Indians by abandoning long-standing treaties. As six-term president of the National Congress of American Indians, Joe Garry was a major power in forestalling wholesale dumping of Indian tribes. He championed an Indian program of holding onto the lands, honoring ancient cultures, educating the young, and developing economic independence. More than any other individual, Garry set in motion the forces that guide Indian relations today.

B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for the white workingmen who had faced the hard times of the Depression. It was a raucous playground that denied blacks and most dark-skinned Indians access to the frivolity, good times, and pretty ladies that were the main attractions of that provocative place. This vivid story of a colorful era is based largely on the memories of Lawney L. Reyes. As a young boy he wandered B Street with his little sister, Luana, and their dog, Pickles, while their Indian mother and Filipino father eked out a living running a Chinese restaurant. His mother's diary and the stories told by his parents and older members of the Sin-Aikst tribe contribute to his story. Reyes tells of hard times, dreams, and extreme courage and reveals the humor, toughness, and recklessness of the adventurers who came to work on the dam. He also describes the history and culture of the Indians whose villages were flooded and whose way of life was irrevocably changed by the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.