The Days of Augusta
eBook - ePub

The Days of Augusta

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Days of Augusta

About this book

Hailed as a contemporary classic of oral literature, The Days of Augusta is Shuswap elder Augusta Evans' memories of a lifetime that spanned from 1888 to 1978.

Accompanied by Robert Keziere's intimate photographs, Augusta's rhythmic prose reads like poetry. She depicts with strength and eloquence her own story—her days at the Mission School, making good baskets and catching salmon, the pain of giving birth and the death of a son—as well as the legends and stories of events told to her—a stagecoach robbery, a woman who was the prisoner of a bear. First printed in 1973, Augusta's story continues to be a fascinating glimpse into the past, with throughlines to the present.

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Yes, you can access The Days of Augusta by Mary Augusta Tappage Evans, Jean E. Speare in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. The Holdup
  7. The Sick Woman
  8. Tyee—Big Chief
  9. The Lillooets
  10. Christmas at the Mission
  11. At Mission School
  12. Thoughts of the Mission School
  13. Premature
  14. Doctor’s Book
  15. At Birth
  16. Smallpox
  17. The Story of the Sturgeon
  18. My Grandfather Spoke French
  19. My Paternal Grandfather and My Maternal Grandfather
  20. “We Had a Priest...”
  21. Since 1931
  22. The Captive Girl
  23. Death of a Son
  24. Dickie
  25. Sammy
  26. Places I’ve Worked
  27. The One They Took
  28. The Woman Who Was Prisoner of the Bear
  29. The Year the Salmon Run Was Poor
  30. It’s Easy to Make a Net
  31. You’ve Got to Be Quick
  32. Gill Net
  33. Tobacco—Thirty-Five Cents a Plug
  34. The Basket
  35. Mend a Basket
  36. Baby Basket
  37. The Powder Rock
  38. Travel by Winter
  39. Whoosham
  40. Changes
  41. The Big Tree and the Little Tree
  42. “It Never Should Have Happened”