ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one particular Indigenous community, the Stolo Coast Salish of the lower Fraser River watershed in western Canada. Indigenous people together with allied scholars have in recent decades produced remarkable collaborations aimed at alerting settler society to the significance of Indigenous peoples’ historical presence and ongoing special relationships with the lands and waters of their ancestors. Indigenous people have profoundly local, deeply historical ways of remembering, interpreting, and understanding the creation of the places they call home. In Indigenous societies, time sometimes bends spaces in ways that settlers struggle to perceive, let alone appreciate. Settler colonialism has the power to eclipse Indigenous memoryscapes by challenging and contesting Stolo ways of knowing as well as by alienating lands from Stolo people through the seemingly never-ending expansion of simple title holdings and government regulation.
