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"Prologue: Winter Dances" - "Spirit Sickness"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: LaPointe, Sasha taqʷšəblu. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk. Counterpoint, 2022. Hardcover.

• This memoir is primarily told in the past tense from the perspective of the author, with some passages that switch to the perspective of the author's ancestor, Comptia.

• "Prologue: Winter Dances" - The Coast Salish were a nomadic, hunter-gatherer society that followed the resources of land and water.

• Their communal rituals were banned by the missionaries but were continued in secret.

• The author thinks it would be disrespectful to reveal what happened in the longhouse rituals.

• Her story is about what she learned from her ancestors, who danced the winter dances and wore red paint.

• "hədiw" - "Hədiw" is a Lushootseed word meaning "come in" that is written at her...

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