Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way, second edition

by Marilyn James, Taress Alexis

Stories are the ancestral bloodlines of the Autonomous Sinixt—what we share and pass down generationally are the memories that flow through our veins and carry culture and connection to our təmxʷulaʔxʷ, our homeland.

This second edition of Not Extinct invites readers to engage with the stories of the Sinixt təmxʷulaʔxʷ through lively oral storytelling, original artwork, written discussion, and reflection. Three new stories and many updates touch on critical issues such as Indian Residential Schools, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Sinixt cosmology, salmon reintroduction and the contemporary treaty process.

Following our work with the Sinixt dialect, snselxcin, through the T'kikstn Language Revitalization Project, we've also added and updated Sinixt words in the text.

176 pages, Paperback

Published November 19, 2021

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautifully illustrated collection of traditional and contemporary stories (with discussion) told by Sinixt storytellers and knowledge-keepers Marilyn James and Taress Alexis. The first edition was published in 2017 by Maa Press, a small book publisher/distributor located in the Columbia Mountains. Maa Press published a second addition with three new stories and lots more discussion in 2021.