Netgalley: What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman by Helene Demers

 

What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman by Helene Demers
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was such a beautiful story of a woman and her people. Ruby Peter was a a Cowichan elder who narrates the story of her hard life as an Indian native and hard work in order to protect the ancient language of her people: Hul’q’umi’num’ and their traditions and culture.
I loved it so much, it was so interesting to read and to learn more about those people that faced hardships in different ways, we feel bitter for what happened to them. I loved to read about her childhood and her mother who was an exceptional person that taught her a lot and then, as she became the elder, she taught everything to the youngsters. In this book, Helene Demers worked only on transforming Ruby's audiorecordings into a text without adding any of her commentaries, it's pure Ruby's words in this book and I really loved that.

I hope that there were more books either for kids or adults and documentaries about the native Indians' culture for the future generations. There is a lot of things that I learnt from this book and I hope that a lot of people will take the time to read this beautiful book.

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