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This is the story of Philomena (Lethéyxelwet) Fraser’s life journey. Philomena is a Coast Salish Elder from Cheam First Nation, British Columbia. From her life as a little girl, raised by her traditional aunties, grandparents, mother and father, she takes...Read more
Sharing her personal thoughts, emotions and her riotous antics along the way, the reader is swept along the many roads her life has taken.
Living a very Catholic existence did not guarantee the making of angels, she tells us. And being someone who harbours an adventurous and mischievous nature, this book not only captures your imagination, but also introduces you to the life of an Indigenous woman, who does not fit the mould one might expect. The reader is hurled into Ms. Fraser’s adventures as she dares share these stories with us.
One of many ventures she recalls, is the time she and her cousin, being tasked with watching a wee toddler outside, decided it would be fun to put the child in an old 3-wheeled buggy, tie it to a tethered calf, free the calf and see what would happen—the hilarious outcome is in the telling, including their punishment! Even throughout her adulthood, antics found a natural place in her adventurous spirit, yet a very serious side to Ms. Fraser exists, where her honesty and candour are revisited again and again in the telling of her memoirs.