Harriette Shelton-Dover | |
|---|---|
| hayalc̓aʔ | |
| Born | Harriette Shelton November 4, 1904 Mission Beach, Tulalip Reservation, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | February 6, 1991 (aged 86) Marysville, Washington, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) |
Francis Williams
(m. 1926; div. 1939)George Dover
(m. 1950; died 1969) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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Harriette Shelton-Dover (November 19, 1904 - February 6, 1991), known in Lushootseed as hayalc̓aʔ,[a] was a Tulalip cultural activist and tribal ambassador, credited with the revival of the Lushootseed language and many Coast Salish cultural traditions. The daughter of Tulalip cultural leaders William Shelton and Ruth Sehome, she grew up in Tulalip Bay before enrolled into the Tulalip Indian School. As well as serving as a tribal postmaster and council-member, she became the first woman to chair the Tulalip Tribes.
Early life and education
editHarriette Shelton was born on Nov. 19, 1904, in the Mission Beach neighborhood of the Tulalip Reservation. Her father, William Shelton, was a Snohomish hereditary chief with Skykomish,[b] Puyallup, and Wenatchi ancestry. Her mother, Siastenu or Ruth Sehome, was Klallam and Samish.[1] Harriette was the youngest of three children, alongside her siblings Robert Shelton (1891-1930) and Ruth Shelton (1902-1917).[2]
Cultural work
editFootnotes
edit- ^ Lushootseed pronunciation: [hɑˈjɑl.t͡sʼɑʔ]
- ^ also known as the Skay-whah-mish
References
edit- ^ Muhlstein, Julie (Feb 10, 2019). "Film tells life of Tulalip treasure, Harriette Shelton Dover". Everett Herald.
- ^ Blecha, Peter (July 27, 2009). "Dover, Harriette Shelton Williams (1904-1991)". HistoryLink.
Bibliography
edit- Shelton-Dover, Harriette (2015). Tulalip, from my heart: an autobiographical account of a reservation community. University of Washington Press.
Sources
edit- Langen, Toby CS, Marya Moses, and Tulalip Indian Reservation. "Reading from Experience: Toward an Ethnography of Reading at Tulalip Today." In 28th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, pp. 205-215. 1993.
- "Where Is Victory?." Indigenous Activism: Profiles of Native Women in Contemporary America (2021): 107.
- Sercombe, Laurel. "History of Lushootseed Language Instruction." Journal of Northwest Anthropology 55, no. 1 (2021).
Book reviews
edit- Jacobson, Danae A. The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 105, no. 1 (2013): 45–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24628803
- Cary C. Collins. Oregon Historical Quarterly 116, no. 3 (2015): 397–98. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.116.3.0397.
- Arnold, Laurie. Montana: The Magazine of Western History 64, no. 3 (2014): 71–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24420015.