Community brings Secwepemc stories to life (fwd link)

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 *Community brings Secwepemc stories to life*

by  Kristin Froneman - Vernon Morning Star
posted Aug 1, 2014 at 1:00 AM

A young boy looks up to the elderly woman sitting beside him as she works a
whittling knife over strips of cedar bark. Applying the jagged pieces to a
cardboard tube, she holds up her work for the boy and myself to take a
closer look.

“It’s going to be full with arrows when I’m done,” she says, smiling.

Marie Thomas is just one of the many volunteers using her hands and
knowledge of working with the land to help make the props, masks and
costumes for a community play about to be staged at the Splatsin
Tsm7aksaltn Teaching Centre just north of Enderby.

In other parts of the centre, which acts as a day care and education centre
during other times of the year, visitors and residents are learning the
traditional language, music, dance and stories of the Secwepemc (Shuswap)
people that will be part of the play Tuwitames (pronounced too-weet-a-miss,
which means he/she is growing up.) A presentation of Grindrod’s Runaway
Moon Theatre and the Splatsin Language and Culture Program, the play goes
from ancient times to the present day, and is intertwined with a personal
story of a young man trying to find his roots.

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