Ernestine Shuswap gets her trout : a "string quartet" for four female actors

"Based on a deposition signed by fourteen chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan, and Couteau or Thompson tribes on the occasion of a visit by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the native peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting, and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed. Written in the spirit of Shuswap language, hysterical comedy spills over into the unutterably tragic and back again."--Page 4 de la couverture.  Read more...