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[email protected]. TS’MSYEN REVOLUTION: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF RECLAIMING A Dissertation Presented By ROBIN R. R. GRAY (T’UU’TK) Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2015 Department of Anthropology © Copyright by Robin R. R. Gray (T’uu’tk) 2015 All Rights Reserved TS’MSYEN REVOLUTION: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF RECLAIMING A Dissertation Presented By ROBIN R. R. GRAY (T’UU’TK) Approved as to style and content by: _____________________________________________ Jane Anderson, Chair _____________________________________________ Sonya Atalay, Chair _____________________________________________ Demetria Shabazz, Member __________________________________________ Thomas Leatherman, Department Chair Department of Anthropology DEDICATION To the Nine Allied Tribes and the people of Lax Kw’alaams—past, present and future. In honor of my late grandmothers—through them my family has a place to stand in Waap Liyaa’mlaxha, Gisbutwada, Gitaxangiik. We reclaim to honor their lives. My grandmother Norah Rita Gray, My great-grandmother Elizabeth nee Gulbrandsen, nee Wright Dorothy Gulbrandsen, nee Wright, (1937 – 1977) nee Moody (1905 – 1983) Finally, dedicated to one of my research partners and teachers from Lax Kw’alaams—the late Smooygit Xyuup, Wayne Ryan (1930-2013).