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- Title: Tekakwitha Girls’ Club | Tekakwitha Girls’ Club
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Young women from the Tekakwitha Girls’ Club in a classroom kitchen preparing to cook something.
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Sti’tuma’t | Ruby Peter (Kwa’mutsun Elder)
- Date of recording:
- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
Tekakwitha Girls’ Club
- ’iilh qux sul’uthut-s tthu mustimuhw kwthu Tekakwitha Girls’ Club.
There were many things that the Tekakwitha Girls’ Club did. - niilh hw’iiw’tsustum ’u tthu nurse ’i’ tthu sisters kwthey’ q’e’lumi’.
They were taught by the nurse and the sisters.
[The nurse was Mrs. Marjorie Langlois (née Fletcher)] - wulh ’apun ’i’ kw’ yuse’lu ’apun ’i’ kw’ lhihw, ni’ kwthu ni’ wulh ’apun ’i’ kw’ lhq’etsus.
They were about the age of 12 and 13; some of them would be 15. - hw’iiw’tsustum’ kws kwoukws kws p’ep’utth’ul’sth, sht’es kws le’lum’ut-s tthu stl’ul’iqulh tthu ’uy’ s’ulhtuns tthu stl’ul’iqulh.
They were taught how to cook and how to sew, how to look after children, and what kind of food was the best thing to eat and feed children. - nilh ’iilh swe’s shnu’aste’wut kwthey’ Tekakwitha Girls’ Club.
That’s what the Tekakwitha Girls’ Club was geared for.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) is the patron saint of ecology, the environment, Indigenous Peoples, and orphans. Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks,” she is the first Native American to be canonized (in 2012) and is honored for her deep connection to nature, spiritual resilience, and devotion.
Key information
- Time period or Date: 1948
- Theme(s): Education, Children,
- Location: St. Catherine’s Day School
- Source info (type – name): Personal — Personal Collection
- Photographer credit: TBD
- Individuals identified: Selected: Maria (crouched on left), Sarah (reaching into cupbourd), Catherine (center), and Wilma (far right).
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