"Nen gagunlhchugh deni nidlin – We live all over this land"
– Chief Roger William
"We are the land."
– Chief Roger William
Lha yudit’ih was written near qʷeyaʔχʷ, at the delta of stal̓əw̓, known in Tŝilhqot’in as ʔElhdaqox, Sturgeon River, where čəčiʔq̓ən̓ Mink made his way upstream and Lhuy diyenẑ Salmon Boy swam out to salt water. Born in Montréal, Lorraine Weir is a settler scholar and oral historian, descendant of displaced Celts from An Gorta Mór the Irish Famine and the Highland Clearances. She grew up on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka Territory at the gathering place known as Tiohtià:ke Montréal, and on the Ancestral Homelands of the Beothuk on the island known as Ktaqmkuk Newfoundland, in St. John’s, on the Traditional Territories of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk. Weir is Emeritus Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, on the unceded, Ancestral, and Traditional Territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm People.
