Caitlin Press Invisible generations: irene kelleher's story of living between indigenous and white, paperback/jean barman

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Irene Kelleher lived all her life in the shadow of her inheritance.

Her local community in British Columbia's Fraser Valley all too often treated her as if she was invisible.

The combination of white and Indigenous descent that Irene embodied was beyond the bounds of acceptability by a dominant white society.

To be mixed was to not belong.

Attracted to the future British Columbia by a gold rush beginning in 1858, Irene's white grandfathers had families with Indigenous women.

Theirs wa.