Mary Augusta Tappage
First Nations storyteller (1888–1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Augusta Tappage Evans (1888–1978) was a Shuswap-Métis elder, midwife, and storyteller. As a child, she was separated from her family and sent to the Indian boarding school at Saint Joseph's Mission. A member of the Soda Creek/Deep Creek Band, she married at the age of 15 and had four children. She was a self-taught midwife. Stories from her life were recorded and published in 1971 in the book The Days of Augusta.