Presentations from a conference held at the Gorsebrook Research Institute, Halifax, N.S., Apr. 21-23, 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface: oral history and oral traditions / Stephen J. Augustine -- Introduction: a layering of voices: Aboriginal oral traditions / Renee Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod -- The assault on Aboriginal oral traditions: past and present / Andrea Bear Nicholas -- Silas T. Rand's work among the Mi'kmaq / Stephen J. Augustine -- The little boy who lived with Muini'skw (Bear Woman) / Catherine Martin -- Conflicts, discourse, negotiations and proposed solutions regarding transformations of traditional knowledge / Greg Young-Ing -- A bad connection: first nations oral histories in the Canadian courts / Drew Mildon -- Amplified voices: Rebecca Belmore's reinvention of recording technologies in the transmission of Aboriginal oral traditions / Sophie McCall -- Fighting with our tongues, fighting for our lives: talk, text and amodernity in Warlpiri women's voices: our lives, our history / Michele Grossman -- Voices heard in the silence, history held in the memory: ways of knowing Jeannette Armstrong's "Threads of Old Memory" / Tasha Hubbard -- Theatre as suture: grassroots performance, decolonization and healing / Qwo-Li Driskill.
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