In the Words of Elders : : Aboriginal Cultures in Transition / / ed. by Peter Kulchyski, David Newhouse, Don McCaskill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Angmarlik, Pauloosie,; Benedict, Ernest,; Blondin, George,; Carpenter, James,; Kulchyski, Peter,; Mason, Mary Anne,; McKay, Eva,; Mccaskill, Don,; Mosher, Llza,; Newhouse, David,; Nitsch, Twylah Hurd,; Paul, Margaret,; Penashue, Elizabeth,; Rabesca, Martha,; Skead, Alex,; Stogan, Vlnce,; Tootoosis, Wllf,; Uyarasuk, Rachael,; Ward, Albert,
• HerausgeberIn: Kulchyski, Peter,; McCaskill, Don,; Newhouse, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

Over years of teaching, it became increasingly apparent to the editors of this book (the Aboriginal Education Council at Trent University) that students in their Native Studies classes were dissatisfied with many of the texts they were assigned, which were usually anthropological in nature. Their re...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Eastern Canada Cultures
• 1 'Every song you sing just keeps getting better and better.'
• 2 'I have seen a real beautiful thing,'
• Central/Great Lakes Region Cultures
• 3 'My heritage was so ingrained in me that I knew I would never lose it.'
• 4 'I would say when you search after truth, truth is that which you will find that is dependable and is of use to you.'
• Anishinabe Cultures
• 5 ' We have to go back to the original teachings.'
• 6 'It's just like reading a book when I am talking to you.'
• Mid-North Cultures
• 7 'I really believe in the land and I care about my people.'
• 8 ' The Elders have waited for the young people to ask such things.'
• Inuit Cultures
• 9 'Life today is what I find strange.'
• 10 'I never say what I have heard, I only tell what I have experienced, because I do not want to lie.'
• Plains Cultures
• 11 'If they read what you are writing, this is the teachings, this is some of the teachings that we want them to read about.'
• 12 ' This was one of the predictions, that our traditions will come back some day.'
• Dene Cultures
• 13 ' Our culture will not die because our culture is nature through God, that's the way it's always going to be. It will never die.'
• 14 'I still am in love with the land, I am still in love with my history.'
• Pacific Coast Cultures
• 15 ' That's why I figure, well, this is a chance for me to tell. It was a tough life.'
• 16 ' When I came home my Elders taught us that all our people who have passed on are still around us.'