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Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition : Cree and Métis âcimisowina / Deanna Reder.
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Reder, Deanna, 1963-
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English
Published/Created
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
Description
xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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E89.5 .R43 2022
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Subject(s)
Métis
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Biography
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History and criticism
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Métis
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Intellectual life
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Cree Indians
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Biography
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History and criticism
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Cree Indians
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Intellectual life
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Canadian literature
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Métis authors
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Canadian literature
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Indian authors
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Autobiography
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Biography as a literary form
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Biography
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
Indigenous studies series
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Summary note
"Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention to longstanding autobiographical practices that are engrained in Cree and Métis, or nêhiyawak, culture and examining a series of examples of Indigenous life writing. Blended with family stories and drawing on original historical research, Reder examines censored and suppressed writing by nêhiyawak intellectuals such as Maria Campbell, Edward Ahenakew, and James Brady. Grounded in nêhiyawak ontologies and epistemologies that consider life stories to be an intergenerational conduit to pass on knowledge about a shared world, this study encourages a widespread re-evaluation of past and present engagement with Indigenous storytelling forms across scholarly disciplines."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index.
Contents
Introduction
She told us stories constantly : autobiography as methodology 1
âcimisowin as Indigenous intellectual tradition : from George Copway to James Settee 2
Interrelatedness and obligation : wâhkôhtowin in Maria Campbell's âcimisowin 3
Respectful interaction and tolerance for different perspectives : kihcêyihtamowin in Edward Ahenakew's Old Keyam 4
Edward Ahenakew's intertwined unpublished life-inspired stories : âniskwâcimopicikêwin in Old Keyam and Black Hawk 5
How âcimisowin preserves history : James Brady, Papaschase, and Absolom Halkett 6
kiskêyihtamowin : seekers of knowledge, Cree intergenerational inquiry, shared by Harold Cardinal.
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ISBN
9781771125543 ((paperback))
1771125543 ((paperback))
LCCN
2022360301
OCLC
1241443510
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