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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789820603321

Autore

Cole Peter <1949->

Titolo

Coyote raven go canoeing [[electronic resource] ] : coming home to the village / / Peter Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca [NY], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-7735-8131-6

1-282-86652-4

9786612866524

0-7735-7605-3

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic text (xix, 337 p. : ill.) : digital file

Collana

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; ; 42

Disciplina

371.829/97071

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Education - Canada

Indians of North America - Canada - Intellectual life

Indian mythology - Canada

Indigenous peoples - Education

Indigenous peoples - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Writing sp a ces -- Living in the village -- Aboriginalizing methodology : considering the canoe -- Navigating upstream -- i/terature re/view -- Our stories of 'schooling' -- Other ab/original stories of 'schooling' -- Interextual journeying : first nations -- Moving on.

Sommario/riassunto

we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his narrative takes the form of a canoe journey. Cole draws on traditional Aboriginal knowledge to move away from the western genres that have long contained, shaped, and determined ab/originality. Written in free verse, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing is meant to be read aloud and breaks new ground by making orality the foundation of its scholarship. Cole moves beyond the



rhetoric and presumption of white academic (de/re)colonizers to aboriginal spaces recreated by aboriginal peoples. Rather than employing the traditional western practice of gathering information about exoticized other, demonized other, contained other, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing is a celebration of aboriginal thought, spirituality, and practice, a sharing of lived experience as First Peoples.