Table of Contents
Preface: Oral History and Oral Traditions Stephen J. Augustine 1
Introduction: A Layering Of Voices: Aboriginal Oral Traditions Renee Hulan Renate Eigenbrod 7
The Assault on Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Past and Present Andrea Bear Nicholas 13
Silas T. Rand's Work Among the Mi'kmaq Stephen J. Augustine 45
The Little Boy Who Lived with Muini'skw (Bear Woman) Catherine Martin 53
Conflicts, Discourse, Negotiations and Proposed Solutions Regarding Transformations of Traditional Knowledge Greg Young-Ing 61
A Bad Connection: First Nations Oral Histories in the Canadian Courts Drew Mildon 79
Amplified Voices: Rebecca Belmore's Reinvention of Recording Technologies in the Transmission of Aboriginal Oral Traditions Sophie McCall 99
Fighting with Our Tongues, Fighting for Our Lives: Talk, Text and Amodernity in Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives, Our History Michele Grossman 113
Voices Heard in the Silence, History Held in the Memory: Ways of Knowing Jeannette Armstrong's 'Threads of Old Memory' Tasha Hubbard 139
Theatre as Suture: Grassroots Performance, Decolonization and Healing Qwo-Li Driskill 155
Contributors 169
