Oral Traditions

Looks at folktales involving gypsies and Lapps (Sami) and the colonization of Lapland.

Two Maori villages reveal a strong sense of place in contrast with the large economic changes that have transformed New Zealand.

Short story.

Comments on the significance, features, and characteristics of oral narratives, strategies for using storytelling in teaching and learning, and protocol for telling Indigenous stories. Unit 4 of 6. Duration: 15:45.

Includes information on the process, guiding principles, general and specific criteria, types of learning resources, oral literature and terminology.

Discussion on innovative uses for narrative assessment in a child care setting.

Reviews the Lakota Oyate author's book, which presents life stories by her mother Lone Woman (Wiya Isnala) and grandmother Turtle Lung Woman (Kheglezela Chaguwi). Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 83.

Review essay of Interviewing Inuit Elders examines Inuit concepts of traditional law.

Diploma in Polar Studies --Cambridge University, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1980. Discusses two distinct intellectual northern traditions, Native oral tradition and western scientific research and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of both.

Delves into the authenticity of this romantic legend.

Recounts the legend of Kowasawa (an adopted child).

Audio recording of a legend which is an example of how tribal ancestors used stories to teach children how to behave. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section. Duration: 9:46.

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Iqaluit, Nunavut. Duration: 53:59

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Eastern Arctic. Duration: 54:57

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Natuashish, Labrador. Duration: 56:22

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities.This audio recording is from Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Duration: 54:28.

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from the Northwest Territories. Duration: 53:58

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. Audios contain general information on the First Nations involved, recordings of Elders, explanation of the legends, and legends recorded in both English and the original First Nations language.

Review of National Film Board video designed for Grade 10, which uses the traditional story of Siwash Rock with a contemporary application concerning teenage pregnancy.

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Duration: 54:55

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Eskasoni, Cape Breton. Duration: 54:32

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities.This audio recorded at the Blood Reserve in Alberta. Duration: 54:05

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Mashteuiatsh, Quebec. Duration: 53:56

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This segment created in Alert Bay, British Columbia. Duration: 53.59

Dramatization of Cree legends from community of Sandy Lake, Saskatchewan. Duration: 53.58

The Legends Project is a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends, and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations. They are transcribed, dramatized, and cast within the communities. This audio recording is from Ohsweken, on the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Duration: 53.58

Comments on stories in which the authors use both literary and oral traditions in their work.

Compares written and oral versions of the artist's work.

Looks at the protagonist whose memories of her roots and traditions help her fight against adversity. Chapter from Reading Multiculturalism: Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures edited by Ana Bringas López and Belén Martín Lucas.

Discusses obstacles in terms of library services for Aboriginal populations in Canada, including literacy, oral traditions, and funding.

Literary Criticism article that considers the nuanced and complicated relationships between story, land, and sovereignty in Silko’s novel.

Storytelling and narrative as part of the healing process in a North Slope Iñupiat community.

Book review of: Life Stages and Native Women by K. Anderson.

Discusses the authors use of space, as it relates to tribal identity and oral traditions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Former reporter, host of the Sharing Circle, and president of her own production company discusses her experiences in the media industry. Duration: 9:46.

Article examines the Lipan Apache narrative about Coyote which had been recorded and translated by the linguist Harry Hoijer from a telling by Lisandro Mendez. Author examines the content and themes of the text alongside the poetic and narrative devices it uses; situates the text among other Coyote narratives.

Narrative on the drainage of Sumas Lake, based on oral accounts & documentary sources, with interplay between place and its historical representation within culture.

Analyzes book-length poem in terms of "ancestral memory" and "hauntological" theory. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 69

Looks at the character of Navajo storyteller, Left Handed, who assumes the role of a trickster figure in the Son of Old Man Hat.

Contains links to webcasts and presentations on Aboriginal literacy from the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum 2008: Legacy, which was put on by the Council of Ministers of Education and took place in nine different locations across Canada.

Discussion of the use of both oral and written traditions in works by the two authors.

Contains the story: "The Day Kekaiax Lost His Salmon but Found a Little Light" by Duane Niatum and the poems the "Hole", "The Loup-Garou", "Netherland", "The High Horse" and "Americuda" by Robert Nazarene.

Panel discussion with Robert Warrior, Philip Deloria and Jean O'Brian.

Book review of: Little Bit Know Something by Robin Ridington.

Comments on using the Talking Circle in a university setting.

Explores the importance of the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in academic institutions through three stories.

Story of an Inuit carver and his family's life experiences in the Canadian Arctic of the 1950s. Accompanying material: Study Guide: The Living Stone. Duration: 32:35.