Oral Traditions

Author uses several different texts to highlight some of the difficulties in cross-cultural communication. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1999.

Discussion of Write It on Your Heart and Nature Power which are some of the most comprehensive examples of oral stories performed by a First Nations storyteller, transcribed and published in written form. They are even more remarkable because Robinson performed the stories in English.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2002.

Book review of: Stories From Quechan Oral Literature edited by A. M. Halpem and Amy Miller.

Viewpoint of the author is to infuse new life into a British Columbia historiography that until now has not paid enough attention to Aboriginal interpretations of the past.

Describes the role of narrative and land-based education in an eco-restoration forestry program and negotiations between the North Fork Mono Tribe and U.S. Forestry Service with respect to forest management.

Interview with an author who studies and writes about Inuit writing, storytelling, and performance from a range of genres. Duration: 30:17.

Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2009.

Book reviews of five books: Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis by Joseph E. Taylor III. To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing by Daniel L. Boxberger. Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way by Charles Wilkinson. Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries edited by Dianne Newell and Rosemary E. Ommer.

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2006.

Book review of: Stories That Make the World edited by Rodney Frey.

Book review of: Stories That Make the World by Rodney Frey. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: Stories Through Theories. Theories Through Stories. North American Indian Writing, Storytelling and Critique edited by Gordon D. Henry, Nieves Pascual Soler, Silvia Martinez-Falquina.

Introduces the storytellers who presented at the 2007 Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling week through song, photographs and a storytelling circle. Article located by scrolling to page 14.

Discusses the uses and challenges of Ubuntu storytelling as a teaching tool.

Presents an interview with Linda Hogan and discusses the roles of storytelling and healing traditions in novels by American Indian women writers. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Grandfather tells the story of a winter hunt long ago.

Presents a comparative analysis of the folkloric story to understand the legacies of colonialism.

A story that gives a vague account which appears to be an attempt to explain the origin of thunder.

Consists of an interview that tells the story of Rib Cage.

The participants in the interview tell various stories.

Consists of a storytelling of the legend of a girl who marries a star. A variation of the Natoas Bundle and origin of the Holy Turnip.

Draws on notes and a manuscript written by the Reverend Canon Edward Ahenakews to piece together a series of memoirs and narratives about the Ahenakew family, their relations, and historical events and characters of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 12.

A story of the chief of the bears as told to the author in 1873 by Haida storyteller Yak Quahu.

Book review of: The Story of the Falling Star told by Elsie Jones, drawings by Doug Jones, collages by Karin Donaldson. Review located by scrolling to page 239.

Pamphlet describing the folklore of the Coast People of British Columbia, accompanied by photographs of pottery and drawings of various animals and humans.

Contends that the writings of Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz cannot be examined by the limitations of a traditional mainstream critical approach. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 61.

Paper prepared for the Eighth Annual Conference of the Indigenous Women’s Conference “Celebrating Our Diversity” Trent University, Peterborough, ON, March 15-17, 2007.

Looks at the importance of remembering the past and its impact on the future through story telling.

Looks at three types of place making stories about Swidhcha or Cultus Lake: original stories, trail stories, and boundary-making stories.

Discusses how Silko manages to employ oral traditions through a multiplicity of storytellers in her novel, Storyteller. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Discusses how Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller combines fiction, poetry, family history, and oral tradition to create a sense of personal, cultural, feminist, and human identity.

Literary criticism article that draws on reader response theory to explore oral tradition and orality in written texts, considers the implications for analysis of Indigenous texts and specifically Silko’s Storyteller.

Comments on the tradition of storytellers and the lessons the stories tell. Article found by scrolling to page 6.

Consists of an interview that tells of an Inuit death story; a Lillooet (West coast Indian) creation myth; and an account of a man's search for his lost brother. Note: Heather Bouchard, transcriber.

Curriculum Studies Thesis (M.Ed.)--Unviersity of Saskatchewan, 1993.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Victoria, 2000.

Looks at the launch of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling Month. Article found by scrolling to page 7.

Presents stories from the Mi’kmaq, Métis and Cree, Inuvialuit, Algonquin, Nisga'a, and Abenaki tradition.

Discussion on how theatre is an ever growing extension of storytelling with metaphorical, philosophical, and psychological implications.

Comments on the author's third novel which tells the story of the Chippewas' struggle to preserve their land and culture.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2013.

Examines shape-shifting, soul loss, spirit travel, animal identity spirit and mixing of Christian ideas and Inuit cosmologies.

Book review of: The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak by Priscilla Settee.

Discusses how Indigenous theatre can provide a space to learn, examine, remember, and heal.

Legend about a man who didn't want to brag about his strength. Reprinted from GEIST (The Canadian Magazine of Ideas and Culture, Spring 1996, Vol. 5, 21)