Research Catalog

Title

Braiding histories : learning from Aboriginal peoples' experiences and perspectives : including the Braiding histories stories co-written with Michael R. Dion / Susan D. Dion.

Author

Dion, Susan D., 1959-

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dion, Michael R.

Description

xi, 227 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal [Indians, Native peoples] subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or "othering" exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.
• Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, Dion takes up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. Investigating what happened when the stories were taken up in history classrooms, she illustrates how our investments in particular identities structure how we hear and what we are "willing to know."
• Braiding Histories illuminates the challenges of speaking/listening and writing/reading across cultural boundaries as an Aboriginal person to communicate Aboriginal experience through education. It will be useful to teachers and students of educational and Native studies and will appeal to readers seeking a better understanding of colonialism and Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations.:--pub. desc.

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Canada > History
• Indigenous peoples > Canada > Historiography
• Indigenous peoples > Canada > Ethnic identity
• Indigenous peoples > Study and teaching > Canada
• Indigenous peoples > Canada > Biography
• Native peoples > Canada > History
• Native peoples > Canada > Historiography
• Native peoples > Canada > Ethnic identity
• Native peoples > Study and teaching > Canada
• Native peoples > Canada > Biography
• Storytelling > Canada
• Autochtones > Canada > Histoire
• Autochtones > Canada > Historiographie
• Autochtones > Canada > Identité ethnique
• Autochtones > Canada > Étude et enseignement
• Autochtones > Canada > Biographies
• Art de conter > Canada
• Canada > Historiography
• Canada > Study and teaching
• Canada > Historiographie
• Canada > Étude et enseignement

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical amnesia and the discourse of the romantic, mythical other -- Listen again and I'll (re)tell you a story -- Listening- but what is being heard? -- The Braiding Histories Project -- "Her solitary place": teaching and learning from Shanawdithit's story -- "We wanted to hear your stories": teaching and learning from Audrey's story -- Disrupting moulded images -- Appendix A: The Braiding Histories stories as distributed for classroom use -- Appendix B: Initial teacher interview questions -- Appendix C: Planning-session agendas and discussion questions.

ISBN

• 9780774815178
• 0774815175

OCLC

244313046

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library