Walking a tightrope : aboriginal people and their representations /

Walking a tightrope : aboriginal people and their representations /

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Imprint:Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 377 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Aboriginal studies series
Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
Subject:
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Historiography.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples -- Historiography.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11136771
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Other authors / contributors:McNab, David, 1947-
Lischke, Ute, 1948-
ISBN:1417599669
9781417599660
0889204608
9780889204607
0889204845
9780889204843
1280280921
9781280280924
9786610280926
6610280924
0889209286
9780889209282
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Annotation "The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly." In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals. Non-Aboriginal people often fail to understand the sheer diversity, multiplicity, and shifting identities of Aboriginal people. As a result, Aboriginal people are often taken out of their own contexts. Walking a Tightrope plays an important role in the dynamic historical process of ongoing change in the representation of Aboriginal peoples. It locates and examines the multiplicity and distinctiveness of Aboriginal voices and their representations, both as they portray themselves and as others have characterized them. In addition to exploring perspectives and approaches to the representation of Aboriginal peoples, it also looks at Native notions of time (history), land, cultures, identities, and literacies.
Other form:Print version: Walking a tightrope. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2005 0889204608 0889204845
Publisher's no.:402699 CaOOCEL
Table of Contents:
  • Seeing red: the stoic whiteman and non-native humour / Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Permission and possession: the identity tightrope / Philip Bellfy
  • Telling our story / David Newhouse
  • A story untold: a community-based oral narrative of Mohawk women's voices from Point Anne, Ontario / Dawn T. Maracle
  • Aboriginal representations of history and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples / Mark Dockstator
  • The many faces of Canada's history as it relates to aboriginal people / Olive Patricia Dickason
  • The whirlwind of history: parallel nineteenth-century perspectives on "Are they savage?" / Karl Hele
  • Reflections on the social relations of indigenous oral histories / Winona Wheeler
  • Scientists and evolving perceptions of indigenous knowledge in northern Canada / Stephen Bocking
  • Mi'gmaq lives: aboriginal identity in Newfoundland / Dennis Bartels and Alice Bartels
  • "Show me the money": representation of aboriginal people in East-German Indian films / Ute Lischke and David T. McNab
  • Kwakwaka-wakw on film / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
  • A way of seeing the world: connecting text, context, and people / Bernie Harder
  • Representation of aboriginal peoples in Rudy Wiebe's fiction: The temptations of Big Bear and A discovery of strangers / Janne Korkka.

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