Coyote raven go canoeing : coming home to the village / Peter Cole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cole, Peter, 1949-

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 42.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Education--Canada.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Canada--Intellectual life.

Indigenous peoples--Religion--Canada.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Education.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 electronic text (xix, 337 p. : ill.) : digital file.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Coyote and raven go canoeing

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [NY] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his narrative takes the form of a canoe journey. Cole draws on traditional Aboriginal knowledge to move away from the western genres that have long contained, shaped, and determined ab/originality. Written in free verse, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing is meant to be read aloud and breaks new ground by making orality the foundation of its scholarship. Cole moves beyond the rhetoric and presumption of white academic (de/re)colonizers to aboriginal spaces recreated by aboriginal peoples. Rather than employing the traditional western practice of gathering information about exoticized other, demonized other, contained other, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing is a celebration of aboriginal thought, spirituality, and practice, a sharing of lived experience as First Peoples.

Contents:

Writing sp a ces

Living in the village

Aboriginalizing methodology : considering the canoe

Navigating upstream

i/terature re/view

Our stories of 'schooling'

Other ab/original stories of 'schooling'

Interextual journeying : first nations

Moving on.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612866524

9780773581319

0773581316

9781282866522

1282866524

9780773576056

0773576053

OCLC:

923234463