Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition : Cree and Métis âcimisowina / Deanna Reder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reder, Deanna, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Indigenous studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Métis--Biography--History and criticism.

Métis.

Métis--Intellectual life.

Cree Indians--Biography--History and criticism.

Cree Indians.

Cree Indians--Intellectual life.

Canadian literature--Métis authors.

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--Indian authors.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

autobiography (genre).

biographies (literary works).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention to longstanding autobiographical practices that are engrained in Cree and Métis, or nêhiyawak, culture and examining a series of examples of Indigenous life writing. Blended with family stories and drawing on original historical research, Reder examines censored and suppressed writing by nêhiyawak intellectuals such as Maria Campbell, Edward Ahenakew, and James Brady. Grounded in nêhiyawak ontologies and epistemologies that consider life stories to be an intergenerational conduit to pass on knowledge about a shared world, this study encourages a widespread re-evaluation of past and present engagement with Indigenous storytelling forms across scholarly disciplines."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Acimisowin as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: From George Copway to James Settee

ch. 2 Interrelatedness and Obligation: wahkohtowin in Maria Campbell's acimisowin

ch. 3 Respectful Interaction and Tolerance for Different Perspectives: kihceyihramowin in Edward Ahenakew's Old Keyam

ch. 4 Edward Ahenakew's Intertwined Unpublished Life-Inspired Stories: aniskwacimopicikewin in Old Keyam and Black Hawk

ch. 5 How acimisowin Preserves History: James Brady, Papaschase, and Absolom Halkett

ch. 6 Kiskeyihramowin: Seekers of Knowledge, Cree Intergenerational Inquiry, Shared by Harold Cardinal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Reder, Deanna, 1963- Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition.

ISBN:

9781771125543

1771125543

OCLC:

1241443510