Social Science Native American Studies
Histoires de Kanatha - Histories of Kanatha
Vues et contees - Seen and Told
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2009
- Category
- Native American Studies, Historiography
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9782760317864
- Publish Date
- Feb 2009
- List Price
- $24.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9782760306820
- Publish Date
- Feb 2009
- List Price
- $29.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9782760330351
- Publish Date
- Feb 2009
- List Price
- $48.00
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 15
- Grade: 10
Description
This is the first collection written by an Aboriginal Canadian on the Aboriginal understanding of history and the colonial experience.
These essays, stories, lectures, and poems, written over the last twenty years by Georges Sioui, present and explore the perspectives of the Huron-Wyandot people on the place of Aboriginal people in Canada, in the world, and in history.
Bilingual Edition.
About the author
Georges Sioui is a retired full professor at the University of Ottawa and author of For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic.
Librarian Reviews
Histoires de Kanatha / Histories of Kanatha: Vues et contées / Seen and Told
Georges Sioui is a Wendak (Huron) who, as a child absorbed his elders’ wisdom and developed a keen interest in history. His activist mother advised him to use education, rather than confrontation, to affect change. This book is a compilation of his essays, speeches and poems from 1991–2007 in English and French. Sioui revisits Canadian history from the perspective of Aboriginal people who, pre-contact, had already established an extensive trading network and lived in democratic groups. They understood that all living things are interdependent. Sioui suggests that we must all adopt the Aboriginal vision of mutual respect.Sioui is a professor at the University of Ottawa.
Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. 2009-2010.
