Aboriginal Oral Traditions by Renee Hulan

'Diasporic Longings: (Re) Figurations of Home and Homelessness In Richard Wagamese's Work'. Special Literature Issue of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 29.1&1, October 2009. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005. Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing with the Gorsebrook Research Institute, Spring 2008. Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics. Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures. She is also interested in lesser known, community-based literary activities and in the literature created by a new generation of Aboriginal writers.ĭePasquale, Paul, Renate Eigenbrod and Emma LaRocque, eds. After investigating the ethics of positionality, she is presently working on the role of Aboriginal literatures within the larger societal discourses of genocide on the one hand and of reconciliation and redress on the other. Renate Eigenbrod's research interests revolve around theories of decolonization in relation to Aboriginal literatures in Canada and Indigenous literatures globally. NATV 7320 - Trauma Theories in Indigenous Literatures in Australia and Canada NATV 3150 - Residential School Literatures NATV 3130 - International Indigenous Literatures NATV 3110 - Indigenous Environmental Discourse Staatsexamen in German Literature and History (University of Goettingen, Germany) 1970 in Comparative Literature (University of Alberta) 1981 in English (University of Greifswald, Germany) 2000 It is hi/stories like these that need to be told in Canadian educational institutions. So in the midst of total ABSENCE of the real people and their real stories about how they still have to fight for land they had never signed away (like the Algonqin Park) I found the PRESENCE of images that relegates Aboriginal people to the past, to the imaginary and the exotic, that commercializes their culture and dehumanizes the people.Īlgonqin means 'allies,' and the Algonqins were allies of the British in 1812, but instead of being rewarded for their efforts they had and still have to fight for their rights. However, I did not find anything - except a stereotypical display of pre-contact life in the Visitor's Centre (which is very spacious and tells a lot of other stories) and this life-size figure (together with another one of 'an Indian' in a canoe) in front of a craft store for tourists. While I and my family were enjoying the beautiful environment of this region, I was also looking for stories and histories of the Aboriginal people of the area - after all, the park is named after one of their nations, the Algonqins. But I was on holidays in a small town close to Algonquin Park.

Aboriginal Oral Traditions by Renee Hulan