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Social Science Native American Studies

Histoires de Kanatha - Histories of Kanatha

Vues et contees - Seen and Told

by (author) Georges Sioui

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2009
Category
Native American Studies, Historiography
Recommended Age
15
Recommended Grade
10
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9782760318199
    Publish Date
    Feb 2009
    List Price
    $24.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9782760306820
    Publish Date
    Feb 2009
    List Price
    $29.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9782760330351
    Publish Date
    Feb 2009
    List Price
    $48.00

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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.

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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.