Talking On The Page Grade One and quotes from Elders

and quotes from Elders

the original stories recounted in the Ojibway language often lose something when they are retold in English but this collection effectively conveys the humour inherent in Ojibway storytelling

due in part to inadequate interpretation and/or deliberate attempts to mislead

and what has been - and continues to be - its implications for Aboriginal peoples

governance

Talking On The Page Grade One and quotes from EldersTalking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts contains six papers presented in 1996 during the Conference on Editorial Problems at the University of Toronto. The authors explore the issues surrounding the efforts by Native and non native people to record oral traditions and history in visual form. The important work of Native scholars and anthropologists such as Basil Johnston (Ojibwe), Kimberly Blaeser (Chippewa), Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Tlingit)