About book Our Story: Aboriginal Voices On Canada's Past (2004)
This is a really great collection of short stories, arranged to tell the stories of canadian/ aboriginal history from an aboriginal perspective. The authors are from different first nations/ aboriginal backgrounds and they take different approaches to their subject matter. And this is what makes the volume so wonderful - one author tells the story of the Inuit and Tulit people encountering Vikings, another tells a story of a boy's experience of Native Canadians gaining the right to vote, finally, in 1960. While I didn't get as drawn into some stories as others they all strongly evoke a sense of the distinctness of the aboriginal experience and perspective of their history in relation to the narratives of Canada about which most of us have been educated. I am not sure if this telling is meant to displace or unsettle those narratives, or simply broaden the horizon of Canadian history, but I definitely appreciate the need for a greater sense of Canada and the people who have lived in this landscape than is offered in middle school canadian history, or those government sponsored heritage commercials.Highly recommend!
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