Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: nêhiyawak Life Writing New Arrivals 2022 casual reader or expert

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a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe

using traditional narrative

The collection includes two memoir excerpts by Isabelle Knockwook and Sheila Watt-Cloutier

was part of the transitional generation who were sent to government schools

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: nêhiyawak Life Writing New Arrivals 2022 casual reader or expertAutobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition by Deanna Reder, Cree Mtis, critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the