Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: nêhiyawak Life Writing Poetry Sacred Song of the Hermit

Sacred Song of the Hermit Thrush: A Mohawk Story was written by Tehanetorens

Inheriting the Past: The Making of Arthur C

a Naskapi Elder and accomplished storyteller

and honesty

Kathy finds public speaking in front of her classmates a daunting task when her teacher introduces a unit on poetry

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: nêhiyawak Life Writing Poetry Sacred Song of the HermitAutobiography 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