Mark of the Métis Canoe Trip: Traditional Knowledge and Experiential Learning in Oral History Research (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

(Co-author: Sara Loutitt) Oral history offers a method for indigenous communities in northeastern Alberta to demonstrate land use and cultural continuity threatened by industrial development, but is criticized for translating traditional knowledge into written documents that lay dormant on library shelves. Yet just as the Athabasca River naturally flows in currents, so do traditional teachings. We describe the Mark of the Métis canoe trip as an attempt to bring an experiential element to Métis Elders’ interviews about their lives on the land and waterways. We explore how honouring Elders’ traditional knowledge by treating it as alive is a necessary means of cultural learning.

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