Books – Oral History & Storytelling

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  Life Stages and Native Women

  Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

  Kim Anderson (Author)

  A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.

  Published September 2011 | Critical Studies in Native History, Decolonization, Gender Studies, History, Indigenous Studies, Oral History & Storytelling, Women’s Studies

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  Imagined Homes

  Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities

  Hans Werner (Author)

  Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment.

  Published November 2007 | Studies in Immigration and Culture, Ethnic Studies, History, Immigration, Oral History & Storytelling

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  Arapaho Historical Traditions

  Hinono’einoo3itoono

  Paul Moss (Author), Andrew Cowell (Translator), Alonzo Moss Sr. (Translator)

  Told by Paul Moss (1911-1995), a highly respected storyteller and ceremonial leader, these twelve texts introduce us to an immensely rich literature. As works of an oral tradition, they had until now remained beyond the reach of those who do not speak the Arapaho language.

  Published August 2005 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, History, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Oral History & Storytelling, Translation

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  Providence Watching

  Journeys from Wartorn Poland to the Canadian Prairies

  Kazimierz Patalas (Editor), Zbigniew Izydorczyk (Translator)

  At the start of the Second World War, Poland was invaded by both the German and the Soviet armies. After the war, Canada accepted over 4000 Polish immigrant soldiers and their families who did not want to return to a communist regime in their country. This book is a moving oral history of the experiences of forty-five individuals during that transition period between the outbreak of war and their eventual relocation in Canada.

  Published December 2003 | Autobiography & Memoir, Ethnic Studies, History, Immigration, Oral History & Storytelling

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  Wild Mother Dancing

  Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature

  Di Brandt (Author)

  Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a varety of cultural traditions — Margaret Laurence, Daphne Marlatt, Jovette Marchessault, Joy Kogawa, Sky Lee — and a collection of oral interviews about childbirth told by Mennonite women.

  Published September 1993 | Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Mennonite Studies, Oral History & Storytelling, Women’s Studies