Reading Beyond Words

by Brown, Jennifer S. H.; Vibert, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781551115436
• ISBN10: 1551115433
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Summary

It takes patience and dedication to recover and communicate the experiences and perspectives of those for whom the historical record is lacking or severely limited by the interpretation of others - it takes reading beyond words. The first edition of this highly praised collection presented some of the best new efforts to examine critically the possible interpretations of Native North American history and Native-European encounters over 500 years. In doing so it served as a model for revisiting Native history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	xi
Part I: Illusions of Contact	1	(104)
``Worth the Noting'': European Ambivalence and Aboriginal Agency in Meta Incognita, 1576-1578	5	(34)
Paul W. DePasquale
Controlled Speculation and Constructed Myths: The Saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith	39	(36)
Frederic W. Gleach
Discovering Radisson: A Renaissance Adventurer Between Two Worlds	75	(30)
Germaine Warkentin
Part II: Trading Texts, Different Voices	105	(106)
Mapping Inuktut: Inuit Views of the Real World	111	(22)
Renee Fossett
Captain Cook and the Spaces of Contact at ``Nootka Sound''	133	(30)
Daniel Clayton
The Challenge of James Douglas and Carrier Chief Kwah	163	(30)
Frieda Esau Klippenstein
William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway People: Tradition, History, and Context	193	(18)
Theresa Schenck
Part III: Religious Encounters in Text and Context	211	(112)
``The Guardian of All'': Jesuit Missionary and Salish Perceptions of the Virgin Mary	217	(20)
Laura Peers
The Journals and Voices of a Church of England Native Catechist: Askenootow (Charles Pratt), 1851-1884	237	(26)
Winona Wheeler
Fair Wind's Dream: Naamiwan Obawaajigewin	263	(30)
Maureen Matthews
Roger Roulette
``Who is Breaking the First Commandment?'': Oblate Teachings and Cree Responses in the Hudson Bay Lowlands	293	(30)
George Fulford
Louis Bird
Part IV: Women's Lives Through Words and Images	323	(108)
The Many Faces of Thanadelthur: Documents, Stories, and Images	329	(36)
Patricia A. McCormack
``Gentlemen, This is no Ordinary Trial'': Sexual Narratives in the Trial of the Reverend Griffith Owen Corbett, Red River, 1863	365	(20)
Erika Koenig-Sheridan
Transcribing Insima, a Blackfoot ``Old Lady''	385	(22)
Alice Beck Kehoe
The Spider and the WASP: Chronicling the Life of Molly Spotted Elk	407	(24)
Bunny McBride
Part V: Documents, Oral and Material	431	(60)
Discovery of Gold on the Klondike: Perspectives from Oral Tradition	435	(24)
Julie Cruikshank
Dr. Oronhyatekha's History Lessons: Reading Museum Collections as Texts	459	(32)
Trudy Nicks
Index	491