{"id":83,"date":"2020-02-07T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2020-02-07T01:50:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T08:50:51","slug":"assignment-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372blog\/2020\/02\/07\/assignment-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 2.4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question in the lesson that interested me the most was the one that discussed the reasons why we have limited understandings about first nation stories.<\/p>\n

The professor discusses that the first reason why we have problems understanding first nation stories is because “the social process of the telling is disconnected from the story and this creates obvious problems for ascribing meaningfulness” (Paterson). I totally agree with as I believe that when an oral story is written down on paper it often ends up being watered-down and is not as meaningful or impactful as it was intended to be originally. When researching about aboriginal stories I found a website that said “in some cultures, if a story is written down it is degraded”<\/a> (Indigenous corporate training), and I feel like this is the case for some of the indigenous stories as when they get written down the whole oral performance of the story is lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next the professor explains that First Nation children being taken away from their families and put into residential schools have “disrupted the continuity and credibility of ascribing land ownership through stories” (Paterson). I also agree with this point as it is widely known that residential schools “[contributed] to a general loss of language and culture”<\/a> (Indigenous foundations) , this is because the residential schools took the First Nation children away from their families and this caused the children to not learn the stories and to be unable to pass them down.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another reason why it is hard to understand the full meaning of First Nation stories is explained in the introduction of the book Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by Harry Robinson. Wendy Wickwire explains that after hearing the story from Harry she went to look at “oral narrative collections <\/span>for this region to see how Harry\u2019s forebears had depicted Coyote” (Robsinson, introduction) and she found multiple versions of Harry’s Coyote story but the problem was that the “extensive variations among them made it impossible to find anything close to a single storyline” (Robsinson, introduction). Therefore, another limitation for having a deeper understanding of First Nation stories is that there is no single story line because of the many variations of a single story, and it is hard to understand the deeper meaning as these variations conflict with each other, lack detail, and are missing important parts (Robinson, Introduction).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Erika, Paterson. \u201cLesson 2:2.\u201d\u00a0English 372 99C Canadian Studies<\/i>, blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372-99c-2019wc\/unit-2\/lesson-2-2\/.<\/p>\n

Joseph, Bob. \u201c11 Things You Should Know about Aboriginal Oral Traditions.\u201d\u00a011 Things You Should Know about Aboriginal Oral Traditions<\/i>, www.ictinc.ca\/blog\/11-things-you-should-know-about-aboriginal-oral-traditions.<\/p>\n

Robinson, Harry, and Wendy C. Wickwire.\u00a0Living by Stories: a Journey of Landscape and Memory<\/i>. Talonbooks, 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Residential School System.\u201d\u00a0Indigenousfoundations<\/i>, indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca\/the_residential_school_system\/.<\/p>\n

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