HIST 2500 Lecture 9: Oral histories
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Info: many societies perhaps most or even all combine elements of both kinds of media, but they also privilege one over the other. And it was the very embodiment of their belief system, bound up in the form of the holy bible: across canada, there are many places similarly invested with meaning and symbols, in many forms. Lobsticks, for example, show up across the country: Without exception: european observers in the earliest days of contact (and, in some areas, much later as well) commented on the oratorical skills of. Aboriginal speakers: whether in the longhouses of the haudenosaunee (five nations. This included true stories of history: this included extensive and critical use of the oral tradition which, of course, meant working very closely and respectfully with. Aboriginal peoples, especially elders: many years later, wendy wickwire demonstrated how the oral tradition whether living or transcribed years ago passed the historians" tests of reliability and verifiability.
