Périodique
Non-fiction
Essay
Essais

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French

While we have indicated a primary genre, there is a need to better represent Indigenous writings and contemplate how some fall outside the traditional fiction/non-fiction binary.

Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory

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In this piece, the author discusses Georges Sioui’s book Les Wendats. Une civilisation inconnue as being a “true rereading of History by an Indigenous [scholar].” No historical approach is ever innocent, he states; what is at work here is a “desire to produce a necessary spiritual healing” and to refuse to renounce one’s indigeneity in the name of science.

Dudemaine, André

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