I raise my hands in thanks and respect to my family for their love and caring, to the family of the First Nations House of Learning, and to the Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP) for encouragement, feedback, and nourishment when I needed it. [...] I told them that it was so hard living in the city and working at the university – living and working in a place where it was a constant struggle to be First Nations, to think and feel in a cultural way, and to be understood by others, the outsiders. [...] The lan- guages and cultures of the Stó:lō and St’at’imc are different.2 From 1976 to 1983 I worked in my home area, the Stó:lō Nation, with the Coqualeetza Cultural Centre, the Coqualeetza Elders, and the Stó:lō Sitel curriculum project. [...] I also The Journey Begins 5 served as the director of the First Nations House of Learning at UBC, and I am currently the associate dean for Indigenous education in the Faculty of Education. [...] He notes that the role of the Trickster “is to teach us about the nature and the meaning of existence on the planet Earth” (38).
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 398.2089/97071
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780774814010 9780774855440
- LCCN
- E78.B9
- LCCN Item number
- A73 2008eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiv, 176 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00223472 (OCoLC)752458256 (CaOOCEL)422097
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Acknowledgments 14
- 1 The Journey Begins 18
- 2 Coyote Searching for the Bone Needle 52
- 3 Learning about Storywork from Stó:lō Elders 76
- 4 The Power of Stories to Educate the Heart 100
- 5 Storywork in Action 118
- 6 Storywork Pedagogy 146
- 7 A Give-Away 160
- Appendix 172
- Notes 174
- References 178
- Index 186
- A 186
- B 186
- C 186
- D 187
- E 187
- F 188
- G 188
- H 188
- I 188
- J 189
- K 189
- L 189
- M 189
- N 190
- O 190
- P 190
- Q 191
- R 191
- S 191
- T 192
- U 192
- V 192
- W 192
- X 193
- Y 193
