Aboriginal Law Snippet

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In his text, Walker alludes to the "fact" that race relations in Canada have not created many stories to which historians can listen... This ... made me think about the role of historians, anthropologists, and legal scholars in interpreting the stories of those impacted by the law. Maybe we, as impacted peope, do not have to tell the stories in a format that they can hear - maybe they need to learn other ways of listening. Those stories certainly exist. It is knowing how to respectfully listen and discuss that is required to travel the terrain of oral stoytelling and the literature of people traditionally exclude from historians' telling of history.

- Tracey Lindberg*, Essential Readings on Race and Law


* incidentally, that's my prof for this course