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Assiniwi, Bernard (Author)
Assiniwi, Bernard
Author
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Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
1991-01-01T00:00:00.000Z 1991
n. 4-5
vol. 33
pp. 87-93
continuing
French
Essay Periodical Essais
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2018-01-24T22:06:51.785Z
The author discusses the history of belittlement of Indigenous Peoples’ practices, civilizations, societies and technologies. Centuries later, he says, the actions and religion of the early colonizers should be looked down upon today, for they were the inferior ones. As with all other practices, Indigenous literature – albeit oral – has been passed down, has adapted, and is stronger than ever before. The author criticizes how the bestowing of literary awards, distinctions and grants is in the hands of officials who do not understand the context of Indigenous literatures; hence the writers of the latter never win. Until an all-Indigenous organization for these affairs is created, the situation, he says, will remain in a dead-end.
