About
About the Project
Objectives of the project:
To review historical texts, records and materials written by the Oblate missionaries of Northwestern Canada
To provide new scholarly insights into the texts and records of the Oblates of Aboriginal communities
To examine the texts and interpret the events and situations of that time in a contemporary context
To provide new understandings from Indigenous Elders and traditional teachers who re-interpret and re-contextualize the texts into "Aboriginal realities" using personal knowledge or oral history pertaining to that period
To support a better understanding of the Aboriginal point of view of the historical text through a dialogue with Elders, teachers, and missionaries
To "open" the language of the texts of the Oblate missionaries enabling the use of Aboriginal language to name and describe the historical events under review
To discover and rediscover the cultural meanings embedded in the Aboriginal languages as reflected in the words used at that time