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This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal subject material that shifts the focus from an essentializing or ?othering? exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences informing our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.

Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, Dion takes up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. Investigating what happened when the stories were taken up in...