Indigenous Peoples, Oral History, and the Law

3 cr · Undergraduate

This course explores the roots of oral histories and traditions, which are becoming vital in Canadian legal and political systems. Concepts include: biblical and African oral traditions; specific physical Indigenous traditions of memory encoding; unique media and methodologies of remembering the past; public perceptions of oral history; modes of memory recall; orality relation and transmission; the effect of trauma; and the reliability of eyewitness testimony. May not be held with LAW 3980 when titled “Oral History, Indigenous Peoples, and the Law.”