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Restorying Relationships and Performing Resurgence: How Indigenous Storytelling Shapes Residential School Testimony (Melanie Braith)
This doctoral thesis explores how Indigenous storytelling frameworks can offer a different understanding of residential school testimony. It suggests that Western legal and trauma-based approaches may not fully reflect Indigenous ways of knowing, and instead highlights storytelling as a relational practice focused on connection, responsibility, and renewal. Through this lens, testimony is understood not only as a record of past experiences, but as a process that supports relationship-building, community, and Indigenous resurgence.
Best for: Educators, researchers, and those working in Indigenous engagement, cultural studies, and reconciliation.
