Presentations from a conference held at the Gorsebrook Research Institute, Halifax, N.S., Apr. 21-23, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: oral history and oral traditions /Stephen J. Augustine -- Introduction: a layering of voices: aborginal oral traditions / Renee Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod -- Assault on aboriginal oral traditions: past and present / Andrea Bear Nicholas -- Silas T. Rand's work among the Mi'kmaq / Stephen J. Augustine -- Little boy who lived with Muini'skw (Bear Woman) / Catherine Martin -- Conflicts, discource, negotiations and proposed solutions regarding transformation of traditional knowledge / Greg Young-Ing -- Bad connection: First Nations oral histories in the Canadian courts / Drew Mildon -- Amplified voices: Rebecca Belmore's reinvention of recording technologies in the transmission of aboriginal traditions / Sophie McCall -- Fighting with our tongues, fighting for our lives: talk, text and amodernity in Warlpiri women's voices: our lives, our history / Michele Grossman -- Voices heard in the silence, history held in the memory: ways of knowing Jeannette Armstrong's 'Threads of old Memory' / Tasha Hubbard -- Theatre as suture: grassroots performance, decolonization and healing / Qwo-Li Driskill.