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The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era

Indigenous Knowledge

"Negative stories about Indigenous people have been told to us for a long time, about how we were backward and childish and worshipped trees and rocks and needed Europeans to save us. The history that you are familiar with is one that has been sanitized for your benefit. It’s your background story. It’s told that way to make you feel good about yourself. What I am about to tell you is going to challenge that version. It’s okay, you can hear it. You don’t have to feel bad. It’s just a story."

- From The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, pg. 26

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Johnson, Harold R.. The Power of Story : On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, Biblioasis, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/greenriver-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7021674.