Walking a Tightrope Aboriginal People and Their Representations
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“The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly.”
In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the
main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-
Aboriginals. Non-Aboriginal people often fail to understand the
sheer diversity, multiplicity, and shifting identities of
Aboriginal people. As a result, Aboriginal people are often
taken out of their own contexts. Walking a Tightrope plays an
important role in the dynamic historical process of ongoing
change in the representation of Aboriginal peoples. It locates
and examines the multiplicity and distinctiveness of Aboriginal
voices and their representations, both as they portray
themselves and as others have characterized them. In addition to
exploring perspectives and approaches to the representation of
Aboriginal peoples, it also l