Literacy practices in a First Nations community : women writing culture.

• Main Author: Frost, Alanna
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository 2008
• Subjects: Literacy; First Nations people; Cultural preservation; Native women; Women writers; First Nations; Writing; Indians of North America > British Columbia; Literacy > British Columbia > Case studies; British Columbia; Canada
• Online Access: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/464; https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/464; https://ir.library.louisville.edu/context/etd/article/1463/viewcontent/866.pdf

This dissertation examines the literacy practices of a group of First Nations women who live in British Columbia and whose jobs entail the production and dissemination of texts which reflect the local, Carrier, culture. In this qualitative study of eight First Nations women from Western Canada, I in...