Acknowledgments
Map of Selected Place Names
Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche
Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Part One: Questioning Truths
1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling
J. Edward Chamberlin
2. Orality about Literacy: The "Black and White" of Salish History Keith Thor Carlson
Part Two: Writing it Down
3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus
Twyla Gibson
4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions
Susan Gingell
Part Three: Going Public
5. "Private Stories" in Aboriginal Literature
Kristina Fagan
6. From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Part Four: Subverting Authority
7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy
Gary Arbuckle
8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic
Frank Klaassen
Part Five: Uncovering Voices
9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902
Reynaldo Illeto
10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies
Oksana Kis
Contributors
Index