Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Reihe "Making America" "The Land is Deep in Time": Stories, Places, Immigrants and Indigeneity in CanadaVeranstalter: Prof. Gerhardt Montag, 21.1.2013: 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr; U2/00.25Redner: Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Lutz (Ernst-Moritz-Universität Greifswald)
In his memoir Lake of the Prairies (2002) the Métis author Warren Cariou relates, how one day he realized that the land where he grew up is layered historically, is “deep in time”, and that the place had been inscribed by generations of people prior to the coming of immigrants. A fundamental difference between Indigenous people and immigrants in Canada rests on the historical dimension of their land-connectedness, which is constructed and transmitted in stories ranging from oral traditions to modern historiography and fiction. According to some Aboriginal philosophers, the land is also “a teacher”, and the stories produced in specific cultures convey the complex empirical knowledge necessary for survival in the most sustainable way. Immigrants bring their own stories, which construct their own specific cultural identities, but which are from “the Old Place” and therefore mismatched on “Turtle Island.” In Canada, multiculturalism encourages “Newcomers” to cling to and celebrate their own stories, potentially obstructing attempts to indigenize immigrant narratives or to read the depth of the Aboriginal presence in the land.
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