Critical Humility with Warren Cariou

Zoe visits with Métis-European scholar and writer, Warren Cariou to talk about Indigenous editing practices. They talk about how critical humility is a necessary part of an Indigenous editor’s work, Warren’s work on the First Voices, First Texts project, the process of translating auditory storytelling to the page, and the concept of Do No Harm in publishing.

Warren Cariou comes from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. His work in Metis literature and Metis storytelling more generally, has been heavily influenced by his father who was a storyteller.

Episode notes:

Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman

First Voices, First Texts Project

“My Name is Dovie" by Dovie Thomason

Cariou, Warren. “Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation.” Biography 39, no. 3 (2016): 314–27. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2016.0041.

Cariou, Warren. “On Critical Humility.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 32, no. 3–4 (2020): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1353/ail.2020.0015.