Aboriginal Literature

Native traditions and history were passed down through the generations using the art of storytelling. Storytelling was not only useful for Natives in this way but became a part of the tradition and history they passed down to their children. Unlike Euro-Canadian people, Aboriginal people did not put their oral traditions into writing but have increasingly begun to do so in the present day. This may keep these traditions from dying out as many already …

…ext is helping to keep these traditions alive because they can and have died out so easily that they would be lost forever. However, Native traditions written in text cannot meet up to the standards set by past storytellers and will never be as exciting and enjoyable. An orature coming from a storyteller full of sounds and actions to go along with an interesting plot will always be better than words in a book.