NANABUSH STORYTELLING AS DATA ANALYSIS AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSIONS.

The role of Indigenous methodologies has become increasingly common among scholars. In Anishnawbe societies, the term adisokan is used to describe the role of storytelling. Traditional storytellers would travel between communities and pass along vital information through songs and stories. Consider the role of the scholar as an adisokan, sharing critical knowledge between communities on issues that affect those communities. Nanabush storytelling is one such way of sharing. Nanabush is a celebrated figure in Anishnawbe culture and folklore, a trickster figure who is, according to Anishnawbe legal scholar John Borrows, part of a tradition of intellect that teaches us about partial and incomplete ideas. This paper explores how a Nanabush story was used, in the tradition of an adisokan, as a culturally-specific and community-relevant analytic tool for the communities on Manitoulin Island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]