Keith Thor Carlson is a professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History.Kristina Fagan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.

• Acknowledgments Map of Selected Place Names Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-FriesenPart One: Questioning Truths 1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling J. Edward Chamberlin2. Orality about Literacy: The "Black and White" of Salish History Keith Thor CarlsonPart Two: Writing it Down 3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus Twyla Gibson4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions Susan GingellPart 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-FriesenPart 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 KlaassenPart Five: Uncovering Voices 9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902Reynaldo Illeto10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies Oksana KisContributors Index