Huron-Wendat: The Heritage of the Circle

Georges E. Sioui's Wendat name is Wendayete, whichmeans ‘The One Who Carries an Island on His Back.’ He isthe author of For an Amerindian Autohistory, which was originallypublished in French as Pour une autohistoire amerindienne, and has beenacademic dean of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina,Saskatchewan, the first university college to be run by First Nationspeople. He is now resident in Quebec, where he writes and is helping toestablish in that province a First Nations college like the SIFC.Jane Brierley (translator) is a Montreal literarytranslator who won the 1990 Governor General’s award for hertranslation of Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe’s Yellow-Wolfand Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence. She is also the translatorof Denys Delage’s Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans inNortheastern North America 1600-64 and many other works.