A local author, storyteller and faculty member in Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, believes stories can be healing.  That’s why Randy Morin wants to see the Aboriginal tradition of storytelling continue. He says, “It’s important to keep the stories alive because they teach us our values, our sacred laws, who we are, where we come from. They connect us and give us our identity.”

Morin is concerned that young people are spending so much time with their phones and computers that they are missing out. He believes it’s important to listen to the Elders and then maybe youth will tell their own stories. Some stories go back many hundreds of years with hero stories, sacred stories, shapeshifter and trickster stories.

Morin suggests they are like the fantasy novels of today. He will be telling stories this month virtually, along with other authors and featured guests for Aboriginal Storytelling Month, for which the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples is organizing virtual events. The goal is to make Indigenous culture more accessible, through libraries, to everyone.
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