| 词条 | Louise Profeit-LeBlanc |
| 释义 |
|name = Louise Profeit-LeBlanc |image = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|11|16}} |birth_place = Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada |death_date = |death_place = |other_names = |known_for = Storyteller,{{Sfn|Profeit-LeBlanc|nd}} keeper of the stories, cultural educator,{{Sfn|Echevarria|2008|page=41}} artist, writer |occupation = Canada Council for the Arts{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}} |nationality = Canadian | organization=Yukon International Storytelling Festival Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry | boards = |spouse=Robert LeBlanc |children=Ellenise, Krystal, Tanana |siblings= }} Louise Profeit-LeBlanc is an Aboriginal storyteller,{{Sfn|Profeit-LeBlanc|nd}} cultural educator{{Sfn|Echevarria|2008|page=41}} artist, writer, choreographer, and film script writer{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}} from the Northern Tutchone Nation,[1]{{Sfn|Echevarria|2000b}} Athabaskan language spoken in northeastern Yukon in Canada. She was raised in Mayo.{{Sfn|Echevarria|2000b}} Early yearsProfeit-LeBlanc was raised in the Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation (English: First Nation of the Big River People) in the Yukon Territory in Canada. She grew up in the traditional lifestyle of the Nacho Nyak Dun,{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}}[2] speaking the Northern Tutchone language, an endangered Athabaskan language. Many of the First Nation members in this area are still very traditional, as they continue to live off the land while also holding employment positions where ever they reside. Profeit-LeBlanc attended a boarding school in her primary grades but her grandmother withdrew her from the boarding school because the teachers were talking "more about ‘sin’ than learning about God."{{Sfn|Canadian Bahá'í News Service (CBNS)|2011}} Residential schoolsIn her teen years Profeit-LeBlanc attended the Yukon Hall residential school in Whitehorse, Yukon.{{Sfn|Canadian Bahá'í News Service (CBNS)|2011}} {{quote|"150,000 children were taken from their families and placed in residential schools across the nation. Some of these children were flown out of their communities to distant places for the entire year while others were placed in schools just down the road from their traditional lands and homes to work on farms or in the textile industry."|source=Louise Profeit Leblanc (CBNS) 2011}}StorytellerLouise Profeit-LeBlanc, was taught the craft of storytelling by her aunt Angela Sidney, who devoted her life to preserving the stories of the Tagish of Southern Yukon. Profeit-LeBlanc, who grew up listening to stories told by her Kookum, captivated the audience with a fable about jealousy."[3] Sidney emphasized the need to be cognizant of the needs of the audience, preface the telling with a prayer, and seek forgiveness before offense is taken.[4] Profeit-LeBlanc went on to become keeper of stories from the Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation.[3] Profeit-LeBlanc{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}} {{quote|...has come from a long line of storytellers and is now the keeper of many of these stories of the ancient and not so distant past. For 15 years she worked with her people all over the Yukon to ensure that the oral histories and stories of the First Nations people were recorded and transcribed for posterity. Cofounder of the Yukon International Storytelling festival, Yukon and the Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry, Louise has attempted to ensure the voice of her people is heard and will be protected for the future generations. This voice and information is a gift that her people must share for the betterment of the world."|source=Banff Centre for the Arts 2013}}Profeit-LeBlanc identified four categories of Aboriginal storytelling in the Yukon; {{Sfn|Echevarria|2008}}{{Sfn|Profeit-Leblanc|nd}} {{quote|"The role of storytelling in Yukon Native Culture" classic stories, which include the creation story-for example, how crow made the universe, how man became a human being; regional stories, which resemble folklore stories from other cultures such as how the south wind came to be, and which talk about certain Yukon environmental characteristics and about relationships of people with actual places; familial stories are those that are specific to individual families; and communal stories are accounts of events that took place in the local community (usually kin-based)."|source=Echevarria 2008 citing Profeit-LeBlanc nd}}Yukon International Storytelling festivalIn the 1980s Profeit-LeBlanc and storyteller Anne Taylor were cofounders {{Sfn|Petten|2003|page=34}} of the Yukon International Storytelling Festival,{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}} in Whitehorse, Yukon which was held every summer generally in an outdoor setting. {{Sfn|Petten|2003|page=34}} Profeit-LeBlanc, from the Northern Tutchone Nation, was the niece of Angela Sidney {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (1902 – 1991), one the Yukon's last Tagish. Sidney had devoted her life to preserving the stories of the Tagish of Southern Yukon,{{Sfn|Chrapko|2011}} Profeit-LeBlanc and Taylor were motivated to found a more local venue for sharing Yukon stories when they realized that Sidney had had to travel in 1984 Toronto Festival of Storytelling to disseminate her peoples' stories to a world audience.{{Sfn|Petten|2003|page=34}} In 1987 interested parties came together to plan the first Yukon Storytelling Festival in 1988. It later grew beyond the scope of Yukon and Canada to attract storytellers from all over the world with an emphasis on native peoples storytelling and circumpolar countries. Society of Yukon Artists of Native AncestryProfeit-LeBlanc was cofounder of the Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry.{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}} Media artsProfeit wrote a piece for the New Media Arts program at Banff in 2006.{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}} Canada Council for the ArtsProfeit-LeBlanc worked as Coordinator of the Aboriginal Arts Office at the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa, Ontario where she served the needs of many Aboriginal artists of Canada and abroad.{{Sfn|The Banff Centre for the Arts|2013}}{{Sfn|Nova Scotia News|2014}} The Canada Council for the Arts helped to bring the work of Rebecca Belmore to the Venice Biennale hip-hop electronica band A Tribe Called Red to the WOMEX World Music Expo in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2012 and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York City in 2013.{{Sfn|Profeit=LeBlanc|2013}} Personal lifeProfeit-LeBlanc served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada.{{Sfn|Echevarria|2008}} Footnotes1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-conte.qc.ca/prog/01e/horaires.php?ID=105|title=Artists' Schedules • 2001• Québec's Intercultural Storytelling Festival|publisher=festival-conte.qc.ca|accessdate=6 December 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://nndfn.com/history/|title=First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun|publisher=nndfn.com|accessdate=6 December 2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.ammsa.com/publications/alberta-sweetgrass/storytelling-%E2%80%93-all-its-forms-%E2%80%93-provides-insight-life#sthash.0fjHZWR7.dpuf|title=Storytelling – in all its forms – provides insight into life | Windspeaker - AMMSA: Indigenous news, issues and culture.|publisher=ammsa.com|accessdate=6 December 2014}} 4. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/tell.php?tlang=0&is=17&file=8 |title=Stories Have Their Way With Us: Whatever the medium, ancestral voices reach out to the listener |accessdate=9 June 2008 |last=Profeit-LeBlanc |first=Louise |work= |journal=Horizon |volume=17}} References
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