Publishing Your Stories

Here are some possibilities:

• Ask the local newspaper if they would be interested in running a series of oral history stories written by your group.
• Approach magazines such as the inflight magazines, Up Here or Above and Beyond.
• Look for funding at the beginning of the project to get your final stories published.
• Create a web site and post your stories there. This is a great way to get Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun reading material onto the internet. You could also post audio portions of the actual interview. This is another place where the ‘memorable phrases’ that you found in the interview could be used.
• Ask the Department of Education, Teaching and Learning Centres if they are interested in publishing your work.
• Create your own photocopied books to give out to the community, to sell or to keep in the library or Community Learning Centre. You will need to make a cover, decide on photographs or illustrations and decide how to bind the books.

You can find more suggestions for writing oral histories in the Project Ideas section of this manual under Writing Projects.