"My Name is Dovie" - Dovie Thomason

As Warren Cariou notes in his article "Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation,” "Dovie Thomason told 'My Name Is Dovie' to an audience of approximately 120 Native Studies students and other interested listeners at the University of Manitoba on January 22, 2015. This was her inaugural performance as Storyteller-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture” (316). Cariou’s article is available in the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, 2016, pp. 314-327.Cariou's full article is available via Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/643259), or through purchasing an individual print copy of the journal here: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/bio/. This video is shared by permission of Warren Cariou, to whom Dovie Thomason granted permission.