ABSTRACT
Thomas King begins each chapter of his book on storytelling, The Truth about Stories, A Native Narrative, with the same beginning:
There is a story I know. It’s about the earth and how it floats in space on the back of a turtle. I’ve heard this story many times and each time someone tells the story, it changes. Sometimes the change is simply in the voice of the storyteller. Sometimes the change is in the details. Sometimes in the order of events. Other times it’s the dialogue or the response of the audience. But in all the tellings of all the tellers, the world never leaves the turtle’s back. And the turtle never swims away. 1
