{"id":16,"date":"2015-06-30T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conversationscanada\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2015-07-23T22:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:16:24","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conversationscanada\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the conversation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you may likely know already\u2014unless you have stumbled upon this website by act of coincidence\u2014this site is the location for our final group project in a UBC course called ENGL 470A – Canadian Studies.<\/a><\/p>\n

This class focusses on awakening students to many of the injustices and imbalances in Canadian Literature. We parsed literature, images (and in my case even Alien movies), and other depictions of Indigenous Culture to separate it from the overbearing colonizing effect. We discussed the effect of orality over written literature and it is in this concept our group hopes to continue our research. This website and its content was created by Freda Li, Charmaine Li, James Long and Arianne LaBoissonniere. For more on the individual content creators please visit the\u00a0team page.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a group we hope to discuss the many problems that arise in the media representation of First Nations. Some of us, using our personal interests in education, extended this exploration into the effect of using media to educate\u00a0Canadian youth. We’d like to explore changes we can use to\u00a0ultimately change the racially unrested landscape of Canada through the production of media.<\/p>\n

I have attached a video that makes me ashamed and proud at the same time. This is a CBC-National story about a young man who is attending a private school that focuses on Indigenous culture, he is so passionate and accepted it gives me hope. Yet at the same time, he is the first European student and the respected News Organization CBC “neglected” to capitalize both Aboriginal and Indigenous.<\/p>\n