The following question was posed under the Theme of Decolonization, Intellectual Property Rights, Virtual and Actual Reality:
Indigenous peoples are diverse, but they share the common experience of being colonized by western and imperialist powers. Can technology be useful in supporting Indigenous communities’ efforts to de-colonize values and thoughts?
This is a topic that I am most interested in, especially how oral tradition and story can be integrated with technology so that it doesn’t lose the authenticity and voice of a face-to-face sharing of lived experiences.
The paper below is one that I have found invaluable in this endeavor and spoke to an interactive mapping tool. This made me connect back with an introduction to Thinglink from Jorden Habib in her Introduction Post on Canvas.
You can read the paper HERE and learn more about Thinglink HERE – or you can watch the video below.
– Sasha Passaglia
Hello Sasha! Thank you for sharing such an interesting resource. My head is full of different ideas and projects the students could work on – an aerial or 3D shot of the land around us which could be tagged with different stories from the elders (audio recordings), or pictures from “back in the day”. How cool. Thanks for the inspiration 🙂