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Module 4 post 5 (Sam Charles)

The process of discovery is so much fun, and to stumble upon a new worthwhile resource is awesome. These five sites provide some excellent examples of video as a method to disseminate Indigenous knowledge, and will be included in the video repository of my final project.

  1. Documenting elders on film
  2. Listen to the knowledge of the elders
  3. First Nations Pedagogy
  4. The contribution of indigenous elders: An example of intergenerational solidarity
  5. Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre

1. Listen to the knowledge of the elders

The National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education (NCCIE) is hosted by First Nations University of Canada. This site provides a full video catalogue featuring over 200 videos highlighting First Nations, Metis, and Inuit ways of knowing and being. The site provides a searchable directory of audio and video resources.

https://www.nccie.ca/knowledge-space/elder-knowledge/

2. Documenting elders on film

Director Sarain Fox has produced some wonderful videos highlighting Indigenous culture, and many feature Elders including her auntie and matriarch Mary Bell. This documentary is extremely powerful. “We are people of our land, and people of our stories.”

https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/inendi

3. First Nations Pedagogy

This site curated by two educators provides resources related to Indigenous pedagogy.

https://firstnationspedagogy.ca. The site led me to the Grandmothers Wisdom Project.

The Project is intended to supporting all people reclaiming their relationship to Mother Earth, calling for a profound transformation in the heart, mind, and spirit.

https://www.grandmotherswisdom.org/

4. McMaster Indigenous Elder projects

I found several Elder videos posted by McMaster University. Many are related to health and Indigenous knowledge in this area. This is an interesting blog post about the contributions of elders with health contexts.

https://www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org/blog/detail/blog/2021/08/25/the-contribution-of-indigenous-elders-an-example-of-intergenerational-solidarity

5. Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre

The MFERC provides services and supports to First Nation schools in Manitoba. They also have a collection of documentaries and videos featuring elders.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6UdcrR9HVgLR-0-ZrUysM0EmokbxC0i_

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6UdcrR9HVgKnWAVfMpXYlfGR9VWjQuHX

 

 

Module 3 post 5 (Sam Charles)

In this post, I further explore working with Indigenous elders through video. Connecting with elders, and learning through their teaching is an important part of knowledge sharing (and a focus of my final project). Here are some examples of elder’s sharing knowledge:

  • University of Victoria Podcast about truth, memory, power, and human rights
  • Word choice when interviewing Indigenous Elders
  • Learning project from North Dakota North American Essential Understanding Project
  • Indigenous Elders curriculum guide (Alberta)
  • Connection between Elders and the health system
  • Powerful story from an Elder in Vancouver discussing his experiences with residential school

The Library at the University of Victoria offers a podcast called “Taapwaywin” that brings ideas and concepts to audiences around the world through sharing recorded visits with Elders, Knowledge Keepers, scholars, and practitioners.

Dr. Jacque Gray from the Native Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative reviews the importance of word choices when interviewing Indigenous seniors.

Teachings of our elders: North Dakota Native American Essential Understanding Project provides some interesting resources.

Walking Together: First Nations, Metis, Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum

Curriculum guide and resources for discussing the role of Elders in their communities.

In this storytelling-based presentation, Alex Allard-Gray discusses the importance and roles that elders have in First Nations communities and how these experiences are not reflected in their interactions with the healthcare system.

Video posted by the Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto.

William Quinn, First Nationals Elder outlines his experience at residential school.

Module 2 Post 5 (Sam Charles)

Making Things Our Own: The Indigenous Aesthetic in Digital Storytelling

This essay makes use of the characteristics of oral storytelling to define indigenous
perspectives on narrative and to provide a framework in which to interpret video and new media art created by Zacharias Kunuk, Nation to Nation’s Cyberpowwow project
and Paula Giese’s Native Ameri can Indian Resources.

https://muse-jhu-edu.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/article/200347 (login via UBC)

 

 

 

Ohneganos is an Indigenous water research program led by McMaster University Professor, Dr. Dawn Martin Hill.

https://www.ohneganos.com/digital-stories

 

 

Traditional Storytelling in the Digital Classroom

2013 ETEC 521 assignment by Camille McFarlane focusing on traditional storytelling in the Digital Classroom

 

Sharing Indigenous Knowledge through inter-generational digital storytelling: Design of a workshop engaging Elders and youth

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03601277.2021.1927484?needAccess=true

Module 1 Blog Post 5 (Sam Charles)

Research Blog of Websites Assignment by Sam Charles

Indigenous Learning Preferences and Interactive Technologies

Andrew KitchenhamSchool of Education, University of Northern British Columbia

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiXusqYxpX6AhWNjIkEHbbnCUk4FBAWegQIHxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fajie.atsis.uq.edu.au%2Fajie%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F195%2F136&usg=AOvVaw2yExnmLnPXt74VRXL8ndC0

Winslett, Gregory M. and Phillips, Jean (2005) ICTs and Indigenous pedagogy: Techniques of resistance in chat rooms. In Proceedings ascilite 2005: Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: maintaining the momentum?, pages pp. 729-734, Queensland University of Technology.

https://eprints.qut.edu.au/6951/1/6951.pdf

 

Keri Ewart (now with UBC), a Teacher Education instructor, developed an online version of the KAIROS Blanket Exercise to help teacher candidates better understand the shared history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada from pre-contact to the present day.

Education instructor brings Indigenous history lesson to life online

 

Integrating indigenous knowledge into appropriate technology development and implementation

John P. Tharakan Howard University

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283789050_Integrating_indigenous_knowledge_into_appropriate_technology_development_and_implementation

 

Hafsteinsson, S. B., Bredin, M., & desLibris – Books. (2010;2014;). In Hafsteinsson S. B., Bredin M.(Eds.), Indigenous screen cultures in Canada. University of Manitoba Press.

https://canadacommons-ca.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/artifacts/1874613/indigenous-screen-cultures-in-canada/2623586/read/

Grogan, J., Hollinsworth, D., & Carter, J. (2021). Using videoed stories to convey indigenous ‘Voices’ in indigenous studies. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 50(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2019.15

Iseke, J. M. (2011). Indigenous digital storytelling in video: Witnessing with alma desjarlais. Equity & Excellence in Education, 44(3), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2011.591685

Knopf, K. (2010). ‘sharing our stories with all canadians’: Decolonizing aboriginal media and aboriginal media politics in canada. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 34(1), 89-120. https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.34.1.48752q2m62u18tx2

Kaomea, J., Alvarez, M. B., & Pittman, M. (2019). Reclaiming, sustaining and revitalizing hawaiian education through Video‐Cued makawalu ethnography. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 50(3), 270-290. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12301