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React is a popular YouTube channel that looks at the reactions of various people after they view content from YouTube. The channel has over 20 million subscribers and has had high profile guests such as Lewis Capaldi and casts of various Netflix shows/movies. In this video, Indigenous Peoples are reacting to how the Indigenous were represented in film and television in various periods of time. This would be an interesting video for students to watch and join in the discussion to see why misrepresentation is so detrimental to cultures. I would hope that students would agree with what many of the guests are saying and also feel a sense of unease when watching the clips from the films and television as they would understand that there was a problem with how the media were presenting the Indigenous Peoples to their viewers.

Similarly, Buzzfeed also made a video on this topic that you can view here as well. The guests here stress for the audience to not just take everything they see in media as the truth.

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The title is a little rough for my first blog post. I work one-on-one and with Indigenous students in their classes, help work out post-secondary paths, alter/adapt assignments, meet with parents and teachers as a mediator, meet with district representatives, and try to create a community between all of the different nations our students come from. This is a very rough description.

Students are connected to social media but like this week’s readings, I don’t know if these spaces are reflective or respective of Indigenous ways of knowing and being. I started looking at Twitter to see what representation looks like and came across an article on CBC “Meet some of the influencers of #NativeTwitter”. This hashtag curates a catalogue of Indigenous artists, writers and thinkers. Chelsea Vowel is one of these influencers and @Indigneousxca is a twitter account she created highlighting experiences of Indigenous peoples across Canada. I am interested in bringing these voices into the lives of our students. I also want to recreate a community amongst my students where they can share their own hashtags. This article has me thinking of ways to create a small community that can share shared histories and realities to draw our community together.