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Nisga’a In the 21st Century

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The Nisga’a Lisims Government website clearly provides an unique insight into how they represent their cultural identity online.  Although the home page, seems to be problematic as there is a YouTube video that blocks out the information, seemingly on purpose. However, the website provides a rich set of resources about Nisga’a culture, blended with resources ranging from legal aid to education information. The broad range of links within the site clearly demonstrates how a website can be used to provide a grounding of common identity within a community.

The examination of the menu bar with its various options creates a wide range of exploration. The cultural link set out the various beliefs unique to the Nisga’a, a link to languages, traditional law, and connects with their cultural today. This represents a moving forward to preserving and enriching Nisga’a culture. Furthermore, by using the social services link, it takes to a wide range of resources including k-12 and post-secondary education. In the post-secondary education, it provides information and links to educational opportunities, courses and funding. This clearly demonstrates how the Nisga’a are using this website to anchor their community to a prosperous future.

How the Nisga’a represents their sense of place through their website is central to my final project. Furthermore, by defining sense of place, my project will examine how the Nisga’a has blended the experiences of the past and the Internet to preserve and move their cultural forward in the 21st century. The link scholarships connects directly to a website with rich resources for post secondary education. The learning link within K-12 education site provides a rich set of resources for language and writing.

Sources:Nisga’a Lisims Government

http://www.nisgaanation.ca/

Nisga’a: Defining Sense of Place Online as a Mechanism of Reaffirming their Cultural Identity

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Overview: My project will combine a short movie presentation with a 2000 word essay.

Movie Title: The Nisga’a Struggle: Was it Apartheid or Assimilation?

Movie Theme: The movie will provide a historical context of the Nisga’a’s history from 1867 to the 1999 land claims. The movie will provide an insight into the continuous struggle of the Nisga’a to define their sense of place in the context of a Eurocentric environment.

 Essay Title: Nisga’a: Defining Sense of Place Online as a Mechanism of Reaffirming their Cultural Identity

 Research Topic: This essay will examine how the Nisga’a use the internet, specifically their official government website, to define sense of place in their cultural context. Furthermore, by defining sense of place, this essay will examine how the Nisga’a has blended the experiences of the past and the internet to preserve and move their cultural forward in the 21st century.

 Themes: All the themes are interconnected and will be examined to gain an understanding of how the Nisga’a use their government website as an anchor in preserving their cultural identity and moving it forward in the 21st century, as part of a global community. The website also provides evidence that the Nisga’a’s cultural identity has been shaped by interaction with a Eurocentric world view. The essay will examine sense of place through the following themes:

  1. Places have location,
  2. Place have physical and cultural characteristics,
  3. Places change,
  4. Places interact with other places, and
  5. Places are in regions.

 Essay will answer the following question:

  1. What is sense of place?
  2. How does the Nisga’a government website represent sense of place?
  3. Why is it important for the Nisga’a to use the internet to define sense of place in their unique cultural context?
  4. Evaluate whether defining a sense of place on the world-wide-web is beneficial or harmful as the Nisga’a move forward in the 21st century.

Sources

Nisga’a Lisims Government (2013). Retrieved from: http://www.nisgaanation.ca/