Thoughts and links about Indigenous auto-ethnography, occupy movements, and social media distribution
Instead of just clicking “like” I thought I would try and explain why I like the following articles and media that I have recently come across through Facebook posts. This article, From Gustafsen Lake to Fish Lake: No Place for Violent Stand-Offs in Era of Youtube and Facebook, (written by Damien Gillis, 17 November 2011) got me thinking about how [...]
Webcast – After Digital Repatriation
http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/webcasts/node/985 Watch a tired me (my son was up with Salmonella the night before) at UBC’s SLSAIS colloquia, November 16, 2011. Webcast – After Digital Repatriation: Articulations of Heritage, Community, and Cultural Property in a Northern Athapascan Hunting Group. Read the abstract. Thanks very much to Eric Meyers, Aaron Loehrlein, and Jody Perkins for [...]
Dane Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land (2007)
www.virtualmuseum.ca/Danewajich This collaborative multimedia virtual exhibition integrates subtitled Dane-zaa and English video narratives, interpretive e-text, photographs of the production process, recordings of songs, and contemporary and archival images of traditional lands in order to showcase Dane-zaa culture and address present concerns faced by the community as they negotiate legacies of colonialism and a changing relationship to [...]
Dane Wajich: The People Speak (2007)
Browse and watch the 24 short documentary videos directed by Dane-zaa elders and recorded by Dane-zaa youth and a team of ethnographic collaborators for the 2007 multimedia exhibit: Dane-Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land. Role: co-curator, producer, youth production mentor (with Kate Hennessy)
Monitoring Our Land (2007)
Dane-zaa elder Johnny Askoty from northern British Columbia talks about the ecological impact of oil spills on his hunting grounds. This short documentary was presented by the Doig River First Nation to government regulators and oil and gas industry representatives in 2007 during a meeting about industrial impacts on their lands. Role: producer & documentarian
Hadaa ka naadzet: The Dane-zaa Moose Hunt (2004)
www.moosehunt.doigriverfn.com (NOTE: Temporarily off-Line because of server instability) Collaborative multimedia web exhibit created by Aboriginal youth from the Doig River First Nation and young multimedia professonals. This exhibit was a training and capacity building initiative which was designed to engage youth with their cultural heritage and provide guided learning experiences for technical skills such as, [...]
Dane-zaa Digital Archive (2003)
www.fishability.biz/Doig Online searchable catalog interface for ethnographic materials (audio, video, image, text) digitally preserved from the Ridington/Dane-zaa archive. Amber worked for the Doig River First Nation as a fundraiser and archivist, coordinating the digital preservation of over 1500 photographs, 600 hours of audio and 60 hours of digital video recordings collected between 1964 and 1972. [...]
