Information & Communication Technologies
Murra: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Indigenous Content on the WWW: Increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation in EdNA
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Incorporated (VAEAI)
Description
Includes strategies for finding content on the world wide web, five main questions to ask when assessing credibility and validity of sites, and suggestions for other resources which should be used in conjunction with materials found on the Internet.
A National COVID-19 Pandemic Issues Paper on Mental Health and Wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Patricia Dudgeon
Kate Derry
Kerry Arabena
Tom Brideson
Sheree Cairney … [et al.]]
Description
Details five key recommendations in the areas of the right to self-determination, health and mental health workforce, social and cultural determinants of health, digital and telehealth inclusion, and Indigenous data sovereignty.
Native and Indigenous Scholars and Journalists in the ‘Post-Truth’ Communications Environment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Wheelock
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 29, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 33-56
Description
Publication of paper presented at Western Social Science Association 2018 Meeting, American Indian Studies Section. Author describes the current state of journalism and news media in the United States, discusses issues of funding, populism, political criticism, and the effects of data mining; examines the implications for Indigenous peoples, scholars and journalists.
Native Avatars, Online Hubs, and Urban Indian Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gabriel S. Estrada
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. [48]-70
Description
Discusses how classroom teaching can be augmented with use of the internet, databases, and culturally specific websites. As examples author uses Flight by Sherman Alexie, the 3D virtual space Second Life, and direct email communication between students and writers.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 48.
Native People and the Challenge of Computers: Reservation Schools, Individualism, and Consumerism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. A. Bowers
Miguel Vasquez
Mary Roaf
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 182-199
Description
Authors argue that computer-facilitated learning in Indigenous communities will lead to cultural transformation and the erosion of cultural diversity leaving behind a digital and technologically dependent monoculture.
Never Alone = Kisima Ingitchuna: Parent Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Juli James
Michael Garcia
Saska Barab
Betty Gee]
Description
For use with the two-player cooperative video game, developed in collaboration with the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, which incorporates traditional stories along with culture and values of the Iñupiat community.
See also:
Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Lee Brown
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Description
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Traci L. Morris
Sascha D. Meinrath
Description
Combines results of survey completed by respondents from over 120 tribes and case studies of six successful projects carried out by: Assiniboine (Nakota) and Gros Ventre or Ah Ah Nee Nin, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe, Coeur D’Alene, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Southern California Tribal Digital Village, and Leech Lake. Includes suggestions for keys to success.
New Technologies and Contested Ideologies: The Tagish First Voices Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Moore
Kate Hennessy
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 119-137
Description
Authors explore the advantages, disadvantages, perceptions and cultural implications of of digital language preservation projects, in Northern Canada.
Nikma'jtut Apoqnmatultinej: Reclaiming Indigeneity via Ancestral Wisdom and New Ways of Thinking
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher T. George
Description
Author describes insights gained during his eight-week research project to improve his Mi'gmaw language skills by using the Aboriginal Language Initiative and the Migmaq Online websites, and engaging in weekly meetings with a fluent speaker and Elder-in-Residence at St. Thomas University.
No Takebacks
Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
“Nothing about us, without us”: An Investigation into the Justification for Indigenous Peoples to be Involved in Every Step of Indigenous Digital Product Design
Alternate Title
SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Charly Harbord
Patrick Hung
Ruth Falconer
Description
Discusses how a study on digital design technology may help Indigenous communities address issues of the loss of their cultural knowledge.
Chapter from SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.
Off-Reserve Aboriginal Internet Users
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Crompton
Canadian Social Trends, no. 75, Winter, 2004, pp. 8-15
Description
Indicates off-reserve First Nations people are as likely to use the internet as non-Aboriginal people. Uses data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000 General Social Survey.
On Being Late: Cruising Mauna Kea and Unsettling Technoscientific Conquest in Hawai‘i
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches for Intelligence, 2021, pp. 95-122
Description
Looks at the Kānaka Maol demonstration at the Mauna Kea Access Road protesting the construction of Thirty Meter Telescope and how its construction represents continued colonialism over Indigenous groups.
Opinions and Perceptions of Indigenous Mental Health Applications from Service Providers and Youth Samples: A Pilot Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lucas Silva-Myles
Sarah Blunden
Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, vol. 1, no. 1, 2020, p. Article 2
Description
Study looked at what activities made youth 'feel better' and relevance of current applications in terms of content, themes, design, collaborators and interface mechanisms. Sample consisted of 15 youths and 30 service providers.
"Our Legacy": University of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Archival Digitization Project
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Cheryl Avery
Deborah Lee
Description
Discusses how respectful collaborations are required to provide digital access to Indigenous materials.
Chapter in Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches edited by Carole Dignard, Kate Helwig, Janet Masory
Kathy Nanowin, and Thomas Stone. To view article scroll down to page 133 (159).
Paths of Indigenous Cyber-Activism
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kyra Landzelius
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology, 2003, pp. 6-13
Description
Overview of the virtual face of Indigenous people expressed through self-authoring engagements, websites, chat, emails or other applications.
To access this article scroll down to page 6.
Paul Boyer on the New Information Age
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Spring-Summer, Aug 11, 2019
Description
Interview with the founding editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; Boyer reflects on the journal and on the new challenges that tribal communities face in the new information age.
Pedagogies of Remembrance and "Doing Critical Heritage" in the Teaching of History: Countermemorializing Canada 150 with Future Teachers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Karen Taylor
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 217-248
Description
Uses two examples of critical heritage discourses—social media debate surrounding Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and an undergraduate history education course which focused on the production of counter histories—to illustrate how critical heritage studies can expand the discussion and challenge traditional thinking around national memory and settler-colonial narratives.
Playing for the Future: A Picture Book App for Cultural Reclamation and Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Meaningful Play Proceedings 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mavis Reimer
Description
Describes two games developed as part of a project to convert the book Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw into an app. The story is inspired by the discovery of the burial site of a young Cree woman who lived in the mid-1600s, a time before contact with Europeans.
Paper from Meaningful Play Proceedings 2018 edited by Rabindra Ratan, Brian Winn, and Elizabeth LaPensee.
Post-Secondary Distance Education in a Contemporary Colonial Context: Experiences of Students in a Rural First Nation in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Simon
Kevin Burton
Emily Lockhart
Susan O'Donnell
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol. 15, no. 1, February 2014
Description
Based on interviews with members of Elsipogtog First Nation (formerly Big Cove Band) in New Brunswick who had used videoconferencing and online web-based course delivery systems.
The Postmodern and the Paleolithic: Notes on Technology and Native Community in the Far North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Kulchyski
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory , vol. 13, no. 3, 1989, pp. [49]-62
Description
Discusses the creation of a hybrid culture in Inuit communities that employed technology as means to sustain their own traditional ways of life rather than replacing it.
Promoting Culturally Respectful Cancer Education Through Digital Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melany Cueva
Regina Kuhnley
Anne Lanier
Mark Dignan
Laura Revels ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 11, no. 1, Wellness-Based Indigenous Health Research and Promising Practices, 2016, pp. 34-49
Description
Looks at using digital storytelling as a way to combine storytelling traditions with modern technology for promoting both individual and community health.
Putting the ‘Last-Mile’ First: Re-framing Broadband Development in First Nations and Inuit Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Susan O’Donnell
Richard Smith
Jason Woodman Simmonds
Brian Walmark
Description
Looks at how First Nations and Inuit communities are using broadband networks and information and communication technologies; and discusses the broadband projects and federal broadband Initiatives in First Nations and Inuit communities.
Radio Healer: Hacking the Wii Remote to Perform Indigenous Re-Imagined Ceremony
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cristóbal Martinez
Randy Kemp
Raven Kemp
Joe French
Joe French
Robert Esler
Description
Looks at the performance project Radio Healer that combines traditional Indigenous music and performances with modern digital technologies.
From PDC '14: Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts -- Volume 2
Recognizing Indigenous Legal Orders: Their Content, Embeddedness in Distinct Indigenous Cultures, and Implications for Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Indigenous Legal Orders in Canada: A Literature Review
Law Publications (Western University) ; 92
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Coyle
Description
Literature review primarily uses book chapters, journal articles, and internet sources.
Recommendations on Northern Infrastructure to Support Economic Development
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Aboriginal Economic Development Board
Description
Provides statistics on access to all-season roads and regional energy grid, population living in suitable housing, and internet capability in Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, and Nunavik.Recommendations focus on coordinated investments, a dedicated investment fund, and supporting community capacity.