Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
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Author/Creator
Travis Hay
Kristin Burnett
Lori Chambers
Description
Looks at media coverage of the Declaration of Emergency which was issued for the housing crises in the communities of Kashechewan, Attawapiskat, and Fort Albany in 2012, with particular attention to the backlash that occurred against Chief Teresa Spence's hunger strike.
Chapter six from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 89-108
Description
Author describes the intent and process of designing We Sing for Healing, a musical choose-your-own adventure text game that mimics traditional storytelling and teaching styles with the way that the circular or looping narrative encourages a player to listen, choose, and revisit as a game-play strategy.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Project evaluated and selected 20 research articles which were then summarized and presented to 190 health workers and regional stakeholders in Nunavik in 6 thematic emails: Child Development, Infectious Diseases, Traditional and Modern Medicine, Metabolism, Nutrition and Contaminants, and Inuit Perspectives. Article lists were also published online.
Looks at the connection between sound governance and solid communities. Profiles First Nations communities who have sustainable socio-economic development.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 23-42
Description
Discusses the controversy surrounding Disney's casting of Depp in the role of Tonto and Comanche activist Ladonna Vita Tabbytite Harris's decision to customarily adopt the actor.
Article explores the posts and comments from three different Blogs by Indigenous women; examines how intersectional rhetoric is constructed and used in these spaces, and how it serves to defend Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty.
Disinformation and Digital Democracies in the 21st Century
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Author/Creator
Elisha Corbett
Description
Argues that the way women are framed in mainstream news suggests that they are to blame for the violence against them because they indulge in "high-risk" lifestyles and discusses how initiatives like #MMIWG are combating stereotypical representations and raising awareness.
Paper from Disinformation and Digital Democracies in the 21st Century edited by Joseph McQuade, Tiffany Kwok, and James Cho.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 19.