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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 61-86
Description
Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”
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.
American Indian Cultural and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 141-177
Description
Looks at the inaccurate renderings of Pueblo history and culture.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
Description
Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.
Discusses racism and sexism at the 16th Annual Conference of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW/ICREF) November 1992, Toronto.
Duration: 18:43
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 171-185
Description
Author examines oral storytelling and the ways that meaning is made in and by the act. Discusses issues of context, timing, cross-cultural engagement, and resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism.