Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, November 31, 2017, pp. 45-69
Description
The authors consider the ways that contemporary Indigenous games are related to those that have be traditionally played on Turtle Island (like Sla’hal or the Bone Game), and how those games convey values, culture, and survivance.
CS 322: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World II
Module Two: Changes in Expressions of Cultural Identity in Northern North American: Media, Art, Education, and Recreation
University of the Arctic – CS 322
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 322]
[Cultural Identity In North America]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Exner
Greg Poelzer
Tamara Andreyeva
Kristina Fagan
Heather Harris
Terry Wotherspoon ... [et al.]]
Description
Discusses how each area contributes to an individual's sense of belonging to a unique community.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
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.
Playing in the Digital Qargi: Inupiat Gaming and Online Competition in Kisima Innitchuna
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Katherine Meloche
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 1-21
Description
Article considers the online platform used in the game Kisima Inŋitchuŋa (Never Alone) as a “place” where people gather and examines the ways that Inuit culture, values and sovereignty are taught and engaged with in those spaces.
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.
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).”