Explores opera which looks at the contradictory forces of social alienation and cultural assimilation that aboriginals faced during the early twentieth century.
It's a Sunny Day at Oglala Lakota College TV Studio
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Juan A. Avila Hernandez
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 1, Native Voices, Modern Media, Fall, 2008, p. 21
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Comments on a student production, Wojapi, a show inspired by Sesame Street, which features Lakota words and promotes Lakota language, culture and values.
Examines environmental journalism strategies of demonizing, orientalizing, essentializing and exaggerating Indigenous peoples as an argumentative strategy to influence readers in the struggle against policies and proposed rule changes that supports Indigenous cultural practices.
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Journal of Community Health, vol. 33, no. 4, August 2008, pp. 192-198
Description
A study of awareness of tuberculosis (TB) causes, risk factors and symptoms; and their experiences with health services among a group of Aboriginal peoples living in Montreal.
Ryerson University Rally supporting Robert Lovelace, KI Chief Donny Morris of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) community, (Ontario) and councillors who were jailed for protesting mining development on traditional land.
Duration: 10:00.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008, pp. 79-84
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Looks at the lack of voice for Native Americans in the media, where everything is put in terms of black and white, and argues that what happened in New Orleans was a forced relocation of a population.
Discusses the importance of audio recordings and describes work done with First Nations in British Columbia ; the recordings have now been digitized, compiled and mounted online as part of the Ridington/Dane-zaa audio archive. Gives descriptions of a random sample of archive's content.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 4, Success by Accountability and Assessment, Summer, 2008
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Comments on the college's new library facility which includes innovative design ideas such as displaying digital archives on wall mounted flat screen televisions.
Essay from: Around and About Marius Bareau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture edited by Lynda Jessup, Andrew Nurse and Gorden E. Smith. Discusses Barbeau's ethnographic filmmaking of Aboriginal life from a variety of different perspectives.
Reviewed literature (primarily journal articles) about representations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Mexico, and Peru published between 2000 and 2015.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 79-110
Description
The authors explore the ways that the design of two different Indigenous video games compels players to enact survivance, and how that experience of survivance creates a space for teaching and learning about culture and for decolonizing perspectives.
Remote Indigenous Media and Communications: Radio Listenership Summary
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Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA)
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Statistics for the remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio service such as: stations listened to regularly, rates of listenership, rates by population groups, language and content preferences, impact of mobile connectivity, sources of Government information, and listener demographics.
Director of documentary about four siblings separated through adoption during the infamous "Sixties Scoop" answers questions from audience.
Duration: 23:06.
Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 58, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 3-22, 92-94
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Examines how Native communities maintained their social and cultural identities amidst the attempt of middle class whites to preserve their own version of Indian culture.
Analyses includes background and context, investment and impact in the sector, estimates and values of the change created, key lessons, and the alignment between services' impact and the Government's priorities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 76-86
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Discusses the impact of Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, House Made of Dawn, on both Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals in the forty years since its' publication.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-63
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Evaluates the success of the campaign in the context of targeted marketing to ethnic minorities and representation of Native Americans in advertisements, and presents two case studies which assess whether the company successfully engaged with youth via Twitter.
American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2017.
Looks at novels by Linda Hogan, Tom Holm, Frances Washburn, Louise Erdrich, Louis Owens, and Tony Hillerman, and films by Chris Eyre.
Library Trends, vol. 56, no. 3, Winter, 2008, pp. 618-634
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Describes a cooperative initiative to bring editors, publishers and academic historians together, with the goal of writing a reference guide, co-operating in regards to research and share information.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 153-189
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Paper focuses on responses to Westerns, explains why controlling their public image is important to Native Americans and discusses use of how they are using film and video documentaries to re-present themselves.
NCS is the voice of the Aboriginal people of the Northwest Territories. Their mission is to strengthen and revitalize northern Aboriginal cultures and languages through communications technology.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 98-101
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Book review of: Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference by Birgit Däwes.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll to page 98 to access review.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 30-52
Description
Author discusses the work of two Indigenous pop-artists and how they appropriate iconic mainstream imagery in order to subvert popular narratives and stereotypes in the Star Wars franchise and in the wider film industry.
Native Communications Inc. (NCI) is an Aboriginal service organization specializing in radio programming designed for and by Aboriginal peoples in Manitoba.
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.