Terra Nova: Enacting Videogame Development through Indigenous-Led Creation
Theses
Author/Creator
Maize Longboat
Description
Media Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2019.
Using an Indigenous students perspective to look at Indigenization within Canadian universities.
Using the experiences of Indigenous university students to discuss the importance of using Indigenous ways of knowing within contemporary school pedagogy.
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Pre-reading activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, and extension activities geared toward Grades 9 to 12.
Uses video clips by five Indigenous artists as a starting point for discussion, writing and research activities.