Media & Communication

[Māori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Otago, 2013.

Looks at the beginning of video experiments in the 1980s up unto the start of Indigenous filmmaking in Australia and Indigenous television stations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.

Book review of Indigenous Media in Mexico by Erica Cusi Wortham.

Book review of: Indigenous Media in Mexico by Erica Cusi Wortham.

Introduces themed issue with contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars working together to understand relationships between media and indigeneity in global and local contexts.

Speaker discusses how new artistic production relates to resistance to colonialism. Duration: 21:38.

Panel Discussion at the Media Democracy Conference in 2012, discusses approaches of Indigenous media-makers and others to representing Indigenous perspectives. Duration 57:06.

Looks at an online forum on Indigenous Community-Based Economic Development in which participants from Canada and Latin American shared experiences ranging from cultural tourism to a food processing co-op.

Describes how working closely among the Tohono O'odham has altered the authors views on Native American topics.

Comments on the leading cause of death by injury in Australia and presents a select bibliography on the subject. Chapter 3 from Psychology in the South Pacific: Global, Local and Glocal Applications edited by F. H. Bolitho, S. C. Carr, and B. M. O'Reilly.

Reflecting on her own personal experiences, the author challenges the popular stereotype of voiceless traumatized Indigenous females that is perpetuated by the media, academia and even Indigenous advocacy groups. She asserts that Indigenous women survivors can be empowered as a healing force for others.

Commentary article critiques the ethics and methods of public opinion polls which claim to represent the sentiments of Indigenous peoples surround sports team names and mascots that draw on the imagery of Indigenous peoples and cultures.

Award-winning journalist and former executive director of news and current affairs at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, discusses the network's philosophy about reporting on elections from an Indigenous perspective and the mainstream media's lack of coverage about Indigenous issues.

Provides a preliminary analysis of the @IndigenousX Twitter account which has a different Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person tweeting each week.

Founder of a rotating twitter account which features a new Indigenous host each week discusses its development and possible future directions. Duration: 28:53.

Looks at the theory of social capital as it applies to Aboriginal communities and presents the social capital framework that guides its examination in relation to information and communication technology. Also presented is a summary of case descriptions of information and communication technology implementation in First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.

How the advent of information communication technologies has brought about behavioral changes in choices for education, employment and where to live.

Developed from papers presented at the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference and the 2010 Symposium, Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities.

Compares the similarities and differences in the strategic approaches of two Indigenous groups in the development of a nationally coordinated and community-driven broadband system.

Looks at wide spread hearing loss among all Indigenous peoples and the impact it has on intercultural communication in schools, the criminal justice system, and within Aboriginal families.

Presents an overview of Internet resources that could be useful in the study of entrepreneurship and business development.

Looks at issues surrounding integrating Aboriginal healing practices with the mainstream Canadian health care system, such as who controls licensing, what standards should apply to healing practices and definition of what constitutes a healing practice. Paper from the Aboriginal Administrative Law Conference.

Michael Tymchak interviews Chief Thomas Settee. Includes audio files (mp3) and transcriptions.

Michael Tymchak interviews Harry Roy. Includes transcriptions and audio files (.mp3).

Michael Tymchak interviews Pierre Carriere. Includes audio files and transcriptions.

Interview with the Acoma Pueblo writer. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 12.

A transcript of an interview with Chief Thomas Settee of Cumberland House, SK. Settee discusses everything from employment and culture to religion and politics.

Discusses the protest of Spain's 500 years celebration and the boarding of a Columbus expedition to demand an apology for mass cultural genocide. The article also discusses two projects - one for fishing and one to protect the environment.

Michael Tymchak interviews William Mckenzie. Includes audio files and transcriptions.

Michael Tymchak interviews William Mckenzie. Files one through thirty are the audio transcriptions. Files thirty-one through thirty-three are the audio files (.mp3).

Pamphlet meant for reporters discusses protocol and making determinations as to how the information gained should be used.

A summary of the literature and media review indicates a initial position on which further research and public education is recommended.

Brief discussion of articles found in themed issue on Indigenous people and mass popular culture.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2014.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Provides brief description of the technology and its applications in tribal colleges and institutions.

The author, chairman, Committee on Education, Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada, criticizes the Indian Act and describes his personal struggles with being born of Aboriginal parents but not fitting the Indian Act's requirements of what constitutes an Aboriginal person.

Explores Western cultural ideas of aesthetic theory within context of Indigenous aesthetics.

Study interviews 15 seniors in Anchorage about the socio-cultural factors that influence their level of physical activity and their diet. Researchers identify six major themes: the media, friends and peers, family influences, social opportunities, ethnicity and subsistence practices, and weight loss/body weight concerns.

Physical Education and Recreation Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2015.

A photograph taken at the North Battleford Indian Hospital that appeared in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix 22 December 1953. Original photograph found on page 11 of scrap book (A-792-2). The caption read: "PHOTOGRAPHED after the ceremonies and standing under a picture of the Queen are, left to right, Chief Blackman of Little Pine, Dr. Head (Chief Medicine Knife), and Chief Swimmer."

File containing correspondence from James Gladstone to John Diefenbaker with election results from the Muskoday and James Smith reserves in the Prince Albert Federal Constituency. Also contains a telegram of condolence to Mrs. Gladstone on the death of her husband, and a newspaper obituary of the Senator.

James Gray was a farmer who worked for the CCF government in the areas of fish, fur and timber marketing.

James Ratt discusses the evolution of trapping during his fifty years on the line. Page one: picture of Ratt family (three generations).