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How can the unique features of cyberspace be harnessed to share and honour Indigenous stories and ways of knowing? What can we learn from them as we strive to make the digital world a more diverse and fair one?
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The Importance of Traveling in Pairs
The Importance of Traveling in Pairs
As an eternal blizzard rages and threatens to starve her community, Nuna, a spirited young girl, ventures out of her home intent on finding…
Laurence Butet-Roch
Apr 10, 2016
In Praise of Slowness
In Praise of Slowness
In an age that praises, even demands, speed, Anishinaabe, Métis and Irish game maker, Elisabeth LaPensée wants people to slow down, to…
Laurence Butet-Roch
Apr 10, 2016
A Limited Invitation
A Limited Invitation
Right off the bat, Kevin Lee Burton, makes an assumption: “If you’re not Indian, you’ve probably never been there either.” The “there”…
Laurence Butet-Roch
Apr 9, 2016
There Once Was a Bear…
There Once Was a Bear…
Produced in 2012 by Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes, the interactive documentary “Bear 71” recounts the life of an actual grizzly bear…
Laurence Butet-Roch
Apr 6, 2016
Raising a New Generation of Warriors
Raising a New Generation of Warriors
Convinced that Indigenous presence in the digital ecosystem can and should go beyond employing the Internet as a platform to transmit…
Laurence Butet-Roch
Apr 6, 2016
Reading Guide: Interactive Media as Cosmos
Reading Guide: Interactive Media as Cosmos
“ To govern ourselves means to govern our stories and our ways of telling stories. It means that the rhythm of the drumbeat, the language…
Laurence Butet-Roch
Apr 6, 2016
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