First Nations – The Ethnos Project

Determinants of Indigenous Student Learning with Digital Technology: A Qualitative Study

On February 23, 2018July 22, 2019 By moppenneer

Full Title: Determinants of Indigenous Student Learning with Digital Technology: A Qualitative Study in a Remote Manitoba First Nations Community Abstract The goal of this qualitative study was to identify the determinants that assist remote postsecondary Indigenous Canadian learners (in an isolated fly-in only community) to adapt and orient themselves […]

The Use of ICTs and E-learning in Indigenous Education

On June 3, 2017June 3, 2017 By moppenneer

Excerpt With the increase in land claim agreements, renegotiation of treaty rights and local control of resource development, many Indigenous communities are engaging in the use of new media and information technologies in the process of self-determination. This direct control and involvement leads to issues of preservation and sustainable development […]

Canada • e-learning • education • First Nations • ICT • indigenous communities • pedagogy • technology • youth

Local Contexts: Traditional Knowledge Labels

On June 30, 2016 By moppenneer

Local Contexts is an initiative to support Native, First Nations, Aboriginal, and Indigenous communities in the management of their intellectual property and cultural heritage specifically within the digital environment. Local Contexts provides legal, extra-legal, and educational strategies for navigating copyright law and the public domain status of this valuable cultural […]

aboriginal • cultural heritage • digital collections • digital environments • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • intellectual property • local contexts

Community-based materials development: using digital storytelling for teaching and learning Indigenous languages

On June 6, 2016 By moppenneer

This study examined the potential of using digital storytelling as a mechanism for materials development and Indigenous language learning. Study participants (N = 4) were interviewed after a series of three digital storytelling workshops offered in a First Nations community. The findings of the study support the use of digital […]

2016 • digital storytelling • education • First Nations • indigenous communities • indigenous language • language | preservation

Tahltan Language Conservation Initiative Project

On May 27, 2016 By moppenneer

Tahltan Language Conservation Initiative Project (TLCIP) is a grassroots conservation effort that will focus on the preservation of the severely endangered Tahltan Language. There are only 16 fluent native Tahltan speakers alive today and all but two are over the age of seventy. TLCIP will work with the remaining speakers […]

conservation • First Nations • language | preservation • Tahltan

Indigenization of Knowledge Organization at the Xwi7xwa Library

On September 27, 2015 By moppenneer

This paper examines the Indigenization of knowledge organization within library and information studies through conceptual analysis and a descriptive case study of an Aboriginal academic library, the Xwi7xwa Library at the University of British Columbia, Canada. We begin by locating the library in place and time, review its historical development […]

2015 • aboriginal • Canada • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous issues • libraries • Xwi7xwa

Digital Data Management as Indigenous Resurgence in Kahnawà:ke

On August 24, 2015 By moppenneer

Indigenous peoples are addressing the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism through a variety of expressions of community resurgence. Among these initiatives are those leveraging digital technologies. In the emergent network society, digital infrastructures, and information and communication technologies are powerful tools that can support self-government. In this context, we document […]

2015 • colonization / colonialism • cultural protocols • First Mile • First Nations • ICTs • indigenous communities • infrastructure • Kahnawà:ke • Mohawk • network • policy

A critical understanding of adult learning, education & training using ICTs in remote First Nations

On May 25, 2015February 12, 2017 By moppenneer

Through a critical settler colonialism lens we explore how information and communication technologies (ICT) supports learning, education and training and First Nation control of these processes in remote communities. The central theme of the current study is that decolonization is about land and creating the conditions necessary so Indigenous peoples […]

2014 • Canada • decolonization • First Nations • ICTs • indigenous communities • Keewaytinook Okimakanak • remote regions

Social Media in Remote First Nation Communities

On July 5, 2014 By moppenneer

Community resilience in First Nations includes ties to people both inside and outside the community, intergenerational communication, the sharing of stories, and family and community connectedness. This study, based on a survey of Internet users in the Sioux Lookout region of Northwestern Ontario, explores the link between social networking sites […]

2014 • communication • culture | preservation • First Nations • indigenous communities • Internet use • social networking

Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road

On June 15, 2014 By moppenneer

Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors […]

2014 • Canada • First Mile • First Nations • rural • telecommunications

Technology and Language Revitalization: A Conspectus

On April 8, 2014May 16, 2020 By aeamer

Increasingly the world’s indigenous people are recognizing the value of using digital environments in the battle against the extinction of their languages and cultures (Hermes & King 2013). Likewise as indigenous languages become increasingly visible on the internet, perceptions of them as antiquated, irrelevant or anachronistic in the Information Age are […]

Africa • Arctic • Asia • Central America • Europe • First Nations • indigenous language • language and technology • language documentation • language learning • Middle East • North America • Pacific • revitalization • South America • virtual classroom

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

On February 2, 2014 By moppenneer

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. It aims to present indigenous worldviews from native indigenous perspectives. AlterNative is dedicated to the analysis and dissemination of native indigenous knowledge that uniquely belongs to cultural, traditional, tribal and aboriginal peoples as well as first-nations, from around […]

aboriginal • AlterNative • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous issues • indigenous scholars • indigenous studies • interdisciplinary • Native American • research

New Technologies and Contested Ideologies

On December 28, 2013 By moppenneer

About the Tagish-Tlingit FirstVoices project – published in the American Indian Quarterly, Winter & Spring 2006, Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2. The website discussed in the article is featured below: http://www.firstvoices.ca In December 2004 representatives of the Yukon government and the First People’s Cultural Foundation of British Columbia signed […]

2006 • archive • culture | preservation • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • multimedia • Tagish • Tlingit • Yukon

Videoconferencing and Remote and Rural First Nations

On August 26, 2013 By moppenneer

Abstract This article explores why visual communication is important for First Nations, the prevalence and purposes of videoconferencing in non-institutional settings, and the challenges the communities experience using this technology. The central theme is that videoconferencing is a vital tool for remote and rural First Nations and in order for […]

2010 • First Nations • indigenous communities • rural • video communication • videoconferencing

Video Communication Roadblocks Facing Remote Indigenous Communities

On August 26, 2013 By moppenneer

Abstract For Canada’s remote and rural communities, video communications provide a vital lifeline. This article discusses the challenges for video communications in remote and rural First Nation (Indigenous) communities. Central to our analysis are social and technical issues as well as the ICT experiences of community-based organizations and community members. […]

2009 • Canada • First Nations • indigenous communities • rural • video communication

New Media and Self-Determination: Publicly Made and Accessible Video and Remote and Rural First Nation Communities

On August 26, 2013 By moppenneer

Abstract This working paper explores the potential for New Media to provide a means for members of remote and rural First Nations communities to challenge problematic mainstream representations of First Nations identity. Video on public access sites such as YouTube and Google Video, as well as on websites that act […]

2009 • Canada • First Nations • identity • internet • new media • representation

Aboriginal Mapping Network

On August 9, 2013 By moppenneer

The Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN) was established in 1998 as a joint initiative of the Gitxsan and Ahousaht First Nations and Ecotrust Canada. Over the years the network has grown from its humble beginnings as a knowledge sharing forum for local First Nations technicians, leaders and decision makers to become […]

aboriginal • Ahousaht • First Nations • GIS • Gitxsan • indigenous / traditional knowledge • mapping • network

Knowledge Translation (KT) for Indigenous Communities: a Policy Making Toolkit

On August 4, 2013 By moppenneer

We have put together this kit of information to provide practical assistance to community policy makers and those who assist them (policy analysts, etc.) in development of Knowledge Translation (KT) policy. The specific focus is on health related knowledge translation. The toolkit has been developed for use at the First […]

2006 • First Nations • health • indigenous communities • Inuit • knowledge sharing / exchange • Métis • policy • toolkit

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)

On July 30, 2013 By moppenneer

The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association is a professional organization dedicated to supporting scholars and others who work in the academic field of Native American and Indigenous studies. Founded in 2008, NAISA hosts the premier scholarly meeting in Native studies. The association has more than 700 members from over […]

aboriginal • First Nations • indigenous studies • Native American • research

FirstVoices

On July 23, 2013 By moppenneer

FirstVoices is a suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Aboriginal people engaged in language archiving, language teaching & culture revitalization. The FirstVoices Language Archive contains thousands of text entries in many diverse Aboriginal writing systems, enhanced with sounds, pictures and videos. A companion set of interactive online […]

aboriginal • archive • culture | preservation • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous language

First Peoples’ Language Map of B.C.

On July 22, 2013 By moppenneer

British Columbia is home to 203 First Nations communities and an amazing diversity of Indigenous languages; approximately 60% of the First Nations languages of Canada are spoken in B.C. You can access indexes of all the languages, First Nations and Community Champions through the top navigation on all pages of […]

British Columbia | Canada • First Nations • indigenous language • language | preservation • mapping

First Nations Innovation

On July 10, 2013 By moppenneer

The First Nations Innovation project has its roots in the RICTA project http://ricta.ca (2005-2006) that began with two of the current partners: the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and the Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) tribal council in Northwestern Ontario. RICTA brought together a network of academic researchers and community members to share information […]

broadband • First Mile • First Nations • innovation • Keewaytinook Okimakanak • RICTA • rural

First Nations First Mile Project: putting the “last mile first”

On February 14, 2013 By rpetersen

Canadian First Nations communities outside of major centers remain underserved by Internet providers, receiving minimum service at a maximum price. Due to their isolation and small populations, many First Nations rely on Internet to deliver critical services from health to education and administration to their community. But distant decision-makers removed from […]

broadband • Canada • First Mile • First Nations • ICT4D • indigenous communities • infrastructure • internet

First Nations First Mile Project

On February 14, 2013 By moppenneer

broadband • Canada • First Mile • First Nations • indigenous communities • infrastructure • internet

Four Directions Teachings: Indigenous Knowledge from five First Nations

On January 27, 2013 By moppenneer

A few days ago, Jennifer Wemigwans with Invert Media sent me a message suggesting a resource for the Ethnos Project Resource Database: Four Directions Teachings. Thought I’d step it up a notch and dedicate a post to the site. Four Directions is a vibrant and interactive online experience with an […]

Blackfoot • Cree • education • First Nations • Haudenosaunee • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Mi'kmaq • Mohawk • Ojibwe / Ojibway • oral tradition

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