Apr
1
12:00am
Landscapes of Indigenous Digital Storytelling and Sharing/Preserving Content Online
By edmonton public library
Join us for a panel of on Indigenous Digital Storytelling and Sharing/Preserving Content online and the official launch of Voices of the Land, a digital storytelling platform stewarded by libraries from around Alberta as a safe spaces to create, share, discover, and celebrate local Indigenous content online. From digitizing First Nations archives, to creating films with Elders on language revitalization, to large scale digital storytelling projects, each of these panelists are experts in their fields. They will share about their projects, the ethics of working with Indigenous communities on these projects, and the joys of creating and sharing culture in digital settings.
Dr. Yvonne Poitras Pratt is a Métis scholar whose family ancestry traces to the historic Red River Settlement and, more recently, to the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement in northeastern Alberta. Dr. Pratt was recruited to the Werklund School of Education in 2013 as an Assistant Professor after serving as Associate Director, Métis Education at the Rupertsland Institute, a Métis Centre of Excellence and her doctoral completion in 2011. Yvonne teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level, and has taught the mandatory Indigenous education course (EDUC 530) to pre-service teachers since 2013. She was the recipient of the 2018 Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) Distinguished Academic Early Career Award, the Werklund Teaching Excellence Award in 2016, and the Students Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2017. Dr. Poitras Pratt also led the creation and development of the “Indigenous education: A Call to Action” graduate program in 2016 where she continues to explore the potential of reconciliatory pedagogy through her scholarship.
Eli Hirtle is a Nêhiyaw (Cree) / British / German filmmaker, beadworker, visual artist, and curator born and raised on Lekwungen territory (Victoria, BC). As an uninvited guest on this land, Eli strives to work with(in), learn from, and center the knowledges, practices, and protocols of the local Indigenous peoples whose territories he works, lives, and plays on. His art practice involves documenting and creating work about Indigenous cultural resurgence, language revitalization, and identity. His current interests are making films that tell Indigenous stories in responsible ways, mentoring Indigenous youth to express themselves creatively, and learning how to speak his ancestral language of Nêhiyawêwin.
Brian Lightning is the head of archives at the Samson Cree Nation, one of the four bands of Maskwacis.
Colette Poitras is proud citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, a professional librarian, and the Manager, Indigenous Public Library Outreach, with the Public Library Services Branch, Government of Alberta.
Raquel Mann (Rocky) is a Digital Public Spaces Librarian at the Edmonton Public Librarian. She is passionate about developing digital spaces where community can explore, create, and access local content and connect through that content on the ground.
*Disclaimer*
Crowdcast, a third-party app, will be used for this virtual session. By joining, you acknowledge that EPL does not take responsibility for Crowdcast's privacy policies and practices.
Voices of the Land is funded by the Public Library Services Branch of the Government of Alberta.
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