The New Media Nation Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication [Paperback]

Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries. Based on more than twenty years of research, observation, and work experience in Indigenous journalism, film, music, and visual art, this volume includes specialized studies of Inuit in the circumpolar north, and First Nations peoples in the Yukon and southern Canada and the United States.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Language and Research Methods
List of Abbreviations

Introduction:How I Came to Be Here

Chapter 1.Scattered Voices, Global Vision
Chapter 2.Pathways and Obstacles: Government Policy and Media (Mis)Representation
Chapter 3.Lessons from Canada: Amplifying Indigenous Voices
Chapter 4.Turning the Camera and Microphone on Oneself
Chapter 5.We Have Seen the Future: Standing with Legs in Both Cultures

Chronology of Key Events and Developments

Appendix:Statement of Principles for Native News Network of Canada

Filmography:Indigenous Films, Videos and Audio Recordings

Bibliography
Notes
Index

In sum,New Media Nationoffers scholars of minorities, of digital media and of globalizing indigeneities the opportunity to understand how the practices of producing meanings through discourses of resistance contribute over time to the development and re-invigoration of alternative discourses often thought to have been dissolved by the spread of mass medial³.