Translating Encounters: Connecting Indigenous Young People with Higher Education through a Transmedia Project

Authors

  • Kristine Alexander University of Lethbridge
  • Hudson Eagle Bear Lethbridge College
  • Tesla Heavy Runner
  • Ashley Henrickson University of Lethbridge
  • Taylor Little Mustache University of Lethbridge
  • Tanya Pace Crosschild Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society
  • Amy Mack University of Alberta
  • Jan Newberry University of Lethbridge
  • Erin Spring Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary
  • Kaitlynn Weaver University of Lethbridge

Keywords:

collaborative research, ethical space, Canada, indigenous, intergenerational, settler colonialism

Abstract

This piece draws on multiple voices to reflect on a collaborative project between university-based researchers and a local community organization devoted to Indigenous children and their families. The evolution of the project from one based on photo-elicitation to one devoted to building a digital storytelling library meant a methodological shift to acknowledge the role of translation in encounters between university researchers and community practitioners, between Elders and youth, and between settlers and Indigenous people.

Author Biographies

Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge

Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies and Associate Professor of History, University of Lethbridge

Hudson Eagle Bear, Lethbridge College

undergraduate student

Tesla Heavy Runner

high school student

Ashley Henrickson, University of Lethbridge

MA student in History

Taylor Little Mustache, University of Lethbridge

Undergraduate student in the Faculty of Education

Tanya Pace Crosschild, Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society

Executive Director, Opokaa'sin Early Intevention Society

Amy Mack, University of Alberta

Ph.D. student

Jan Newberry, University of Lethbridge

Associate Professor, Anthropology Department Co-founder, Institute for Child and Youth Studies

Erin Spring, Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary

Assistant professor, Faculty of Education

Kaitlynn Weaver, University of Lethbridge

MA student in Cultural, Social and Political Thought

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Published

07/26/2018

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Insights, Case Studies, and Applications

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