The Discourse of Aboriginality (Pt III): The Historical Discourse of Aboriginality
This chapter sets down two major themes of the dominant Canadian discourse on Indigenous peoples: The Noble Savage and The Vanishing Indian Race (Part 3 of 4)
Author: Rick Harp
A founder and president of the INDIGENA Creative Group, Rick offers 15 years-plus media experience in journalism and communication. A host/producer with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network for many years, Rick has also served as Artistic Director for the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival. He is a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan.
Rick on the Web:
Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
The Discourse of Aboriginality (Pt II): Imperialism and Edward Said’s “Orientalism”
“Orientalism [is] the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient… making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it” (Part 2 of 4)
The Discourse of Aboriginality: Part I
The forms and practices of knowledge falling under the name of scientific discourse (including social science) are as complicit today in the ongoing effects of genocide against Indigenous peoples as the original colonialists’ overt use of force at and around the time of contact. Part one of four.
SCREENINGS: ‘The Power Was With Us: Idle No More’
Free screening in Winnipeg (Jan 21) of “The Power Was With Us: Idle No More,” the feature-length APTN News documentary chronicle of the movement’s dramatic emergence back in Dec. 2012
MI LIVE Post-Election Breakdown in Toronto! October 24
Fresh off the vote, MEDIA INDIGENA and the Indigenous-run think-tank Yellowhead Institute host a special post-election episode in Toronto!
