Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Indigenous peoples have always shared collective truths and knowledge through oral storytelling.Just as we were born, stories are born too, through our sacred "living breath."We live in a time where stories travel far, beyond our imaginable dreams, and can have an influence on anyone who hears them.In the present-day, we have an opportunity to combine personal stories with digital technology in order to share one of our greatest gifts with each other-our experience and wisdom.For eight years, Brenda K. Manuelito and I have been traveling across Indian Country helping our Indigenous relatives create nDigiStories for Native survivance, healing, hope, and liberation.Together with our nDigiStorytellers, we are Healing Our Communities One Story at a Time®.This dissertation is a phenomenological study about the "story-sharing" of nDigiStories.It tells the story about the journey of digital stories created from an Indigenized digital storytelling process called nDigiStorytelling with an Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) community in Michigan.I explored a bricolage of methodologies from an "Indigenist" perspective, community-based participatory research, performance ethnography, and relational autoethnography.This study shows how combining an Indigenous approach to technology and media-making with deeply-held beliefs and ceremony can revitalize Indigenous people and strengthen community relationships.The electronic version of this Dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch.edu/etds/and OhioLink ETD Center, http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd.This dissertation is accompanied by a PDF document that contains links to 45 media files on the nDigiStorySharing YouTube Channel that are referenced in this document.
Author: Carmella M. Rodriguez
Institution: Antioch University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2279949142