Week 3 – Jan. 25
Attendance
Announcements – class ends 1:55 (shorter break)
Assignments
AGENDA
1.Student presentations of Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers chapters
- This Land is Mine: Rupert’s Land Purchase, 1869 – – JAMIN/MORGAN
- Fifty-six Words – Treaty 3, 1873 – EVA
- “Our little War”: The North-West Rebellion, 1885 – CLAIRICE (absent)
- the Golden Rule: The Klondike Gold Rush, 1898-1905 – TONY
- Poet, Princess, Possession: Remembering Pauline Johnson, 1913- LAURISSA
- Disrobing Grey Owl: The Death of Archie Belaney, 1938 – CARLOS
- “Potential Indian Citizens?”: Aboriginal People After World War II, 1948 – JOLENE
- Cardboard Characters: The White Paper, 1969 – DANIEL
- Bended Elbow News: The Anicinabe Park Standoff, 1974 – RAMONA
- Indian Princell/Indian “Squaw”: Bill C-31, 1985 – JAIDA
- Letters from the Edges: The Oka Crisis, 1990 – SHAYLA (absent)
- Back to the Future: A Prairie Centennial, 1905-2005 – JAMIN/MORGAN
BREAK
2) Discuss Survey finding from chart…
ASIDE: Cool stuff
APTN show – “Working it out together”
Director Ernie Webb, The Nation
“Empathy” video games
3) Discuss assignment: Presentation – Aboriginal media organization – due February 8 – Week 5
Daniel – First Nations Drum
4) Watch CBQM, NFB, 2009
Reading assignment for next week:
Avison, Shannon and Michael Meadows. 2000. “Speaking and Hearing: Aboriginal Newspapers and the Public Sphere in Canada and Australia.” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 25. No. 3. Available at http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1163/1082
“Indigenous journalists are changing the news in Saskatchewan,” in J-Source.
