Canadian Minority Media Bibliography (95 items)

The cover text reads: "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…

Published in January 1974, Smoke Signals to Satellites provides a summary of the activities and achievements of the Alberta Native Communications Society. The report summarizes the administration and organization of the society, as well as the…

This report reflects the discussions and presentations that took place at the Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation and Convergence gatherings from February to June, 2017. The gatherings aimed to bring practitioners,…

Because the work of the Nuxalk Nation was displayed in a university gallery space, UBC students and other visitors witnessed another form of broadcasting Nuxalk knowledge and authority - one that mimicked a potlatch, wherein guests legitimize their…

Spoken from the Heart: Indigenous Radio in Canada addresses the current state of Indigenous radio broadcasting in Canada and its influence on the promotion and revitalization of Indigenous languages.

This thesis reconstructs Indigenous activism in the era of Red Power, 1972-1976, by examining three newspapers, the Native Youth Movement (NYM), The Native Voice (TNV) and The Native People (TNP). By linking these newspapers, the overarching themes…

In December 1993, during a time of political struggle, four young Cree leaders who disagreed with the way the James Bay Agreement was negotiated founded The Nation, a bi-monthly James Bay Cree newspaper. Born in a society in which journalism hardly…

In 2008, the Quebec Press Council toured Quebec’s administrative regions in order to study the public’s and socioeconomic decisionmaker’s perceptions of the news. Over a period of five months, more than 200 organizations and 250 citizens were…

How can a video training project in First Nations reserves contribute to the emergence of Aboriginal media? This question is explored in this article through the case study of Wapikoni mobile, which has been organizing video workshops in Aboriginal…

The growing popularity of social media has renewed a debate that has existed since the inception of the Internet; that users of cyberspace, through the production of online content, participate in the development of new production structures that…