blog, ramblings, thoughts, future plans and progress for a digital family tree
Numunu is the word we call ourselves, human beings, the people, Comanche. Established in February of 2022, I am embarking on a mission to catalog and animate the family lineage of Wis-sis-che. One of the last leaders of the Comanche band of Quahadas.
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Destroying the Canon
I feel like this semester, the most passion for my role in research came from thinking about canonical parameters. Over the last sixteen weeks, I have been trying to apply these restrictions to learning in all of my classes. These are my thoughts as time has gone by… I came into this semester looking forward…
Complete Works Cited
Bastos, Luz. Michel Foucault: Rhetoric. https://foucaultsrhetoric.weebly.com/theory-of-rhetoric-discourse.html. Accessed 7 Nov. 2022. Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, vol. 1, no. 1, 1968, pp. 1–14. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40236733. Accessed 10 Nov. 2022. CBC Music. A Tribe Called Red | CBC Music Festival | Full Concert. YouTube, November 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdD2ASSyypE Clement, Tanya, and Amelia Acker. 2019. “Data Cultures, Culture as…
Indigenous Storytelling
I thought long and hard about going with my original blog post idea of “Indigenous Genealogical Storytelling” but the more I wrote about “Digitizing Indigenous Familial Kinship” I felt like there was a lot already covered about genealogical complications. I will be inserting different things that I have been told while talking about digital Indigenous…
The Highs and Lows of digitizing Indigenous Familial Knowledge
Describing Native kinship can be one of the most frustrating, amazing, wonderful, and confusing things that one can do. Jessica Restaino, in her discussion of role and misfit spaces, says there is a shifting space where processes reshape who we are (p.85). Fictive kinship reflects this same idea; our relationships and obligations change in this…
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