The full interactive Digital Drum website will be here soon. ---- If you have an event, show, or media you would like to share, click on "your beats" and share it with Digital Drum. ---- Although we do like to focus on traditional cultural content, Aboriginal people are comprised of modern cultures identified by our art, language and lifestyle, both historical and current. We are using the Digital Drum blog for now, but in the near future we will be releasing a full interactive website in which content can be shared. It will be an online Aboriginal Community to share with all. You will be able to use your Google+ or Facebook accounts to connect. We aren’t creating another social networking site, but rather a tool to become an online Aboriginal Community with the tools we are already using online. A place for live, interactive Cultural Evolution.
Wab Kinew on George Stromboulopoulos:
Some inspirational words and ideas on First Nations stories and politics.
Some students in the US created this video in rebuttal to a report done by 20/20. We would love to see many make their own creation or submissions like this.
Here’s a Lakota Word of the day. Do you have a word of the day? Share your language with Digital Drum.
Rigoberta Menchu Tum, this year’s Nobel Peace laureate for Great Lakes PeaceJam, on indigenous rights in Guatemala.
Please, yes please.
(Source: greatlakespeacejam)
So I wrote a little fashion blog for CBC on cultural appropriation earlier this week … check it out.
Tonight it’s the 2nd episode of #8thFireCBC at 9 PM. @_Nadya’s #ConcreteIndians will be featured which means my photo will be on the screen. Tune in!
Synopsis: It’s Time! which challenges Canadians with this reality: if we don’t improve our relationship with Aboriginal people, we will cripple our economy. Both the footage and the argument come in high definition and make the case that Canada is changing beneath our feet.
