Weweni Zgaknigedaa: Let's properly store things, Digital Knowledge Sharing Keynote - Alan Corbiere
Dr. Alan Ojiig Corbiere, Bne doodem (Ruffed Grouse clan), is an Anishinaabe from M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. He was educated on the reserve and then attended the University of Toronto for a Bachelor of Science, he then entered York University and earned his Master's of Environmental Studies. During his master's studies he focused on Anishinaabe narrative and Anishinaabe language revitalization.
In this session, Alan reflects upon his past experience working in his community to revitalize Anishinaabe language and knowledge. Through the years, Dr. Corbiere has recorded community elders narrating our story in Anishinaabemowin while conducting archival and museological research in various western institutions. These long established western institutions have finding aids and other tools to assist researchers, in contrast, many Indigenous communities have numerous recordings of elders, storytellers, educators and speakers but no finding aids. Dr. Corbiere has recently been developing finding aids with the long term goal of developing life-long learning curriculum in Anishinaabemowin. The session will focus on pitfalls, lessons learned, some critical recommendations about implementation and evaluation.
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