Participatory Video Research on Flooding Indigenous Communities
Online Workshop
Four participatory video research projects were undertaken over eight years with two Indigenous communities displaced by a flood in 2011. The films focus on how floodwaters were diverted away from non-Indigenous regions to Indigenous communities at Lake St. Martin by Canada’s colonial government. This displacement repeats the colonial pattern of forcibly relocating Indigenous people away from their land, resources, and good life. A content, process, and outcome analysis reveals these four films were decolonizing and impactful.
Presenter/Facilitator Bio
Dr. Shirley Thompson
Dr. Shirley Thompson is the Principal Investigator with the Mino Bimaadiziwin partnership and an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, where she teaches participatory video. This Mino Bimaadiziwin partnership aims to build capacity and community education regarding Indigenous food systems, homebuilding, and abolishing the Indian Act with Indigenous communities.
Cost: Free
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/3vgZZA3ZRzNCBXZ97
This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public.
Contact Manisha Khetarpal by email mkhetarpal@mccedu.ca or call toll free: 1 866 585 3925
Recommended Reading
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/gep_2022112814523519.pdf
CREATIVE WORKS: VIDEOS
Dumas, A., Thapa, K., & Thompson, S. (director, producer) (2023). Manomin Restoration Initiative in Camp Kitigay and Baaskaandibewiziibing (Brokenhead) Ojibway Nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMbtN5HMQ8&t=24s
Onyeneke, C., Odejinmi, M., Suzuki, K. & Thompson, S. (executive producer) (2022). Spring of Life: The Beaconia Artesian Well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aC71kbBRB8
Thompson, S., Hill, D., & Tafur, S. O.. (2022). One House Many Nations: Big River First Nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqVfIs7yvNQ
Thapa, K. & Thompson, S. (2022). Ancestral Song by Kimlee Wong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ingiCpmOHQ
Thompson, S., Sumner, I., Ballard, M., & Suzuki, K.(2022). Flood Children: Eight Years Displaced from Little Saskatchewan First Nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsG5q1cAGY&t=86s
Thapa, K. & Thompson, S. (2022). Land Teachings from Elder Victor Harper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbgdi9lzcOI&t=7s
Thapa, K, Oni, J. & Thompson, S. (2021) Nowhere to Go: York Factory First Nation's Dilemma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwInqeqAJjY
Thapa, K., Thompson, S. & Suzuki, K. (2020). Wisdom of Elder Victor Harper. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU5XLq_w14U&feature=youtu.be
Suzuki, K. and Thompson, S. (2019). Mino Bimaadiziwin Partnership: Building youth, building capacity. https://youtu.be/RFoud5l-Thc
Thompson, S. & Suzuki, K (2018). Boreal Homebuilders. https://youtu.be/nW84gdC6-lk
Thompson, S., Sumner, I., Suzuki, K., Martin, D. and Ballard, M. (2018). Name your Baby Mooskaahn: flooding out Youth from Little Saskatchewan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFwOeHdAbc
Klatt, R., Harper, I. & Thompson, S. (2018). Visions of the Land: Garden Hill First Nation. https://youtu.be/D1UFd3fMb80
Klatt, R., Whiteway, N. & Thompson, S. (2018). Wasagamack First Nation: Ancestral Land and Culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4p9dpuBT4A
Thompson, S. and C. Harper (2018). Red Sucker Lake First Nation – Land Use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVC41gIK0pU
Pritty, P., Suzuki, K. & Thompson, S. (2018). Our Home and Native Land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sv4X1WkilA&app
Klatt, R. & Thompson, S (2016). High School - Then What? Education in Wasagamack First Nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0NswCF4BE
Klatt, R. & Thompson, S (2016). The Wasagamack Housing Crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgySkmyho1U&t=25s
Ballard, M, Klatt, R. Martin, D. and Thompson, S (2016). Wounded Spirit: Forced Evacuation of Little Saskatchewan First Nation Elders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQTubc1LIjY
Thompson, S. and Oyegunle, A. (2015) Sinking Under the Negative Impacts of Manitoba Hydro. http://youtu.be/ph7Kw1LFWS4
Klatt, R. & Thompson, S. (2015). Meechim Farms Inc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CeWRoRQaZk
Thompson, S., Klatt, R. & Oyegunle, A. (2015). Wasagamack: Living without Running Water and Sewage Service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6qPQYfNavY
Thompson, S. and Klatt, R. (2015). Manito Ahbee Black River: Where the sacred rocks live. 10-minute video. https://youtu.be/gZo6VD-JxaU
Kamal, A. and Thompson, S. (2013). Use and Occupancy Mapping Guide and Research Design Created by Seven First Nation communities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJdFj184zKU&feature=em-upload_owner
Ballard, M., Klatt, R. & Thompson, S. (2012). Flooding Hope: The Lake St. Martin First Nation story. http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/floodinghope_doc.html
Thompson, S. (co-Director/ co-Producer), Tait, V. & Klatt, R. (2012). Women reclaiming our power: A gendered view of First Nation colonization. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsUOxvYMSoY&feature=youtu.be