Indigenous Media Ecologies

Indigenous Media Ecologies explores some of the impacts that Indigenous peoples have had on media innovations and changes by repurposing Western print and digital technologies. The contributors to this volume, a set of international Indigenous studies scholars, consider Indigenous media ecologies as an assemblage of formal, material, and affective inscriptions that depend not only on Indigenous writers, editors, readers, activists, and tribal community networks but also on Western technology and Indigenous craftmanship. Indigenous media ecologies are complex, hybrid, and multifaceted; they affect human life environments and demonstrate Indigenous peoples' involvement in media and communication technologies.

The four parts of Indigenous Media Ecologies distinguish between period-specific (print) technologies, and digital and post-digital media tools and practices. This volume investigates Indigenous media ecologies and the role of both traditional and new technologies in Indigenous diasporic, transnational, and linguistic communities across the Americas and the Pacific Islands, focusing on serial print publications, film, podcasts, museums, and other forms of storytelling and poetry in the digital age.