"Weweni Zgaknigedaa: Let's properly store things," 6th Annual Digital Knowledge Sharing Workshop Keynote Discussion with Alan Corbiere
NOTE: this event will now be held via Zoom Webinar. Please join here at 6:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 26.
In this session, Alan will reflect 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.
A YouTube recording of the event can be found here.
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. For five years he served as the Executive Director at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF) in M'Chigeeng, a position which also encompassed the roles of curator and historian. He also served as the Anishinaabemowin Revitalization Program Coordinator at Lakeview School, M'Chigeeng First Nation, where he and his co-workers developed a culturally based second language program that focused on using Anishinaabe stories to teach language. He defended his PhD thesis in 2020 and is now an Assistant Professor in the History Department at York University. He currently holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous History of North America.