Culturally Modified is a quarterly online publication sharing research, stories and inspiration about our cultural resources, both physical and intangible.
For thousands of years, Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon have used fire in their farming practices to preserve natural resources and regenerate the soil. But a rapidly changing climate and a drier forest have made these fires more difficult to ... https://t.co/D5XMPkYHxW
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Short video on the residential school timeline in Canada from Historica Canada: https://t.co/LzxCTr3MjG
Last week, Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found in an unmarked grave at the site of a former Kamloops residential school. 1/?
We feel this is especially the case, as the children found in Kamloops and those lost across the country — those who would have been our peers, coworkers, and relatives — are unable to share their stories directly.
"You can’t separate the relationship between singing and farming," says Tafadzwa Matamba, who is sharing knowledge, food and songs from #Zimbabwe with the #CowichanValley.
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From our Change* issue: We caught up with curator Pat Myers from the Royal Alberta Museum to learn about what it's like to curate during an historic pandemic. https://t.co/zWGFTZBime
Our ninth issue, Change*, is just in time for the Winter Solstice! It's all about the cultural tectonic shifts that have taken place over the last year due to the global pandemic. Read it here: https://t.co/wsxD4sUuJh
Joanne Hammond’s popular article challenges the narratives of B.C.’s roadside signs, juxtaposing them against the colonial originals so that the differences become evident. https://t.co/lvoE6RxkkT
This is your opportunity to dive deeper. Our staff collaborated with disability advocates to put together this list of recommended movies, books, TV shows, dance and art that capture disability experiences. https://t.co/OeLin1iQRN
Christine Bruce describes her experience participating in a Wet’suwet’en ceremony. Being among community members and learning about practices and language leads the author back to her own Anishinaabe heritage with renewed curiousity: https://t.co/dSw62nPltN
"Overall, we interpret the RCMP’s understanding of risk to be synonymous with the potential of a protest movement’s success." Policing Indigenous Dissent, from our Best of Culturally Modified issue: https://t.co/NVrsZmbS4u
From our Best Of Culturally Modified Issue, Trina Moyles explores the lives of women farmers around the globe in Women Who Dig: A Pastoral Meditation on Time: https://t.co/vVs2DBhrSn