INFO 498 B Indigenous Ways of Knowing in the Digital World
4 Credits
SLN: 15854
Winter 2021
Indigenous people are using a variety of digital tools such as video games, virtual reality, language apps, and digital heritage sites to maintain their relationships to place, language, history, and culture. In this course, we will explore the respectful use and development of these digital tools with an emphasis on Native North American Indigenous approaches to knowledge. To understand Indigenous ways of knowing, you must recognize that everything starts with relationships. Relationships energize the ways we interact with the world and the ways of knowing that emerge from those experiences. By the end of this course, students will understand how relationality can inform thoughtful, respectful and appropriate uses of information technology that is designed by and for Indigenous people.
About the Professor:
Sandy Littletree is a descendant of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and is a citizen of the Navajo Nation (Diné). She is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington where she teaches courses on Indigenous systems of knowledge, community engagement, and technology in Indigenous contexts. Her research interests lie at the intersections of Indigenous systems of knowledge and librarianship.