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Centering Indigenous Standpoints through Mediated Communication

Seeding Good Medicine

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Centering Indigenous Standpoints through Mediated Communication

Seeding Good Medicine

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Description

This book explores how different forms of Indigenous media, including social media, are significant advocatory and educational methods of resistance against repeated attempts at genocide, erasure, misrepresentation, vilification, forced assimilation, and stereotyping perpetuated by colonial systems.

In this book, Ben R. LaPoe and Victoria L. LaPoe discuss how, unlike mainstream media operating under settler principles, Indigenous media privileges Indigenous life experiences, emphasizes Indigenous contexts, honors Indigenous social mores, amplifies Indigenous voices, and incorporates Indigenous worldviews. The book introduces readers to these intersections of Indigenous knowledge and explores the ways in which narrative advocacy empowers and benefits those who communicate their own voices and experiences.

Through a multi-method approach and analyses of Indigenous social media posts using Indigenous Standpoint Theory as a framework, the authors identify and explain Indigenous advocacy renovation efforts on mainstream social media platforms and demonstrate how different platforms can impact a community and act as a form of source sovereignty. Ultimately, the authors position Indigenous Standpoint Theory as a key approach to supporting the decolonization of knowledge and advocacy in media spaces.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sovereignty
1. Indigenous Standpoints and Media
2. Renovating Structures
3. Digital Media's Role
Contributions by Sarah M. Liese
4. Experiences Expressed Within Platforms
Contributions by Sarah M. Liese
5. Reconciling Conclusion
Contributions by Sarah M. Liese, Taylor Orcutt, and Shondiin Silversmith
Appendix A
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Dec 11 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 144
ISBN 9781978770669
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 6 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Ben LaPoe

Ben R. LaPoe II is Assistant Professor in School o…

Author

Victoria L. LaPoe

Victoria LaPoe is Professor in Scripps College of…

Contributor

Taylor Orcutt

Contributor

Sarah M. Liese

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