Stz'uminus Storied Places
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The Stz’uminus Storied Places Digital Atlas research project with the Stz’uminus First Nation in Ladysmith builds off an earlier initiative involving the Stz’uminus First Nation and Project REEL Life, which engaged Stz’uminus youth in digital story telling and spawned regular outings where Stz’uminus youth recorded HD video of their Elders. The research project ran from 2013-2017 and introduced a focus on Hul’q’umi’num’ place names and works to bring these place-focused videos into digital maps, so community members can continue to listen to the names and stories via desktop computers, laptops, and, particularly, mobile devices.
Publications from this project include the outstanding Masters' thesis (2018) by Amy Becker https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9326, and Becker's open source scholarly article in The Arbutus Review https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/arbutus/article/view/13300
the collaboration for the Stz'uminus Storied Places project was covered in the news by The Globe and Mail (July 2014) and in UVic's newspaper The Ring (March 2014).
Objective
The objective of this project is to mobilize traditional knowledge of Stz’uminus territory and place names shared by Elders through a youth-involved, community-based video stories project and, subsequently, a digital map. The outcome of this research will be video stories plotted to an interactive digital atlas, available for use by the Stz’uminus First Nation and, upon review and approval by the Nation, the general public. There will also be an evaluation of which digital mapping platform is preferred on a smart phone interface.
- Collaborative project with Stz'uminus First Nation, with UVic student Amy Becker and Dr. Brian Thom, to create an annotated video-enabled digital atlas of Indigenous place names using Google Maps Engine.
- Indigenous place names on the digital atlas are made available on mobile devices through Google Maps Engine.
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Our maps
- Stz'uminus Storied Places Prototype Digital Atlas (Coming Soon: under active development)
- Boat trip to important Stz'uminus places (featured above)