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Digital Stories - Intergenerational Effects of Residential School
Praire Womens Heath Center of Excellence (PWHCE) is pleased to share access to the "digital stories" created by 6 First Nations women in: kiskino mâto tapanâsk: Intergenerational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors.
This project set out to understand better how the residential school legacy passes on between generations. It involved a process of documenting, in First Nations women's own words and "digital stories", their understanding of how they had been impacted by the schools.A "digital story" is a 2-5 minute video. It is a personal narrative coupled with a collection of still images, video, and music which illustrates an individual's story. Indigenous peoples' stories are intellectual traditions that can disrupt colonial narratives of history, recognize injustice, celebrate resistance, and envision the future. Researchers and communities are increasingly recognizing the healing properties of visual and narrative approaches; thus this project both generated information about the experiences of women whose mothers attended residential schools and served a therapeutic purpose. Digital media can make these concerns more visible to the world and exchange knowledges and sensibilities that support self-representation and self-determination.
The filmmakers featured in this project are Lorena Fontaine, Lisa Forbes, Wendy McNab, Claudette Michell, Lisa Murdock, and Roberta Stout. Their stories give profound insight into their relationships with their mothers and the complex effects they experienced. The stories birth hope, showcase resilience, and speak to the emotional and healing journeys of mothers and daughters.
A final report of the project is forthcoming.
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