Module 5: Technology Supports
Examples of Indigenous-led Technology Solutions
A digital citizen will research with purpose and intention to find the best tools available to facilitate their students’ learning.
The following are examples of Indigenous-led technology solutions that are responsive to Indigenous Peoples.
Websites
Indigenous Languages: Maps, Apps & Websites is a web page by the Canadian Language Museum that breaks down the Indigenous language groupings in Canada. Here, you can find links to other resources that have more information about specific Indigenous languages, as well as Indigenous languages in general.
FirstVoices is a collaborative platform designed to help Indigenous Peoples archive language information for teaching and preservation. It is an internationally recognized online platform for Indigenous communities to share and promote their languages, oral cultures, and linguistic histories. FirstVoices provides technologies, training, and technical support to community language champions.
Native-Land.ca creates and supports conversations about colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler–Indigenous relations. This support is offered through educational resources including our map and a territory acknowledgement guide. This is a space for Indigenous communities to self represent while setting their own terms of their representation.
Digital maps
The First Nations Profiles Interactive map allows you to explore the traditional First Nations territories across Canada and provides contact information for each Nation.
Visit the First Peoples’ Map of B.C. to access information on all the First Nations languages and communities in B.C. It will provide you with the language, art, heritage, and points of interests by Nation.
Indigenous data sovereignty
OneFeather is planting the seeds of Indigenous data sovereignty.
Watch this video about OneFeather Nation Services and learn about OneFeather Mobile Technologies.
DigitalNWT supports digital literacy and Indigenous sovereignty in northern communities and has developed a series of digital literacy courses.
Apps
KOBE Learn is an app designed to help users learn common words and phrases in Ojibway, Cree and Oji-Cree.
Find it in your app store.
Learner notes
KOBE stands for Keewaytinook Okimakanak Board of Education.
Available in Cree, Oji-Cree, and Ojibway. The KOBE Learn apps are designed to assist users in learning 500 different words and phrases from the three traditional languages, which are languages of northern communities served by KOBE.
Source and recommended readings: KOBE launches Indigenous language apps (siouxbulletin.com)
Whose Land is a land acknowledgements app. This app can tell you whose land you’re on based on exact location. Using geographic information system (GIS) technology, you can learn all about the Indigenous territory you’re on. In addition, there are videos of land acknowledgements made by people from those communities. Seen as a conversation starter, Wh