[grc] Indigenous Style Guide - discussion in Canadian community radio

[Frieda Werden]

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From: Ophira Horwitz <ophirancra at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [NCRAMembers] Indigenous Style Guide - any resource ideas?
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There are so many resources and good articles out there. Here are a few:

- Reporting in Indigenous Communities: News Stereotypes of Aboriginal
Peoples
<http://riic.ca/the-guide/at-the-desk/news-stereotypes-of-aboriginal-peoples/>
on
the Reporting in Indigenous Communities website. Madeline, I see that you
posted this article on Facebook. While Googling for another article, I
found this article for journalists about Aboriginal Customs and Protocols
<http://riic.ca/the-guide/in-the-field/aboriginal-customs-and-protocols/> on
the same website. I only skimmed it but it seems good.

- Buried Voices
<http://www.jhr.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Buried_Voices.pdf>, a
study of media coverage of Indigenous issues in Ontario. This study was
done by Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), my former employer. They
conduced a quantitative analysis of media coverage in Ontario of Indigenous
people over three years, and examined trends like the issues that were
covered most often and the tone of these stories.

- Silenced No More <http://rrj.ca/silenced-no-more/>, an article written
for the Ryerson Review of Journalism by a writer who visited my JHR
colleague in Peawanuck, Ontario last year.

- When Being an Ally Turns Into Being an Appropriator (Settler Conduct and
Self-Check)
<https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/when-being-an-ally-turns-into-being-an-appropriator-settler-conduct-and-self-check-pdf/>,
an excellent zine by Warrior Publications. You can purchase it for $10 and
it is worth every penny.

- The true tragedy of Attawapiskat
<http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/attawapiskat-and-the-fallout-of-intergenerational-trauma/>,
a very well-written article published in Maclean's. Most importantly, the
author criticizes the very problematic article Maclean's published in
response to the La Loche shootings.

... here are a few articles about terminology to get you started:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/what-s-in-a-name-indian-native-aboriginal-or-indigenous-1.2784518
http://aptn.ca/news/2015/02/19/indigenous-versus-aboriginal-one-use/
http://www.macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/university-of-manitoba-asks-what-should-i-say/

Finally, I was taught that a decent way to approach news coverage of some
Indigenous issues is by taking a "human rights-based approach," which
incorporates the perspectives of four different types of stakeholders: the
rights-holders (the individuals or groups who are the most directly
affected by the issues, whose rights are being violated), the duty-bearers
(the government or government institutions that have a duty or legal
obligation to protect or provide rights to the rights-holders), the
non-state responsibility holders (other people who have a responsibility to
protect and promote human rights, and have a power relationship with the
rights-holders), and capacity supporters (people who have the potential to
support the capacity of duty-bearers, non-state responsibility holders,
and/or rights-holders to make things better, e.g., NGOs). I could write a
whole other email just about this topic.
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-- 
Frieda Werden, Series Producer
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org