{"id":45817,"date":"2018-02-27T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=45817"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:45","slug":"new-sun-grad-bursary-recipient-is-researching-traditional-oral-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/new-sun-grad-bursary-recipient-is-researching-traditional-oral-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sun Grad Bursary Recipient is Researching Traditional Oral Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n New Sun Grad Bursary Recipient is Researching Traditional Oral Storytelling\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Written by Ty Burke<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEducation got us into this mess, and education will get us out\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Senator Murray Sinclair summed up the challenge bequeathed to the survivors of Canada\u2019s residential schools with a pithy call to action, and if reconciliation is to be achieved, education can\u2019t be a one-way street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmpowering Indigenous students and encouraging Indigenous thought in the classroom is incredibly important for reconciliation, and for building a brighter, more inclusive future for Indigenous peoples,\u201d says Liane Chiblow, a Master of Arts Communication student in the School of Journalism and Communication.<\/a> She also states that Indigenous ways of learning are different and it\u2019s important for Indigenous students to see themselves in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chiblow stresses that reconciliation is a two way street: \u201cEducation about Indigenous issues for non-Indigenous students is essential in reconciliation, to build awareness and create greater inter-cultural understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research explores traditional oral storytelling as an important part in Indigenous history, culture and ways of life. Through examining creation stories to Anishinaabeg folklore tales, her research aims to explore the multilevel bodies of theory as they relate to communication, decolonization and Indigenous resurgence. She was recently awarded a New Sun Graduate Bursary<\/a>, a $10,000 annual award for First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis graduate students who have shown a willingness to use their knowledge to benefit Indigenous communities in fields such as Indigenous governance, public administration, social work, architecture and environmental studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy research looks at the foundations of communications from an Indigenous theoretical perspective, one rooted in Anishinabeg thought,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommunication is incredibly important for nation-to-nation relationships and reconciliation, which is why I\u2019m looking at traditional oral stories and the underlying values embedded in them. They\u2019re a starting point when thinking about communication, one that\u2019s rooted in responsibility, reciprocity and love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chiblow explains how these stories are meant for Indigenous survival \u2013 \u201cthey tell the stories of a community \u2013 and contain information, values, and ways of life that are integral to continued Indigenous revitalization. There\u2019s a lot of responsibility when it comes to storytelling, but through analyzing these stories, I\u2019m hoping to open a tiny window of intercultural understanding with settler cultures in Canada. These stories are the foundation of Indigenous cultures and ways of life. So they\u2019re an incredible medium for understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story on the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Ty Burke \u201cEducation got us into this mess, and education will get us out\u201d Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Senator Murray Sinclair summed up the challenge bequeathed to the survivors of Canada\u2019s residential schools with a pithy call to action, and if reconciliation is to be achieved, education can\u2019t be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,91],"class_list":["post-45817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-graduate-studies","tag-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47386,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45817\/revisions\/47386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}