ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on digital media technologies such as digital storytelling might help the Metis people of Alberta achieve a form of decolonization through the articulation of their voice and through their active involvement within the project. In a contemporary world, the use of digital media to serve cultural traditions in Aboriginal communities is a trend that appears to be gaining momentum yet is only just being explored within the field of education. In its community-based form, the strategic and deliberate use of digital media represents a form of resistance—one that allows underrepresented or misrepresented communities to talk back to certain structures of power, including an educational system that typically serves only mainstream interests. Several scholars note that digital media forms originally destined for the preservation, protection, and revitalization of Indigenous cultural and knowledge traditions are challenging hegemonic norms. For some readers, the appropriation of digital media by Aboriginal people might seem a rather unlikely avenue to decolonizing education.
