ABSTRACT
Stories are an important part of Indigenous cultures that carry the worldviews, knowledge, and values of the people. Because media is a vehicle that both transports and transforms story across time and space, digital storytelling is an important vehicle for modern Indigenous storytelling, in part due to colonialism, which has disrupted Indigenous peoples’ relationships with their traditional lands and environment, which in turn have disrupted all aspects of culture, including traditional stories. Furthermore, the multiple generations and configurations of media are equally diverse, as is what constitutes the Native wonder tale. This chapter focuses on a few selected examples of everyday acts of resurgence by Indigenous peoples in and around the Pacific Ocean in re-claiming, re-visioning, and decolonizing Indigenous wonder tales across myriad modern media. I argue that storytelling is a fundamental mode of Indigenous cultural continuity and that modern media genres are new ways for Indigenous peoples to tell and represent our traditional stories, despite a misconception that Indigeneity and modernity are antithetical and that Indigenous peoples do not (and cannot) represent ourselves and our stories utilizing media and related technologies. But we do, in infinite, celebratory ways.
