ABSTRACT
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have assessed the role the Internet has played in activist movements (Alia 2009, 2011; Ginsburg 2008; Kahn and Kellner 2004; Loft and Swanson 2014). Likewise, scholars have focused on how Indigenous communities have “appropriated media technologies to serve their own cultural, political, and social visions” (Srinivasan 2006, 497). This chapter looks specically at how Ojibwe activists and their communities have used the Internet, specically the website maiingan.org, to articulate their opposition to state-sanctioned wolf hunts in the north-central U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. To contextualize the rhetoric of the former website, we accompany this analysis of new media and activism with an analysis of Indigenous environmental governancespecically, how American Indian nations struggle to assert their traditional perspectives toward nonhuman beings as relatives against a dominant resource management paradigm that sees nonhuman beings in instrumental and hierarchical ways (LaDuke 1999).
