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Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media pp 367–383Cite as

Indigenous Media: Linking the Local, Translocal, Global and Virtual

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Indigenous cultures are, by their very nature, etched upon the land. Aboriginal cultural knowledge is mapped upon and situated in very specific places in the local geographic landscape, and cultural narratives are frequently ritually inscribed upon these places—even if those inscriptions are invisible to cultural outsiders. Indigenous cultures exist in all regions of the globe, in spite of the fact that, for various cultural political reasons, they may not all be labeled as such because of the particular histories of conquest and colonialism they have endured.

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    The World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network, WITBN [http://www.witbn.org/] is a global collaborative alliance of indigenous broadcasters established in 2008. Members include: TG4 (Ireland) [http://www.tg4.ie/]; Māori Television [http://www.Maori.television.com/default.aspx] and Te Reo [http://www.tereo.tv/] (both Aotearoa New Zealand); NITV (Australia) [http://www.nitv.org.au/]; TITV/PTS (Taiwan) [http://www.titv.org.tw/]; BBC Alba (Scotland) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/]; NRK Sámi Radio and Television (Norway) [http://www.nrk.no/sapmi/]; S4C (Wales) [http://www.s4c.co.uk/hafan/c_index.shtml]; APTN (Canada) [http://www.aptn.ca/]; and ‘Ōiwi TV (Hawai’i) [http://www.oiwi.tv/].

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    Soukoup cites a 2005 article in Nunatsiaq News by Sara Minoque.

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Acknowledgements

I thank Oxford Press for permission to incorporate into this essay material from “Native America” and “Indigenous Media,” articles I wrote and co-wrote for the Oxford Bibliographies Online project in Cinema Studies, edited by Krin Gabbard. I extend special thanks to Joanna Hearne and Amalia Córdova for their contributions to this essay.

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Wilson, P. (2015). Indigenous Media: Linking the Local, Translocal, Global and Virtual. In: Mains, S., Cupples, J., Lukinbeal, C. (eds) Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9969-0_22

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