In moving forward with Podcasts and storytelling, with an Indigenous lens, I struggle from anger, frustration, sadness, hope, determination, resentfulness, thankfulness, and passion. My path, I believe, determines the impact I can and want to make for other Indigenous.
Listening to stories from Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, to Residential School experiences, and scrolling through the wide variety of Indigenous podcasts, illustrates the content and the people that share the need to tell stories, while listening to others stories. At times, I am doing so to justify feelings and emotions, and believe the podcasts offer knowledge, explanations, and experiences to those who do not know the history. The history of the land we are on, why people hang out outside of post offices and downtown buildings as lost souls, or how individuals choose one life over another life and choices having to be made to live traditionally or contemporary. These stories shared through podcasts are necessary to be told and heard.
This course and exploration on the topic and technology is an emotional journey for me and it is taking a toll mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. I struggle to balance my life through this program and course, full time managing a business, raising my three beautiful and smart girls, being a wife, and taking moments to explore my artistic path that continues to drive me forward. I haven’t had a lot of time to explore literature related to podcasts and I’ve made the decision for now to spend less time learning about the technology and more time listening to podcasts with stories. It is the feelings, the understanding, and the emotions I get that are teaching me the value of storytelling through podcasts, for the future of Indigenous people. I have no quotes or references to offer at this time, only personal reflections.
– Myrna
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