Marcella, in examining the implications for herself to decolonize her communication practices, has focused her ongoing research program on listening to Indigenous voices that have been saying for a long time what colonizers need to do to change their attitudes and practices. Dr. LaFever\u2019s current work alongside Shirley Hardman (UFV’s Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs) investigates use of First Nation storytelling as a form of dialogic participation, specifically in relation to how stories were used by Indigenous participants in submissions to the 2010 Cohen Commission on Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River.<\/a><\/p>\n The presentation will ask participants to engage in a discussion investigating the validity of using this as a qualitative coding framework.<\/p>\n From the UFV Events Calendar:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cmns\/files\/2019\/01\/salmon-300x238.png\")
<\/a>The presentation for the Scholarly Sharing Initiative follows up on stories that were initially coded through use of St\u00f3:lo story types: Sqwelqwel (oral narratives relating to personal history) and Sxw\u00f4xwiy\u00e1m (oral histories that describe the distant past). This discussion focuses on the third stage of the analysis, the use of Linda Tuhiwai-Smith\u2019s<\/a> “Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects”<\/a> as explained in her 1999 innovative book “Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples<\/a>.”<\/p>\n