Exploration As Relationship: Native Youths’ Explorations With Digital Technologies for Storytelling

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Abstract

Supporting Native youths’ self-determined storytelling with digital technologies involves exploring what stories to tell and how to tell them. This act of exploration connotes the direct interactions that Native youth are having with digital technology software and the many capabilities and affordances it offers. In this paper, we pose exploration as a space in between ideas where Native youth are redefining their relationships with digital technologies. In so doing, Native youth facilitate their relationship with themselves, their community, their culture, and with the land (place).

Authors

• Chasity H. Mayo, Utah State University

• Dallas Haws, Utah State University

• Christina Morgan, Utah State University

• Tifiny Mills, Utah State University

• Eileen Quintana, Nebo School District

• Analysa Allison, Nebo Title VI Indian Education

• Natalie Billie, Nebo Title VI Indian Education Program

• Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University