"Since the dawn of our existence, humans have shared stories. Storytelling connects us, helps us give shape and understanding to the world and to each other. Who tells whose stories in which particular ways leads to questions of belonging, power, relationality, community, and identity.

"Indigenous Media Arts in Canada explores these issues with a focus on settler-Indigenous cultural politics in the country known as Canada, focusing on Indigenous representations in media arts. Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, and decolonizing creative practices. Chapters feature roundtable discussions, interviews, film analyses, resurgent media explorations, visual culture advocacy, and place-based practices of creative expression.

"Eclectic in scope and diverse in perspective, the essays in this book are unified by an ethic of conciliation, collaboration, and cultural resistance. Engaging deftly and thoughtfully with instances of of cultural appropriation and the oppressive structures that seek to erode narrative sovereignty, this collection shines as a crucial gathering of thoughtful critique, cultural kinship, and creative counterpower." (Taken from book cover.)

Contents: Seeing, Knowing, Lifting, by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton; Introduction to Part I, by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton; Our Own up There: a Discussion at imagineNATIVE, by Danis Goulet and Tasha Hubbard with JesseWente, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, and Shane Belcourt; Curating the North: Documentary Screening Ethics and Inuit Representation in Cinema, by Ezra Winton and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril; Sights of Homecoming: Locating Restorative Sites of Passage in Zacharias Kunuk's Festival Performance of Angirattut, by Claudia Sicondolfo; Introduction to Part II, by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton; Addressing Colonial Trauma through Mi'kmaw Film, by Margaret Robinson and Bretten Hannam; Not Reconciled: The Complex Legacy of Films on Canadian "Indian" Residential Schools, by Brenda Longfellow; The Resurgence of Indigenous Women in Contemporary Québec Cinema, by Karine Bertrand; "Our Circle is Always Open": Indigenous Voices, Children's Rights, and Spaces of Inclusion in the Films of Alanis Obomsawin, by Joanna Hearne; Introduction to Part III, by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton; Indigenous Documentary Methodologies: ChiPaChiMoWin: Telling Stories, by Jules Arita Koostachin; Marking and Mapping Out Embodied Practics through Media Art, by Julie Nagam and Carla Taunton; Curational Insiders/Outsiders: Speaking Outside and Collaboration as Strategic Intervention, by Toby Katrine Lawrence; The Generative Hope of Indigenous Interactive Media: Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Futurism, by Michelle Stewart; Introduction to Part IV, by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton + Sasha Crawford-Holland and Lindsay LeBlanc; "Making Things Our [Digital] Own": Lessons on Time and Sovereignty from Indigenous Computational Art, by Sasha Crawford-Holland and Lindsay LeBlanc; Careful Images: Unsettling Testimony in the Gladue Video Project, by Eugenia Kisin and Lisa Jackson; Part 1: Beyond Words and Images, by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton; Part 2: Setting the Record Straight, by Lisa Jackson; About The Contributors; References.