TY - JOUR
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Ontology
KW - critical community archaeology
KW - digital representation
KW - Qithyil
KW - Sq’éwlets-Scowlitz
KW - Stó:lō-Coast Salish
KW - website
AU - Natasha Lyons
AU - David Schaepe
AU - Kate Hennessy
AU - Michael Blake
AU - Clarence Pennier
AU - John Welch
AU - Kyle McIntosh
AU - Andy Phillips
AU - Betty Charlie
AU - Clifford Hall
AU - Lucille Hall
AU - Aynur Kadir
AU - Alicia Point
AU - Vi Pennier
AU - Reginald Phillips
AU - Reese Muntean
AU - Williams Jr., Johnny
AU - Williams Sr., John
AU - Joseph Chapman
AU - Colin Pennier
AB - Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, and relation. This paper presents an ontology of the Sq’éwlets Virtual Museum of Canada Website Project, a project that has focused on creating a digital community biography of the Sq’éwlets First Nation (www.digitalsqewlets.ca). Based on several decades of community archaeology and the recent production of short video documentaries, the website presents a long-term perspective of what it means to be a Sq’éwlets person and community member today. We explore how this project came to focus on the nature of being Sq’éwlets; how community members conceived the nature, structure, and nomenclature of the website; and how this Sq’éwlets being-ness is translated for outside audiences. We suggest what lessons this approach has for anthropological conventions of naming and knowing as they relate to Indigenous histories, and consider how archaeological knowledge can be transformed into a digital platform within a community-based process.
BT - Journal of Social Archaeology
DA - oct
DO - 10.1177/1469605316668451
LA - English
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
N2 - Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, and relation. This paper presents an ontology of the Sq’éwlets Virtual Museum of Canada Website Project, a project that has focused on creating a digital community biography of the Sq’éwlets First Nation (www.digitalsqewlets.ca). Based on several decades of community archaeology and the recent production of short video documentaries, the website presents a long-term perspective of what it means to be a Sq’éwlets person and community member today. We explore how this project came to focus on the nature of being Sq’éwlets; how community members conceived the nature, structure, and nomenclature of the website; and how this Sq’éwlets being-ness is translated for outside audiences. We suggest what lessons this approach has for anthropological conventions of naming and knowing as they relate to Indigenous histories, and consider how archaeological knowledge can be transformed into a digital platform within a community-based process.
PY - 2016
SP - 359
EP - 384
T2 - Journal of Social Archaeology
TI - Sharing deep history as digital knowledge: An ontology of the Sq ewlets website project
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85002199032&doi=10.1177%2f1469605316668451&partnerID=40&md5=b7b4143e350ee6ca7460fa118d13854c
VL - 16
SN - 14696053 (ISSN)
ER -