StoryWeaving: Ways of Knowing and Telling
The IAIA course 'Story Weaving' first looks at the importance of story telling in all indigenous cultures. Roy Thomas, Anishinabe, Heartbeat of Mother Earth
This highly innovative course approaches the honored indigenous traditions of Storytelling and Weaving (rugs, baskets, etc.) as tools for the preservation and transmission of knowledge (cultural, spiritual, ecological, astronomical, ethical, and historical). In addition, a special software tool called StoryWeaver has been developed especially for this course and will enable students (having minimal computer experience) to create new stories which incorporate text, image, maps, oral history, tribal stories, and the new media, including audio and video.
Story Weaver software especially developed for this course allows the melding of text, image, sound, new media into a spatial narrative.
Old Father Storyteller - Pablita Velarde (Santa Clara)
Dance and the design of regalia constitute a performative kind of story telling. TexasWolfLady (Flickr
Story Weaving is also a modern form of knowledge transmission incorporating the new media.
Story Weaving is a form of knowledge transmission from distant ages
Weaving is considered as a form of storytelling; storytelling as a kind of weaving.
*Native Eyes Online Learning - a program designed by and for Native Americans with outreach to indigenous and non-indigenous people around the world. The program offers students an opportunity to think about important social and cultural issues from a broadly indigenous perspective utilizing highly flexible learning modes within a carefully devised structure of study guides, directed reading, critical thinking, disciplined writing, and the latest innovations in Web interactivity and presentation.