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Dr. Nathan is a collaborator on the Social Science and Humanities Research Council funded Knowledge Synthesis project, Ethnoscape: Digital Heritage Access for Language and Culture in First Nations Communities. Led by Dr. Mark Turin, Chair of UBC’s First Nations and Endangered Language project, this project will describe, explore and synthesize how First Nations cultural heritage organizations are responding to digital opportunities and challenges through a specific focus on the expansion and uptake of emerging technologies for collecting, protecting and connecting Indigenous cultures and languages. Through a review of research methodologies and practices in the Heiltsuk First Nation in British Columbia and beyond, this project describes the ‘technoscape’ of access and mobilization of digital information within the ‘ethnoscape’ of Aboriginal communities in Canada. The knowledge synthesis report will identify gaps in knowledge, promising patterns and solutions and focus on recommendations for knowledge end-users to ensure that the openings and opportunities provided by emerging technologies for cultural documentation and language revitalization can be leveraged to benefit all Canadians, whether rural or urban, Indigenous or non-Indigenous. Other collaborators include UBC’s Pam Brown, Gerry Lawson and Kim Lawson.
