Tribal Resilience and Indigenous Planning: Storytelling Mapping workshop

Thursday, October 8, 2020

12:00 – 2:00 p.m. CST

Indigenous communities are adapting traditional oral stories for use in digital media, transforming them into different types of media including film, animation, social media, and localization. These new forms of expression are transforming how the communities share and transfer stories, language, and narratives to the next generation. This hands-on storytelling session will further explore how you can harness such tools to present your personal and community narratives in a manner that advances community planning, transformation, and resilience efforts, providing an opportunity for practicing those topics discussed in Tribal Resilience and Indigenous Planning: Storytelling Part 2a presented October 1, 2020. Joseph Erb, citizen of Cherokee Nation and assistant professor of Digital Storytelling in the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri and Dr. Cynthia Annett, KSU Tribal TAB, will lead a hands-on, participatory Indigenous storytelling and mapping activity, and will include facilitation by KSU Tribal TAB and Partners. As part of this activity, participants will work in small groups to develop their chosen community story, practicing the art of giving a voice to community and place.

Story Map Example

This is an example of what we will create today. Joseph Erb tells a story using the 5 beats methodology on a Google My Maps.

To expand the map and explore it click on the icon in the upper right corner. You can open the map legend to see the layers by clicking on the icon in the upper left corner.

The map is fully interactive, so you can zoom in and out and click on the photos to expand them in the left side panel.

This is a Google My Maps made by Joseph Erb using journal entries made during the forced relocation to Oklahoma.

Click on the icon in the upper right corner to expand the map, click on the icon in the upper left corner to see the map legend.

Today's Agenda

Overview of Tribal TAB and who we are.
Introduction to today's activities.
Lesson on Storytelling in 5 beats.
Get into Breakout rooms for group work on stories and mapping.
Introductions of participants in groups and discussion of roles (this will depend in part on the technology available to participants).
Everyone will tell a story of where they come from - this is a pitch for your story, not a completed story.
Vote by the group for the story that will be developed as a group activity.
Work collaboratively on a Jamboard to get a story setup in 5 beats.
Put the story from the Jamboard into a map.
Each group will then present their story to the entire workshop using their map as a visual guide.

Activity #1 Jamboards

Develop your story using the 5 beats framework

Click on your group's Jamboard icon in the folder below to expand your Jamboard. You do not need to be signed into a Google Account to edit your Jamboard. Each one has five parts, one for each of the 5 Beats.

Use the text, drawing and sticky note tools to create a storyboard of your group's story. We will then use this to add content to our story map.

Activity #2 Story Maps

Mapping Stories

Now you will turn your story into a map

Click on your group's My Maps icon in the folder below to expand your Google My Map. You can view it without a Google Account, but if you want to edit it you will need to sign into a Google Account. Use the instructions in the slide presentation above to add content to your map. Your Jamboard will give you the story you will use to create your map.