Braiding sweetgrass families: a transmedia project on parenting in Blackfoot Territory. (1st March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Newberry, Jan; Pace-Crosschild, Tanya
• Is Part Of: Families, relationships and societies. Volume 9:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 173
• Page End: 180
• Publication Date: 2020-03-01
• Subjects: photo-elicitation -- transmedia -- children and youth -- Blackfoot -- childrearing; Families -- Research -- Periodicals; Families -- Periodicals; Intergenerational relations -- Periodicals; 306.805
• DOI: 10.1332/204674319X15592173807871
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2046-7435

Abstract

Abstract : This photo-essay shares images from a collaborative project between a local university and an agency devoted to Indigenous children and their families in southern Alberta, Canada. The original project used photo-elicitation to identify local childrearing values, but the project ultimately became a transmedia one. Here, we use images to elaborate on the sweetgrass braid as a metaphor for the braided character of parenting across the many divides, historic and contemporary, that cross Blackfoot Territory.