REVIEWS
ONLINE QUICK REVIEWS... "Maawanji'iding is the Ojibwe word for a gathering of people; a meeting;
a celebration. This CD is indeed a celebration and the best educational
multimedia product that has come across my desk in the last 10 years."
"A powerful and welcome resource for classrooms and libraries that actually
allows history to speak to us, conveying essential facts about the experiences
of native peoples in Wisconsin, and communicating the deeply spiritual
connections that the Ojibwa people feel for the Lake Superior area that
has been their home for hundreds of years. "
Al Hunter Anishinaabe
poet and community worker - Rainy River First Nations, Manitou Rapids,
Ontario
"MAAWANJI'IDING is the best educational resource available for teachers
who are interested in helping students celebrate cultural diversity...
it opens doors, allows kids to question, draw conclusions, and learn about
where they live."
Patti Loew
American Indian Studies
and Department of History UW-Madison
- Bad River Band of
Ojibwe
John Holt
Senior Lecturer in
Art and Design - Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, England.
MAAWANJI'IDING: Ojibwe Histories and Narratives from Wisconsin
will be useful to scholars and to anyone interested in the history of
the Anishinaabe. I'm sure it has already been used extensively by the
tribes and is a lasting contribution to their educational system. For
anyone considering any type of similar project, it will also be a welcome
and important addition to the library. I heartily recommend it to all. E. Richard Hart Executive
Director: Institute of the North American West, (Seattle) - Author of
"Zuni and the Courts: A Struggle for Sovereign Land Rights"
Kathryn "Nan" Little,
Ph.D. Program Mgr, STEP (Sciences
and Tribes Educational Partnership) College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Jeff Peterson
Primary grade
remedial reading and 7thgrade course Woodland Indians of the Great Lakes
Region.
Bob Olsgard Organizer
for the Lake Superior Alliance and editor/publisher of "Superior Vision". hup! multimedia
is the funder and publisher of the Brain-Box Digital Archives Project
and has established a working group dedicated to a collaborative design
and editorial production process. Our long term goal is to enable and
support local initiatives in developing new media projects.
MAAWANJI'IDING-
Gathering Together
Ojibwe Histories
and Narratives
Brain-Box Digital
Archives Project
Since publication in Februaruy 1999, Maawanji'iding - Gathering Together
has been welcomed as groundbreaking, innovative work in communicating
essential oral histories through new technology and digital media.
Jim Klein
Instructional Technology
Consultant, Board Member Wisconsin Educational Media Association -Chair
of the WEMA Permanent Endowment Trust
"MAAWANJI'IDING is presented with appropriate balance and mindful respect.
It skillfully represents our inherent wisdom and land-based knowledge of
the Great Lakes Region, and recognizes our history of what's at stake in
the ceded territory. Survival Software - it's like a travelling song for
the 21st century!"
Denise Sweet
Anishinaabe poet, (White
Earth - makwa dodem), associate prof. Humanistic Studies - Chair for the
American Indian Studies program UW GreenBay
Badger
History Bulletin
- SHSW
Bobbie Malone
Director of Educational
Services State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison
"Computers have given the Ojibwe another avenue for preserving their heritage.
MAAWANJI'IDING is an example of how technology can work for the Ojibwe.
This CD-ROM is set up in a way that all ages can use and understand."
News From Indian Country
Kimberlie R. Hall -
Reviewer
"Awesome"
Frank Koehn
- (Teacher Review)
Frank Koehn 6th
grade teacher Port Wing, WI
"MAAWANJI'IDING can be enjoyed on a number of levels. The oral histories
and accompanying photographs are compelling. The timelines are useful and
provide important historical context, and the nuggets of Ojibwe language
add cultural richness and texture. This is an exquisite use of CD-Rom technology."
"This CD-ROM belongs in every Wisconsin classroom. It fills a big gap in
curricular materials available on the state's native peoples and should
help teachers fulfill the Wisconsin state legislature's mandate to inculcate
cultural awareness of Indian people in its students."
Tom Venum
Smithsonian Folkways
and Great Lakes Author/Audio-Video Producer
John Holt
- (Scholar Review)
"MAAWANJI'IDING
provides a framework within which a gathering of Ojibwe people speak directly
to the listener. This has enormous educational significance in a cross curricular
way and with a trans-cultural implication. Considered as historical, geographical,
artistic or humanitarian, this CD-ROM breaks new ground in its format and
its capacity to hear the voices of a cultural group, the Ojibwe who have
much to teach us."
"MAAWANJI'IDING is a valuable resource that uses the multimedia capabilities
of modern technology to provide a look at the sovereignty, history, and
culture of Wisconsin's Ojibwe people. Along with providing rich photo and
text resources, the program includes interviews with many present-day Ojibwe
people sharing their knowledge and experiences in their own words."
Dave Denomie Bad
River Ojibwe, Milwaukee Public Museum
A storyteller engages the audience on multiple levels and through multiple
senses...This CD encourages computer users to enter the world of the Ojibwe
and experience it in whatever depth or complexity they choose. Over time,
like layers of a story, core values, concerns, joys and sorrows as well
as the strength of Ojibwe become apparent to the user. MAAWANJI'IDING could
easily emerge as a marvelous template for other tribes.
"Great interactive resource for students, and for allies of Anishinaabe
culture and rights."
Rick Whaley
Co-author, Walleye
Warriors (The Chippewa treaty rights story) and Witness for Non-Violence
coordinator.
"We included MAAWANJI'IDING - GATHERING TOGETHER, in our recommended resources
in our most recent edition of Rethinking Schools... We were very impressed
with the CD... Keep up the good work."
Bob Peterson Editor
Rethinking Schools
"Just received the CD yesterday and I'm absolutely awed by the fantastic
job you've done. Now I want to put it to use and spread the word... previewing
the CD on Friday at school and had one of our Anishinabe students, a third-grade
boy named Shane, sitting beside me at the time. When I signed off and he
saw the picture of Archie in the closing, he couldn't believe it! All the
Indian students at our school considered Archie their "grandpa", and his
memory is still very much alive here." (Archie Mosay is an Ojibwe elder
and spiritual leaders to whom the program was dedicated.)
"WOW! This is truely a work of art as well as a compelling history and educational
tool. There is so much terrific material that it will require several sessions
just to see it all. Thank you for this valuable resource."
Christopher Smith Outreach
Program Manager University of Wisconsin-Stout
"Excellent resource for curriculum development...."
Ashland Daily Press
Julie Buckles -
journalist Ashland Daily Press, Ashland, WI
" I finally opened up the CD and took it for a spin. Wow! ... What a compelling
visit to another people who are set so firmly here in this place that is
so recognizably my place, the grasses blowing in the wind, the birds chirping...
unlike the encyclopedia, these people are telling me their story in their
own words, in their own voices ... A remarkable way to get education out
of the symbolic, linear trap, into the huge song and dance that is humanity.
I'd like to see these in every school in the Lake Superior basin, better
yet every school in Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. No, the
map on the CD shows where they ought to be; every school in treaty ceded
territory in North America. Now we--the white folk--are challenged to be
part of this journey too. I think this has real power to bring the life
of the first people to my kind in a way that can feed my own search for
life. The CD is a revelation."
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