What are the primary goals of the website?
The primary goals of my website is to document the struggle for Native Civil rights in the Pacific Northwest. It is to explore the cultures of the different tribes in the Pacific Northwest to give context to the struggles they face today.
Who is the primary audience of this website? Secondary audiences?
The primary audience for my website is people who are interested in learning about Native Rights in the Pacific Northwest. My secondary audience is people who are researchers and activist who want to look into the peoples of the Pacific Northwest and learn from the troubles they are facing.
What do you want these specific audiences to accomplish when they come to the site?
I want them to learn and listen to the message of intersectional activism and what resistance against oppression looks like in the Pacific Northwest. I want them to realize that the rights of people are being disrespected and infringed upon by the government that is meant to protect them and I want my audience to feel a call to action for them.
What content/actions do you want to prioritize?
I want to prioritize the history and culture of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. I want to make it clear that this cause is to help people, it isn’t something you can say I support you and be done. To believe in a cause means it never leaves your heart, I want people to click off my site feeling that impact.
What sections will this website include?
I will use the People of the Pacific Northwest and the Art of the Pacific Northwest. I want to focus on the art and photos of the people of the Pacific Northwest as art is a form of resistance and can convene emotions that words are not able to.
Outline:
Aidan Gardiner
Outline for Native Rights Timeline
Subject: I am studying how non-intersectional activism affects indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest because I want to find out how non-intersectional activism affects indigenous groups in North America and what the consequences are, to understand how to combat this unhelpful and ethnocentric form of activism. Non-intersectional activism creates harmful effects and damages the already tense relationship of the indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest with the local settler population. This form of activism is ethnocentric and does not take a culturally sensitive approach to understanding indigenous culture and the relationship the indigenous nations have with their environment. Several of the sources from JSTOR including Exercising Cultural Self-Determination: The Makah Indian Tribe Goes Whaling and the Makah Tribe website are helpful as they give insight into the Makah Tribes’ views on the significance of whale hunting. I think after reading instead of focusing on non-intersectional activism I might shift towards a more Native Rights focus instead of the conflict between activists and Native Tribes. A lot of what I read from the tribes, from their websites, focused on their campaigns for more security for their rights and the honoring of the laws passed to give protection to the indigenous groups. The secondary sources that I have focused primarily on giving context to the history of Indigenous rights and culture in the Pacific Northwest. I have learned a lot more about how the Indigenous rights of self-determination have been infringed, I have been using legal proceedings to give context to the cases I will use in my timeline. I had a hard time finding peer-reviewed articles that acted as primary sources, so I had to expand my net to non-peer-reviewed articles. I have a lot more questions specifically about what can be done to return the land and food-gathering rights to the Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest.
Main ideas:
-Timeline showing legal battles for native rights in the Pacific Northwest
-Story Map showing some important historical footnotes
-Exhibits broken up by the type of struggle: subsistence and food, land back, civil rights, MMIR
-A gallery of historically important people in the Pacific Northwest regarding Native rights
-An art gallery depicting art from a handful of the Pacific Northwest tribes
Sources: Screenshotted from Zotero:
