Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage / Pamela Wilson -- Pt. I. From Poetics to Politics: Indigenous Media Aesthetics and Style -- 1. Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America / Juan Francisco Salazar and Amalia Cordova -- 2. "Lest Others Speak for Us": The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand / Jennifer Gauthier -- 3. Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video / Cache Collective -- 4. Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children's Cultures / Joanna Hearne -- Pt. II. Indigenous Activism, Advocacy, and Empowerment Through Media -- 5. Media as Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar) / Lisa Brooten -- 6. Transistor Resistors: Native Women's Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below / Kathleen Buddle -- 7. Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance, and Community Radio in Northern Cauca / Mario A. Murillo -- 8. Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Videomaking / Alexandra Halkin -- Pt. III. Cultural Identity, Preservation, and Community-Building Through Media -- 9. The Search for Well-Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity / Laurel Smith -- 10. "To Breathe Two Airs"; Empowering Indigenous Sami Media / Sari Pietikainen -- 11. Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia's Indigenous Peoples / Galina Diatchkova -- 12. Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4C, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community / Ruth McElroy -- Pt. IV. New Technologies, Timeless Knowledges: Digital and Interactive Media -- 13. Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM / Priscilla Faulhaber and Louis Forline -- 14. Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge / Michael Christie -- 15. Rethinking the Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg.