Indigenous Media and Information

Question 1

• Native
• Local
• Originating or produced naturally in a particular region

Answer 1

Indigenous

Question 2

Knowledge that is unique to a specific culture or society; Most often it is not written down.

Answer 2

Indigenous Knowledge

Question 3

What kind of knowledge is being described below?
- Assumed to be the truth
- Sacred and secular together
- Teaching through storytelling
- Learning by doing and experiencing
- Oral or visual
- Integrated, based on a whole system
- Intuitive

Answer 3

Indigenous Knowledge

Question 4

What kind of knowledge is being described below?
- Assumed to be a best approximation
- Secular only
- Didactic
- Learning by formal education
- Written
- Analytical, based on subsets of the whole
- Model or hypothesis-based

Answer 4

Scientific Knowledge

Question 5

How is communication passed on within local communities?

Answer 5

• Local Meetings
• Indigenous Communication
• Indigenous Media and Information

Question 6

Transmission of information through local channels or forms. It is a means by which culture is preserved, handed down, and adapted

Answer 6

Indigenous Communication

Question 7

Original information created by a local group of people

Answer 7

Indigenous Media and Information

Question 8

Content about indigenous people distributed through dominant forms of media or through forms of communication unique to their people or group.

Answer 8

Indigenous Media and Information

Question 9

What is the importance of Indigenous Media and Information?

Answer 9

• Popular media cannot reach rural areas
• Highly credible
• Near the source
• Not sold for profit

Question 10

What are the five forms of Indigenous Media?

Answer 10

1. Folk or traditional media
2. Gatherings and social organizations
3. Direct observation
4. Records
5. Oral Instruction

Question 11

A form of Indigenous Media that may be written, carved, or oral.

Answer 11

Records