October 8, 2021
Empowering Indigenous youths with tradition and tech: Q&A with Dawn Martin-Hill
Author: Maria Salazar
Dawn Martin-Hill, a professor at McMaster University, introduced Terrastories, a geo-based storytelling app, to the Haudenosaunee people of the Great Lakes to help them protect their land and water as well as safeguard invaluable knowledge.
A main goal of her work is to empower and support Indigenous youths, and she has also helped create a virtual reality app and adapt a mental health app for Indigenous youth to connect with their land and articulate trauma.
Martin-Hill advocates for the integr...