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The ‘Write’ Way to CED:
'Create to Relate' Publishing in Pukatawagan, Canada
Janice Seto
University College of the North, Manitoba
Tuesday September 25, 2018
Canadian Community Economic Development Network
Econous 2018 Conference: An Economy That Works for All/Une
Economie au Service de Toutes et Tous
People, Planet, Economy
Moncton, New Brunswick
Canada
The ‘Write’ Way to CED, a project of Create to
Relate… from Day One of the CED diploma
• The ‘Write’ Way to CED’ is a project within Janice Seto’s
‘Create to Relate’ framework that guides and sustains her
design of the Community Economic Development (CED)
curriculum.
“Community Economic Development happens only when the
individual is developing. There is a storyteller in everyone,
there is a Micro-Entrepreneur (ME) in everyone.”
• If CED students become entrepreneurial and model a can-
do spirit, they could break themselves and their families out
of the poverty of a welfare-dependency mindset often
pervading indigenous communities.
http://www.iacdglobal.org/2018/04/26/write-way-to-ced-in-
pukatawagan
Sidney Castel’s The Pukatawagan Song on The Tonight Show
•
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/sidney-castel-jimmy-
fallon-chris-rock-pukatawagan-1.4097151
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Pukatawagan, a Cree language community CED students who had hitherto primarily been consumers of internet content (video gaming, surfing for information, etc) first learnt in the foundation course of the CED program to use Google Suite to produce a coffee-table book on Pukatawagan featuring personal photographs, archival images, and interviews with elders and community members, on any topic of their choice. CED recycling initiative
Phase 1: Creating on Amazon
-> Themes & Topics of Book 1: Pukatawagan
DEVELOPING STUDENT CAPACITY
-> sourcing images
-> writing content, promoting (blurbs)
-> ISBN
-> designing cover
TOPICS
• Ice Fishing
• Canoe race
• Historical photos of Pukatawagan
• Creating and sport of snowshoeing
• Puk Life – family outings
• Painters of Pukatawagan
• Pukatawagan cover band
• Local Saw Mill
Pitfalls • Conflicting priorities of parenting students -> student absenteeism • NEET adult students who did not make adjustment to routine dropped out • Lateral violence by family and friends -> ‘the nail that sticks up gets hammered down’
Phase 2: Developing Entrepreneurship, Celebrate Proactivity • focused on developing entrepreneurial skills… ME (Micro-Entrepreneurs) via learning-by-doing
Marketing
• Identifying need for
Indigenous language
resources throughout the
country, and Cree
language specifically – and
addressing this demand
• Outreach to elders and
other community
members for Cree
translation
• Learning from test
marketing feedback To date, CED students have published 10 bilingual English-Cree
children’s books currently available for purchase on Amazon in
ebook and print format
Tourism
• In-bound without
carbon footprint
• Extend message to
global audience
To date, CED students have published 10 bilingual English-Cree
children’s books currently available for purchase on Amazon in
ebook and print format
Themes & Topics of Book 2: bilingual Cree- English children’s book • Basic literacy • Basic numeracy • Environmental science • Stories in the culture • Praying in Cree and English • Local geography: High Rock Adventures • History: Walking for Clean Water Pukatawagan on the Move by CED instructor, Janice Seto, translated into Cree by UCN regional centre coordinator, Ralph Caribou
Phase 3: Deepening alliances
with Stakeholders
• Stakeholder buy-in of these
capacity-building projects has
encouraged these nascent CED
professionals to continue
creating and diffusing locally-
created meaning.
• Pukatawagan Education Authority, K-12
Sakastew School Ellen Bubar, Ralph Caribou
and Janice Seto of UCN and CED cohort
authorsThemes & Topics of Book 3: bilingual Cree- English children’s book • Basic literacy • Basic numeracy • legends in the culture (2) • Persistence in the face of discouragement • local geography: Street names in Pukatawagan
Manifesting Potential Talent… Expression … Next
Stakeholder engagement In progress, • Media Kits • rudimentary YouTube video support -> narrating books in Cree https://youtu.be/HEeRzILMKio
Create to Relate: The Write Way to CED • Aside from individual royalty income, ‘the Write Way to CED’ initiative adds value to the community as an integral participant in enhancing the Cree language capacity of Pukatawagan generations to come.
UCN CED cohort books -> Available on Amazon ->
search ‘Pukatawagan’
A. Bilingual English-Cree Language Children's books B. The following are English only (perhaps will be available later
in Cree-English)
• https://www.amazon.ca/Water-Life-Iyako-Nipiy-Pimatisiwin/dp/0995969426/ -
> Water is Life by Dhedra Dumas • https://www.amazon.ca/Save-Your-Breath-Negotiate-
Talking/dp/1926935349/ -> Save Your Breath: Negotiating
• https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0995969442/ -> Climbing Obstacles by Dhedra Dumas Better Deals by Talking Less by instructor Janice Seto
• https://www.amazon.ca/Teach-Alphabets-Cree-Tyrone-Caribou/dp/0995840318/ - • https://www.amazon.ca/Netting-Wild-Pascall-Bighetty-
> Teach me Alphabets by Tyrone Caribou JR/dp/0995929106/ - Netting the Wild by Pascall Bighetty
• https://www.amazon.ca/I-Love-You-Book/dp/0995840342/ ->The I Love You Book by • https://www.amazon.ca/Highrock-Adventures-Desmond-
Tyrone Caribou Castel-jr/dp/0995840407/ -> High Rock Adventures
by Desmond Castel
• https://www.amazon.ca/Numbers-1-10-Learn-Count-English/dp/1981337849/ -
> Learning to Count by Pascall Bighetty • https://www.amazon.ca/Sawmill-Pukatawagan-Roxanne-F-
Linklater/dp/1540507610 ->
• https://www.amazon.ca/Praying-Our-Father-Cree-English/dp/0995840822/ -> Praying
Our Father by Sylvia Caribou • Pukatawagan's Saw Mill by Roxanne Linklater
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/099584044X/
• https://www.amazon.com/Family-growing-up-Opi-ki-wak-ni-too-tee-mak-sylvia-
caribou/dp/0995840830 - Family growing up-Opi-ki-wak-ni-too-tee-mak by Mary • -> The Legend of Wasakijack the trickster: Book 1 by
Sylvia Caribou Desmond Castel
• https://www.amazon.ca/My-Sister-NI-TI-SAN-R-F/dp/0995840725 -> My Sister C. The following is Cree only
by Roxanne Linklater
• https://www.amazon.ca/High-Rock-Adventures-Cree-
• https://www.amazon.ca/Walking-Clean-Water-Pukatawagan- Translation/dp/0995840431/ -> High Rock Adventures (Cree)
English/dp/1926935322/ -> Walking for Clean Water: Pukatawagan on the Move by by Desmond Castel
instructor Janice Seto w Ralph Caribou, regional centre coordinator
• https://www.amazon.ca/Coloring-Book-Walking-Clean-Water/dp/192693542X/ -> A
Coloring Book Walking for Clean Water: Pukatawagan on the MoveThe ‘Write’ Way to CED:
'Create to Relate' Publishing in Pukatawagan, Canada
http://janiceseto.wix.com/words
amazon.com/author/janiceseto
Janice Seto
University College of the North, Manitoba
www.janiceseto.com
https://www.instagram.com/janicesetowriter/
Tuesday September 25, 2018
jseto@ucn.ca
Canadian Community Economic Development Network
Econous 2018 Conference: An Economy That Works for All/Une
Economie au Service de Toutes et Tous
Moncton, New Brunswick
Canada
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