culture consumed (April, 2018) lots of Native stuff

books

• lots of Native people stuff (mostly picturebooks -- 35 -- as well as Kristiana Kahakauwila's short story collection This Is Paradise: Stories and Haunani-Kay Trask's From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i; and the Puerto Rico Strong comics anthology includes some about the pre-colonial history of what is now called Puerto Rico)
  
• the "Best Family" and "Best Adventure" books (6/each) from Minh Lê's "Best Picture Books of 2017"

MOOCs

• I started University of Alberta's Coursera Indigenous Canada (via Tumblr) I'm through the first 2 weeks (out of 12).

movies -- I was bummed that the 6 films I saw this month were almost entirely written/directed by white men :/ Though I would still recommend the documentaries Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution and Dawnland (the latter is about the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the USA re: Native children getting taken away from their parents).

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tv

• finished Season 1 of Black Lightning (which got renewed for a second season)

live theatre

• Satire V's Romeo and Juliet and Bennie and the Jets -- which was delightful
  
• ASP's Much Ado About Nothing

podcasts

• I started listening to Mabel (as rec'ed by Maria -- the website says, "a podcast about ghosts, family secrets, strange houses, and missed connections") I'm through Season 1 [8.5 episodes] and the Season 2 teaser
  
• [SYMiHC] The East India Company's Theft of China’s Tea Secrets

music

• Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer Emotion Picture

visual art

• Art in Bloom at the MFA

other

• 23rd Annual Harvard Pow Wow (Embracing the Dreamers)

speaking of Coursera...

So I'm taking the Indigenous Canada course, and Coursera's "Get started on Coursera" email (after I signed up a few weeks ago) says. "To develop deep mastery in a particular subject area, join a Specialization - a series of rigorous courses culminating in a Capstone Project." -- but they don't have a Native Studies sort of Specialization; the only other related courses I could find were Aboriginal Worldviews and Education (University of Toronto) and Cultural Competence - Aboriginal Sydney (University of Sydney). I probably also clicked on a few other things while searching/browsing.

Last night, I got a "Recommended courses for you" email from Coursera, and it's interesting to read the list and think about the algorithm that generated this.

Specializations + Courses

• The Teacher and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) (University of Colorado Boulder | 5 Course Specialization)
  
• Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones (Universiteit Leiden)
  
• Roman Architecture (Yale University)
  
• Game Design: Art and Concepts (California Institute of the Arts | 5 Course Specialization)
  
• ELL Success in the Content Classroom: Teacher Toolbox Series (Arizona State University | 4 Course Specialization)
  
• The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction (Northwestern University)
  
• Luther and the West (Northwestern University)
  
• Religions and Society in China (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
  
• Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data Analytic Approach, Part 2 (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  
• Roman Art and Archaeology (University of Arizona)
  
• Foundations of Global Health (Johns Hopkins University | 7 Course Specialization)
  
• Russian History: from Lenin to Putin (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  
• Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds (University of Alberta)
  
• Evolution Today (Universiteit Leiden, Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
  
• Academic Skills for University Success (The University of Sydney | 5 Course Specialization)
  
• Stalin and Stalinism in Russian History (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
  
• Magic in the Middle Ages (Universitat de Barcelona)
  
• The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (Tel Aviv University)
  
• Organising an Empire: The Assyrian Way (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU))
  
• Music Production (Berklee College of Music | 4 Course Specialization)
  
• Patrick Henry: Forgotten Founder (University of Virginia, UVA Lifetime Learning, Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation)
  
• Age of Cathedrals (Yale University)
  
• Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology (University of Alberta)
  
• Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe (University of Colorado System)