Indigenous New Media Symposium | Chase Iron Eyes by INMS2014-NYC

The Indigenous New Media Symposium brought together Native American and First Nation media makers and creative activists to discuss how new media platforms are being used in the indigenous community to educate, organize, entertain, and advocate. In the past few years blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other tools have become important mechanisms to communicate indigenous perspectives in North America. Traditional media's long history of native stereotypes is being confronted by a new tech-savvy young generation that is speaking out strongly about cultural, political and economic issues. This symposium will also discuss other pertinent issues surrounding native media participation such as North America's digital divide, media effectiveness and identity issues.

Chase Iron Eyes (Lakota Sioux) is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and is a founder of Last Real Indians (www.lastrealindians.com), a media resource for original indigenous content creating the New Indigenous Millennium. In 2012, Chase and members of Last Real Indians launched a social media campaign that raised nearly $1,000,000 towards the historic re-purchasing of the sacred site known as Pe'Sla located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Chase is a Tribal judge, Lakota Peoples Law Project Staff Attorney & 7th Generation fund grant recipient. Chase received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Sponsored by The School of Media Studies at The New School
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