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Wilfrid Laurier University

Criminology

Banishment

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Mainstream Media Portrayal Of Banishment And Nation-Imposed Punishment, Keely Ormond Jan 2024

Mainstream Media Portrayal Of Banishment And Nation-Imposed Punishment, Keely Ormond

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“In a traditional village, we wouldn’t have a teepee with no door on it and throw somebody in there. We wouldn’t cast them out, because banishment meant death. What we had to do was restore relationships” – Ryan Beardy (Thorpe, 2022).

The following project examines the representation of Indigenous traditions, customs, and issues in Canadian mainstream media. Specifically, this project is interested in the portrayal of banishment as an Indigenous practice in Canadian mainstream news outlets. This project is based on an interpretive paradigm informed by grounded theory and concepts of media framing, postcolonialism, settler colonialism and restorative justice. Nineteen …