The Middle River: Towards a New Chapter of Local Knowledge for Miawpukek/Conne River

This project represents a month of in-community field work and pre-planning to build the foundations for The Middle River, a research-creation collaboration between Pam Hall , Jerry Evans and Miawpukek/Conne River. The Middle River will eventually produce a fully bilingual (English and Mi'Kmaq) multi-panel art-and-knowledge archive of local place-based knowledge in Miawpukek First Nation (MFN) in Conne River, Newfoundland. Intended to extend the on-going project Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK), The Middle River will add a third chapter to the ELK , will broaden its content beyond white, settler, and English-only knowledge practices. Project leaders will train local youth researchers to enable inter-generational knowledge exchange, build capacity , create a community local knowledge archive, and transfer research/creation methods to community members for future and ongoing use.