This comparative study examines how the framing of Indigenous land governance issues—such as resource extraction activities on Indigenous territory and treaty negotiation—in Indigenous media differs from that in corporate news. Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis were applied to 66 news texts published in 2018 in large corporate newspapers, such as the National Post, and small Indigenous news outlets, such as Eagle Feather News. Researchers found that Indigenous media connected land governance issues to contemporary issues, such as racism and control over child welfare, as well as historical colonialism and Indigenous-Settler relations, while corporate news generally excluded any discussion of these contextual factors. While the main news frame in the Indigenous press was Indigenous people were not consulted, the dominant frame in corporate news was Indigenous peoples have already been adequately consulted. Corporate news discourse valorized Indigenous traditional territory solely based on its presumed “economic value.” By contrast, Indigenous publications offered a counternarrative, one that positioned land and the rest of the natural environment as something that has absolute value, and as indivisible from all living things, including people.

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在加拿大本土和定居者媒体中构建土地治理问题

这项比较研究探讨了土著媒体对土著土地治理问题（例如土著领土上的资源开采活动和条约谈判）的框架与企业新闻中的不同。批判性话语分析方法应用于 2018 年在《国家邮报》等大型企业报纸和鹰羽新闻等小型土著新闻媒体上发表的 66 篇新闻文本。研究人员发现，土著媒体将土地治理问题与当代问题联系起来，例如种族主义和对儿童福利的控制，以及历史殖民主义和土著与定居者的关系，而企业新闻通常排除对这些背景因素的任何讨论。虽然土著媒体的主要新闻框架是没有咨询土著人民，企业新闻的主要框架是已经充分咨询了土著人民。企业新闻话语仅根据其假定的“经济价值”来评价土著传统领土。相比之下，土著出版物提供了一种反叙述，将土地和其他自然环境定位为具有绝对价值的东西，并且与包括人在内的所有生物不可分割。