This week: where there’s smokes, there’s fire. Does a recent ruling by Quebec’s Superior Court have the potential to dramatically alter Canada's constitutional landscape? Known as R. v. Montour and White [PDF], the case takes its name from a pair of Mohawk tobacco traders who refused to pay millions in...
2023-12-14 22:26:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis week: controversy at the Congress. The National Congress of American Indians, that is. And according to its website, NCAI is “the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.” A little too repr...
2023-12-03 20:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, yet another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the fast + furious version of MEDIA INDIGENA), with some world-wide words for our 333rd episode, recorded the evening of Sunday, November 12.
No doubt sub-consciously inspired by the recent 5-year(ish) anniversary of our deep discussio...
2023-11-21 00:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe wrap up October a titch late with another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the quick + dirty version of MEDIA INDIGENA), featuring a quartet of tidbits, ranging from a federal security agency’s overt admonishment of Nunavut over ‘covert’ foreign investment in otherwise neglected inf...
2023-11-02 22:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis week: another MINI INDIGENA featuring Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) and Candis Callison (Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC), who joined host/producer Rick Harp Wednesday, October 18 to discuss:
MEDIA INDIGENA is back with all-new shows, and we kick off with a far-ranging foursome of items, ranging from a historic provincial election in Manitoba to the RCMP opting not to lay charges against a Yellowknife doctor for the unilateral sterilization of an Inuk woman.
Joining host/producer Rick Harp this Friday, October 6 for this first mini INDIGENA of the season are two familiar voices, Brock Pitawanakwat (Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies a...
2023-10-08 00:11:10 +0000 UTC View PostSummer salutations, friend of MI! Hope yours is going swimmingly in the company of those you care about most.
We can now happily share with you the complete schedule for the remainder of our "Indigenous Journalisms" series, based on the key chapter of the same name in Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities, co-authored by Candis Callison and Mary-Lynn Young.
Joining Candis and Rick to discuss the chapter at various points, special guests and veteran journa...
2023-07-05 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFor the second installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MI regular Candis Callison joins host/producer Rick Harp and return guest Indian Country Today editor-at-large Mark Trahant to discuss the excerpt 'Indigenous Journalists in Newsrooms.'
(Missed part one? Listen here.)<...
2023-06-23 18:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostOla Friend of MI! It's finally here! And our opening installment of MEDIA INDIGENA's 2023 Summer Series debuts a new format for this time of year: a kind of 'audio book club' built around eight excerpts from "Indigenous Journalisms," the penultimate chapter of the book, Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities, co-authored by Mary-Lynn Young (professor, UBC School of Jou...
2023-06-11 17:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostFOR OUR SEASON-ENDER:
For our final show of the 2022/23 season, the debut of a somewhat new format—working title: 'the RADAR' 📡—as MI regular Trina Roache, King's College assistant professor of journalism, joins host/producer Rick Harp to co-pilot a rapid review of items big and small.
From the pope airing the idea of giving Indigenous peoples' stolen stuff back, to a group of Treaty 9 First Nations jointly suing Canada and Ontario f...
2023-05-06 00:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostDear Friend of MI,
With my head finally above water, I wanted to share a much-needed update about what's been up of late with MEDIA INDIGENA.
For those who can't wait 'til the next episode drops, it's no doubt been a disappointing time of late, and for that, I must apologize. I must also account.
Without overloading you with details, events of the past few months have greatly affected my capacity to consistently produce the program; chief among them, the recent pass...
2023-05-03 00:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:
The function of injunctions. When First Nations challenge the authority of a province or corporation to enact decisions that ignore Indigenous consent, there’s a handy legal tool those non-Indigenous parties can turn to: the injunction.
B...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
When culture and commerce collide. Three underground art rings producing hundreds if not thousands of fake artworks worth as much as $100 million: some mind-boggling numbers shared by police during 2023-03-26 01:23:39 +0000 UTC
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Water Insecurity and Suicide. Can a reserve’s chronically unsafe drinking water be associated with a greater risk of suicide for its residents? That’s the lethal link hypothesized in newly-released research entitled “Is Suicide a Water Justice Issue? Investigating Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories a...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Our second, long-overdue MINI INDIGENA of the season features regulars Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College) and Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) as they join host/producer Rick Harp to discuss:
• Why we don’t necessarily love the idea of 2023-03-10 23:59:20 +0000 UTC
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We're long overdue for a MINI INDIGENA and we could use your help!
Submit your idea now for a short-but-sweet nugget of conversation for our roundtable to chew on, as we proceed lightning-round style through a variety of items of discussion. Ideas may be sent to us here:
https://forms.gle/nYZW9gXT4DRJPfkc7
We record Thursday so act now!
Rick
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2023-03-09 01:41:57 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:
Press Proximity to Power: for our latest TalkBack edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where monthly supporters of the podcast debrief with us on our latest deep-dive discussion, MI regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp are joined by listeners as they follow up on their sit-down with 2023-02-24 22:30:27 +0000 UTC
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On our latest TalkBack edition, your chance to share your questions and comments with us about the show, a follow-up with journalist Dawn Marie Paley about her piece, “Canadian developers are gentrifying Mexico’s beaches,” published at The Breach.
Also back are host/producer Rick Harp and Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University Brock Pitawanakwat, as we pick up where we left off last episode, “How Canadian tourists help endanger Indigenous lands in ...
2023-02-18 02:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:
Storming the beaches. Some Canadian property developers hoping to lure so-called ‘snowbirds’ to sunny beachfront in Oaxaca, Mexico have hit a bit of a hitch: like, the fact that Indigenous people already own the beach. And according to 2023-01-29 00:59:47 +0000 UTC
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Media bias: something many suspect is at play in mainstream outlets. But proving it—that's a different story. Amidst the daily, dizzy churn that is the news cycle, finding a way to parse out and pin down reasonably comparable data isn't always obvious. But new research out of western Canada seems to have found a clever way around that: by looking at how different dailies treated the ...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
This episode, our third-ever 'TalkBack,' we host a live debrief with our patrons on 'Oil and Gaslighting,' our December 21, 2022 discussion about the jarring juxtaposition between federal underfunding of First Nations’ preparedness for floods, fires and other disasters worsened by climate change on the one hand, and how Canada overfunds ...
Fellow Winnipeggers: you free this Sat. January 21 at 1 p.m.? Please join me then as we continue to mark the 10th anniversary of Idle No More's dramatic emergence on the Canadian political scene with a special, in-person screening of the feature-length APTN News documentary, The Power Was With Us: Idle No More.
Co-created by myself and Tim Fontaine for APTN National News, it's a sweeping chronicle of those heady days back in late 2012/early 2013. Many thanks to...
2023-01-09 18:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE-TOP:
Something of a different turn for us this episode, as we roll into the realm of games. A way to play off another side of our personalities and help Rick hit his happy place, he somehow cajoled some of our roundtable regulars (and a few special guests) to join him at the table top ...
2023-01-05 21:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Oil and gaslighting. They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Guess which one the Canadian government funds way more than the other for First Nations emergencies like floods and fires? Karen Hogan knows the answer: in fact, the Auditor-General dedicated a whole chapter to it in 2022-12-27 01:10:58 +0000 UTC
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Torontonians! Don't forget Sunday's—tomorrow's!— free screening of The Power Was With Us: Idle No More, the sweeping APTN National News chronicle of the movement's dramatic emergence back in late 2012. It starts at 12 noon at the Rogers Communication Centre (Eaton Lecture Theatre) at the downtown Toronto Metropolitan University campus on 80 Gould Street.
Directors/producers Rick Harp and Tim Fontaine are both scheduled to be in attendance, so click on the link and ...
2022-12-17 18:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Ottawegians! Have you reserved your seats yet for Wednesday's free screening of The Power Was With Us: Idle No More, the sweeping APTN National News chronicle of the movement's dramatic emergence back in late 2012? It starts at 5:30 pm at the Arts Court Theatre in downtown Ottawa on 2 Daly Ave.
Directors/producers Rick Harp and Tim Fontaine are both scheduled to be in attendance, so click on the link and we'll see you there!
2022-12-13 20:04:10 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS WEEK: Our second-ever 'TalkBack' edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where Patreon supporters you like get a chance to share feedback live via Discord about our latest deep dive conversation. This time around, it's a debrief on our discussion of Alberta’s new Sovereignty Act.
Back to dialogue directly with patrons are Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York Unive...
2022-12-13 19:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous round table: Alberta sovereignty.
Sovereign over what and whom, you may ask? Great questions, ones that finally got an answer last week, when, on November 29, Premier Danielle Smith introduced her first bill, the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act. Or did th...
2022-12-05 22:22:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey gang, in case you ever thought we just flawlessly pull thoughts out of our brains via some elegant string of rhetoric, this blooper of me, Ken and Brock from the forthcoming episode about the Alberta Sovereignty Act (MI 308) will serve as a fun counterfactual.
2022-12-04 21:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
'Nation to nation,' or funder to client? When it comes to describing the financial relationship between the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian government which signs its cheques, critics are anything but kind. Through their jaded eyes, the department of Indian Affairs’ purse strings serve more like a leash on AFN, t...