Residents of Ottawa: whatcha doing this Wed. December 14 at 17:30 pm? Please join me then as we 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 documentary, The Power Was With Us: Idle No More.
Co-created by myself and Tim Fontaine for APTN News, it's a sweeping chr...
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Residents of the GTA: whatcha doing this December 18 at noon? Please join me then as we 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 documentary, The Power Was With Us: Idle No More.
Co-created by myself and Tim Fontaine for APTN News, it's a sweeping chronicle of those hea...
2022-11-25 17:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostNovember’s almost over and we’re once again playing catch up on on month’s episodes but I promise we’ll be better come December. For now, I just wanna give you a quick sneak preview of what’s coming as Ken, Brock and I busily prep for our imminent deep dive into... Alberta’s proposed “Sovereignty Act!” (Yeah, you read right.)
Meanwhile, our newish Discord has been active so far, with lots of back and forth about our episodes about Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond and the i...
2022-11-23 00:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
On our first MINI INDIGENA of the season, host/producer Rick Harp and MI regular Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College) are joined by special guest Melissa Ridgen (former co-anchor of APTN National News, now a
2022-11-06 19:06:36 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Our first-ever 'TalkBack' episode rolls off our recent deep dive, "The unravelling story of Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond" (MI 304). Recorded live inside our brand new Discord, regulars Kim TallBear and Candis Callison return to direct...
ON THIS WEEK'S *ALL-NEW* INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Another one bites the dust? Who is the real Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond? A question very much on the minds of Indigenous people in Canada these days, still digesting the exhaustive and explosive CBC News investigation into her public a...
2022-10-27 03:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostTân'si nitôtêmak! After a summer of semi-silence—not counting our seasonal collection of compilations—we’re admittedly off to a bit of a late start on all-new MEDIA INDIGENA episodes, but, in my defense, I did just recover from COVID-19! (Yes, after somehow evading it for much of the pandemic, I finally succumbed.)
Now suffic...
2022-10-26 22:08:43 +0000 UTC View PostTHE EIGHTH AND FINAL EPISODE OF OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
On our last summer episode of collected, connected conversations: settler election fever! In this back half of our political retrospective on Election 2019 and more, we revisit the 2019 campaign's first debate, an infamous campaign scrum, and whether the real solution to our political woes might be an all-Indigenous party.
Featu...
THE SEVENTH IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
On this episode’s collected, connected conversations: Neech the Vote! Was it really a year ago that Canada held its last federal election? A contest we didn’t much concern ourselves with, to be frank; after all, we’d gone hard on the election two years prior. But, looking back, maybe that 2019 campaign taught us all we needed to know about how Indigenous ...
THE SIXTH IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
On this week's collected, connected conversations: Settlerology. That’s right: our chance to turn that gaze around, to peer deep into the soul of settler society! Heck, who better to lead a course on colonial culture than Indigenous people?
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Brock Pitawanakwat
2022-09-13 12:00:00 +0000 UTC
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THE FIFTH IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES (AND OUR 300TH EPISODE EVER!!!):
On this week's collected, connected conversations, we burrow into bureaucracy, the Canadian civil service which administers every aspect of Indian life from cradle to grave via the technocratic tentacles of Indian Affairs.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Shiri ...
THE FOURTH EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: freedom of speech. From censorship to libel, press access and accountability, there are many facets to free speech, and we’ve sounded off on many of them.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Ken Williams, Assistant Professor with the University ...
THE THIRD EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
On this week's collected, connected conversations: weaponized words. The first of two shows sounding off on speech, we've stitched together a variety of verbiage, from all about threats to speech in part two to all about threats via speech here in part one.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Ken Williams...
THE SECOND EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
On this episode's collected, connected conversations: the battle over belonging. The back half of our investigation into inclusion—or is that excursion into exclusion? They're kind of two sides of the same coin to be honest, minted at our expense.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Candis Callison,...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
A dip into Discord: no, not some disagreement or friction somewhere, but Discord the digital platform, one which lets creators connect more directly and responsively with their audiences, free of all the ickiness of sites operated by huge social media corporations. A platform we’ll soon...
Rest is not a reward. It’s a neurobiological imperative. Our brain needs downtime. We don’t have to earn it.
Dr. Jennifer R. Wolkin, neuropsychologist
2022-07-27 21:51:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, this is rather awkward. MI 296 (the first of our summer series) is now out in the world before the paint has yet to dry on MI 295. But how? Why? Did you guys unwittingly discover a glitch in the time/space continuum?
Yeah, so, can we, um, just say I messed up and that 295 is gonna be here real soon? And just as a tease, I do hope the excitement you'll feel about what 295 is about—a new way for us as creators to connect with you as our supporters—makes you quickly for...
THE FIRST IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2022 🌞 SERIES:
Summer is back and so is MEDIA INDIGENA's Summer Series, our compendia of conversations collected and connected from over the past six years, coming up on 300 episodes of the podcast.
Our first two shows of the summer are all about belonging, a subject neither dull nor academic for Indigenous peoples. After all, the Canadian state has worked hard to ...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
For our eleventh 'MINI' INDIGENA of the season, we try something a little different this time ‘round: a face-to-face-to-face discussion recorded Friday, June 24 in Winnipeg! Joining host/producer Rick Harp this episode are MI regular Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) plus special guest Tasha Hubbard (Associate Professor, U of A Faculty of Native Studies, wri...
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Quick message to say we're pulling another MINI INDIGENA episode together later today (Friday June 24) and we'd love to feature one of our patron's suggestions!
To submit yours, please use the form below. A reminder that MINI items are more like 'nuggets,' wee morsels of the 'oh-boy-check-this-out' variety, the kind of thing you'd throw open to friends over a super-casual conversation.
Remember: we only budget 5 minutes (split between 3 people)...
2022-06-24 16:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Return to Restoule—the back half of our conversation about the Restoule case, the litigation some say has advanced a re-consideration and re-interpretation of the 1850 Robinson treaties.
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Our tenth 'MINI' INDIGENA of the season runs the gamut as usual, with MEDIA INDIGENA regulars Ken Williams (assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama) and Kim TallBear (U of A professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) joining host/producer Rick Harp Saturday, June 11
2022-06-12 22:07:14 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Billions in back rent? A pair of treaties covering a territory roughly the size of France are at the heart of a legal fight for a fair share of its resource revenues.
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
It's another 'MINI' INDIGENA, where we pack in sizzling-hot takes on a flurry of items, including a nugget from one of you, our amazing patrons! Joining host/producer Rick Harp this Friday, May 20 via the Callin app were MI regulars Ken Williams (assistant professor with the University of Alberta...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
For our eighth 'MINI' INDIGENA of the season, MI regular Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) and special guest January Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora poet, author, and
ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:
Gift or grift? When it comes to the spoils of colonialism, perhaps none have been more spoiled than the Hudson’s Bay Company. A 17th century creature of empire which drove a global fur trade, HBC would go on to make itself synonymous with Canada, blanketed in the country’s foundational myths. Along the way, exploiting and extracting all it could from Indigenous lands, waters and peoples.
Th...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Another week, another 'MINI' INDIGENA (our seventh of the season), where host/producer Rick Harp is joined by yet another pairing of APTN National News alumni, Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism, University of King’s College) and special guest Tim Fontaine (Editor-in-Grand-Chief of
2022-04-22 19:00:58 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
For our sixth-ever 'MINI' INDIGENA, host/producer Rick Harp is joined by roundtable regulars—and fellow APTN National News alumni—Ken Williams (assistant professor, University of Alberta’s department of drama) and Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism, University of King’s College) to discuss:
i) how some in Maine fear tribes potentially regaining some measure of sovereignty means they'll ‘
2022-04-16 01:43:39 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Getting real with artifical intelligence. Hardly a day goes by it seems without news of some ‘revolutionary’ A.I.-driven tool ushering in a brave new world. Less said is who’ll be left out or left behind. Which is why, when it comes to Indigenous content, some fear much of artificial intelligence remains superficial ignorance. But can ‘The Cloud’ incorporate culture? Can we 'Indigenize' as...
ON THIS EDITION OF 'MINI INDIGENA':
Special guest Michael Redhead Champagne (Ininew helper, host, speaker & author) joins roundtable regulars Kim TallBear (University of Alberta Native Studies professor) and host/producer Rick Harp to discuss:
i) Is it only propaganda when others do it? The blocking of RT (Russia Today) in 2022-03-05 21:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post