ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:
How should we speak of safety in society? How ought we to understand and manage the origins of risk? And in doing so, where might we position police’s role in producing either? Depending on who you talk to, “experiences may vary.” Now a new report [
2022-02-15 22:55:47 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
The occupation of Ottawa. As truckers and others continue to crash Canada's capital and beyond, it’...
On our fourth-ever 'MINI INDIGENA,' the quick + quippy edition of the podcast, special guest Q. Anthony Omene (cultural and political commentator with the Rezistans Nwa media network) joins roundtable regulars Kim TallBear (University of Alberta Native Studies professor) and hos...
2022-01-15 19:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Colonial catastrophising. How would you write a eulogy for the United States? Didn’t realize it was on death’s door? Guess you didn’t read the Globe and Mail over the holidays, when it published no less than six opinion pieces postulating no less than an imminent U.S. civil war. A civil war most agreed Canada needs to plan for. But is this really the twilight’s last gl...
ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:
The racket of Reconciliation. It’s been some six years since the TRC issued its final report, complete with 94 Calls to Action. Has Canada listened? How would we know? Well, a couple of years ago
2021-12-29 21:17:06 +0000 UTC
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Displeasure Island. So distressed is an Ontario cottage owner that Indians could regain a significant say over some nearby islands in Georgian Bay, he’s somehow convinced his human rights are under attack.
Ridiculous, right? Not to The Sudbury Star, a regional rag which not only took this settler shitshow seriously, 2021-12-22 02:37:07 +0000 UTC
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'MINI INDIGENA': In this latest “rapid roundtable” on multiple topics via Clubhouse, Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) and Brock Pitawanakwat (Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University) join host/producer Rick Harp to discuss: the 2021-12-11 17:44:29 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
The gulf in understanding between settlers and First Nations people over treaties. A gap recently reinforced by none other than CBC Kids, the junior wing of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, after it hosted a 'debate' about ...
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Wet’suwet’en Solidarity. As long-time listeners know well, this isn’t the first time our podcast has looked at long-standing Wet’suwet’en efforts to block outside incursions into their territory. Indeed, last August’s double episode, '2021-11-26 21:10:32 +0000 UTC
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TL;DR To ensure our host/producer avoids permanent burnout, we’ve moved to
3 episodes a month, trying out something new with one of them
How long has it been since I last wrote you, dear patron? Short of a pandemic, there’s really no excuse. Seriously, though, what a time to be alive. What a time to be making media.
And while there’s much to commiserate over during COVID, permit me a moment to celebrate our persistence and perseverance amidst these profoundly unc...
2021-11-15 20:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Our second crack at a “rapid round” of shorter conversations on multiple topics recorded via Clubhouse includes discussions on... whether '#LandBack' has been drained of its radical potential after an Indian Affairs minister's 2021-11-08 18:29:09 +0000 UTC
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Unsettled settlers. When it comes to advancing Indigenous causes, is making settlers 'feel bad' a winning strategy? At least one settler pundit says 'no,' and he’s rounded up some Indigenous people who 2021-10-29 01:16:47 +0000 UTC
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Unhealthy healers. CBC News has recently reported that a number of women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault against an Ontario medicine man. Although allegations are not the same as charges or convictions, the stories the women have shared...
Hello, patron! It's me Rick with a quick message about this latest episode, one that'll maybe sound kinda different from our conventional format. But that's precisely the point!
In the spirit of trying out new things, we're excited to share our first-ever “rapid round”: shorter conversations on multiple topics recorded via social audio apps.
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Carbon coup. When it comes to fighting climate change, have Indigenous activists made much of a difference? Do we really know what their myriad anti-pipeline actions add up to? Turns out, a lot—now with the numbers to back it up. They come from a recent report that’s literally quantified the ...
ON THIS WEEK'S *ALL-NEW* INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
For Canadians, it was a revelation that seemingly came out of nowhere: the confirmation back in May of over 200 unmarked graves at Kamloops, BC, thought to be the remains of young people who decades ago attended one of 2021-09-13 20:11:10 +0000 UTC
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😎 THE LAST OF OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations—our final show of the summer—more of our COVID contemplations.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School of Journalism, Writing and Media at UBC
• Kim TallBear, Professor in the...
😎 THE EIGHTH IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: pondering the pandemic. A disease that’s thrown many into disarray, COVID-19 has come up often on this podcast. And for good reason: disproportionately afflicted with health care gaps, Indigenous peoples' vulnerability made them the subject of dire predictions from the outset of this pandemic.
Featured voices this podcast inc...
😎 THE SEVENTH IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: the back half of our education investigation. And this episode, it’s all uni, all the time, where talk of 'Indigenization' is all the rage.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Resear...
😎 THE SIXTH IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: back to school. Well, not quite yet. But it is around the corner, so we thought we’d help you prep with an education-related retrospective. And with so much material to cover, we’ve set aside two dates on our course calendar.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Brock Pitawanakwat, York U...
😎 THE FIFTH IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: another round of fights over Indigenous rights to hunt and harvest.
Moose, elk, bison, lobster, salmon: just some of the non-human relatives that Indigenous peoples have relied upon for centuries. A reliance that, in turn, made self-reliance possible for those peoples. That is, until it wasn’t—t...
😎 THE FOURTH IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, we go on the hunt for some rights recognition. Rights rooted in the ‘radical’ notion that Indigenous peoples ought to be able to live off their lands and waters.
But, as we’ll hear over these next two episodes, those harvests are hampered—not only by the imposition of restrictions, but through the endangerment of the ...
2021-07-05 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post😎 THE THIRD IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, we walk into the world of leisure and recreation—well, for some, anyway. For, as you’ll hear, it seems us pesky Indians can’t help but spoil settler fun!
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Brock Pitawanakwat, York University Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies
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😎 THE SECOND IN OUR SUMMER 2021 SERIES:
This week, part two of our larger look at law and order—emphasis on the latter. Because even though we’ll begin this episode with discussions about the courts and prisons, building on last episode’s walk-through of policing, there’s a much bigger picture at play here: the enforcement and reinforcement of a social order, an order that works hand in glove with the needs of settler colonialis...
☀️ OUR 2021 SUMMER SERIES BEGINS ☀️
With the arrival of warmer weather, it's once again time for another MEDIA INDIGENA Summer Series, our compendia of conversations collected and connected from the past five years of the podcast.
And, with over 250 episodes to date, there’s certainly lots to choose from. And yet, there’s one subject that’s never far from the surface whenever we get together—jus...
2021-06-07 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Pollution is Colonialism Part Two: fresh off part one, host/producer Rick Harp and MI regular Candis Callison once again sit down with author, 2021-05-29 03:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Pollution is Colonialism: the straight-to-the-point title of a brand new book by Max Liboiron, Assistant Professor of Geography and Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Research
2021-05-27 00:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Redress, compensation and restitution. In short, Cash Back! Building on part one, it's the second half of our attempt to put meat on the bones of this call for economic justice issued in the latest Red Paper of the Yellowhead Institute—viewable at 2021-05-23 22:54:47 +0000 UTC
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From Wealth to Welfare. Just how did Canada’s economy end up among the world's largest, anyway? Was it the sheer pioneering pluck of can-do Canucks? A steely determination tempered by visionary imagination and innovation? Exactly what has Canada done to amass, command and enjoy such wealth? Well, according to a hot-off-the-presses report from the Yellowhead Institute, they stole it.
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
DILEMMA INDIGENA: For Indigenous peoples living under settler colonialism today, there are few choices that aren’t constrained, a predicament at the heart of a discussion in the brand new book, Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy.
Just p...