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Reclaiming history, rekindling kinship / MI 224
ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:
Indigenous Gender and Sexuality Studies. A subject at the center of a talk delivered this past March by Dr. 2020-09-18 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Respect our existence or expect our resistance / MI 223
OUR SUMMER SERIES WRAP-UP:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, part two of our resource resistance retrospective. Yet as part one revealed, these issues are hardly historical. Indeed, it was only six months ago that the Royal Canadian Militarized Police—in full riot gear and...
2020-08-31 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 222
Undoing UNDRIP / MI 222
ON OUR SEVENTH SUMMER SERIES SHOW:
This week’s collected, connected conversations make up the first part of a double episode about resource resistance, inspired by a struggle too big to ignore, one punctuated by striking video of back-to-back raids by militarized police against small Indigenous encampments in what...
2020-08-23 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 221
What gets counted, gets colonized / MI 221
ON OUR SIXTH SUMMER SERIES SHOW:
On this episode’s collected, connected conversations: we get down with data and tight with tech, tackling topics that range from social media to social services.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta
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2020-08-15 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 220
Beyond abstinence and shame / MI 220
OUR FIFTH SUMMER SERIES SHOW:
On this episode’s collected, connected conversations: navigating the harms and hopes associated with drugs. From alcohol to opiods, taxes to testing, you could say we’ve explored our fair share of substances on this show.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Kim TallBear, associate professor ...
2020-08-07 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 219
Once more, with feeling / MI 219
OUR 4TH SUMMER SERIES INSTALLMENT:
On this week’s collage of collected, connected conversations, appropriation and authenticity—the second half of our extended foray into the arts. From tacky souvenirs to the endless parade of Settlers pining to play Indian, we’re questioning the images of Indigenous people: who gets to make and profit by them, as well as what is and isn’t considered ‘authentic.’
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An artistic retrospective / MI 218
😎 PART 3 OF OUR SUMMER 2020 SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, the arts take centre stage. A stage so wide, it’ll take two acts to cover it all. Who knew this show could be so artsy? For our first act, we look at representation and misrepresentation, be it on-screen, on stage, or on the page. From gatekeepers to white fragility, it ain’t easy trying to be Indige...
2020-07-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 217
Taking the temperature of colonialism / MI 217
EPISODE 2 IN OUR SUMMER 2020 SERIES:
On this episode’s collected, connected conversations: a checkup on the state of Indigenous health. A thorough examination of how the Canadian health system can all too often operate against Indigenous well-being via ill-considered policies and practices.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
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It did—and does—happen here / MI 216
☀️ OUR 2020 SUMMER SERIES BEGINS ☀️
Once again this year, we at MEDIA INDIGENA have dug deep into our archives to bring you a summer-long series of collected, connected conversations, on a variety of topics: from drugs to data, the arts to activism.
We begin with a subject some argue has always been at the heart of the Canadian project: 2020-07-07 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Views from somewhere / MI 215
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
A systemic look at media. It’s the second half of our extended conversation with our very own Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young, co-authors of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities. Published by Oxford University Press, it’s the work of former practitioners in the field who now study and teach the craft at the University of British Co...
2020-06-30 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 214
Media's digital reckoning / MI 214
On this episode: part one of our extended conversation on the limits and possibilities of journalism. And these days, we hear little about the latter, a lot about the former—even before COVID-19 took its toll on the industry.
Some blame media companies’ downfall on the digital: the interwebs and smartphones shredding the business model of now-obsolete oligopolies. And yet, it’s...
2020-06-21 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 213
A Roundtable on our Roundtable / MI 213
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: NAISA INDIGENA
And just who or what is a “NAISA”? It’s the Native American Indigenous Studies Association. Or as they put it, a “professional organization for scholars, graduate students, independent researchers, and community members interested in all aspects of Indigenous St...
2020-06-12 23:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhat would you ask the Roundtable? 😃🎙️
Hello Friend of MEDIA INDIGENA!
Have you ever wanted to ask a question of the roundtable? As we continue prepping our third-ever Summer Series, we have one more pre-summer show to record and we wanted you to be part of it.
An episode we had planned to tape before a live audience at this year’s NAISA gathering in Toronto before it was cancelled due to COVID-19, we've decided to do it as a podca...
2020-06-09 05:54:11 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 212
Food: Commodity or Community? / MI 212
ON THIS EPISODE:
Food and environmental justice. Topics at the heart of a talk given back in February by Dr. Priscilla Settee, Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and...
2020-06-06 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 211
The United States of Plunder / MI 211
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
The ‘Looting’ of America. As if a pandemic wasn’t enough to contend with, disturbing video came out on social media this week of blatant police brutality against a black resident of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, video that has sparked 2020-05-30 00:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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A View from Kalaallit Nunaat / MI 210
On this week’s episode: “Indigenous Knowledge and Heavens,” the title of a talk delivered earlier this year by Inuk scholar, Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson.
An Assistant Pr...
2020-05-26 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 209
Gauging the gun ban / MI 209
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUND TABLE:
Weapons and exceptions. The Liberal government’s recently-announced ban on 1500 types of assault weapons is not going over well with certain gun owners. Could the exemption for, among others, Indigenous hunters make ...
2020-05-23 16:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 208
Election vexation / MI 208
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
21st century voting, 19th century colonialism. An Ontario First Nation feels frustrated by the fact that, just weeks away from its June election, it still hasn’t got the green light from Indigenous Services Canada to hold their own vote under their own rules. Rules t...
2020-05-10 23:57:50 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 207
A Bitter Butter Boycott / MI 207
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Butter blowback. With next to no fanfare, the makers of Land O’ Lakes butter has stripped its packaging of a decades-old iconic Indian maiden. Prompting pouts a-plenty from some Settlers who found the switch distasteful—a butter backlash that spread across social media. But, no surprise, #NativeTwitter was more than ready with a flurry of counter-memes. 2020-04-30 21:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Pondering Pandemic Protocols / MI 206
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Patient privacy, public protection: they can feel at odds in this era of coronavirus. And yet, when it comes to the impacts of the virus on black and brown people, some say there’s not enough information being captured and communicated. But could knowing who is infected risk stigma in turn?
Tackling these thorny questions and more with host/producer Rick Harp this week are Candis...
2020-04-27 01:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS: Ken, Brock, Rick on post-COVID-19
This episode had a little extra stuff that we thought better fit here, reserved just for patrons. It's Rick, Ken and Brock all ruminating on something social they each look forward to enjoying once all this damn distancing is done with.
How about you? Is there a special thing big or small you daydream of indulging once the lockdown is loosened? Share it here or email rick@mediaindigena.com and we'll do our best to squeeze it on the show.
Be well,
Rick<...
2020-04-17 05:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 205
Continuous Covid Convos / MI 205
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Corona commiseration. It’s the topic on everyone’s mind, all the time—which itself can be a challenge, for us included. Inundated with infection information, how much might be too much for our mental health? It’s a real question: with so many media already covering Covid-19 so much, should we?
Please email rick@mediaindigena.com with you...
2020-04-17 04:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 204
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Cornell, MIT, Rutgers—can you guess what these prestigious U.S. centers of higher learning have in common? Well, together with scores of schools just like them, they all owe their existence and persistence to the systematic theft of Indigenous lands.
Dating back to the late 1800s, this heartless campaign of dispossession has just been 2020-04-09 21:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
After hosting back-to-back episodes (201 & 202) of special guest appearances concerning COVID-19, this time we re-connect with two of our regular roundtablers, both to see how they’re faring i...
2020-04-01 02:32:58 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 2O2
THIS WEEK: Could the benefits of hindsight foreshadow the costs to come? As we discussed last episode, the collision of colonialism and COVID-19 creates additional layers of risk for 2020-03-28 03:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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THIS WEEK: Flattening the curve, feeling the gap. COVID-19, the virus that first popped up in Wuhan, China, is now officially a global pandemic. And even though the vast majority of people who get COVID-19 will ultimately suffer either mild or even no sy...
2020-03-19 05:17:03 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 200!
When a company in one country is linked to human rights abuses in another, should they be held responsible for that abuse back home? According to Canada’s Supreme Court, yes! Which means a Canadian mining company operating in northeast Africa could stand trial for 2020-03-10 23:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week: Is Alberta becoming a police-state? At least one critic thinks so, after the province’s recent introduction of Bill 1. Labelled the “Critical Infrastructure Defence Act,” the bill will, in 2020-03-01 20:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week: Choosing our words carefully. When discussing those who oppose resource extraction, how important is it to call them protectors rather than protesters? And when it comes to the members of a dominant society horny for such extraction, how vital is it that they be called Settlers? Judging by the dust these debates still kick up, a lot!
And wouldn’t you know it, among those kicking was our own Candis Callison, associate professor ...
2020-02-24 22:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostMEDIA INDIGENA 197
ON THIS WEEK'S ROUND TABLE:
Gauging the gatekeepers. Tired of how the media has covered its event in recent years, an all-Indigenous basketball tournament in BC has decided it's had enough of 'negative press.' With one exception—a First Nations radio station that broadcasts the games live—other media hoping to cover the event have been 2020-02-16 02:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post