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Get ready for the not-so-amazing race to form Canada’s next government! That’s right: it’s federal election time from now until October 21. But will Indigenous interests factor much if at all into this election? We discuss the recent efforts by the Assembly of First Nations to make sur...
2019-09-15 02:30:20 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the second it hit social media, the new ad campaign for the House of Dior’s so-called ‘Sauvage’ cologne sure kicked up a stink. In fact, as soon as Nati...
2019-09-08 04:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post☀ THE LAST EPISODE IN OUR SUMMER 2019 SERIES ☀
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: the serious business of self-Indigenization. On its face, Indigenous identity would seem simple to understand; if you chose to look past the colonial elephant in the room, that is. And yet, complicated and confusing as colonialism can make the identification process, it all comes down to knowing not only who claims which nation or people—but which people or nation claims ...
2019-08-28 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTHE EIGHTH EPISODE IN OUR SUMMER SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: comprehending and combating climate change. And as our current crisis continues to heat up the planet, it’s also lit a fire under MEDIA INDIGENA. That’s partly because we know that climate change disproportionately impacts Indigenous peoples—despite Indigenous knowledges offering critical clues on how to help combat imminent climate disaster.
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2019-08-19 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSHOW 7 IN OUR SUMMER SERIES:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: the other half of our two-part look at remaking the Indigenous family. Last episode, we got into the colonial principles of Settler family forms and norms. This episode, we lay out how they are applied in practice, with Indigenous people often on the receiving end. And if th...
2019-08-12 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEPISODE 6 IN OUR SUMMER SERIES!
On this episode’s collected, connected conversations: Part One of “Re-making the Indigenous Family.”
Said to be among society’s most sacrosanct institutions, 'The Family' is a core site and source of social reproduction. But is the Settler family form the only way to organize human relations? Does it matter that this dominant, mainstream form differs from those of Indigenous peoples? The answers to these questions are critical, for the...
2019-08-05 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post🌞 EPISODE 5 IN OUR SUMMER SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations: how core concepts of Christianity continue to inspire and infuse the laws, attitudes and actions of supposedly secular Settler states toward Indigenous peoples.
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On this week’s collected, connected conversations: reckoning with Reconciliation.
But what exactly is 'Reconciliation'? How should it happen? How will we know it's happened? Questions that arise time and time again on our podcast. Questions that are essential to confront for any Settler colonial state like Canada—or at least would be if Canada was serious about moving away from a foundation built upon Indigenous dispossession,...
2019-07-21 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s collected, connected conversations, we head to the lab to put Science under the microscope. From archaeology to genetics to the ethics of biological research, Indigenous people are commonly subjects of study. Studies that often get us wrong or worse, just flat-out deny the worth of our own forms of inquiry and knowledge.
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2019-07-13 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week’s collected, connected conversations (the second in our series of summertime shows) feature a focus on the media.
From blatant double-standards, to persistent narratives of First Nations ‘failure,’ to victim-blaming, Canadian media has long misrepresented Indigenous peoples, which is no doubt why we've so often reported on their reporting...
2019-07-05 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostOUR SUMMER 2019 SERIES BEGINS 🌞 Given how all of our Summer Series shows dig deep into our archives, perhaps it’s only fitting that our first episode of the season explores history and heroes. Although, as you’ll hear, what constitutes the latter is certainly in the eye of the beholder.
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With Solstice 2019 come and gone, we've been busy putting the final touches on our second-ever Summer Series. As we do, we wanted to let you know about some changes coming to the show, changes you may not even notice, but which will definitely make a difference on our end.
These changes are based on the survey we sent out to patrons like you back in January. (The aggregate results are attached.) The survey, completed by roughly 100 responde...
2019-06-23 21:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Vetting the V-Word. “Victims” and “victimhood”—it's controversial conceptual territory for many, and depending on your vantage point, distressing for different reasons. In this, our third and final look at reactions stirred up by the report of the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, we get into when the word works for us or potentially works against us, a larger conversation prompted in part...
2019-06-15 20:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
What’s in a word? Well, when that word is "genocide" and you’re part of Canada’s mostly-white, mostly-male commentariat... nothing, apparently? And if you’re like the Prime Minister, the word supposedly matters much less than the vague actions we should all focus on going forward.
In part two of our extended look at the report of the Inquiry into...
2019-06-12 06:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
This episode, the first of a two-part look at the Final Report of Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. (Scroll down to learn how your questions can be part of the second episode with Kim and Candis.)
This week marks the official release of that report, just days after details of a leaked copy were 2019-06-04 04:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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State of Alienation. It was a country that didn’t even exist 120 years ago. Yet, today, authorities in Australia are convinced they’re somehow justified in declaring certain Indigenous people to be illegal 'aliens,' individuals the state feels it has the right to 2019-05-29 07:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Raising (and removing) red flags in Saskatchewan. A small Prairie village suddenly finds itself at the centre of a storm after one of its residents...
2019-05-17 00:38:31 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Earth’s bio-diversity death spiral: can we change course? A new United Nations study paints a dark picture of the future, a future pretty much guaranteed if we as a planet continue to follow a path of economic, political and ecological auto-asphyxiation.
But who is this “we” exactly? Turns out, 2019-05-14 06:22:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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How a lake in the States lost its Indigenous name, re-gained it, only to potentially lose it again because of a Minnesota court decision. Join us as we dive into the details of the Dakota waters known as Bde Maka Ska (aka Lake Calhoun).
Sitting with host/producer Rick Harp at the roundtable this week are Brock Pita...
2019-05-06 02:23:40 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Picking up where last week’s round table left off, this week is the second half of our deep dive into the dark response to the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, as we explore whether the spiritual schism triggered by its destruction might actually contain ingredients of a “teachable moment” for non-Indigenou...
2019-04-26 18:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
The Indigenous 'grief gap' over Notre Dame. We react to the reaction that flooded social media over footage of the fire that ripped through France's Notre Dame cathedral. Amidst the tearful tributes o...
2019-04-23 04:22:37 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/17/18412307/notre-dame-native-american-activists-sacred-lands
On MI 157, we'll discuss Indigenous perspectives like these ☝️ on the Notre Dame Cathedral fire with Kim, Candis and Rick.
Got thoughts, Qs ahead of our recording? Share 'em in replies and we'll try our best to incorporate them.<...
2019-04-18 15:01:16 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Sonic sovereignty: With Inuit widely credited as creators of a distinctive form of throat-singing, does it follow that they alone should get to perform it? We’ll discuss the increasingly 2019-04-14 23:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Crashing the Liberal party. It was meant to be a partisan fundraiser in a posh Toronto hotel but it soon became a site of protest—an activist calling on Canada’s prime minister to do right by a First Nation ravaged by 2019-04-08 05:32:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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What might a seminar in "Settler Studies" look like? What happens when you reverse the lens and try to unpack what it means to be a Settler? What’s the difference between Settler colonialism and white supremacy—is it one of kind or degree? And can we ever hope to solve “The Settler Problem”?
Joining host/producer Rick Harp at the roundtable to explore these questions and more this week are Associate Professor of Indigenous S...
2019-04-01 00:17:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey Friends of MEDIA INDIGENA!
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2019-03-25 14:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
They’re calling it a reconciliatory move: a new Liberal budget forgiving interest charges on loans taken out by First Nations to cover the costs of treaty negotiations in British Columbia. But just how grateful should anyone be to a country that
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Three billion dollars, thousands upon thousands of children. These are the stakes of a potential class action alleging the federal government knowingly and "systemat...
2019-03-19 03:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: high-tech treaty rights. According to Māori in New Zealand, their treaty rights don’t just extend to resources of the land and sea, they also include 2019-03-11 01:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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A headdress head scratcher. What exactly did the premier of Alberta—a province hell-bent on hydrocarbon exploitation, come what may—do to deserve the 2019-03-03 19:03:39 +0000 UTC View Post