ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
A battle over boundaries in the state of Utah. We discuss the simmering split in San Juan County, where a majority Indigenous population now has an Indigenous majority representing it on the region’s top decision-making body. And while some celebrate this new democratic era for the county, others agitate for its division.
Back at the roundtable this week are Candis Callison, Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton Univer...
2019-02-23 08:04:11 +0000 UTC
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Back from our brief (but restorative) hiatus, this week's show speaks frankly about why the Liberal government's proposed Indigenous Languages Act is mostly notable for what it doesn't say.
Joining us this week is special return guest Lorena Fontaine,
2019-02-15 05:04:27 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Another BC battlefront: Why Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Coastal Gas Link pipeline project is—and isn’t—so complicated to understand
Revitalizing MEDIA INDIGENA: Why us 2019-01-14 04:34:52 +0000 UTC
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Why taking a break after 147 consecutive weeks is the best guarantee of many more episodes to come—and how you can help
It’s been quite some time since we at MEDIA INDIGENA did a check in with you, our awesome patrons; in fact, it’s been almost two whole years. Back then, we were some ten months and 45 weeks into things; we now sit at nearly 150 episodes (147 to be exact), or
2019-01-09 03:49:27 +0000 UTC
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This week, the second installment in our two-part conversation with Darrel McLeod, author of Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age.
Winner of the 2018 Governor-General’s award for non-fiction, Mamaskatch ha...
2018-12-30 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
This week, we present part one of our two-part conversation with Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, whose memoir recently won this year's Governor-General’s award for non-fiction.
Also joining host/producer Rick Harp for this special, year-end edition of the roundtable: Rick's mom, Jane Glennon (née McCallum).
2018-12-24 03:01:53 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Policing the police: A new review of Thunder Bay law enforcement finds the quality of their investigations so flawed many need to be re-opened
Fighting fakery: Ho...
2018-12-15 22:37:45 +0000 UTC
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This week, something a little different, as we share two presentations delivered on day two of the International Symposium on Indigenous Communities and Climate Change, hosted this December 6th and 7th by Princeton University in New Jersey.
Part of a line-up featuring nine speakers in all, we share talks by MEDIA INDIGENA roundtablers Candis Callison (“Communal Lives and Climate Change: Convening spaces for Indigenous publics, narratives, and knowledge”) and Rick Harp (”Indigenous Indepe...
2018-12-09 23:47:07 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
How to deal with denial? Can a link be drawn between minimizing the intent and impacts of residential schools of the not-so-distant past with the contemporary practice of forced/coerced ...
2018-12-01 18:00:00 +0000 UTC
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** Scroll down for details on a special discount for our patrons!!**
MEDIA INDIGENA is proud to announce we're helping our buds at Walking Eagle News take wing with their inaugural live event, The Walking Eagle Lectures, taking place this Thursday Nov. 29 at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg!
And who should be among the esteemed roster of loquacious lecturers but none other than our hostest with the mostest, Rick Harp!
Check out the ...
2018-11-25 02:28:04 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE
Fighting fire with fire? Why some say the massive blazes ripping across parts of California did not have to be so furious or fatal, if only the state would listen m...
2018-11-24 00:22:50 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Child and family fraud? How a potential class action lawsuit against one B.C. social worker has exposed some gaping vulnerabilities in a system supposedly set up to care for kids.
Lodging complaints: What the mainstream media 2018-11-16 03:26:46 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE...
What’s in a name? Everything, for Indigenous families hoping to reclaim their people's traditional naming practices.
What gives with philanthropy? The author of a new book on the subject 2018-11-11 00:47:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey there,
Just because it seems some listeners may not appreciate the hoops one has to go through to get at the correct version of this week's episode (MI 139), we've taken the extraordinary step of separately releasing this correct version.
Again, we deeply regret the error and pledge to never put anyone through this again, ourselves included.
LISTEN:
2018-11-04 17:28:20 +0000 UTC
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Ugh: how embarrassing. In my haste to get episode 139 of MEDIA INDIGENA out to everybody I had inadvertently muted Brock and Ken. The result is, well, a pretty one-sided conversation.
The episode file has now been replaced (as of 8:39 pm CT). However, if you listen to the show via an app that automatically downloads new episodes (like the iPhone's Podcasts app), you may have to delete that saved episode and re-load from scratch.
Sorry for the hassle: I feel like such a doofus. :/
2018-11-04 01:42:06 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
The Will of Brazil: Indigenous and environmental advocates raise huge 2018-11-03 21:27:30 +0000 UTC
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This week, part two of our live show at the University of Winnipeg on the potential impacts of cannabis legalization on Indigenous peoples in Canada. Part one featured matters of jurisdiction and justice; this time 'round, we look at the way some dream of an economic jackpot while others foresee a nightmare of mental and moral jeopardy.
Sponsored by the UWSA, the evening featured...
2018-10-28 20:21:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody,
It took farrrr longer than usual due to some unforeseen delays (some technical, some not), but we finally have our latest episode ready for your listening enjoyment. I gotta say, even as I edited it after the fact, parts of the show still had me laughing out loud.
On this week’s program, recorded live October 18 in Winnipeg, we stir the pot now that Canada’s cann...
2018-10-25 17:11:42 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Twelve years. According to a new report from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that's how long we have to act both decisively and radically concerning the climate if we are to keep life viable for much if not most of humanity.
Here's another number: 1.5 degrees Celsius. According to the same IPCC report, thatâ€...
2018-10-14 21:11:59 +0000 UTC
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This week, we bring you our special live-audience episode recorded September 21 in Edmonton, Alberta, where we discussed...
Protocol Schmotocol: What one professor’s slide into another’s DMs on Twitter in search o...
2018-10-08 01:13:19 +0000 UTC
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Fresh off last month's first-ever recording before a live audience, MEDIA INDIGENA is taking to another stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the evening of Thursday October 18!


Featuring round-table regulars Rick Harp and
2018-10-02 02:37:25 +0000 UTC
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This week brings you 'part two' of last week's round table, one that ran unusually long because of our extended discussion about APTN’s controversial reality show, "First Contact." Those outstanding two topics are...
Prime directive: A leaked
2018-09-30 02:10:25 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: Provocative or problematic? We discuss why opinion is so sharply divided over 'First Contact,' a new APTN mini-series showcasing Canadians’ deep ignorance about Aboriginal peoples in the hopes of "challenging their perceptions and confronting their opinions." And, with our discussion unexpectedly go...
2018-09-20 22:11:26 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
'Sinful' ceremony: a Cree community finds itself at spiritual odds over whether to allow a pow-wow some regard as blasphemous, in what might be seen as a battle that's part of 2018-09-14 22:20:46 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S (ALL-NEW) ROUNDTABLE:
Is a controversial pipeline now a pipe-dream? Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has just ruled that plans to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline are to be put on hold until the government 2018-09-08 20:24:43 +0000 UTC
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ON THIS WEEK'S (ALL-NEW) ROUNDTABLE:
Man camp controversy: decades-old abuse allegations against hydro-dam workers finally surface in Manitoba. Might it spark a flood of similar complaints? ...
2018-09-04 00:57:17 +0000 UTC
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Our ninth and final episode of our Summer Series collects and connects conversations about pipelines, in particular, the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project. Featured voices in this episode include (in order of appearance):
On this week's episode, the second-last show in our Summer Series, we revisit the troubling death of Colten Boushie—the 22-year old member of the Red Pheasant First Nation shot and killed back in August of 2016 by then-54-year-old white farmer named 2018-08-17 07:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Our seventh Summer Series episode collects and connects conversations about Thunder Bay, a small northwestern Ontario city where a huge amount of hostility has been directed at Indigenous people. It’s a negativity so 2018-08-10 06:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Our sixth Summer Series episode collects and connects conversations about language: more specifically, the politics of Indigenous language rights and funding in Canada. Featured voices this episode include (in order of appearance):
