“[Far from] ponies and fairy dust” / MI 283
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 ta...
2022-02-15 22:55:47 +0000 UTC
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Troubles with Truckers / MI 282
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
The occupation of Ottawa. As truckers and others continue to crash C...
2022-02-10 07:34:50 +0000 UTC
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On our fourth-ever 'MINI INDIGENA,' the quick + quippy edition of the podcast, special guest Q. Anthony Omene (cultural and political commentator with the R...
2022-01-15 19:46:27 +0000 UTC
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Thinking the Unthinkable / MI 280
ON 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 holida...
2022-01-13 23:41:11 +0000 UTC
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Rotten Report Card / MI 279
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 2021-12-29 21:17:06 +0000 UTC
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Rocking the boats / MI 278
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
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...
2021-12-22 02:37:07 +0000 UTC
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Sorry, Not (Yet) Sorry? / MI 277
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
'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 P...
2021-12-11 17:44:29 +0000 UTC
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Trust, Truth and Treaties / MI 276
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 2021-12-04 01:02:00 +0000 UTC
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The Undoing of Underdevelopment / MI 275
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 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...
2021-11-15 20:40:47 +0000 UTC
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Another batch of 'oral morsels' / MI 274
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Our second crack at a “rapid round” of shorter conversations on multiple topics recorded via Clubhouse includes discussions...
2021-11-08 18:29:09 +0000 UTC
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Settler Shitposting / MI 273
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
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 2021-10-29 01:16:47 +0000 UTC
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Bad Medicine / MI 272
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Unhealthy healers. CBC News has recently reported that a ...
2021-10-17 21:18:20 +0000 UTC
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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”:
2021-10-01 21:14:33 +0000 UTC
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A quantitative difference / MI 270
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 l...
2021-09-29 00:15:23 +0000 UTC
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"The past is never dead. It's not even past." / MI 269
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 2021-09-13 20:11:10 +0000 UTC
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Pandemic Pontifications / MI 268
😎 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)...
2021-08-31 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
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'Rona Retrospective / MI 267
😎 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: dispr...
2021-08-17 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Summer School / MI 266
😎 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.
...
2021-08-05 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Class Struggle / MI 265
😎 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 ...
2021-07-27 14:00:01 +0000 UTC
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“We take care of [them]; they take care of us.” / MI 264
😎 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, salm...
2021-07-15 14:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Triggering Conflicts / MI 263
😎 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 o...
2021-07-05 14:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The Not So Great Outdoors / MI 262
😎 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 hel...
2021-06-28 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Out of Order / MI 261
😎 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...
2021-06-17 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
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The Long Arm of the Law / MI 260
☀️ 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 po...
2021-06-07 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Garbage Theory / MI 259
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Pollution is Colonialism Part Two: fresh off part one, host/prod...
2021-05-29 03:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Talkin' Trash / MI 258
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Pollution is Colonialism: the straight-to-the-point title of a brand new book by 2021-05-27 00:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Money on our mind and our mind on our money / MI 257
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Redress, compensation and restitution. In short, Cash Back! Building on part one<...
2021-05-23 22:54:47 +0000 UTC
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Show Us The Money / MI 256
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
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 ima...
2021-05-15 19:54:15 +0000 UTC
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Change and continuity / MI 255
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,...
2021-05-01 01:49:01 +0000 UTC
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