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MEDIA INDIGENA 224

Reclaiming history, rekindling kinship / MI 224

ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:

Indigenous Gender and Sexuality Studies. A subject at the center of 2020-09-18 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA INDIGENA 223

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 2020-08-31 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA 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 2020-08-23 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA 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.

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MEDIA 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...

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MEDIA 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 end...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 218

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 co...

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MEDIA 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 heal...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 216

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,...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 215

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: Jo...

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MEDIA 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 i...

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MEDIA 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 Indigeno...

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What 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 audie...

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MEDIA 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 F...

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MEDIA 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 p...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 210

A View from Kalaallit Nunaat / MI 210

On this week’s episode: “Indigenous Knowledge and Heavens,” the title of a ta...

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MEDIA 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 2020-05-23 16:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA INDIGENA 208

Election vexation / MI 208

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: 

21st century voting, 19th century colonialism. An Ontario First Nation View Post

MEDIA 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 ...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 206

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 eno...

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BONUS: 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 s...

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MEDIA 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,...

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MEDIA 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.&...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 203

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: 

After hosting back-to-back episodes (201 & 2020-04-01 02:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA INDIGENA 2O2

THIS WEEK: Could the benefits of hindsight foreshadow the costs to come? As we discussed last episode, the collision of colonialism and 2020-03-28 03:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA INDIGENA 201

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 g...

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MEDIA 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 2020-03-10 23:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA INDIGENA 199

This week: Is Alberta becoming a police-state? At least one critic thinks so, after the province’s recent introduction of Bill 1. Labelled ...

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MEDIA INDIGENA 198

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 <...

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MEDIA 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.' W...

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