On this week’s roundtable: Wet'suwet'en Redux. It’s an ever-changing story, yet all-too-reminiscent of other Indigenous struggles—and that’s just in supposedly pro-UNDRIP British Columbia. With 2020-02-10 20:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s roundtable: part two of our discussion on APTN’s new retrospective docuseries, “The Power Was With Us: Idle No More.”
Picking up where Kim, Candis and Rick left off 2020-01-31 23:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s roundtable: the emergence of Idle No More, the Indigenous-led movement that’s arguably changed Canada forever. Now its arrival on the Canadian political scene is the subject of a major APTN National News retrospective...
2020-01-30 06:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s program: surviving the Scoop, falling into place. Once again on the podcast, we feature a conversation based on our partnership with the Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speakers ...
2020-01-24 19:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, it's time to finally let you all in on what's been wreaking havoc with all aspects of my life of late, a mammoth project I launched into some 2 years ago in collaboration with my very good bud, Tim Fontaine.
<... 2020-01-22 22:03:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s program: awakening ancestral languages. Our very first episode of 2020 sees us return to our partnership with the Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speakers Series, sponsored b...
2020-01-12 01:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostWill 2020 ever see (hear?) its first MI episode? Great question. Totally fair too.
Here's the thing. As you may recall from my last update, I am neck deep—still—in one BEAST of a project, with a late-January deadline looming larger by the day. (I'm still too superstitious to sa...
2020-01-11 04:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post🎉 We did it! We hit our #500by2020 goal! 😍
To every supporter of MEDIA INDIGENA new and old, I just wanted to say a huge thank you on behalf of myself, Ken, Brock, Kim and Candis for your investment in what we do.
It's because of you that our wee podcast can now say it ...
2020-01-01 05:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostIf you’re active on Twitter maybe you’ve seen it—the fuss some have kicked up over Donald Trump’s recent use of the phrase “Indian Country” 2019-12-31 18:35:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know it’s been roughly four years since Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its final report? If all you follow is mainstream media, likely not: which is odd, because the work of the T...
2019-12-26 01:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: Taking control, taking stock. How a First Nation in Ontario decided the only way they’re going to find images of Indigenous people that don’t rely on stereotypes is to make their own 2019-12-24 06:22:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Member of Team MEDIA INDIGENA!
Host/producer Rick here. I hope this finds you well: I am busy as heck these days so have not been as able to put out finished episodes as often as I'd like this month (meanwhile, a number of raw, uncut discussions just sit there on my ...
2019-12-17 23:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: the Bureaucrats’ Burden. Could there be any job tougher than running Indian Affairs? Sources at Indian Affairs say “No!” According to a recent 2019-12-15 00:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Bringing blood home. Over a half-century after their removal, a large cluster of blood samples from Indigenous islanders in Australia have been returned to whence they came. The result of direct negotiations with the affected community,...
2019-11-29 05:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: panning pan-Northernism. “What was CBC North management thinking?” A question fresh on the mind of CBC audiences and CBC staff this week, shocked and dismayed at the decision to combine three territorial morning newscasts into one. A decision t...
2019-11-25 22:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: class dismissed—or should we say class denied? A North Carolina advisory board has rejected a proposed Native charter school on the gr...
2019-11-18 21:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S ROUND TABLE: Escaping the Orbit of Settler Colonialism
It’s a dilemma that confronts much of Indigenous media: with so much of our time spent working to counter, correct and contextualize mainstream misinformation, do we not risk becoming “This Week in Se...
2019-11-11 06:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, the back half of our post-Canadian-election post-mortem, featuring the Yellowhead Institute’s Hayden King and Vanessa Watts. In 2019-10-30 18:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Barely 3 days after the Liberals' return to power -- only this time, as a minority government -- we wonder what that could mean for Indigenous peoples in Canada going forward. Did Indigenous issues make a difference this election? Did Indigenous voters?
Joining us this week to tackle these ...
2019-10-25 19:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostAs we told you a while back, we'll be hosting a live-audience discussion this Thursday October 24 in Toronto, a political post-mortem of sorts, all about Canada's imminent 2019-10-20 00:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s Indigenous roundtable: colonial calculations. And it's been quite the week for the bottom-line of Canadian colonialism. First, a blunt assessment of what the lives of First Nations’ kids are worth as the 2019-10-14 22:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh off the vote, MEDIA INDIGENA and the Indigenous-run think-tank Yellowhead Institute will record a special post-election episode this October 24th @ 2:30 PM!
What could the results of the October 21 election mean for Indigenous peoples going forward? Will it be more of...
2019-10-10 05:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, grousing over Greta. Even though millions recently took to the streets as part of world-wide Climate Strikes, the media still seems to reserve most of its spotlight for the teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. And yet, not everyone’s a fan: from Maxime Bernier to Vladimir P...
2019-10-08 21:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostQuick reminder that MI host Rick Harp sits down this WEDNESDAY Oct. 9 at 7 pm at the University of Winnipeg for a live audience discussion with Dr. Margaret Noodin, poet, Anishinaabemowin language advocate and associate professor of English at th...
2019-10-08 05:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello supporter of MEDIA INDIGENA! Quick note to tell you that host/producer Rick Harp will be sitting down this Thursday Oct. 9 at 7 pm at the University of Winnipeg for a live audience discussion with Dr. Margaret Noodin, poet, Anishinaabemowin language advocat...
2019-10-02 22:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s program: taking the measure of data about Indigenous peoples. And this week's show is a bit of a departure from our usual roundtable format: it's the first of our live audience discussions connected to the annual 2019-09-29 17:43:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick note to let fans of MI who live in or often visit Winnipeg that, over the weeks and months to come, host/producer Rick Harp will be in conversation with featured guests of the Weweni Indigenous Scholar...
2019-09-19 22:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: Dissecting the Debate
Who’da thunk it? For once, we at MEDIA INDIGENA are happy to be wrong—right out of the gate at the 2019-09-18 21:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
If Kim TallBear could vote in Canadian elections, who might she vote for? Inquiring minds want to know. A wee bonus bit of audio (not included in the forthcoming episode on the recent leaders' debate) for the people who help make it possible: you!
This rolled off our discussion abo...
2019-09-17 15:56:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, it's Rick! Thanks to some nice late summer weather, I'm outside prepping for today's MI recording, a de-brief on the Canadian election debate held this past Thursday.
As you may've heard, the debate included a lot of Indigenous content: something that certainly caught me off-guard. Ac...
2019-09-15 18:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post