ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:
Indigenous Gender and Sexuality Studies. A subject at the center of a talk delivered this past March by Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Professor of...
2020-09-18 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostOUR SUMMER SERIES WRAP-UP:
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, part two of our resource resistance retrospective. Yet as part one revealed, these issues are hardly historical. Indeed, it was only six months ago that the Royal Canadian Militarized Police—in full riot gear and armed to the teeth—raided Wet’suwet’en acti...
2020-08-31 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostON 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 a struggle too big to ignore, one punctuated by striking video of back-to-back raids by militarized police against small Indigenous encampments in what's now known as interior British Columbia. 2020-08-23 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta
• Ken Williams, assistant profess...
2020-08-15 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOUR 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 we’ve explored our fair share of substances on this show.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University...
2020-08-07 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostOUR 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 endless parade of Settlers pining to play Indian, we’re questioning the images of Indigenous people: who gets to make and profit by them, as well as what is and isn’t considered ‘authentic.’
Featured voices this podcast include (...
2020-07-31 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post😎 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 could be so artsy? For our first act, we look at representation and misrepresentation, be it on-screen, on stage, or on the page. From gatekeepers to white fragility, it ain’t easy trying to be Indigenous in this industry.
Featured vo...
2020-07-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEPISODE 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 health system can all too often operate against Indigenous well-being via ill-considered policies and practices.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):
• Mary Jane McCallum, professor of his...
2020-07-15 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post☀️ 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, on a variety of topics: from drugs to data, the arts to activism.
We begin with a subject some argue has always been at the heart of the Canadian project: 2020-07-07 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities. Published by Oxford University Press, it’s the work of former practitioners in the field who now study and teach the craft at the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism, Writing and Media...
2020-06-30 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn 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 its toll on the industry.
Some blame media companies’ downfall on the digital: the interwebs and smartphones shredding the business model of now-obsolete oligopolies. And yet, it’s not all cause for techno-driven doom and gloom. I...
2020-06-21 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: NAISA INDIGENA
And just who or what is a “NAISA”? It’s the Native American Indigenous Studies Association. Or as they put it, a “professional organization for scholars, graduate students, independent researchers, and community members interested in all aspects of Indigenous Studies.” Many of whom gather every year to share ...
2020-06-12 23:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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 audience at this year’s NAISA gathering in Toronto before it was cancelled due to COVID-19, we've decided to do it as a podcast. And since our presentation would have featured...
2020-06-09 05:54:11 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS EPISODE:
Food and environmental justice. Topics at the heart of a talk given back in February by Dr. Priscilla Settee, Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and Adjunct Professor for the Natural Resources Insti...
2020-06-06 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostON 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 police brutality against a black resident of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, video that has sparked outrage in streets ac...
2020-05-30 00:27:35 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s episode: “Indigenous Knowledge and Heavens,” the title of a talk delivered earlier this year by Inuk scholar, Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson.
An Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at the Universi...
2020-05-26 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUND TABLE:
Weapons and exceptions. The Liberal government’s recently-announced ban on 1500 types of assault weapons is not going over well with certain gun owners. Could the exemption for, among others, Indigenous hunters make them a target? We cover which weapons the ban cove...
2020-05-23 16:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
21st century voting, 19th century colonialism. An Ontario First Nation feels frustrated by the fact that, just weeks away from its June election, it still hasn’t got the green light from Indigenous Services Canada to hold their own vote under their own rules. Rules that include on-line voting, a system they say is c...
2020-05-10 23:57:50 +0000 UTC View PostON 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 a-plenty from some Settlers who found the switch distasteful—a butter backlash that spread across social media. But, no surprise, #NativeTwitter was more than ready with a flurry of counter-memes.
Joining host/producer Rick Harp 2020-04-30 21:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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 enough information being captured and communicated. But could knowing who is infected risk stigma in turn?
Tackling these thorny questions and more with host/producer Rick Harp this week are Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute fo...
2020-04-27 01:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 small you daydream of indulging once the lockdown is loosened? Share it here or email rick@mediaindigena.com and we'll do our best to squeeze it on the show.
Be well,
Rick
2020-04-17 05:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostON 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, how much might be too much for our mental health? It’s a real question: with so many media already covering Covid-19 so much, should we?
Please email rick@mediaindigena.com with your thoughts on how you might like us to approach ou...
2020-04-17 04:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostON 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.
Dating back to the late 1800s, this heartless campaign of dispossession has just been documented in agonizing 2020-04-09 21:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
After hosting back-to-back episodes (201 & 202) of special guest appearances concerning COVID-19, this time we re-connect with two of our regular roundtablers, both to see how they’re faring in this new era of "2020-04-01 02:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS WEEK: Could the benefits of hindsight foreshadow the costs to come? As we discussed last episode, the collision of colonialism and COVID-19 creates additional layers of risk for 2020-03-28 03:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 get COVID-19 will ultimately suffer either mild or even no symptoms, it’s the most vulnerable among us th...
2020-03-19 05:17:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen 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 could stand trial for 2020-03-10 23:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This week: Is Alberta becoming a police-state? At least one critic thinks so, after the province’s recent introduction of Bill 1. Labelled the “Critical Infrastructure Defence Act,” the bill will, in 2020-03-01 20:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Settlers? Judging by the dust these debates still kick up, a lot!
And wouldn’t you know it, among those kicking was our own Candis Callison, associate professor in the School of Journalism at UBC. Also at the ro...
2020-02-24 22:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostON 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.' With one exception—a First Nations radio station that broadcasts the games live—other media hoping to cover the event have been 2020-02-16 02:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post
