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MEDIA INDIGENA 335
This week: where there’s smokes, there’s fire.Does a recent ruling by Quebec’s Superior Court have the potential to dramatically alter Canada's constitutional landscape? Known as R. v. Montour and White [PDF],the case takes its name from a pair of Mohawk tobacco traders who refused to pay ...
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The debate over state vs federal recognition of tribes in the U.S. 📻 MI 334This week: controversy at the Congress. The National Congress of American Indians, that is. And according to its website, NCAI is “the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organizati...
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How Canada Diddles While The World Burns: A Climate Check-in 🔥 MI 333This week, yet another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the fast + furious version of MEDIA INDIGENA), with some world-wide words for our 333rd episode, recorded the evening of Sunday, November 12.No doubt sub-consciously inspired by the re...
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Do statutes of limitations apply to treaties with First Nations? Canada sure hopes so // MI 332We wrap up October a titch late with another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the quick + dirty version of MEDIA INDIGENA), featuring a quartet of tidbits, ranging from a federal security agency’s overt admonishment...
MEDIA INDIGENA 331
This week: another MINI INDIGENA featuring Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta) and Candis Callison (Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC), who joined host/producer Rick Har...
MEDIA (mini) INDIGENA 330
MEDIA INDIGENA is back with all-new shows, and we kick off with a far-ranging foursome of items, ranging from a historic provincial election in Manitoba to the RCMP opting not to lay charges against a Yellowknife doctor for the unilateral sterilization of an Inuk woman.Joining host/producer Rick Har...
☀ 2023 MI Summer Series Schedule! ☀
Summer salutations, friend of MI! Hope yours is going swimmingly in the company of those you care about most.We can now happily share with you the complete schedule for the remainder of our "Indigenous Journalisms" series, based on the key chapter of the same name in Reckoning: Journalism...
MEDIA INDIGENA 322 🌞 'Indigenous Journalisms Pt. 2'
For the second installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club basedonReckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MI regular Candis Callison joins host/producer Rick Harp and return guest Indian Country Today editor-at-larg...
MI 322 🌞 Pt. 1: Summer Series of '23!
Ola Friend of MI! It's finally here! And our opening installment of MEDIA INDIGENA's 2023 Summer Series debuts a new format for this time of year: a kind of 'audio book club' built around eight excerpts from "Indigenous Journalisms," the penultimate chapter of the book,Reckon...
MEDIA INDIGENA 321 (2022/23 season-ender)
On a wing and a prayer / MI 321FOR OUR SEASON-ENDER:For our final show of the 2022/23 season, the debut of a somewhat new format—working title: 'the RADAR' 📡—as MI regular Trina Roache, King's College assistant professor of journalism, joins host/producer Rick Harp to co-pilot a r...
Update for patrons on 2022/23 season
Dear Friend of MI,With my head finally above water, I wanted to share a much-needed update about what's been up of late with MEDIA INDIGENA.For those who can't wait 'til the next episode drops, it's no doubt been a disappointing time of late, and for that, I must apologize. I must al...
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Canada's “Legal Billy Club”/ MI 320ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:The function of injunctions. When First Nations challenge the authority of a province or corporation to enact decisions that ignore Indigenous consent, there’s a handy legal tool those non-Indigenous parties can turn to: the ...
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Painted into a corner / MI 319ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:When culture and commerce collide. Three underground art rings producing hundreds if not thousands of fake artworks worth as much as $100 million: some mind-boggling numbers shared by police during recently-announced arrests of e...
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Thirst for Justice/ MI 318ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:Water Insecurity and Suicide.Can a reserve’s chronically unsafe drinking water be associated with a greater risk of suicide for its residents? That’s the lethal link hypothesized in newly-released research entitled “Is Suicide ...
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Loreindians Attack!/ MI 317ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:Our second, long-overdue MINI INDIGENA of the season features regulars Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College) and Kim TallBear (professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of...
Submit your Q for our next MINI INDIGENA!
We're long overdue for a MINI INDIGENA and we could use your help!Submit your idea now for a short-but-sweet nugget of conversation for our roundtable to chew on, as we proceed lightning-round style through a variety of items of discussion. Ideas may be sent to us here:https://forms.gle/nYZW9gXT...
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What ‘it just wouldn't do’ to say in Alberta 🛢️🤐 MI 316ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:Press Proximity to Power: for our latestTalkBack edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where monthly supporters of the podcast debrief with us on our latest deep-dive discussion, MI regular Candis Callison and ...
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On our latest TalkBack edition, your chance to share your questions and comments with us about the show, a follow-up with journalist Dawn Marie Paley about her piece, “Canadian developers are gentrifying Mexico’s beaches,” published at The Breach.Also back are host/producer Rick Harp and Assoc...
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Same shit, different shores/ MI 314ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:Storming the beaches.Some Canadian property developers hoping to lure so-called ‘snowbirds’ to sunny beachfront in Oaxaca, Mexico have hit a bit of a hitch: like, the fact that Indigenous people already own the beach. And according...
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Big Oil's bigshadow/ MI 313ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:Media bias:something many suspect is at play in mainstream outlets. But proving it—that's a different story. Amidst the daily, dizzy churn that is the news cycle, finding a way to parse out and pin down reasonably comparable data isn...
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Climate change culpable?/ MI 312ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:This episode, our third-ever 'TalkBack,' we host a live debrief with our patrons on 'Oil and Gaslighting,' our December 21, 2022 discussion about the jarring juxtaposition between federal underfunding of First N...
WINNIPEG: Meet Rick JAN21 @ Idle No More doc!
Fellow Winnipeggers: you free this Sat. January 21 at 1 p.m.? Please join me then as we continue to mark the 10th anniversary of Idle No More's dramatic emergence on the Canadian political scene with a special, in-person screening of the feature-length APTN News documentary, The Power Was With U...
MEDIA INDIGENA 311 🎲 "Hit or Miss"
NYE Slice & Dice/ MI 311ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE-TOP:Something of a different turn for us this episode,as we roll into the realm of games. A way to play off another side of our personalities and help Rick hithis happy place, hesomehow cajoledsome of our roundtable regulars (and a few special gu...
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Unmitigated gall/ MI 310ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:Oil and gaslighting.They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Guess which one the Canadian government funds way more than the other for First Nations emergencies like floods and fires? Karen Hogan knows the answer: in f...
Reminder 📽 Rick at Toronto film event Sunday
Torontonians! Don't forget Sunday's—tomorrow's!— free screening of The Power Was With Us: Idle No More, the sweeping APTN National News chronicle of the movement's dramatic emergence back in late 2012. It starts at 12 noon at the Rogers Communication Centre (Eaton Lecture Theatre...
REMINDER🎬Ottawa DEC14 film event w/Rick
Ottawegians! Have you reserved your seats yet for Wednesday's free screening of The Power Was With Us: Idle No More, the sweeping APTN National News chronicle of the movement's dramatic emergence back in late 2012? It starts at 5:30 pm at the Arts Court Theatre in downtown Ottawa on 2 Daly A...
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THIS WEEK: Our second-ever 'TalkBack' edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where Patreon supporters you like get a chance to share feedback live via Discord about our latest deep dive conversation. This time around, it's a debrief on our discussion of Alberta’s new Sovereignty Act.Back to dialog...
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Weak Wexit Sauce? / MI 308On this week’s Indigenous round table: Alberta sovereignty.Sovereign over what and whom, you may ask? Great questions, ones that finally got an answer last week, when, on November 29, Premier Danielle Smith introduced her first bill, the Alberta Sovereignty within a Unite...
BLOOPER 😂 MI 308 (forthcoming)
Hey gang, in case you ever thought we just flawlessly pull thoughts out of our brains via some elegant string of rhetoric, this blooper of me, Ken and Brock from the forthcoming episode about the Alberta Sovereignty Act (MI 308) will serve as a fun counterfactual.
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Where doesIndian Affairs end and the Assembly of First Nations begin?/ MI 307ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:'Nation to nation,'or funder to client?When it comes to describing the financial relationship between the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian government which signs it...
