MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs episodes:

• 04.16.2024

  From perogies to pemmican: what can two men switched at birth tell us about Indigenous belonging? (ep 346)

  In this back half of our longer-than-expected mini INDIGENA, host/producer Rick Harp picks up where he left off (drinking deeply of coffee, commodity fetishism and character actor Wallace Shawn) with Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of...

  
• 04.08.2024

  Spilling the beans on Indigenous involvement in the coffee trade (ep 345)

  For our latest mini INDIGENA (the sweet + sour version of MEDIA INDIGENA), we yank on the global supply chain linking locals in Campbell River, B.C. to the opening of what’s only the second “Indigenous-operated, licensed Starbucks store” in Canada. And...

  
• 04.01.2024

  A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt 2 (ep 344)

  This week: building upon last episode's commanding talk by MI's own Kim TallBear, in which she highlighted the insatiable settler drive to consume all things Indigenous—including so-called ‘identity’ claims staked by individuals—host/producer Rick Harp discusses her insights with fellow roundtable regulars...

  
• 03.24.2024

  A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1 (ep 343)

  On this week’s program: a plethora of pretendianism! So much, in fact, it’s going to take two whole episodes to fit it all in. And here in part one, we take our deepest dive yet into the ultimate underpinnings of...

  
• 03.09.2024

  Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Pt. 1 (ep 342)

  This week: 'Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind,' the title of a talk given by our very own Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies) at “Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Ways of Being,”...

  
• 03.08.2024

  APTN News Brief: March 8, 2024

  Our lead story: residents from James Smith Cree Nation react to the conclusion of the Saskatchewan inquest into the in-custody death of mass killer Myles Sanderson, whose September 2022 stabbing spree killed 11 and injured 17.

  
• 02.27.2024

  Is the Supreme Court ruling on Canada's Indigenous child welfare law a victory for the status quo? (ep 341)

  On this week’s Indigenous round table: legal limbo? Did the Supreme Court's recent rejection of Quebec’s constitutional challenge to Bill C-92 really cement the self-determination of Indigenous peoples on child welfare? Or did it seal in the status quo, one...

  
• 02.13.2024

  Unflagging settler colonialism in Minnesota / Mni Sóta Makoce (ep 340)

  This episode, another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the easy-peasy version of MEDIA INDIGENA)—one where the first item went way longer than anyone expected!  Joining host/producer Rick Harp on Tuesday, February 6th were Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of...

  
• 01.24.2024

  The 'clean, green' face of colonialism (ep 339)

  For our first mini INDIGENA of 2024, Candis Callison (associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Graduate School of Journalism at UBC) and Kenneth T. Williams (associate professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama), joined...

  
• 01.07.2024

  Shaping a Syllabus for Indigenous Podcast Studies (ep 338)

  For our final episode of 2023, a live audience recording from the spring, when we took part in the ICA 2023 Pre-conference, “20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies,” hosted May 24th and 25th at Toronto Metropolitan...

  
• 01.06.2024

  CN Indigenous advisory board goes off the rails (ep 337)

  This week, our penultimate program of 2023 reunites Kim and Ken for another mini INDIGENA (the rough and ready version of MEDIA INDIGENA) to discuss an array of items, including: a response to pushback against our discussion (ep 334)...

  
• 12.28.2023

  Carbon Colonialism and Culpability (ep 336)

  On this week’s round table: colonial carbon culpability. Calling it a “first-of-its-kind analysis,” a recent study by Carbon Brief has crunched the numbers on some 170 years of emissions, seen through the lens of climate justice. Entitled, “How colonial rule...

  
• 12.14.2023

  Where's There Smokes, There's Fire: Tobacco, Trade and Treaties (ep 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, the case takes its name from a pair of Mohawk tobacco...

  
• 12.03.2023

  The debate over state vs federal recognition of tribes in the U.S. (ep 334)

  This 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 organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments...

  
• 11.20.2023

  How Canada Diddles While The World Burns: A Climate Check-in (ep 333)

  This 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 12th. No doubt sub-consciously inspired by the recent 5-year(ish) anniversary of...

  
• 11.02.2023

  Do statutes of limitations apply to treaties with First Nations? Canada sure hopes so (ep 332)

  We 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 of Nunavut over ‘covert’ foreign investment in otherwise...

  
• 10.22.2023

  How might The Voice referendum echo for Indigenous peoples in Australia? (ep 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),...

  
• 10.08.2023

  First Thoughts on First First Nations Premier of Manitoba (ep 330)

  MEDIA INDIGENA is back from its summer break with all-new shows, and we kick off with a far-ranging foursome of items, from a historic provincial election in Manitoba to the RCMP opting not to lay charges against a Yellowknife doctor...

  
• 09.21.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 8 (ep 329)

  For the eighth and final installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—our audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp finish out the series with Anishinaabe journalist,...

  
• 09.07.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 7 (ep 328)

  For the seventh installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp welcome back Anishinaabe journalist, author and speaker Tanya Talaga to...

  
• 08.21.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 6 (ep 327)

  For the sixth installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp sit with veteran Shoshone-Bannock journalist Mark Trahant one last...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 5 (ep 326)

  For the fifth installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp welcome back veteran Shoshone-Bannock journalist Mark Trahant to discuss the...

  
• 07.17.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 4 (ep 325)

  For the fourth installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp welcome back Anishinaabe journalist, author and speaker Tanya Talaga to discuss...

  
• 07.05.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 3 (ep 324)

  For the third installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities—co-author and MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison joins host/producer Rick Harp and special guest Anishinaabe journalist, author and speaker...

  
• 06.23.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 2 (ep 323)

  For the second installment of our 2023 Summer Series, "Indigenous Journalisms"—an 8-part audio book club based on Reckoning: 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-large Mark Trahant to discuss...

  
• 06.11.2023

  Indigenous Journalisms: Part 1 (ep 322)

  The 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, Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and...

  
• 05.06.2023

  Thou shalt un-steal stuff from Indigenous peoples, pledges pontiff (ep 321)

  For our final show of the 2022/23 season, we debut a somewhat new format—working title: 'the RADAR'

  
• 04.08.2023

  How court injunctions do Canada’s dirty work to deny Indigenous rights (ep 320)

  This week: 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 injunction. Basically a court...

  
• 03.26.2023

  Norval Morrisseau's illegal imitators forge a fortune (ep 319)

  This week: 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 eight people on 40 charges...

  
• 03.20.2023

  Water Insecurity and First Nations Suicide (ep 318)

  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 a Water Justice Issue? Investigating Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories and Suicide...

  
• 03.10.2023

  Should we distinguish between 'pretendians' and 'descendians'? (ep 317)

  This week: 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 Alberta) as...

  
• 02.24.2023

  What ‘it just wouldn't do’ to say in Alberta (ep 316)

  This week: Press Proximity to Power. For our latest TalkBack edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where monthly supporters of the podcast debrief with us on our latest deep-dive discussion, MI regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp are joined by listeners as...

  
• 02.18.2023

  Why settlers may be the ultimate tourists (ep 315)

  On our latest TalkBack edition, where monthly supporters of the podcast share their questions and comments, 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...

  
• 01.29.2023

  How Canadian tourists help endanger Indigenous lands in Mexico (ep 314)

  This week: 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 to...

  
• 01.21.2023

  Illuminating Big Oil's big shadow on the media (ep 313)

  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't...

  
• 01.15.2023

  Why Canada prefers to spend more money ‘rescuing’ First Nations than respecting them (ep 312)

  This episode, a live debrief with our patrons on 'Oil and Gaslighting,' our December 21, 2022 discussion about the jarring juxtaposition between federal underfunding of First Nations’ preparedness for floods, fires and other disasters worsened by climate change on the...

  
• 01.05.2023

  MEDIA INDIGENA Game On Edition

  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 host/producer Rick Harp hit his happy place, he somehow cajoled some...

  
• 12.27.2022

  Oil and Gaslighting (ep 310)

  This week: 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...

  
• 12.13.2022

  TalkBack: Alberta Sovereignty Act (ep 309)

  THIS WEEK: Our second-ever 'TalkBack' edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where monthly supporters of the podcast on Patreon get a chance to share their feedback live via Discord about our latest deep dive conversation. This time around, it's a debrief on...

  
• 12.05.2022

  Alberta’s Sovereignty Act: Wexit Wake-up Call or Western Woolliness? (ep 308)

  This week: 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 United Canada...

  
• 12.03.2022

  Canada's colonial co-dependency with the Assembly of First Nations (ep 307)

  This week: '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 its cheques, critics are anything but kind. Through their jaded eyes,...

  
• 11.06.2022

  Why mandatory English testing for some Indigenous nurses "smells like white supremacy" (ep 306)

  On our first MINI INDIGENA of the season, host/producer Rick Harp and MI regular Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College) are joined by special guest Melissa Ridgen (former co-anchor of APTN National News, now...

  
• 10.31.2022

  TalkBack: Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond (ep 305)

  Introducing our first-ever 'TalkBack' edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, where monthly supporters of the podcast on Patreon get the chance to share their feedback about our most recent deep dive directly with our roundtablers. This week, we debrief about last week's...

  
• 10.27.2022

  The unravelling story of Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond (ep 304)

  This week: another one bites the dust? Who is the real Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond? A question very much on the minds of Indigenous people in Canada these days, still digesting the exhaustive and explosive CBC News investigation into her public and...

  
• 09.30.2022

  Settler Election Fever (ep 303)

  On our last Summer '22 episode of collected, connected conversations: settler election fever! In this back half of our political retrospective on Election 2019 and more, we revisit the 2019 campaign's first debate, an infamous campaign scrum, and whether the real...

  
• 09.23.2022

  Neech the Vote (ep 302)

  In this set of collected, connected conversations (the penultimate episode in our Summer '22 series): Neech the Vote! Was it really a year ago that Canada held its last federal election? A contest we didn’t much concern ourselves with, to...

  
• 09.13.2022

  A Seminar in Settlerology (ep 301)

  On this week's collected, connected conversations (the sixth in our Summer '22 series): Settlerology. That’s right: our chance to turn that gaze around, to peer deep into the soul of settler society! Heck, who better to lead a course on...

  
• 09.02.2022

  The Brutality of Bureaucracy (ep 300)

  For the fifth instalment in our Summer '22 series, we burrow into bureaucracy, the Canadian civil service which administers every aspect of Indian life from cradle to grave via the technocratic tentacles of Indian Affairs.   Featured voices this podcast include...

  
• 08.24.2022

  Freedom of Speech (ep 299)

  For the fourth instalment in our Summer '22 series of collected, connected conversations: freedom of speech. From censorship to libel, press access and accountability, there are many facets to free speech, and we’ve sounded off on many of them. ...

  
• 08.15.2022

  Weaponized Words (ep 298)

  On the third instalment in our Summer '22 series: weaponized words. The first of two shows sounding off on speech, we've stitched together a variety of verbiage, from all about threats to speech in part two to all about threats...