In this episode we are joined by our new host who also happens to be an accomplished recording artist himself, making this the perfect first episode with him and Hip Hop recording artist/tattoo artist Sten Joddi. Regardless of his flawless delivery of "Punkin' Lusty" on FX's Reservation Dogs he still claims he's not an actor, and wants to do things to prove to the youth they can do anything they set their minds to. 

This episode is all about identity, respect, and healing on many different levels. With hosts who have found their roots, to guests who have done the same we now have a panel that can speak to issues in the USA and Canada. This is no longer Red Truth & White Lies: A Podcast of Two Canadas. This is Red Truth & White Lies: The Reality of Turtle Island.

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Justin Lessard joins us again for another conversation about the education system in Canada, and how it's designed to make drones rather than free thinking people.   

Join us next week with our new co-host and special guest, recording artist Sten Joddi; he also appeared in the award winning series Reservation Dogs.

Andy Hunter returns with an update on the Hamilton-Dundas police and municipal government whitewashing of Black history in Canada; refusal to acknowledge slavery in upper Turtle Island. 

A Call to Action has been made, and that means all individuals working in solidarity regardless of race. Today, Andrew and Nick discuss rolling blockades after the RCMP invasion with a little warning to the OPP and RCMP. 

There are a few little titbits in here about following the Kayanere'kowa, as well as a reminder that the Two Row Wampum is an obligation for everyone to uphold.

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We will be heading to Fairy Creek first and moving out to Indigenous led camps from there. Nyawenkowa to everyone for your support. 

Andrew and Nick have a conversation about some of the wampums in the Kayanere'kowa (Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace) and decolonization of everyday living. 

Justin Lessard shares some of the frustrations teachers have with the school curriculum keeping all the students in a box forced to learn what "some old white men want them to learn", as Justin put it. Andrew, being a teacher for many years had a lot to say about this with Nick asking a lot of great questions, as usual. Tune in for a great conversation and follow your hosts and our sponsors on Instagram:   

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Andrew Hunter is a Hamilton-born independent writer, artist, curator, and educator. He has held curatorial positions across Canada and produced exhibitions and publications for numerous institutions across Canada and internationally. 

His work focuses on the stories of peoples erased and marginalized in the dominant narratives of Colonial Canada and whiteness. He has collaborated with many Indigenous artists and community activists over a thirty year career, including Jeff Thomas, Shelley Niro, Bonnie Devine, Meryl McMaster, Shuvinai Ashoona and Tim Pitsiulak. He is a member of the advisory board for the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery at NSCAD University. His latest book, “It was Dark there All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the legacy of Slavery in Canada, will be published by Goose Lane in January 2022, and will be followed by an exhibition snd community engagement program at Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton.

Hunter’s current initiative is an unauthorized public history intervention in Hamilton/Ancaster/Dundas that raises public awareness of the presence of Sophia Burthen (Pooley) and chattel slavery in Colonial Canada. Hunter was also a student at Mohawk Trail School from grades Kindergarten to Six.

Today CME Investigative Journalist Alex White joins us to talk about fear and trauma... appropriately for Indigenous Peoples Day

After a week off, Andrew and Nick are back with another great episode with actor Adrian Hough. He has been to the Fairy Creek Blockade and is ready to tell us what it is like there on the ground and his experience there. When he was there, immediately he said "I need to use my privilege to draw more attention to this. I know people, I can get them here."  

Born in Toronto, Adrian spent 10 years in the UK, where he trained and worked as an actor in theatre and film and television. Returned to Toronto Canada in the 90s and went directly to work. His ability with accents and voice booked him his first audition and job in the animated X-men classic series as the original Nightcrawler.  Adrian has since amassed over 100 television and film credits, all of them substantial roles. In 2006 Adrian played the part of Jean Grey's father in 'X-Men 3' becoming the only actor who has both voiced an X-Man and been in the live action movies.  

In 2011 he got the role that would bring him to the attention of the gamer world. That of the famous video game character, the first Grand Master of the Templar Order's Colonial Rite, Haytham Kenway in the billion-dollar earning, Assassin's Creed 3. His flawless accent and work as the British colonial, completely done in performance capture at Ubisoft's studio, garnered Adrian his first international award nomination, a BAFTA. Ten days after the nomination, in 2013, Adrian's father died. It was a bittersweet time.  

Adrian's incredible acting skills have landed him a wide range of intense roles. There have been many times he has found himself flying from one production to another, swiftly changing from a demonic murderer to, for example, a man with great piety. Adrian's current on-screen role as Sigourney Weaver's brother in '(re) Assignment' falls into the bad-guy category. He'll tell you that he has developed a fondness for playing men of dubious character and motives, and that he likes to always find a heart within the monster.  

In life however, the man himself couldn't be kinder. Adrian's ocean-side island home keeps him and his three children close to the water and old growth forests which he works passionately to protect.