On this week's collected, connected conversations (the fourth in our summer series): part four of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, ranging from the precarity of charity to the dubious duty to consult.

Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Michael Redhead Champagne, Winnipeg-based community leader, helper, author, and public speaker

• Lisa Monchalin, criminology lecturer at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in B.C.

• Candis Callison, associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia

• Kim TallBear, professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Society

• Ken Williams, playwright and associate professor with the University of Alberta department of drama

• Brock Pitawanakwat, associate professor of Indigenous Studies at York University

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music this episode includes 'Expanding Cycle' and 'Up + Up (reprise/arise)' by Correspondence (CC BY); 'Reflections' by Kevin Hartnell (CC BY-SA); 'Pangea's Pulse' by Aldous Ichnite' (CC BY); 'Extremely Tik-tok compatible for slow videos' by Lundstroem (CC BY); 'New minimalist VII (Remix)' by Christian H. Soetemann (CC BY ND).