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MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

A weekly roundtable about Indigenous issues and events in Canada and beyond. Hosted by Rick Harp.

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Ep. 112: Settler Sexuality's Slippery Slope

Ep. 112: Settler Sexuality's Slippery Slope

On this week's roundtable: Settler Sexuality. A subject at the heart of two recent talks by our own Kim Tallbear (one at... Read more

27 Apr 2018

57mins

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Ep. 99: A deep dive into the Doctrine of Discovery (and how it's never gone away)

Ep. 99: A deep dive into the Doctrine of Discovery (and how it's never gone away)

This week: the 'Change the Date' debate. We discuss what seems to have been the most controversial Australia Day yet. Pl... Read more

29 Jan 2018

1hr

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Ep. 60: Canada's Sexist Status Indian System

Ep. 60: Canada's Sexist Status Indian System

THIS WEEK: We delve into an Indigenous woman's 30-year-plus court battle to regain her Indian Status, a battle that just... Read more

29 Apr 2017

35mins

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Ep. 72: White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere (Pt. 1)

Ep. 72: White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere (Pt. 1)

This week… the first in a two-part conversation that confronts the confusion and contention around what it means to be M... Read more

23 Jul 2017

45mins

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Ep. 51: Indigenous Institutionalization, Then and Now

Ep. 51: Indigenous Institutionalization, Then and Now

This week, two troubling stories of Indigenous institutionalization. The first comes to us from an Ontario jail where 9 ... Read more

25 Feb 2017

52mins

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Ep. 63: Does '13 Reasons Why' sensationalize suicide? Aboriginal authors on the curriculum

Ep. 63: Does '13 Reasons Why' sensationalize suicide? Aboriginal authors on the curriculum

On this week’s roundtable: sensationalizing suicide? We recount the critiques of 13 Reasons Why, the Netflix teen drama ... Read more

22 May 2017

1hr 1min

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Ep. 98: Peering into the Playbook for White Denial of Indigenous Injury

Ep. 98: Peering into the Playbook for White Denial of Indigenous Injury

This week.. Politician contrition: an Alberta MLA walks back some sweeping off-hand comments about Aboriginal voter beha... Read more

21 Jan 2018

1hr 28mins

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Ep. 76: Charlottesville, Guam and the 'Eskimos' of Edmonton

Ep. 76: Charlottesville, Guam and the 'Eskimos' of Edmonton

This week... Why Indigenous people totally relate to recent violence over icons of intolerance in Charlottesville, Virgi... Read more

21 Aug 2017

1hr 1min

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Ep. 73: White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere (Part 2)

Ep. 73: White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere (Part 2)

This week... the conclusion to our conversation with the authors of the recent article, "White Settler Revisionism and M... Read more

29 Jul 2017

41mins

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Ep. 80: Cherokee Freedmen, Adam Beach Boycott, Indian Country Today

Ep. 80: Cherokee Freedmen, Adam Beach Boycott, Indian Country Today

Fight of the Freedmen: Has a court victory for the descendants of ex-slaves of the Cherokee guaranteed the return of the... Read more

16 Sep 2017

1hr 10mins

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Ep. 108: Reading the larger lessons of Sherman Alexie's literary rise and fall

Ep. 108: Reading the larger lessons of Sherman Alexie's literary rise and fall

THIS WEEK / 'Sorry' for the racism: As National Geographic tries to atone for its problematic history with non-white peo... Read more

30 Mar 2018

1hr 26mins

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Ep. 175: The Serious Business of Self-Indigenization

Ep. 175: The Serious Business of Self-Indigenization

On this week’s collected, connected conversations—the last in our Summer Series—the serious business of self-Indigenizat... Read more

28 Aug 2019

1hr 10mins

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Ep. 187: Is Repatriation Really 'Reconciliation'?

Ep. 187: Is Repatriation Really 'Reconciliation'?

This week: Bringing blood home. Over a half-century after their removal, a large cluster of blood samples from Indigenou... Read more

29 Nov 2019

52mins

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Ep. 85: Acknowledging Toxic Indigenous Masculinity: Are We at a Turning Point?

Ep. 85: Acknowledging Toxic Indigenous Masculinity: Are We at a Turning Point?

1. In name only: How did an Ontario city manage to strike up an Indigenous working group—minus any Indigenous people? 2.... Read more

21 Oct 2017

57mins

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Ep. 22: Critiquing Canada's Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women

Ep. 22: Critiquing Canada's Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women

When loved ones die, there’s no question who suffers most—their families. And of those who pushed hardest for the newly-... Read more

5 Aug 2016

24mins

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Ep. 184: Escaping the Orbit of Settler Colonialism

Ep. 184: Escaping the Orbit of Settler Colonialism

It’s a dilemma that confronts much of Indigenous media: with so much of our time spent working to counter, correct and c... Read more

11 Nov 2019

44mins

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Ep. 67: Why It's Not Okay in Thunder Bay for Indigenous Youth; Does Canada/AFN MOU Go Too Far?

Ep. 67: Why It's Not Okay in Thunder Bay for Indigenous Youth; Does Canada/AFN MOU Go Too Far?

This week: why things aren't okay in Thunder Bay. In the wake of two more Indigenous teens found dead in this northweste... Read more

18 Jun 2017

51mins

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Ep. 16: Could legal action make Canada walk its talk on Indigenous languages?

Ep. 16: Could legal action make Canada walk its talk on Indigenous languages?

This week: the fight for funding of Indigenous languages. Despite the best efforts of the Canadian government to wipe ou... Read more

26 Jun 2016

20mins

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Ep 61: How Canada's first Indigenous policy was founded on famine

Ep 61: How Canada's first Indigenous policy was founded on famine

This week, an extended interview with James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and... Read more

7 May 2017

1hr 7mins

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Ep. 155: How Do We Solve "The Settler Problem"?

Ep. 155: How Do We Solve "The Settler Problem"?

What happens when you reverse the lens and try to unpack what it means to be a Settler? What’s the difference between Se... Read more

1 Apr 2019

48mins

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