MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

Sep 30 2024 357 ep. 50 mins 4k
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A weekly roundtable about Indigenous issues and events in Canada and beyond. Hosted by Rick Harp.

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Political Pontifications: Part 3 (ep 357)

Sep 30 2024 46 mins  
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, our three-part pile of political pontifications concludes its campaign—as does our Summer 2024 Series as a whole—with a comparison of activism versus access: in the pursuit of mainstream political influence, is it better to be in the room or out on the streets? Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): �

Political Pontifications: Part 2 (ep 356)

Sep 20 2024 69 mins  
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the seventh in our eight-part summer series): the push and pull of performative politics, where we address the question of just how far Indigenous individuals can advance Indigenous interests in a settler-centric system. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): • Brock Pitawanakwat, associate professor of

Political Pontifications: Part 1 (ep 355)

Sep 09 2024 56 mins  
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the sixth in our summer series): a political perusal of the prerogatives of power. The first in our three-part look back at the allure and limits of mainstream political participation, we begin with a Trudeau triple-header, a Liberal dose of discussions about the only federal leader this podcast has ever known. Featured voices th

Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 5 (ep 354)

Aug 29 2024 77 mins  
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the fifth in our summer series): the conclusion to our five-part retrospective, Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, wherein we feature a few more settler-centric solutions to settler-made problems, as well as examples of what truly independent Indigenous initiatives look like. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appeara

Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 4 (ep 353)

Aug 19 2024 77 mins  
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,

Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 3 (ep 352)

Aug 08 2024 77 mins  
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the third in our summer series): our third installment of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, in which we debunk diagnoses of Indigenous impoverishment peddled by settlers, often to their own benefit. And while some come off as almost comical, others appear downright disturbing. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appe

Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 2 (ep 351)

Jul 29 2024 58 mins  
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the second in our summer series): part two of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, our comprehensive look at the systematic incapacitation of Indigenous peoples, and how Canada’s overt efforts at social disintegration have fostered generations of individual displacement and disconnection. Featured voices this podcast include (in or

Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 1 (ep 350)

Jul 19 2024 55 mins  
The MEDIA INDIGENA 2024 Summer Series—our classic compendia of collected, connected conversations drawn from our voluminous eight-year archive—begins with the first in a five-part compilation, 'Why Canada Needs Natives Needy,' a wide-ranging rundown of all the ways this country has produced and perpetuates Indigenous dependency. And here in round one, we review its roots, entan

Why Indigenous-led Genomics Matters: Part II (ep 349)

Jul 09 2024 38 mins  
On this week’s round table—the last all-new episode before our summer series launches—the second half of our special live on location look at Indigenous-led genomics. Recorded at the Global Indigenous Leadership in Genomics Symposium at UBC back in May, part one brought us the basics of genomics, how it differs from genetics, and how Indigenous genomics compare to those of th

Why Indigenous-led Genomics Matters: Part I (ep 348)

Jun 28 2024 42 mins  
What is genomics? In what ways might Indigenous genomics differ from its mainstream counterpart? And why is it important they be Indigenous-led? Answers to those questions and more on this special edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, recorded live on location at the Global Indigenous Leadership in Genomics Symposium, hosted this past May at the University of British Columbia. Joining Rick Ha