MEDIA INDIGENA 350 🌞 Summer 2024

Summery Recovery / MI 350

OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES BEGINS!

Friends, it's finally here! MEDIA INDIGENA's Summer Series for 2024: eight compelling compilations of content curated from our eight-year-plus archive, grouped under two larger umbrellas:

• ‘Why Canada Needs Natives Needy,' a five-part exposition of Canada's foundational imposition of systematic dependency of Indigenous peoples on the state

• 'Political Pontifications,' a three-part look at the allure and limits of Indigenous participation in mainstream politics

In other words, some 8 hours of content with which to fill up your summer's days and nights. Now, I had committed myself to more by this point, but, frankly, the tank is empty, friends: if I could've made more, I would've. Perhaps this 'Voice of Change' has simply gone hoarse for now, and it'll just take me the summer to recover.

That said, I am exceedingly pleased with the sweep and scale of these summer shows, and how they collectively weave conversations held over time into a much greater tapestry.

Indeed, as typically happens when crafting these compilations, I frequently found myself nodding, laughing, and just generally in awe at the intelligence and insights our stellar roundtablers have delivered over the years. Some moments even took me by surprise, a delightful effect I hope you get to experience too as you bring fresh ears to this classic content.

Rick

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And in round one of ‘Why Canada Needs Natives Needy’—our wide-ranging rundown of all the ways this country has produced and perpetuates Indigenous dependency—we go to its roots, entanglements which stretch back to the country’s very creation.

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

• Naiomi Metallic, associate professor of law at Dalhousie University, and Yellowhead Institute advisory board member

• Tim Thompson, First Nations education advocate, and Yellowhead Research Fellow and advisory board member

• Adele Perry, distinguished professor with the University of Manitoba department of history and women's and gender studies, and director of the Centre for Human Rights Research at U of M

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

• Robert Jago, writer, educator, co-founder and director of the Coast Salish History Project

• Danika Billie Littlechild, assistant professor of law and legal studies at Carleton University, and Ethical Space research stream leader at the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership

• Patrice Mousseau, former broadcast journalist and Satya Organics owner/creator

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LISTEN NOW:

https://mediaindigena.libsyn.com/why-canada-needs-natives-needy-part-1-ep-350