MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program
By Rick Harp
A weekly roundtable about Indigenous issues and events in Canada and beyond. Hosted by Rick Harp.
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Political Pontifications: Part 1 (ep 355)
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... -
Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 5 (ep 354)
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... -
Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 4 (ep 353)
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.… -
Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 3 (ep 352)
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... -
Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 2 (ep 351)
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... -
Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 1 (ep 350)
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... -
Why Indigenous-led Genomics Matters: Part II (ep 349)
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... -
Why Indigenous-led Genomics Matters: Part I (ep 348)
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.… -
Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Part 2 (ep 347)
This week: our return to the realm of IZ, the personification of critical Indigenous studies as imagined by MEDIA INDIGENA regular Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies), a character she embodied in her keynote at “Of the... -
From perogies to pemmican: what can two men switched at birth tell us about Indigenous belonging? (ep 346)
In this back half of our longer-than-expected mini INDIGENA, host/producer Rick Harp picks up where he left off (drinking deeply of coffee, commodity fetishism and character actor Wallace Shawn) with Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in..…
