MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program

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..…

Spilling the beans on Indigenous involvement in the coffee trade (ep 345)

For our latest mini INDIGENA (the sweet + sour version of MEDIA INDIGENA), we yank on the global supply chain linking locals in Campbell River, B.C. to the opening of what’s only the second “Indigenous-operated, licensed Starbucks store” in...

A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt 2 (ep 344)

This week: building upon last episode's commanding talk by MI's own Kim TallBear, in which she highlighted the insatiable settler drive to consume all things Indigenous—including so-called ‘identity’ claims staked by...

A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1 (ep 343)

On this week’s program: a plethora of pretendianism! So much, in fact, it’s going to take two whole episodes to fit it all in. And here in part one, we take our deepest dive yet into the ultimate underpinnings of pretendianism—the political...

Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Pt. 1 (ep 342)

This week: 'Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind,' the title of a talk given by our very own Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies) at “Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Ways of Being,” hosted...

Is the Supreme Court ruling on Canada's Indigenous child welfare law a victory for the status quo? (ep 341)

On this week’s Indigenous round table: legal limbo? Did the Supreme Court's recent rejection of Quebec’s constitutional challenge to Bill C-92 really cement the self-determination of Indigenous peoples on child welfare? Or did it seal in the...

Unflagging settler colonialism in Minnesota / Mni Sóta Makoce (ep 340)

This episode, another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the easy-peasy version of MEDIA INDIGENA)—one where the first item went way longer than anyone expected!  Joining host/producer Rick Harp on Tuesday, February 6th were Kim TallBear (University of...

The 'clean, green' face of colonialism (ep 339)

For our first mini INDIGENA of 2024, Candis Callison (associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Graduate School of Journalism at UBC) and Kenneth T. Williams (associate professor with the University of Alberta’s...

Shaping a Syllabus for Indigenous Podcast Studies (ep 338)

For our final episode of 2023, a live audience recording from the spring, when we took part in , “20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies,” hosted May 24th and 25th at Toronto Metropolitan University. Entitled,...

CN Indigenous advisory board goes off the rails (ep 337)

This week, our penultimate program of 2023 reunites Kim and Ken for another mini INDIGENA (the rough and ready version of MEDIA INDIGENA) to discuss an array of items, including: a response to pushback against our discussion about state vs. federal.…