As an official Media Sponsor of the 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, MEDIA INDIGENA is delighted to share with you an exciting opportunity for all you budding young Aboriginal journos out there. CBC.ca and imagineNATIVE are seeking an Aboriginal youth intern to write about their experiences over the course of the 5-day festival […]
This week on our regular segment with host Lady V of THE WORD, MI’s Rick Harp covered a cavalcade of content: our poll on Aboriginal people and the long-gun registry, Top 10 settler excuses, Gemini nominees, and some awesome Australian hip-hop. Call it a sweet week in review. 🙂 To hear MEDIA INDIGENA live on […]
Quick hit to let you know that MI’s Rick Harp (yours truly) will be part of an informal 4-person roundtable airing today on CBC Radio One about Aboriginal issues and Winnipeg’s Oct. 27 city-wide election for mayor and council. Hosted by Larry Updike of CBC Manitoba’s ‘Up to Speed‘ drive-home program, the show begins at […]
The author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann, has just responded to Frances Widdowson’s lengthy refutation of his historiography concerning the ancient Indigenous site of Cahokia, part of what’s become a larger debate over competing notions of ‘cultural evolution’ in our new AGENDA INDIGENA section: [I]t is Dr. Widdowson, […]
Just came across this great song and video from Australian hip hop trio, The Last Kinection, who I discovered by visiting the blog renoriginal. Released in 2008 as their first single, “Ballooraman” (meaning ‘love’) features lyrics in their traditional Aboriginal dialect. A little background on The Last Kinection, courtesy of their website: Featuring siblings Naomi […]
