MI on STREETZ FM: August 3, 2010

For those who may have missed it, please find below the Aug. 3, 2010 installment of mediaINDIGENA’s weekly audio appearances on THE WORD on STREETZ 104.7 FM, hosted by Lady V: [audio:https://mediaindigena.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MI-StreetzFM-Aug3.mp3|titles=MI-StreetzFM-Aug3]

Carving cultural recovery out of a centuries-old tree

Loving this short video from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a montage assembling moments from the 6 month carving process behind the Stillaguamish Tribe‘s first traditional canoe in 100 years. Made of 300-year-old cedar — a century of that spent hidden underwater — the creation of the shovel-nose canoe was headed up by Lummi Nation […]

Reported cases of missing / murdered Aboriginal women “just the tip of the iceberg”

Indian Country Today recently put out its first in a four-part series about the fight to “prevent the widespread violence against First Nations women and girls” in Canada. “Trafficking our children” begins with the harrowing description of how one 11-year-old was forced into the sex trade on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, an all-too-familiar example of how […]