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 […]

mediaINDIGENA takes to the STREETZ

mediaINDIGENA is pleased to announce a new partnership with STREETZ 104.7 FM — “Winnipeg’s Illest Urban” — a new and ground-breaking hip-hop/urban radio station “targeting Aboriginal youth and all youth who love Hip Hop music.” That mandate makes it the first of its kind in North America, if not the world. Concrete culture indeed! Every […]

The Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco

Behold… Same film, different trailer, much funnier… I’d seen the trailers online for a while now and always wondered what it was about. It turns out that the short film (which sadly I cannot find online in its entirety) is the product of Creative Spirit, a Native American film project based in California. Based on […]