A potentially divisive debate is underway among women’s advocates after a provincial court recently struck down some of the laws restricting prostitution in Canada. And as the Toronto Star‘s Antonia Zerbisias writes, “even Aboriginal women’s groups have clashed, not only with mainstream feminist activists but also with each other.” On Sept. 28, 2010, in the […]
The documentary Last Call Indian begins with a simple premise captured in its very first shot. The narrator’s voice begins as the camera pulls back from an empty bed fitted with railings in a small sunlit bedroom. It’s a sick room. The empty bed speaks volumes. Then a woman’s voice emerges, soft and clear: “I’ve […]
Has it been a week already? MEDIA INDIGENA was back on STREETZ 104.7 FM — for its weekly Tuesday talk, heard first live on-air and on-line at noon central, 1 pm eastern — and this time, MI’s Rick Harp and THE WORD’s Lady V chatted about what they would have asked Winnipeg mayoral candidate Sam […]
As we told you in a previous post, vigils for hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women were held in over 70 communities across Canada on Monday. Martha Troian (Lac Seul Anishinabe) was at the vigil held on the steps of Canada’s Parliament and produced this multimedia presentation for MEDIA INDIGENA. Sisters in Spirit 2010 from […]
There are apx. 20,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit inmates housed within provincial jails at any given time in this country. And according to StatsCan, while Indigenous people represent 4% of the population, they make up 24% of the general prison population. Incredibly, Aboriginal women are 28 times more likely to go to jail than […]
