Behold the latest mediaINDIGENA segment on STREETZ 104.7 FM, which is originally broadcast live every Tuesday at noon central, 1 pm eastern, on-air and on-line. This week, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discussed the growing funding gap for First Nations post-secondary students, and, why Winnipeg’s mayoral race had been silent (to date, […]
As promised, here are all the Indigenous artists screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which gets underway Thursday, Sept. 9 and runs for a total of 11 days. Non-Torontonians should look for these movies down the road at an Indigenous film festival near you, if not a mainstream theatre. Each film title […]
In part one of my critique of the book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, I noted how Mann’s writing was influenced by a political agenda common in Native Studies — one that denies the developmental gap that existed between aboriginal and European societies before contact. More advocate than […]
According to the most recent Census, the “census metropolitan area” of Winnipeg “had the largest Aboriginal population of any city in Canada in 2006” at 68,380 people. (Rounding out the top 3 cities are Edmonton at 52,100, and Vancouver at 40,310.) That works out to 10 per cent of Winnipeg’s population. And a good chunk […]
A new voice has entered the fray in the mediaINDIGENA-hosted debate over theoretical understandings and practical implications of culture — in particular, the contentious idea that cultures can and ought to be compared and evaluated against one another. Here, the intellectual and political dispute centers around federal policy regarding First Nations in Canada, a debate that’s […]
