Episodes
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 14 (ep 383)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part 14 of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, as we return to all original recordings from our series on Indigenous climate narratives, rooted in a 3-day gathering of journalists, scholars and experts at UBC in late 2025. Here, we launch BFF's third day with a session entitled 'Lens...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 13 (ep 382)
This episode, the return of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives rooted in a 3-day gathering at UBC of journalists, scholars and experts in late 2025. An event co-convened by MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp, so far...
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Petrostate Pushback: Part 4 (ep 381)
In this fourth and final instalment of "Petrostate Pushback"—our 2026 mini-summer-series on Indigenous resistance to energy extraction and exploitation—the back half of our investigation into infrastructure, from the material to the relational. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of...
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Petrostate Pushback: Part 3 (ep 380)
On the third instalment of "Petrostate Pushback," our 2026 mini-summer-series on the Indigenous-led struggle for climate justice, we look at the climate implications of infrastructures, structures which invariably reflect and reinforce the priorities of power. (Part one of two.) Featured voices...
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Petrostate Pushback: Part 2 (ep 379)
Our 2026 mini-summer series "Petrostate Pushback" continues with part two—'Tactics and Terrains'—as we focus on the various frontlines of Indigenous resistance to governments and corporations trying to sacrifice their territories for massive energy projects. Featured voices this podcast include…
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Petrostate Pushback: Part 1 (ep 378)
Introducing the first in our four-part series for Summer 2026! Collected, connected conversations drawn from our decade-deep archive, it's a mini-series that falls smack dab in the middle of our mega-series, Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, our co-convened...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 12 (ep 377)
ON THIS EPISODE… Part 12 of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended climate series based on a three-day gathering of Indigenous journalists, scholars and experts we co-convened last fall at UBC. And at the tail-end of BFF's second day, we set aside time for participants to pause and reflect on...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 11 (ep 376)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part 11 of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives, based on conversations we co-convened over 3 days last fall at UBC. And with a lot of ground covered those first two days, we thought it best to end day two with a session for…
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 10 (ep 375)
ON THIS EPISODE: the tenth takeaway from BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives, collecting close to 40 journalists, scholars and experts last fall at UBC. This time 'round, the closing portion of "Taking on Water," which, if you caught the first half,...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 9 (ep 374)
ON THIS EPISODE: The ninth instalment of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—presents the beginning of "Taking on Water," the fourth session of our gathering's second day, encapsulated as follows: Oceans cover some two-thirds of the planet; watersheds...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 8 (ep 373)
ON THIS EPISODE: The eighth instalment of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—presents the back half of "Reframing Fire & Forests," recorded at day two's third session. Moderated by UBC Professor (and MI regular) Candis Callison, she re-joins panelists...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 7 (ep 372)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part seven of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, where we go beyond mainstream infatuation with crisis and catastrophe to instead dive deep into Indigenous climate narratives. Recorded at a 3-day gathering of nearly 40 journalists, scholars and experts last fall at UBC, "Reframing…
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 6 (ep 371)
ON THIS EPISODE: the sixth instalment of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—in which we bring you the back half of "Storying Systems vs. Symptoms," day two's second session. Returning for the remainder of this conversation, moderator Candis Callison...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 5 (ep 370)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part five of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods, in which we bring you the first half of 'Storying Systems vs. Symptoms,' the second session of the second day of climate conversations we co-convened with dozens of Indigenous scholars, journalists and experts last October at the…
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 4 (ep 369)
ON THIS EPISODE: BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—part four, featuring the back half of "Storytellers Without Borders," the lead-off session on BFF's second day, where close to 40 scholars, journalists and experts gathered to discuss Indigenous climate narratives last October at UBC. Returning with…
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 3 (ep 368)
ON THIS EPISODE: part three of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods! (And if this is your first encounter with our new series, you might want to start with BFF Part 0, i.e., episode 365, for best results.) Based on three days of conversations hosted at UBC last October, BFF brought together close to 40...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 2 (ep 367)
ON THIS EPISODE: The back half of our live panel at the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, it was the only public portion of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods, our 3-day gathering of journalists, scholars and experts focused on Indigenous narratives of climate change. Assembling four...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 1 (ep 366)
On this episode, the formal kick-off to our extended series, Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, beginning with the first half of a panel recorded last October before a live audience in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. The opening, public...
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Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 0 (ep 365)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part 0 of "Beyond Fires and Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes." Otherwise known as "BFF," it's the name of a three-day gathering we co-convened last October on Musqueam Lands, home to the campus of UBC. Assembling close to 40 participants from media, academia…
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Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 5 (ep 364)
On this episode: the last of our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration,'" where we jump into genomics, a realm rife with racialized thinking and practice according to population scientist and Princeton graduate anthropology...
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Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 4 (ep 363)
ON THIS EPISODE: part four of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" Based on a presentation about pretendianism by Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University...
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Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 3 (ep 362)
ON THIS EPISODE: part three of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" This time around, the property in question is intellectual. Rooted in a talk by Olga Ulturgasheva (Associate...
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Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 2 (ep 361)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part two of 'the White Possessive.' And back in part one, we brought you the basics of this analytical framework as articulated by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, an analysis at the heart of the event, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'"...
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Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 1 (ep 360)
ON THIS EPISODE: Interrogating 'the white possessive.' And according to Indigenous scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson, countries like Canada, Australia and the U.S. are best understood as 'white possessions'—possessions which take a great deal of work and resources to maintain, a relentless...
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Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 2 (ep 359)
On this episode: the back half of the all-Indigenous panel MI host/producer Rick Harp moderated at "Reimagining Political Journalism: Perils, Possibilities & What Comes Next"—convened last November by Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa—in which the audience…
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Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 1 (ep 358)
On this episode: Reimagining Political Journalism, the title of a three-day November 2024 event at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, it included a formidable panel of Indigenous practitioners, moderated by MI's own Rick Harp! Sub-titled "Perils, Possibilities…
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Political Pontifications: Part 3 (ep 357)
On this week's collected, connected conversations, our three-part pile of political pontifications concludes its campaign—as does our Summer 2024 Series as a whole—with a comparison of activism versus access: in the pursuit of mainstream political influence, is it better to be in the room or out…
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Political Pontifications: Part 2 (ep 356)
On this week's collected, connected conversations (the seventh in our eight-part summer series): the push and pull of performative politics, where we address the question of just how far Indigenous individuals can advance Indigenous interests in a settler-centric system. Featured voices this...
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Political Pontifications: Part 1 (ep 355)
On this week's collected, connected conversations (the sixth in our summer series): a political perusal of the prerogatives of power. The first in our three-part look back at the allure and limits of mainstream political participation, we begin with a Trudeau triple-header, a Liberal dose of...
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Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 5 (ep 354)
On this week's collected, connected conversations (the fifth in our summer series): the conclusion to our five-part retrospective, Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, wherein we feature a few more settler-centric solutions to settler-made problems, as well as examples of what truly independent...
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Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 4 (ep 353)
On this week's collected, connected conversations (the fourth in our summer series): part four of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, ranging from the precarity of charity to the dubious duty to consult. Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance): • Michael Redhead Champagne,...
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Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 3 (ep 352)
On this week's collected, connected conversations (the third in our summer series): our third installment of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, in which we debunk diagnoses of Indigenous impoverishment peddled by settlers, often to their own benefit. And while some come off as almost comical, others...
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Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 2 (ep 351)
On this week's collected, connected conversations (the second in our summer series): part two of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, our comprehensive look at the systematic incapacitation of Indigenous peoples, and how Canada's overt efforts at social disintegration have fostered generations of...
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Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 1 (ep 350)
The MEDIA INDIGENA 2024 Summer Series—our classic compendia of collected, connected conversations drawn from our voluminous eight-year archive—begins with the first in a five-part compilation, 'Why Canada Needs Natives Needy,' a wide-ranging rundown of all the ways this country has produced and...
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Why Indigenous-led Genomics Matters: Part II (ep 349)
On this week's round table—the last all-new episode before our summer series launches—the second half of our special live on location look at Indigenous-led genomics. Recorded at the Global Indigenous Leadership in Genomics Symposium at UBC back in May, part one brought us the basics of genomics,...
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Why Indigenous-led Genomics Matters: Part I (ep 348)
What is genomics? In what ways might Indigenous genomics differ from its mainstream counterpart? And why is it important they be Indigenous-led? Answers to those questions and more on this special edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, recorded live on location at the Global Indigenous Leadership in Genomics...
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Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Part 2 (ep 347)
This week: our return to the realm of IZ, the personification of critical Indigenous studies as imagined by MEDIA INDIGENA regular Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies), a character she embodied in her keynote at "Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders…
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From perogies to pemmican: what can two men switched at birth tell us about Indigenous belonging? (ep 346)
In this back half of our longer-than-expected mini INDIGENA, host/producer Rick Harp picks up where he left off (drinking deeply of coffee, commodity fetishism and character actor Wallace Shawn) with Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Native Studies and Canada…
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Spilling the beans on Indigenous involvement in the coffee trade (ep 345)
For our latest mini INDIGENA (the sweet + sour version of MEDIA INDIGENA), we yank on the global supply chain linking locals in Campbell River, B.C. to the opening of what's only the second "Indigenous-operated, licensed Starbucks store" in Canada. And just like last time—when our MINI went long…
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A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt 2 (ep 344)
This week: building upon last episode's commanding talk by MI's own Kim TallBear, in which she highlighted the insatiable settler drive to consume all things Indigenous—including so-called 'identity' claims staked by individuals—host/producer Rick Harp discusses her insights with fellow…
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A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1 (ep 343)
On this week's program: a plethora of pretendianism! So much, in fact, it's going to take two whole episodes to fit it all in. And here in part one, we take our deepest dive yet into the ultimate underpinnings of pretendianism—the political imperatives of whiteness. Driving the insatiable settler...
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Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Pt. 1 (ep 342)
This week: 'Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind,' the title of a talk given by our very own Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies) at "Of the Land and Water: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Ways of Being," hosted earlier this year in Whitehorse, YK by the Dechinta...
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Is the Supreme Court ruling on Canada's Indigenous child welfare law a victory for the status quo? (ep 341)
On this week's Indigenous round table: legal limbo? Did the Supreme Court's recent rejection of Quebec's constitutional challenge to Bill C-92 really cement the self-determination of Indigenous peoples on child welfare? Or did it seal in the status quo, one where the feds still hold all the cards...
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Unflagging settler colonialism in Minnesota / Mni Sóta Makoce (ep 340)
This episode, another 'mini' INDIGENA (the easy-peasy version of MEDIA INDIGENA)—one where the first item went way longer than anyone expected! Joining host/producer Rick Harp on Tuesday, February 6th were Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) and Candis...
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The 'clean, green' face of colonialism (ep 339)
For our first mini INDIGENA of 2024, Candis Callison (associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Graduate School of Journalism at UBC) and Kenneth T. Williams (associate professor with the University of Alberta's department of drama), joined host/producer Rick Harp...
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Shaping a Syllabus for Indigenous Podcast Studies (ep 338)
For our final episode of 2023, a live audience recording from the spring, when we took part in the ICA 2023 Pre-conference, "20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies," hosted May 24th and 25th at Toronto Metropolitan University. Entitled, "Independent Indigenous podcasting…
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CN Indigenous advisory board goes off the rails (ep 337)
This week, our penultimate program of 2023 reunites Kim and Ken for another mini INDIGENA (the rough and ready version of MEDIA INDIGENA) to discuss an array of items, including: a response to pushback against our discussion (ep 334) about state vs. federal recognition of tribes in the U.S. the...
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Carbon Colonialism and Culpability (ep 336)
On this week's round table: colonial carbon culpability. Calling it a "first-of-its-kind analysis," a recent study by Carbon Brief has crunched the numbers on some 170 years of emissions, seen through the lens of climate justice. Entitled, "How colonial rule radically shifts historical...
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Where's There Smokes, There's Fire: Tobacco, Trade and Treaties (ep 335)
This week: where there's smokes, there's fire. Does a recent ruling by Quebec's Superior Court have the potential to dramatically alter Canada's constitutional landscape? Known as R. v. Montour and White, the case takes its name from a pair of Mohawk tobacco traders who refused to pay millions in...
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The debate over state vs federal recognition of tribes in the U.S. (ep 334)
This week: controversy at the Congress. The National Congress of American Indians, that is. And according to its website, NCAI is "the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities." A…
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