Episodes
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Episode 10: The Best Of
It’s the director’s cut of ReVision Quest! On this final episode of the season, host Darrell Dennis shares the comedy sketches and songs that had our test audiences rolling in the aisle. It’s your chance to hear some of the funny you may have missed, or might just want to hear again. But wait,...
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Episode 9: Language
We Canadians are learning Aboriginal words all the time. Words like Canada, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Trickster. On Revision Quest, host Darrell Dennis talks with language experts, and Sesame Street’s Grover, and travels through time, to find out if Aboriginal languages have any application in the...
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Episode 8: Free Stuff
Native Canadians get everything for free. Or, so the myth goes. This week on ReVision Quest, host Darrell Dennis puts that theory to the test. Can he really get free glasses, free tuition, or even a free truck just for being Aboriginal. And if not, where did people get the idea in the first…
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Episode 7: Hunting & Fishing
Aboriginal people enjoy special hunting and fishing rights, based on their traditional practices. Have they exploited those rights, or have they had to fight to protect them? With the help of a guide (okay, a lawyer), host Darrell Dennis hunts through history and fishes for facts. He revisits a...
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Episode 6: Gambling
Revision Quest is the show that looks back on Canada’s native history in order to kick some assumptions about the present. This week on the show: Gambling on gambling. Can legalized gambling pull the Rez out of the cycle of poverty and despair, or will it just replace the old cycle with a new…
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Episode 5: The Reserve
If you focus on news reports, it’s easy to get the impression that reserves in this country are all parceled lands of poverty, inequity, and vice, run by incompetent, corrupt Aboriginals. Darrell Dennis knows the truth is a little more complicated than that. After all, he grew up on a reserve in...
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Episode 4: Bering Strait
Revision Quest is the show that looks back on Canada’s native history in order to kick some assumptions about the present. And this week, the show takes a kick at one of the biggies: the idea that native Canadians are just transplanted Russians who hiked across the Bering land bridge. Here are a...
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Episode 3: Alcohol
Why is it when Irish people drink, it’s cute…but when Aboriginal people drink, they’re alcoholics who can’t handle their liquor? Darrell Dennis explores the myths and realities behind alcohol and the Aboriginal community with surprising results. It’s a tough subject to examine. And even tougher…
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Episode 2: Real Indian
As an Aboriginal actor, Darrell Dennis is curious about the Hollywood image of the Native American Indian. In particular, he wonders about the wild savage dressed in buckskin and beads, and the Indian princess with the pure heart and the long, straight hair. This week on ReVision Quest Darrell...
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Episode 1: Work
Host Darrell Dennis goes to work on “work”. From high unemployment to low expectations, he looks at the harsh realities and persistent misconceptions that greet aboriginal people in the workforce. Always on the job, Darrell learns about the pre-contact work ethic and the difficulties facing...
About this show
First Nations comic Darrell Dennis plunders the past to challenge misconceptions of what it means to be an Aboriginal person in Canada today. more