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		<title>Have media helped or hurt most Canadians&#8217; understanding of Idle No More?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainstream media that try to distil a whirlwind of voices and visions into a soundbite or two, risk confusing their audiences as to who and what Idle No More is actually about]]></description>
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		<title>Why First Nations calling for a Nation-to-Nation relationship might want to walk their talk first</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/why-first-nations-calling-for-a-nation-to-nation-relationship-might-want-to-walk-their-talk-first</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t really mean to be too provocative with that headline. (Okay, that&#8217;s a lie. Still, if it got your attention&#8230;) But, I have to say it: all these calls of late for nation-to-nation relationships between the Crown and Indigenous peoples? They don&#8217;t appear to have been backed up in practice on much if not most of the Indigenous side. (The Canadian side is a whole different kettle of Kanata.) Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about. Below you&#8217;ll find a list containing the majority of what we might call the higher-level political Aboriginal organizations. Look it over, then see if you don&#8217;t notice a pattern. (Hint: there&#8217;s something &#8216;linking&#8217; them all together.) Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Chiefs of Ontario Council of Yukon First Nations Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations First Nations Summit [of BC] Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Mi&#8217;kmaq Confederacy of PEI Southern [Manitoba] Chiefs Organization Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Union of New Brunswick Indians Union of Nova Scotia Indians Union of Ontario Indians (Anishinabek Nation) Spot a thread there? Well, besides their being fairly workmanlike names, they&#8217;re also pretty darn derivative — in more ways than one. Indeed, every one of these ostensibly independent organizations has opted to fashion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You say divided, I say diverse: Is Idle No More about factionalism or freedom?</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/you-say-divided-i-say-diverse-is-idle-no-more-about-factionalism-or-freedom</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As people frantically try to get a handle on the explosive, never-a-dull-day developments in Indian Country lately, one recent exchange in the media caught my attention: the battle to characterize and frame the semi-spontaneous events on the ground collectively known as &#8216;Idle No More.&#8217; The exchange began when National Post columnist Andrew Coyne asserted the following in his Jan. 7 column, &#8220;Meeting with Harper won’t settle aboriginal people’s problems&#8221;: &#8220;the longer Idle No More has gone on, the more it has become clear it is not so much a dispute between aboriginal Canadians and the Harper government, but between rival factions in the aboriginal community&#8221; &#8220;Factions&#8221;— as in, &#8216;divided,&#8217; or &#8216;split,&#8217; or &#8216;to be without common purpose.&#8217; And, depending on how it is deployed, the term can be meant to imply confusion or inconsistency on the part of those so factionalized. Read Coyne&#8217;s piece for yourself to decipher and decide his intent. Now I can&#8217;t be sure, but it does appear that MEDIA INDIGENA&#8217;s own Hayden King has likely read Coyne&#8217;s column. In his Jan. 9 commentary (&#8220;We natives are deeply divided. There’s nothing wrong with that&#8221;) for the Globe and Mail, King notes that &#8220;while [Indigenous peoples] share a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLL: How should a BC Legion atone for publishing a joke about &#8216;beer-baiting&#8217; and hunting Indigenous people to their death?</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/polls/poll-how-should-a-bc-legion-atone-for-publishing-a-joke-about-beer-baiting-and-hunting-indigenous-people-to-their-death</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cranbrook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Royal Canadian Legion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Legion based out of Cranbrook BC is at the center of a storm over a racist joke printed in its August 2012 newsletter. The joke&#8217;s premise features non-native hunters from two different Prairie provinces discussing whether it&#8217;s okay to pick off Indians with a rifle. After the one shows the other how it&#8217;s done and reassures him it&#8217;s perfectly legal, the &#8216;punchline&#8217; comes when the other is arrested for shooting and killing an Indian — but only because he &#8216;baited&#8217; him with beer. (To see the joke as published, APTN National News has posted a copy on its site.) The resulting outrage over the newsletter&#8217;s contents prompted the national leader of the Royal Canadian Legion Gordon Moore to apologize, according to The Canadian Press: &#8220;I am aware of the remarks made in the &#8216;joke&#8217; towards our Aboriginals and do not deem this as acceptable behaviour for any branch of The Royal Canadian Legion&#8221; Moore went on to express regret, both on his own behalf and &#8220;on behalf of those at the legion&#8217;s Dominion Command to those offended by the behaviour.&#8221; As for the man responsible for the joke, Legion Sergeant-At-Arms and newsletter publisher Michael Landry, he later attempted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLL: Should boxer Damien Hooper have apologized for displaying an Aboriginal flag at the Olympics?</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/polls/poll-should-boxer-damien-hooper-have-apologized-for-displaying-an-aboriginal-flag-at-the-olympics</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Aboriginal boxer competing on behalf of Australia who also maintains clear allegiances to his people has gotten into some hot water for his visible display of the latter at the summer Olympic Games in London this week. In what is perhaps an ironically telling comment on the state of that country&#8217;s effort at Settler/Aboriginal reconciliation, it appears Damien Hooper is the one who&#8217;s been made to say &#8216;sorry.&#8217; The nature of his transgression? According to The Australian, Hooper — one of 10 Indigenous athletes on the team — was guilty of &#8220;wearing a black T-shirt bearing the Aboriginal flag as he arrived for his impressive opening fight win against American Marcus Browne. It went against Australian team rules, which state athletes must only wear the official team uniform.&#8221; Under those rules, essentially a carbon-copy of Olympic rules, that act of pride simultaneously constituted an act of politics. Pressured by the Australian Olympic Committee (itself reportedly pressured by the International Olympic Committee), Hooper soon apologized for the flag flap. But if the 20-year-old athlete is contrite for what he did, the reasons why he did it tell a different story. Or so one is encouraged to wonder by his initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why a truly independent First Nations political voice could be just $1 or $2 away</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/why-a-truly-independent-first-nations-voice-could-be-just-1-or-2-away</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assembly of First Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdfunding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kickstarter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Coon Come]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Nault]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as I watched the decisive re-election of Shawn Atleo as the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, my thoughts couldn&#8217;t help but turn to the perennial question hanging over the AFN: as an organization funded so heavily from the coffers of the Canadian government, just how independent a voice is it, anyway? The question is a fair one. As the old adage goes, when you bite the hand that feeds you, the hand&#8217;s owner seldom likes it. Some argue we only need to see what happened to one-term National Chief Matthew Coon Come for evidence of that at work in Indian country. Among other battles he waged against the Canadian government, Coon Come helped lead the charge in 2000 against proposed reforms to the Indian Act, under what came to be known as the First Nations Governance Act. The Indian Affairs minister at the time, Liberal MP Robert Nault, was none too pleased with the Assembly&#8217;s opposition. Cuts to AFN&#8217;s funding followed not long after, and its annual disbursement from Indian Affairs dropped in one year from $19.8 million down to $12 million, a cut of just under 40% (by 2003, Coon Come&#8217;s last year in office, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retired captain: How Northern Gateway may &#8216;consult&#8217; and &#8216;accommodate&#8217; Aboriginal interests</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/retired-captain-how-northern-gateway-will-consult-and-accommodate-aboriginal-interests</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting theory has been floated in the Vancouver Sun by &#8221;an 87-year-old retired West Coast sea captain&#8221; about the Northern Gateway pipelines. In his editorial &#8220;Harper gov&#8217;t playing &#8216;shell game&#8217; on pipeline,&#8221; Capt. Edward Wray alleges that &#8220;the [federal government's] and Enbridge&#8217;s so-called plan&#8221; for the ultimate route relies on a diversionary strategy: get people so worked up about the one &#8220;egregious and unsavoury&#8221; route (ending in Kitimat, B.C.) that they&#8217;ll readily settle for another, &#8220;safer&#8221; option (&#8220;most likely&#8221; terminating in Prince Rupert, B.C.). After making his case for this line of argument Wray layers in another piece of speculation, namely, how Aboriginal interests would fare under this scenario: It is my understanding that in order to pass legal muster in regards to passing this [Northern Gateway project] through First Nations&#8217; territory, the government must both &#8220;consult&#8221; these communities and &#8220;accommodate&#8221; their interests. It appears this fall-back may be the &#8220;accommodation&#8221; necessary to meet that legal test, if the First Nations challenge the decision in court. Now, in Canadian jurisprudence, the federal/Crown duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal peoples&#8217; rights under the Constitution and treaties is, shall we say, fluid and evolving. The question is: how vulnerable is this duty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IndigenEtsy: A curated list of handmade native goodness</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/arts-and-culture/indigenetsy-a-curated-list-of-handmade-native-goodness</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It calls itself &#8220;the world’s handmade marketplace.&#8221; And if you&#8217;re the crafty, self-starting entrepreneur type, you likely already know its name — Etsy. Started up seven years ago as a site for &#8220;very-very small businesses,&#8221; Etsy has become massive in its own right: 15+ million members, 875,000+ active shops, and 13+ million listed items. So it should come as no surprise that a few Indigenous items/shops should pop up here and there. In fact, the examples I am about to showcase are among the roughly 700 items that cropped up when I conducted a search using the term &#8216;Indigenous.&#8217; Alas, determining how many are of genuine origin and/or optimal benefit to an Aboriginal artist/vendor I cannot say with 100% certainty, but I tried to use my native spidey sense to separate out the pretenders from the real thing. (Corrections welcomed.) And so, here now, in no particular order, is a sampling of what most caught my eye, in the hopes it will catch your fancy enough that you might consider making an Aboriginal artist very happy today. &#160; According to his profile, self-taught urban Indigenous artist Sheldon Lee &#8220;originates from the Thungutti Tribe of New South Wales&#8221; in Australia. Lee&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How UN envoy&#8217;s visit launched food fight and debate over who speaks for Indigenous north in Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/how-un-envoys-visit-launched-food-fight-and-debate-over-who-speaks-for-indigenous-north-in-canada</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nestled deep within the recent brouhaha over the visit to Canadian soil by Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, is an interesting sub-text: namely, who, in a complicated country like Canada, is in the best position to speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples? Well, as anyone even vaguely familiar with Aboriginal issues knows, the answer depends on who you ask and who else might be doing the talking, and the UN&#8217;s Special Rapporteur&#8217;s visit is perhaps as good a case as any to illustrate why Aboriginal representation is no straightforward affair. Following up on his mandate to ensure signatory countries&#8217; promote and pursue their citizens&#8217; right to food under various international laws, the UN envoy declared in his end of mission statement that he was &#8220;disconcerted by the deep and severe food insecurity faced by Aboriginal peoples across Canada living both on- and off-reserve in remote and urban areas.&#8221; During his visit, the Special Rapporteur was earlier quoted as saying that Canada is home to &#8220;a system that presents barriers for the poor to access nutritious diets and that tolerates increased inequalities between rich and poor, and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.&#8221; As De [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking the Cross-Canada Cuts to Aboriginal Affairs</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/tracking-the-cross-canada-cuts-to-aboriginal-affairs</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media reports indicate that hundreds of employees with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (née Indian Affairs) have recently received letters telling them that their jobs could be &#8220;affected&#8221; as part of a larger wave of federal budget cuts seeking to eliminate just over 19,000 public sector jobs by 2015. Based on &#8220;figures released by public-sector unions,&#8221; CBC provisionally reports that 619 people at Aboriginal Affairs now know that they could be affected (i.e., targeted for possible elimination) once the dust finally settles. For a sense of how these numbers could/will break down by region, I&#8217;ve begun compiling an assemblage of the bits and pieces flowing over the web (to be updated as further and firmer details emerge). Here&#8217;s what dribbled out so far in terms of regional specifics: CBC News North reports a total of 17 AANDC jobs to be cut in Iqaluit, out of &#8220;a total of about 85-90 people working at that office &#8230; [or] 20 per cent,&#8221; says a union official &#8220;At least 20 positions&#8221; will be &#8220;impacted&#8221; at [AANDC's] Atlantic office, reports The Amherst Daily News in British Columbia, &#8220;75 public servants at the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs received 75 notices,&#8221; according to figures provided by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does gritty APTN series &#8216;Blackstone&#8217; deserve a third season? Viewers weigh in on-line</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/arts-and-culture/does-gritty-aptn-series-blackstone-deserve-a-third-season-viewers-weigh-in-on-line</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TV series makes no apologies for its depictions of dysfunction and corruption in Indian Country]]></description>
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		<title>Aboriginal Journalists Assemble!</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/reference-and-resources/aboriginal-journalists-assemble</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ho-leh, the Canadian media world is getting browner and browner these days. Or so it seems to me. From print to radio to television to the world wide interweb, a new Indigenous face or voice practically emerges every few weeks. To my mind, that is an indisputably good thing for all concerned, not least, for Canadian audiences. There was once a time — perhaps even as recently as the 1980s or 1990s — when you could maybe count on one or two hands the number of working Aboriginal journalists combined in this country. These days, I bet APTN National News&#8217; core of reporters alone would exceed those tiny totals of yesteryear. Indeed, you could say we have achieved critical mass in this regard. Oh yeah, I did say that. (I&#8217;m so prescient.) Or, at least, I raised the possibility that a &#8216;tipping point&#8217; has been reached in the numbers of First Nations, Metis and Inuit journalists now plying their trade North of 60. But see the other piece to my tweet? The bit where I implicitly ask what more can be made of all that storytelling talent, experience and skill? Could that corpus of creativity perchance be amassed and thereby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>imagineNATIVE media arts festival gears up for 12th year of Indigenous excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another great line-up of Aboriginal on-screen goodness at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Oct. 19-23, set to launch at its exciting new home for screenings, the stunning TIFF Bell Lightbox. If you&#8217;ve never been to this amazing 5-day event, watch the above video (directed/edited by both MI&#8217;s Tim Fontaine and yours truly on behalf of the INDIGENA Creative Group) to get a tantalizing taste of the wide array of over 90 art works in film/video, new media, and more. The nightly events and industry sessions are also top notch. Proud to be a media sponsor last year providing daily reports from the festival (an archive of which you can check out via our VIMEO page), this time around we just wanna be spectators again. If all goes well, you&#8217;ll be right there with us, sharing an armrest.]]></description>
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		<title>AUDIO: Kim Anderson, &#8220;Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/arts-and-culture/audio-kim-anderson-author-life-stages-and-native-women-memory-teachings-and-story-medicine</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of stories to tell us who we are is well known, so to lose touch with your people&#8217;s stories can lead to a void inside one&#8217;s self — or even within a community as a whole. I was reminded of this today on my radio show, Urban Nation LIVE, when I had the pleasure of speaking with Cree/Métis educator Dr. Kim Anderson about her efforts to gather and honour those restorative narratives in her latest book, Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine. (She&#8217;s in Winnipeg today and tomorrow as part of Thin Air 2011, aka the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.) Sharing the teachings of 14 elders across three cultures, the book is a collection of cultural and lived understandings of the roles and responsibilities of Indigenous women and girls, from pregnancy and birth through to puberty to death. For those of you who may have missed its original airing, the interview is below.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Tweets: UN Declaration, 140 characters at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an ill-advised bout of social media enthusiasm, I thought it would be cool and nifty and useful if I tweeted the UN Declaration pertaining to Indigenous Peoples rights. Had I known beforehand what it would take to distill the dang thing, I might have re-thought my initial impulse. But I persevered and glad I&#8217;m did: below you will find the fruits of my labours, re-purposed via the amazing tool Storify. View &#8220;UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Tweeted&#8221; on Storify]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW: &#8216;Indigenous Young Women: Speaking our Truths, Building our Strengths&#8217; Project</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/interview-indigenous-young-women-speaking-our-truths-building-our-strengths-project</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a young Aboriginal woman age 16-25 (or know someone who is ) interested in community leadership skill development, check out my UN Live interview below with Natasha Latter, coordinator of the &#8220;Indigenous Young Women: Speaking our Truths, Building our Strengths&#8221; project for details on how to apply. A joint initiative of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network and Girls Action Foundation, the project will see young Indigenous women from across Canada gather in Saskatoon this November for 4 days of workshops, mentorships and solidarity. As the project literature says, it will offer opportunities to come together as sisters, with the inclusion of Elders and other traditional leaders in the spirit of unity to discuss what is happening, and act upon our vision of what needs to change in our communities. This is the time to be yourself, all of yourself and celebrate it!]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW: Amnesty International rates Canada on International World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quickly thought I&#8217;d share yesterday&#8217;s Aug. 9 interview I conducted on UN Live with Craig Benjamin, Indigenous rights campaigner with Amnesty International Canada, on account of that day being International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. I invited Craig on to evaluate the present social, economic, political and ecological state of affairs for Indigenous people in the Americas, not least right here in Canada. Listen in and tell me what you think of his analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW: Prof. Chris Powell on why &#8216;Canada&#8217; and &#8216;genocide&#8217; can and should belong in the same sentence</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/rickharp/issues-and-politics/interview-prof-chris-powell-on-why-canada-and-genocide-can-and-should-belong-in-the-same-sentence</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on Urban Nation LIVE, home to my alter-media-ego on Winnipeg&#8217;s STREETZ FM, I had the opportunity to discuss the provocative thesis of my friend Chris Powell&#8216;s new book, &#8220;Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide.&#8221; An assistant professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba, Powell&#8217;s thesis is provocative because he applies the book&#8217;s radical premise — that &#8220;civilization produces genocides&#8221; — not only to places like Rwanda and Nazi Germany but to Canada as well. Indeed, as you&#8217;ll hear in the interview, Powell asserts that this country&#8217;s deliberate design, construction and support for the &#8217;Indian&#8217; residential school system (a system whose multiple legacies we continue to live and struggle with today) is only the most recent example of Canada&#8217;s calculated campaigns of genocide against Indigenous peoples. Part One Part Two]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW: How Families of Sisters in Spirit works to help relatives of missing/murdered women cope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Urban Nation LIVE&#8216;s on-site, week-long coverage of Women&#8217;s Worlds 2011 in Ottawa, I got to sit down with Bridget Tolley and Kristen Gilchrist, two of the driving forces behind Families of Sisters in Spirit, a &#8220;volunteer, grassroots, non-profit organization led by families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.&#8221; The following are parts one and two of our complete conversation.]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW: Anishinabe rapper helps take Ojibwe language into new territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Harp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had the distinct pleasure of interviewing a talented young man the other day on Urban Nation LIVE, a Minnesotan rapper who performs under the mantle of Tall Paul. His video for the track &#8220;Prayers in a Song,&#8221; performed at a 2010 pow-wow near Leech Lake, MN, caught my eye and ears for its seemingly impromptu feel, balanced off by the self-assured flow of lyrics. Below is the UN interview, preceded by a transcription of the introduction. My next guest has proven just how flexible and compatible hip hop and Aboriginal languages can be. And no further proof of this &#8216;fuseability&#8217; is needed than a YouTube video making the rounds in Indian country on-line. In his track entitled &#8216;Prayers in a Song,&#8217; rapper Tall Paul of the duo Point of Contact lays down some bilingual lyrics in Anishnaabemowin and English. And here to tell us more about himself, the song and the inspiration is the man himself, Tall Paul.]]></description>
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