My family holds reunions at the St. Peter’s church virtually every summer, just north of Selkirk and on the banks of the Red River in southern Manitoba. Growing up, I never knew why we did, nor cared really; the homemade pie was far more of a concern. Last summer, we held races, a candy scramble, and [...] . . . → Read More: Manitowapow: A Preview
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A 2011 American Book Award pick that gives the absolute best and most horrifying description of a run-in with a bear guaranteed to make you sit back and reconsider the way we do the things we do. . . . → Read More: REVIEW: “Extra Indians” 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’ve never been to this amazing 5-day event, watch the above video (directed/edited by both MI’s Tim Fontaine and yours [...] . . . → Read More: imagineNATIVE media arts festival gears up for 12th year of Indigenous excellence Sigh. Today in the neighborhood coffee shop, I spotted a poster made by a local designer for an upcoming music festival. Hence the sigh. A tomahawk and feathers had somehow made their way onto the poster for a West Coast band consisting of three bearded white guys. As I stood in front of the poster, noting the [...] . . . → Read More: An Open Letter To My Local Hipsters The power of stories to tell us who we are is well known, so to lose touch with your people’s stories can lead to a void inside one’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 [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Kim Anderson, “Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine” 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 “Prayers in a Song,” performed at a 2010 pow-wow near Leech Lake, MN, caught my eye and ears for its seemingly impromptu feel, [...] . . . → Read More: INTERVIEW: Anishinabe rapper helps take Ojibwe language into new territory In my other incarnation as host/producer of Urban Nation LIVE on Winnipeg’s STREETZ FM, I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Dallas Goldtooth of the 1491′s about their awesome video/poem, “Geronimo E-KIA.” I enjoyed it so much I thought I’d include the audio here for those who may have missed the original broadcast. Here is [...] . . . → Read More: Geronimo Lives: An interview with Dallas Goldtooth of the 1491′s A spoken word performance for former Governor General Michaëlle Jean has turned into a new hip-hop career for an Inuit artist — he rapped, she liked it, and he’s been going strong ever since. Mosha Folger (aka M.O.) is the son of an Inuk mother and Brooklynite father. With his two younger sisters, he was raised in [...] . . . → Read More: Inuit innovator pursues his own musical ‘M.O.’ DEREK MILLER Derek Miller with Double Trouble Juksa Records | 2011 MI Rating: ★★★1/2 (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— Renowned for his live, blues-inflected, roots rock sound, guitarist and singer/songwriter/producer and actor Derek Miller (Mohawk/Six Nations) first gained national attention when he toured with the iconic Buffy Sainte-Marie in the late ’90s. His raw, emotional style of playing and [...] . . . → Read More: REVIEWS: New CDs from Robbie Robertson; Derek Miller BOOK REVIEW: Edward S. Curtis: Above the Medicine Line, Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West – Rodger D. Touchie, Heritage House Publishing, 2010, 191 pgs. The first time I heard the name Edward S. Curtis was in a library. Somehow in a book somewhere I read he was a great American photographer fixated with images of [...] . . . → Read More: Portrait of a Photographer: Edward Curtis Comes to Canada It has been a long time since I’ve contributed to MEDIA INDIGENA, but I don’t feel bad because I’ve been busy with another Indigenous, insightful and innovative project: kiskino mâto tapanâsk: Intergenerational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors. This Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence initiative set out to understand [...] . . . → Read More: Videos tell women’s stories of intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools The steady beat builds to a booming thump. The bodies on the dance floor writhe along, anticipating the peak. There’s a short beat break, and a half-second later it kicks back in with the wails of a Northern Cree pow wow anthem soaring above the club rhythm. The crowd erupts. This is the Electric Pow Wow [...] . . . → Read More: The Urban Heartbeat of Mother Earth Regular MI visitors may or may not know that I now have a new ‘day job,’ as host/producer of Urban Nation LIVE, broadcast weekdays at 12 noon cst on STREETZ 104.7 FM here in Winnipeg. Playing nothing but Hip-hop and R&B, their mandate includes a 40% commitment to Aboriginal performers in these genres, making STREETZ [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Conversation with Executive Producer, “Free Leonard Peltier” CD Gawd, I love the Internet sometimes. Years ago, when I was working in diversity, I did a quick search of web sites that had content by and for the main target groups: Women, People with Disabilities, Visible Minorities, and Aboriginal peoples. (Yes, I’m that old. And, yes, that’s what they called us way back then. So are [...] . . . → Read More: The new (media) world: reflecting on early Aboriginal adoption of the web Gregory Scofield’s collection of poetry, Love Medicine and One Song (Kegedonce Press), is a sensuous journey of erotica indigena, and better Valentine verse you will not find. Read a morsel here for yourself, then buy the book for you and your hunny now. I’ve Looked For You in the blackest night, calling at the edge of a cliff knowing, [...] . . . → Read More: Poet Gregory Scofield’s ode to longing and love: “I’ve Looked For You” This being exactly mid-February in our commercialized world, I’ve been spotting a lot of those fat cherubs flyin’ around with bows and arrows of late. It got me wondering about that baby/weapon combo which, you have to admit, is not exactly normal. Give that baby a few years of hanging on to that bow and arrow and what you get — [...] . . . → Read More: Cupid and the crooked flight-path of arrows in pop culture He says he was late getting it out last year, but Goldtooth & Co.’s message of “love and recognition to all Native women in our lives” bears repeating this year, just in time for Valentine’s Day 2011. I’ll let the dudes “speak” for themselves. [ Song: Mishka,"Love and Devotion" ] . . . → Read More: A video valentine to the world’s Indigenous women Northern News Services reports that a team of First Nations artists recently took first place at this year’s Carnaval de Québec snow sculpting competition with their 13-foot tall depiction of a raven transforming into a woman. The win means the crew — composed of Randy Sibbeston, Dewy Smith and Dylan Smith — will go on [...] . . . → Read More: Aboriginal snow sculptors to represent Canada at world championships Centretown News reports that embattled artist Pamela Masik, fresh off the abrupt cancellation in Vancouver of her exhibition of paintings of missing/murdered women, may soon seek a more positive reception in the nation’s capital: “As the cornerstone of Canada’s decision-making process, Masik has expressed interest in bringing the show to Ottawa.” The CN piece cites [...] . . . → Read More: Artist hopes to bring controversial paintings of murdered, missing women to Ottawa Not long after complaints to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology compelled it to cancel a series of portraits of missing and murdered women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a family member of one of the victims has spoken out in defense of the exhibition. In a recent article in the Georgia Straight, Ernie Crey — brother of Dawn [...] . . . → Read More: Brother of victim defends artist’s portraits of murdered women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside |
     
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