Geronimo Lives: An interview with Dallas Goldtooth of the 1491’s

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 […]

Portrait of a Photographer: Edward Curtis Comes to Canada

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 […]

Videos tell women’s stories of intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools

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 […]