Photos from yesterday’s rally for First Nations education in Ottawa. Slideshow: Fullscreen: Photography by Tim Fontaine & Martha Troian . . . → Read More: PHOTOS: First Nations education rally
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Photos from yesterday’s rally for First Nations education in Ottawa. Slideshow: Fullscreen: Photography by Tim Fontaine & Martha Troian . . . → Read More: PHOTOS: First Nations education rally Quick hit to let you know that MI’s Rick Harp (yours truly) will be part of an informal 4-person roundtable airing today on CBC Radio One about Aboriginal issues and Winnipeg’s Oct. 27 city-wide election for mayor and council. Hosted by Larry Updike of CBC Manitoba’s ‘Up to Speed‘ drive-home program, the show begins at [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Discussing Aboriginal issues & Winnipeg civic election on CBC Radio This fall the Gemini Awards will honour the best in Canadian English-language television, and a handful of Aboriginal nominees are competing for some pretty significant hardware in the Program and Performance categories. Neil Diamond’s remarkable documentary Reel Injun is up for Best Social/Political Documentary Program. Don Kelly, host of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network‘s Fish Out [...] . . . → Read More: Aboriginal Nominees for Gemini Awards in Canadian TV excellence Another week, another installment of MEDIA INDIGENA as heard on THE WORD, first broadcast live every Tuesday on STREETZ 104.7 FM at noon central, 1 pm eastern. This week, MI’s Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V renewed their discussion of Winnipeg’s mayoral campaigns, where the A-word was finally uttered — that’s right, “Aboriginal” — by [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Winnipeg’s mayoral race finally (if faintly) mentions Aboriginal people Behold the latest mediaINDIGENA segment on STREETZ 104.7 FM, which is originally broadcast live every Tuesday at noon central, 1 pm eastern, on-air and on-line. This week, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discussed the growing funding gap for First Nations post-secondary students, and, why Winnipeg’s mayoral race had been silent (to date, anyway) [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: First Nations students underfunded; Winnipeg mayoral race’s silence on Aboriginal issues Missed this Tuesday’s mediaINDIGENA segment on STREETZ 104.7 FM? Have no fear! Thanks to the magic of digital recording, you can catch Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V here on mediaINDIGENA. Listen as they discuss two pieces of global Aboriginal political history, plus, how controversial comments by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reveal anti-Indian [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Bluster, Pair of Political Aboriginal Firsts on STREETZ-FM In this installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discuss the website “BEAT NATION” – home of hip-hop Indigenous-style – and touch on a debate over the appropriateness of hip-hop being used to share Aboriginal cultures. Rick also talks about Australia’s Desert Art Centre which uses [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Discussing contemporary Aboriginal cultures on STREETZ-FM Employing a straightforward photo slide-show format to quite decent effect, these Aboriginal artist profiles from the Desert Art Centre in Alice Springs, Australia are pretty engaging in their own way. The didgeridoo-based soundtrack in many of them helps. From their YouTube page, here is one of DAC’s shorter slide-shows, documenting a work in the making by [...] . . . → Read More: VIDEO: Aboriginal Art in the Making In this installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discuss two exciting bits of news about Aboriginal people working on both sides of the camera: one has to do with a Hollywood blockbuster expected out in July 2011; the other, an experimental short showing [...] . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Discussing Aboriginal film and fund-raising on STREETZ-FM Next year, Adam Beach will get to share the hi-ho-silver screen with none other than Harrison Ford in the upcoming movie “Cowboys and Aliens,” described as a mix of sci-fi and western genres. It’s due to hit screens July 29, 2011. According to movieweb.com, “the film takes place in 1870s Arizona, where a skirmish between cowboys [...] . . . → Read More: VIDEO: Adam Beach discusses role in upcoming blockbuster “Cowboys and Aliens” This installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM features a discussion between Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V about his latest post, “Does the war against Aboriginal women begin at home?” MI on STREETZ: Aug. 10, 2010 . . . → Read More: AUDIO: Discussing “The War against Aboriginal Women” on STREETZ-FM For those who may have missed it, please find below the Aug. 3, 2010 installment of mediaINDIGENA’s weekly audio appearances on THE WORD on STREETZ 104.7 FM, hosted by Lady V: . . . → Read More: MI on STREETZ FM: August 3, 2010 Loving this short video from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a montage assembling moments from the 6 month carving process behind the Stillaguamish Tribe‘s first traditional canoe in 100 years. Made of 300-year-old cedar — a century of that spent hidden underwater — the creation of the shovel-nose canoe was headed up by Lummi Nation master [...] . . . → Read More: Carving cultural recovery out of a centuries-old tree Hot off the presses, here is Week 2 of mediaINDIGENA‘s weekly sit-down with ‘THE WORD’ on Winnipeg’s urban music station STREETZ 104.7 FM, heard live world-wide via their online webstream every Tuesday at 1 pm est, 10 am pst. Hosted by Lady V, THE WORD will feature a weekly discussion about the latest news and views [...] . . . → Read More: mediaINDIGENA on STREETZ-FM’s “THE WORD”: July 27, 2010 On July 22, mediaINDIGENA’s Rick Harp sat down with CBC Radio’s “Up to Speed” to discuss that much-hated piece of legislation, the Indian Act. In particular, AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo’s pledge to repeal and replace the Indian Act by 2015. Rick also shared some insights gleaned from our poll, “Should the Indian Act be gone by [...] . . . → Read More: mediaINDIGENA on CBC Radio re: Indian Act Repeal Poll Not sure how I accidentally came upon this video staging an imaginary conversation between animated, Lego-like versions of an Indigenous person from Taiwan and “the President,” but I find it amazing and hugely entertaining to watch, especially the President’s robotic tone and government-speak (the woman’s is artificial too, but seems less automatonic). It was created by [...] . . . → Read More: VIDEO: An animated argument for Indigenous rights in Taiwan This week marks the debut of mediaINDIGENA‘s weekly sit-down with ‘THE WORD’ on STREETZ 104.7 FM, based in Winnipeg but heard ’round the world via their live webstream. Every Tuesday at noon central time (1 pm eastern, 10 am pacific), MI Editor Rick Harp — that’s me — will sit down with host Lady V to [...] . . . → Read More: mediaINDIGENA on STREETZ-FM’s “THE WORD”: July 20, 2010 Behold… Same film, different trailer, much funnier… I’d seen the trailers online for a while now and always wondered what it was about. It turns out that the short film (which sadly I cannot find online in its entirety) is the product of Creative Spirit, a Native American film project based in California. Based on the quality of the [...] . . . → Read More: The Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco Now that photojournalist Scott Stephens has been released from temporary Toronto police custody at the G20 protests, we are able to release more of his photos. The gallery below depicts the progression of events after protesters gathered across the street from a makeshift detention centre in east-end Toronto, where hundreds of detainees were being held. After [...] . . . → Read More: More Pics from G20 Protests by Detained Photographer As we mentioned in an earlier post, photographer Scott Stephens is on the ground in Toronto, covering the protests surrounding the G8/G20 Summits. The gallery below is a sample of the images he captured at a protest rally on June 24, 2010. Slideshow: Fullscreen: mediaINDIGENA will be showcasing more of Scott’s amazing photos in the coming [...] . . . → Read More: G20 Groundswell: A Photojournal |
     
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