On our last Summer '22 episode of collected, connected conversations: settler election fever! In this back half of our political retrospective on Election 2019 and more, we revisit the 2019 campaign's first debate, an infamous campaign scrum, and whether the real solution to our political woes might be an all-Indigenous party.
 
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Hayden King, Executive Director of the Yellowhead Institute based at Toronto Metropolitan University

• Vanessa Watts, Yellowhead fellow and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology at McMaster University

• Kim TallBear, Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society

• Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC

• Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University

• Ken Williams, Assistant Professor with the University of Alberta's Department of Drama

• Wawmeesh Hamilton, journalist and photographer

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music this episode includes “La Citadelle” and “The Tablets” by Komiku, “Trouvée dans la traduction” by Alpha Hydrae, “The Call of the Coyote” by Monplaisir, “High on Loungin’” by Wax Lyricist, and “La maison rose-soleil” by Cuicuitte, and “One Time Last Time” by Soft and Furious. Our opening theme is “Bad Nostalgia (Instrumental)” by Anthem of Rain. This episode was hosted/produced/edited by Rick Harp; production assistance by Courteney Morin.

In this set of collected, connected conversations (the penultimate episode in our Summer '22 series): Neech the Vote! Was it really a year ago that Canada held its last federal election? A contest we didn’t much concern ourselves with, to be frank; after all, we’d gone hard on the election two years prior. But, looking back, maybe that 2019 campaign taught us all we needed to know about how Indigenous interests fare in such settler exercises.
 
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Hayden King, Executive Director of the Yellowhead Institute based at Toronto Metropolitan University

• Vanessa Watts, Yellowhead fellow and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology at McMaster University

• Kim TallBear, Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society

• Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University

• Ken Williams, Assistant Professor with the University of Alberta's Department of Drama

• Therese Mailhot, author and Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University

• Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC

 // CREDITS: Creative Commons music in this episode includes “really beautiful my mambo” and “Regate” by Jean Toba, “Treasure finding,” “Love Planet,” and “Night in a Seashell” by Komiku, “Rien n'a vraiment changé” by Demoiselle Döner, and “Respect” by Alpha Hydrae. Our opening theme is “Bad Nostalgia (Instrumental)” by Anthem of Rain; our closing theme is “Garden Tiger” by Pictures of the Floating World. This episode was hosted/produced/edited by Rick Harp; production assistance by Courteney Morin.

On this week's collected, connected conversations (the sixth in our Summer '22 series): Settlerology. That’s right: our chance to turn that gaze around, to peer deep into the soul of settler society! Heck, who better to lead a course on colonial culture than Indigenous people?
 
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University

• Christopher Powell, Associate Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University

• Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC

• Kim TallBear, Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music in this episode includes “Little Green (Alt Take)” by Wax Lyricist and “Mr Paillettes Theme” by Komiku. Our opening theme is “Bad Nostalgia (Instrumental)” by Anthem of Rain; our closing theme is “Garden Tiger” by Pictures of the Floating World. This episode was hosted/produced/edited by Rick Harp; production assistance by Courteney Morin.

For the fifth instalment in our Summer '22 series, we burrow into bureaucracy, the Canadian civil service which administers every aspect of Indian life from cradle to grave via the technocratic tentacles of Indian Affairs.
 
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Shiri Pasternak, Assistant Professor in Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and co-founder at the Yellowhead Institute

• Danika Billie Littlechild, lawyer and international Indigenous rights advocate

• Robert Jago, writer/entrepreneur

• Peter Di Gangi, land rights researcher and analyst with Sicani Research

• Russ Diabo, Kahnawá:ke Mohawk analyst, writer, and activist

• Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University

• Ken Williams, Assistant Professor with the University of Alberta's Department of Drama

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music in this episode includes “earthwork” by Hinterheim, “Adios” by Stenifer, “Je vous ai menti” by BG du 72, as well as “The Wind” and “Ambiant Wait” by Komiku. Our opening theme is “Bad Nostalgia (Instrumental)” by Anthem of Rain; our closing theme is “Garden Tiger” by Pictures of the Floating World. This episode was hosted/produced/edited by Rick Harp; production assistance by Courteney Morin.