Jerry Sandy on Fran’s Earthship
Jerry Sandy is an Onondaga man from Six Nations. He and members of his family put on a feast to feed the 50 or so volunteers that were involved in building the Earthship for...
Category: Issues
Apocalypse and Accountibilty: d’bi.young anitafrika on her new Afro-futurist dub-opera
By Tom Keefer d’bi.young anitafrika talks with Real People’s Media about Bleeders, her new Afro-futurist dub-opera which is currently playing in the Toronto Summer Works festival. d’bi talks about her creative process, the play’s...
Island of thieves: A controversy over land and fairness at Shoal Lake 40
Themla Fair is a traditional healer from Shoal Lake 40. In this interview she talks about a local land dispute that she is involved in, and her conflict with the local band office in...
Stacey Boots talks about his family’s land
Stacey Boots, a Mohawk man from Akwesasne, speaks about his family’s land upon which an unwanted pipeline and border crossing post sit.
A hate crime in Tyendinaga – Ohaheyo’s story
On April 30th, Ohaheyo, a Kanyen’kéhaka (Mohawk) man in Tyendinaga, was the victim of a hate crime. He was beaten and “gay-bashed” by a group of half a dozen white people at a bush...
Chris Knight: Matrilineal clan families and the evolution of human culture
Christopher Knight is an academic and Marxist who gained his PhD in 1987 at the University of London for a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s four-volume Mythologiques. He became a lecturer in anthropology at the...
Gary Wassaykeesic On The INAC Occupation
TORONTO – Gary Wassaykeesic recently sat down with Real Peoples Media to tell the story of how INAC Toronto was occupied and what led to the #OccupyINAC movement. Wassaykeesic explains the linkages of the...
Mohawk Carrie Lester interview from inside OccupyINAC
Real Peoples Media spoke to Carrie Lester, a Mohawk woman from Six Nations who is inside the occupation of the INAC office in Toronto. Carrie has been inside the occupation for the last three...
Getting rid of the Indian Act: A message to #OccupyINAC
As #OccupyINAC prepares to go viral, Kanenhariyo reflects on the crucial political moment we are in, as momentum builds to abolish the Indian Act. What will come after the Indian Act? What does this...
Neecha Dupuis on planned Savant Lake gold mine and lack of consultation with grassroots people
Niisha Kwe, a member of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen 258, speaks with Real People’s Media about her community’s concerns about a planned gold mine on her peoples territory and the lack of consultation...
