Let’s Talk Native rings in the New Year
LTN rings in the New Year! Matt, Lou and I start making the case for what needs to happen in 2017. We are not the only ones who are not fans of peaceful protests....
Category: Issues
Gary Wassaykeesic – Telling our stories
TORONTO – Gary Wassaykeesic is a survivor of the Canadian residential school system and a long time activist working for justice for Indigenous people. In this interview he talks about his initiative to document the...
Sakoietah speaks from Standing Stone Camp
Sakoietah provides Real People’s Media with an update from the camp of the Sacred Stones, where thousands of Indigenous people and their allies have gathered to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline which is threatening...
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...
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...
