Category: Return to the land

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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...

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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...

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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.

Chris Knight: Matrilineal clan families and the evolution of human culture 0

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...

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Gustafsen Lake’s Exiled – by Fernando Acre

The Gustafsen Lake is one of the most significant conflicts between Indigenous people and the Canadian state in recent memory. Over 400 RCMP officers used helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and fired over 70,000 rounds...

WGO 33 – Christi Belcourt And Isaac Murdoch On Resiliance 0

WGO 33 – Christi Belcourt And Isaac Murdoch On Resiliance

So the other day, Isaac and Christi were driving through Six Nations looking for a working wifi connection to do a multiperson online video conference. By pure happenstance, they ended up at Kanenhariyo’s and...

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WGO 27 – The prophecy of the serpents

Sitting around the embers of a dying camp fire, Kanenhariyo tells the story of the prophecy of the serpents. This prophecy is common to the Hopi, the Haudenosaunee, and a number of other indigenous...

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WGO 23 – Francis Boots on Gawio and Kayenere:kowa

Francis Boots speaks about the political structures of contemporary Onkwehon:we life.  

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WGO 22 – Francis Boots On Onkwehonwe Justice Systems

Francis Boots gives his take on traditional Onkwehonwe justice systems and means of conflict resolution.

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Isaac From The Great Lakes on truth and reconciliation

Preparing for an APTN interview and thinking about purple Ju-Jubes, Isaac Murdoch takes a moment to share his thoughts on reconciliation.