Category: Shows

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...

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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...

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Jewel’s Cause and the Oneida Circle: An interview with Donna Keuhl

Donna Keuhl is the founder, CEO and Director of Oneida Circle, an organization created to empower and educate youth in combatting abuse and bullying. In this interview, recorded on June 30th, 2016, Donna speaks...

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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.

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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 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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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 0

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...

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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...