MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs
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On this week’s program: a plethora of pretendianism! So much, in fact, it’s going to take two whole episodes to fit it all in. And here in part one, we take our deepest dive yet into the ultimate underpinnings of pretendianism—the political imperatives of whiteness. Driving the insatiable settler urge to possess every last thing, fueling the desire to assume and consume imagined Indigenous 'identities.' Indeed, such self-serving self-Indigenization is very much a byproduct of the colonial imagination, a contorted construct which privileges the individual over the collective, the racial over the relational, and possession over peoplehood.
So says podcast regular Kim TallBear, who, by the end of this episode, so thoroughly unpacks the problematic formulation and foundation of so-called Indigenous "identity"—a hyper-individualized right to resources invoked in isolation from those it performatively pantomimes—you may never want to use the term again. A talk she delivered last month in Ottawa, it took place at a two-day symposium convened by the Wabano Centre—an Indigenous Centre for Excellence in Health Service based in the national capital region. One of four core presenters at the event, Kim shared the stage with Drew Hayden Taylor, Brenda Macdougall and Pam Palmater, with MI's Rick Harp as emcee/moderator for the event.
CREDITS: 'One more day in orbit' by Aldous Ichnite (CC BY); 'Horror background atmosphere for horror and mystical' by Universfield (CC BY); 'Goshen's Lonely' by Gagmesharkoff (CC BY). Our intro/xtro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.
From perogies to pemmican: what can two men switched at birth tell us about Indigenous belonging? (ep 346)
Spilling the beans on Indigenous involvement in the coffee trade (ep 345)
A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt 2 (ep 344)
Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind: Pt. 1 (ep 342)
Is the Supreme Court ruling on Canada's Indigenous child welfare law a victory for the status quo? (ep 341)
Unflagging settler colonialism in Minnesota / Mni Sóta Makoce (ep 340)
The 'clean, green' face of colonialism (ep 339)
Shaping a Syllabus for Indigenous Podcast Studies (ep 338)
CN Indigenous advisory board goes off the rails (ep 337)
Carbon Colonialism and Culpability (ep 336)
Where's There Smokes, There's Fire: Tobacco, Trade and Treaties (ep 335)
The debate over state vs federal recognition of tribes in the U.S. (ep 334)
How Canada Diddles While The World Burns: A Climate Check-in (ep 333)
Do statutes of limitations apply to treaties with First Nations? Canada sure hopes so (ep 332)
How might The Voice referendum echo for Indigenous peoples in Australia? (ep 331)
First Thoughts on First First Nations Premier of Manitoba (ep 330)
Indigenous Journalisms: Part 8 (ep 329)
Indigenous Journalisms: Part 7 (ep 328)
Indigenous Journalisms: Part 6 (ep 327)
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