Podcasts Celebrating Canada's Indigenous History Month

Matriarch Movement

How Kairyn Potts is helping Indigenous youth thrive by meeting them where they’re at

Content warning: This episode has discussions about addiction, suicide, and violence.

In this episode, host Shayla Stonechild has a transparent conversation with Kairyn Potts to find out more about what it means to meet Indigenous youth where they’re at, how addiction is impacting them, and what two-spirit representations means for decolonization.

Pretendians

Interview with a Pretendian

What do some of the most prominent and successful Indigenous artists, leaders, and professors have in common? They aren’t Indigenous. There are hundreds of cases of Indigenous identity fraud that we know about, and likely thousands that we do not.

Actors and Ancestors

Being a Good Relative with Dallas Goldtooth

Reservation Dogs star Dallas Goldtooth (Dakota-Dine) shares his journey from being a land defender organizing against pipelines to acting on a beloved TV show, and telling Indigenous stories with humor and care. He confesses to host and EarBuds curator, Joel D. Montgrand (Rocky Cree), about his horse-riding challenges, gets nerdy about his role in the Fallout TV series, and explains how he deconstructs toxic masculinity.

The Aunties Dandelion

Auntie Danis Goulet (Cree-Métis) - Director, Night Raiders, Advocate for Indigenous Filmmaking

The Aunties visit with Cree-Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet, whose debut 2021 film Night Raiders garnered the highest budget of any Indigenous-led Canadian film. Danis talks about the spirituality and practice of infusing Indigenous culture and language into her films.

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Inuit at the International Plastics Negotiations in Ottawa

This podcast episode goes on the road to the fourth session of the United Nations International Plastics Negotiations in Ottawa, Canada. The goal is to develop an internationally legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.

Pull the Thread: The Wild Life

In the corrupt and deadly world of the illegal wildlife trade, criminals are responsible for the wholesale slaughter of animals, and the suffering of people, too. One man set out to break into this world, and to bring down a wildlife trafficking syndicate that's among the largest on the African continent. His name is Wolf. And he’s a spy.

Investigative journalist Runako Celina takes us through the sometimes dangerous, sometimes bizarre enterprise of the illegal wildlife trade and those trying to dismantle it.