<![CDATA[MEDIA INDIGENA]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wh0f!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cc9370a-1794-4f18-b298-b80dc539b113_1080x1080.pngMEDIA INDIGENAhttps://mediaindigena.substack.comSubstackFri, 04 Sep 2026 08:52:29 GMT<![CDATA[Petrostate Pushback, Pt 2 ⛽ MEDIA INDIGENA 379]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/petrostate-pushback-pt-2-media-indigenahttps://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/petrostate-pushback-pt-2-media-indigenaSat, 29 Aug 2026 14:04:17 GMTTactics & Terrains / MI 379

🌞 SUMMER 2026 (mini-)SERIES Part II 🌞

Our 2026 mini-summer series “Petrostate Pushback” continues with part two—‘Tactics and Terrains’—as we focus on the various frontlines of Indigenous resistance to governments and corporations trying to sacrifice their territories for massive energy projects.

Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Lisa Kingshott, communications and broadcasting expert

• Karyn Pugliese, journalist and editor

• Kris Statnyk, Indigenous rights lawyer

• Irina Cerić, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Windsor

• Shiri Pasternak, Associate Professor of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University

• Trina Roache, Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of King’s College

• Candis Callison, Professor with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

• Kim TallBear, Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

• Ken Williams, playwright and Associate Professor with the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama

• Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University

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]]><![CDATA[Petrostate Pushback, Pt 1 🛢️ MEDIA INDIGENA 378]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/petrostate-pushback-pt-1-media-indigenahttps://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/petrostate-pushback-pt-1-media-indigenaThu, 30 Jul 2026 15:36:13 GMTMedia Myopia / MI 378

🌞 OUR SUMMER 2026 (mini-)SERIES BEGINS! 🌞

Introducing the first in our four-part series for Summer 2026! Collected, connected conversations drawn from our decade-deep archive, it’s a mini-series that falls smack dab in the middle of our mega-series, Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, our co-convened gathering of climate journalists, scholars and experts.

Which is why we thought it only makes sense to make these compilations climate-compatible with the overarching theme of ‘Petrostate Pushback’: Indigenous resistance to the political, cultural and economic forces driving resource extraction and exploitation—the costs of which fall disproportionately on Indigenous lands, waters and those who depend on them. And with BFF rooted in the realm of media, what better place for us to start, as we banter on ‘both sides’ binaries, bitumen bias, and bravery as viewed via the myopic lens of mainstream news.

Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

  • Terese Mailhot, author and Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sweet Briar College in Virginia

  • Kim TallBear, Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

  • Clifford Atleo Jr., Professor, Senior Advisor and Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs at the University of British Columbia

  • Regan Boychuk, co-founder of Reclaim Alberta and the Alberta Liability Disclosure Project

  • Candis Callison, BFF co-convenor, Professor with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia

  • Kwame Mckenzie, practicing psychiatrist, CEO of Wellesley Institute

  • David Suzuki, award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster

  • Michael Redhead Champagne, Ininew advocate, speaker and author

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 12 🤝 MEDIA INDIGENA 377]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-12https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-12Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:19:59 GMTDIASPORA INDIGENA / MI 377


ON THIS EPISODE…

Part 12 of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended climate series based on a three-day gathering of Indigenous journalists, scholars and experts we co-convened last fall at UBC. And at the tail-end of BFF’s second day, we set aside time for participants to pause and reflect on all they’d heard to that point, a session we entitled ‘Synthesis.’

Kickstarting it all, invited respondents Alice Te Punga Somerville and Kim TallBear, whose opening insights last episode set the stage for the responses to follow, including those of fellow BFF attendees Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Pasang Sherpa, Renae Watchman, Kaila Jefferd-Moore, Cutcha Risling Baldy, and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 11 📻 MEDIA INDIGENA 376]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-11https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-11Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:46:01 GMT“F*ck hope. Be sovereign.” / MI 376


ON THIS EPISODE…

Part 11 of BFF: Beyond Fires and & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—sharing conversations we co-convened over 3 days last fall at UBC. And with a lot of ground covered those first two days, we thought it best to end day two with a session for reflection, an open-ended exchange we entitled ‘Synthesis.’ (So, if this is your very first foray into BFF, it’s recommended you start from the start, to get the most out of all this episode’s call-backs and references.)

Kicking things off, respondents Alice Te Punga Somerville and Kim TallBear, who offered their observations before co-moderators Candis Callison and Rick Harp would throw it to the floor for wider discussion.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 10 🐟︎ MEDIA INDIGENA 375]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-10https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-10Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:32:29 GMTAs Go Fish… 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 MI 375

ON THIS EPISODE… the tenth takeaway from BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives, collecting close to 40 journalists, scholars and experts last fall at UBC. This time ’round, the closing portion of “Taking on Water,” which, if you caught the first half, got a little ‘fishy’ as we went along. Proving perhaps that everything and everyone is connected at some point in time and space, including our panelists Tara Atleo, Shannon Waters, Tristan Ahtone and Zoe Todd, as we continued to interweave waters’ well-being with that of fish and humans, supplemented by the thoughts of fellow BFF attendee Ozzy Michelin.

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 9💦MEDIA INDIGENA 374]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-pt-9mediahttps://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-pt-9mediaTue, 09 Jun 2026 17:22:18 GMTOur Entangled Futures / MI 374


ON THIS EPISODE…

The ninth instalment of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—presents the beginning of “Taking on Water,” recorded at the fourth session of our gathering’s second day, encapsulated as follows:

Oceans cover some two-thirds of the planet; watersheds traverse and transcend human borders. Water is literally everywhere, yet that hasn’t stopped colonial governments from trying to control and contain its movements, along with the lives of those it sustains. From rivers and lakes, to oceans and ice, this session looks at how Indigenous narratives work to convey the upstream sources and downstream consequences of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, floods, and droughts, both for aquatic life and the Indigenous lifeways dependent on them. Meanwhile, with bodies like wide-ranging watersheds complicating any formulation of climate-related problems and solutions, what does that imply for the structure and scope of our storytelling?

Joining MI host/producer Rick Harp are panelists Tristan Ahtone (sitting in for Grist-mate Anita Hofschneider), Tara Atleo, Zoe Todd, and Shannon Waters.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 8🌲MEDIA INDIGENA 373]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-8mediahttps://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-8mediaSun, 31 May 2026 12:28:50 GMTFeel the Cultural Burn / MI 373

ON THIS EPISODE…

The eighth instalment of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—presents the back half of “Reframing Fire & Forests,” recorded at day two’s third session. Moderated by UBC Professor (and MI regular) Candis Callison, she re-joins panelists Keara Lightning, Warren Cardinal McTeague, Bernard Perley, and Leonard Linklater, with follow-up responses by fellow BFF attendees Matteo Cimellaro and Olga Ulturgasheva.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • Indigenous Cultural Fire: Myths & Facts Indigenous Leadership Initiative

  • “Indigenous Lessons about Sustainability are not just for ‘All Humanity’,” by Kyle Whyte et al [PDF], chapter in Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power,

  • “What are whitefellas talking about when we talk about ‘cultural burning’?” by Timothy Neale Inside Story

  • A deep dive into the Doctrine of Discovery (and how it’s never gone away) MEDIA INDIGENA 99

  • “Rethinking Sustainability through Indigenous Language Futures,” by Bernard C. Perley and Henrietta Black, chapter in Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication

  • “The Ecology of Possession: A Kin Study of Elk Island National Park” by Keara Lightning, Master’s Thesis (U of A)

  • Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 7🔥MEDIA INDIGENA 372]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-pt-7mediahttps://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-pt-7mediaSat, 23 May 2026 13:02:31 GMTElder Fire / MI 372

ON THIS EPISODE:

Part seven of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, where we go beyond mainstream infatuation with crisis and catastrophe to dive deep into Indigenous climate narratives. Recorded at a 3-day gathering of nearly 40 journalists, scholars and experts last fall at UBC, this instalment was the third session of our second day, entitled “Reframing Fire & Forests”:

With extreme fire events monopolizing our attention in the daily news cycle, long-standing Indigenous-led practices of forest care, stewardship and prevention have only begun to make their way into public consciousness and policy. Yet as fires only intensify in an ever-changing climate, one might ask just how ‘wild’ wildfires are to begin with. Drawing on our discussion of acute events as sites or intersections of larger systems and institutions, panelists will discuss how they make sense of landscapes still reeling from colonialism, and the specific and profound challenges Indigenous communities face as they actively respond to, mitigate, and plan for climate change. Specific attention will also be paid to the role Indigenous languages—another casualty of colonialism many now seek to repair—could play to enable enriched climate coverage.

In this opening half of the session, moderated by MI’s Candis Callison—jointly-appointed Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC—she shares the stage with panelists Warren Cardinal McTeague, Keara Lightning, Leonard Linklater, and Bernard Perley.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 6 ☼ MEDIA INDIGENA 371]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-6https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-6Thu, 14 May 2026 08:33:40 GMT‘Because Crisis’ / MI 371

ON THIS EPISODE: the sixth instalment of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—in which we bring you the back half of “Storying Systems vs. Symptoms,” day two’s second session.

Returning for the remainder of this conversation, moderator Candis Callison picks things up with panelists Michelle Cyca, Tiara R Naputi, Jeffrey Ansloos, and Gina Starblanket. We also hear the thoughts of fellow BFF attendees Savannah Ridley, Stephanie Papik, and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 5 ☼ MEDIA INDIGENA 370]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-5https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-5Wed, 06 May 2026 20:03:48 GMTSystems vs. Symptoms / MI 370

ON THIS EPISODE…

…part five of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives—wherein we share the first half of “Storying Systems vs. Symptoms.” The second session of BFF’s second day last October at UBC, it was moderated by long-time MEDIA INDIGENA roundtabler Candis Callison—a jointly-appointed UBC Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs along with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies—speaking with panelists Jeffrey Ansloos, Michelle Cyca, Tiara R Naputi, and Gina Starblanket. A panel described as follows:

According to scholar Adam Hanieh, transforming our current climate trajectory means confronting “the multiple logics of a social system that has served to center oil throughout all aspects of our lives, and we cannot extricate ourselves from oil’s pervasiveness, certainly not at a pace necessary to halt runaway climate change, while remaining within this social system.” Can seeing climate change as symptomatic of systems and structures shed greater light on the impacts of ongoing colonial policies and institutions?

In this session, we ask how we can move beyond event-centric journalistic practices to reflect underlying structural problems, system change, and long-term solutions. Relatedly, we also unpack what Candis Callison calls ‘crisis-talk,’ where the only allowable discourse is ‘what must be done now,’ foreclosing larger questions of how we got here or what led up to such crises.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 4 ☼ MEDIA INDIGENA 369]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-4https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-4Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:02:45 GMTThe Luxury of Denial / MI 369

ON THIS EPISODE:

Part four of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods, our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives, in which we close out the back half of “Storytellers Without Borders,” day two’s opening session. (Missed the front half? Check it out here.) Returning with their thoughts are panelists Tristan Ahtone, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Deborah McGregor and Stephanie Wood, supplemented by fellow BFF attendees Mark Trahant, Gina Starblanket, Cutcha Risling Baldy, and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

  • “Recommendations for the ethical and equitable engagement of Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the IPCC” IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs)

  • “Giving a Voice to the Unheard: Opportunities for Including Indigenous Knowledges in the IPCC” The Revelator

  • ‘The Weaponization of Fossil Kin,’ by Zoe Todd NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment

  • ‘Home Story,’ by Zoe Todd Center for Humans & Nature

  • “The American way of life is not negotiable,” cited in ‘Après moi, le déluge’ Resilience

  • A climate crisis, a ballot, and a chance at a new life in Australia The Guardian [2021]

  • ‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say The Guardian

  • 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit BBC News

  • Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate Yale Environment 360

  • Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism: Material Approaches to Restoring Indigenous Jurisdiction

  • Through Colonial Patterns of Extractivism: Self-Governance as a Sustainable Path Forward The Arctic Institute

  • Indigenous ExtrACTIVISM in Boreal Canada: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles and Sovereign Futures Humanities

  • Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, by Laleh Khalili

  • VIDEO: “The Men Behind Techno Feudalism and the Death of Democracy” Spoke Media

  • The Gilded Rage of Tech Billionaires Tech Won’t Save Us

  • Pit River Tribe prevails as California Energy Commission definitively rejects Fountain Wind Project Shasta Scout

  • Inside California’s audacious bid to build the world’s deepest floating wind farm Los Angeles Times

  • “Why solar and wind developers ignore Indigenous land claims at their peril” Reuters [2023]

  • “Opinion: Too much is at stake to reject LNG out of hand” Vancouver Sun [2015]

  • ‘Sickening’: First Nations left empty-handed as environmentalist pressure kills B.C. energy projects Financial Post [2017]

  • Haisla chief gives heartfelt support for LNG development Prince George Citizen [2020]

  • Why Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion in Canada Is Not Worth the Risk International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

  • “Geopolitics of green colonialism: decarbonising, but for whom, and at what cost?” Undisciplined Environments

  • The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions Radical Ecological Democracy

  • A New Era of US Mineral Mining Must Put Communities First World Resources Institute

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 3 🐋 MEDIA INDIGENA 368]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-3https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-3Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:03:13 GMTStorytellers Without Borders / MI 368

ON THIS EPISODE:

Part three of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods! (And if this is your first encounter with our new series, you might want to start with BFF Part 0, i.e., episode 365, for best results).

Based on three days of conversations hosted at UBC last October, BFF brought together close to 40 scholars, journalists and experts who document and depict how Indigenous peoples contend with climate change. In this instalment, “Storytellers Without Borders,” the first in our second day’s sessions, we discuss what and whom climate change stories currently serve—to what extent is what we’re experiencing global change or continuity? As inheritors of a world wrought by centuries of extraction and colonialism, the deeply globalized structures and systems we now live in and with are the consequence of competing empires’ efforts to terraform our territories. Yet so much of mainstream climate journalism is confined to nationalist narratives of technosaviourism, where petro-states promise a pivot to eco-states in hopes of preserving the socio-economic status quo. In this session—featuring panelists Tristan Ahtone, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Deborah McGregor, and Stephanie Wood—we explored why our narrative lens(es) on climate change must be commensurate with the scale of global forces driving it.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism, by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

  • The Tenant Class, By Ricardo Tranjan

  • Uncovered tracks: The bloody legacy of Canada’s railways Canada’s National Observer

  • 135 Years Since the Last Spike: Colonialism and Resistance on Canada’s Railways Active History

  • “The Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report” [Vol. 2, 2025] STACC

  • Anita Hofschneider, Senior Staff Writer, Grist

  • Tiny birds, and their tiny superfood, could decline due to ‘irreversible’ effects of Vancouver port expansion The Narwhal

  • The Deep Toll of Tar Sands On Canada’s Indigenous People Undark [2021]

  • “The Athabasca River, Indigenous Knowledge, and Adapting to Danger” NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment [2025]

  • The impact of permafrost thaw on northern indigenous communities Canadian Climate Institute

  • “Opportunity or Threat? Engaging with Nature-based Climate Solutions As Indigenous Peoples” Indigenous Climate Action (ICA)

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https://pod.fo/e/3fbe13

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 2 ☼ MEDIA INDIGENA 367]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-2https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-2Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:25:41 GMTFrom Spectacle to Survival / MI 367

ON THIS EPISODE:

The back half of our live panel at the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, it was the only public portion of BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods, our 3-day gathering of journalists, scholars and experts focused on Indigenous narratives of climate change.

Assembling four seasoned storytellers—Judi Kochon, Paul Seesequasis, Tanya Talaga, and Mark Trahant—they joined host/moderator Rick Harp to set the table for the other three-dozen voices who gathered that weekend back in October 2025.

✪ BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods is sponsored by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Global Journalism Innovation Lab, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Museum of Anthropology ✪

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • Amitav Ghosh wants to give nature its voice back Imagine5

  • B.C. approves massive Nisg̱a’a-led LNG project on the north coast The Narwhal

  • How Canada’s Haisla became the world’s first Indigenous LNG owners Reuters

  • Why Canadian LNG Is Not a Path to Global Energy Security or a Stronger Domestic Economy IISD

  • An Energy War is Raging. The Last Thing Canada Needs is More Fossil Fuel Production. The Energy Mix

  • Why I carried my baby in a tikinagan Today’s Parent

  • ‘It’s a story of hope’: Reflections on undamming the Klamath High Country News

  • VIDEO: “Salmon Return to Klamath River After Historic Dam Removal” Indian Country Today (ICT)

  • Baby Chinook salmon hatch in Upper Klamath for first time in a century Statesman Journal

  • ‘Salmon relatives come back to their homeland’: Okanagan fish passage, blocked for decades, set to be re-opened IndigiNews

  • “Our Journey: Bringing the Salmon Home” Okanagan Nation Alliance

  • Partnership to bring salmon back to Okanagan Lake after 100 years of restrictions Burns Lake Lakes District News

  • Northwestern Ontario lithium project sparks mixed reactions over new provincial process CBC News

  • Fort William First Nation ready to be the host community of a lithium processing plant Northern Ontario Business

  • Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, by Thea Riofrancos

  • Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site UNESCO

  • “China’s internal combustion car sales peaked in 2017 as electric vehicles took off” Our World in Data

  • Indigenous miner becomes third-largest coal producer in the US Mining.com

  • “Amnesty International Canada concerned that passage of Bill C-5 sidelines Indigenous rights” Amnesty Canada

  • “Indigenous Grassroots Intervention in Bill 5 Court Challenge Asserts Bill 5 Ignores Indigenous Law, Harms Rights and Culture” Ontario Nature

  • First Nations consultations aren’t the roadblock to ‘unleashing’ the Ring of Fire The Narwhal [June 2025]

  • 5 more First Nations join legal challenge against Bill 5 and C-5 CBC News [Feb. 2026]

  • The battle for the ‘breathing lands’: Ontario’s Ring of Fire and the fate of its carbon-rich peatlands The Narwhal

  • “Peat Bogs and the Ring of Fire” Let’s Talk Science

  • “Leaf blowers aren’t just noisy—they’re also huge climate polluters” Environment America

  • VIDEO: “America’s Dumbest Crop” [i.e., grass] Climate Town

  • People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie, by Paul Seesequasis

  • Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities, by Paul Seesequasis

  • The Knowing, by Tanya Talaga

  • The Knowing: CBC Gem

  • “Breaking History: Mark Trahant” Indigenous House

  • Judi Kochon, CKLB Director of Radio & Sahtú Language Announcer

  • CKLB Radio Livestream

  • APTN National News

  • ICT News

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https://pod.fo/e/3f1145

]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 1 ☼ MEDIA INDIGENA 366]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-1https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-1Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:28:40 GMTMOA INDIGENA / MI 366

On this episode, the formal kick-off to our extended series, Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, beginning with the first half of a panel recorded last October before a live audience in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

The opening, public component of a 3-day gathering of journalists, scholars and others focused on Indigenous narratives of climate change, the panel assembled four seasoned storytellers embodying decades of experience, a wide-ranging conversation which served as a microcosm of the overall event—co-convened by MI host/producer Rick Harp and Candis Callison, UBC Professor and long-time MI roundtabler.

** GRATITUDE ** Special thanks to Mitiana Arbon, Pacific Curator at MOA—one of BFF’s four core sponsors, alongside the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Global Journalism Innovation Lab, and the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • Spring flooding and recurring evacuations of Kashechewan First Nation International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction [Sept. 2021]

  • No end in sight to Kashechewan First Nation evacuation CBC News [Feb. 27, 2026]

  • What treating Kashechewan evacuees reveals about Canada’s drinking water crisis: Policy failure is an Indigenous health issue The Conversation

  • Why Canada prefers to spend more money ‘rescuing’ First Nations than respecting them MEDIA INDIGENA 312

  • Wanuskewin Heritage Park wanuskewin.com

  • Quinault Nation’s move to higher ground ICT [May 2024]

  • Indigenous villages in Alaska face ‘absolute devastation’ after Typhoon Halong CBC News/AP [Oct 2025]

  • Alaska villagers evacuated during ex-Typhoon Halong plan for new homes Alaska Beacon [March 27, 2026]

  • Climate change study targets problems in Alaska communities CBC News/AP

  • A Storm is Brewing: Climate Change and Coastal Storms in Western Alaska USDA’s Climate Hubs

  • Retreating sea ice threatens Indigenous way of life WWF

  • Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling CBC News/AP

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]]><![CDATA[Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Pt 0 ☼ MEDIA INDIGENA 365]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-0https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/beyond-fires-and-floods-bff-pt-0Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:39:41 GMTBest Foot Forward / MI 365

ON THIS EPISODE: Part 0 of “Beyond Fires and Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes”

“BFF” for short, it’s the name of a three-day gathering we co-convened last October on Musqueam Lands, home to the campus of UBC. Assembling close to 40 participants from media, academia and more, BFF fostered connections and conversations on Indigenous experiences and expertise with climate change.

An extensive set of dialogues to be released on MEDIA INDIGENA in the weeks and months to come, we thought we’d first ground it in an overview of BFF’s origins, contents, and objectives. “We” meaning co-convenors Rick Harp (MI host/producer) and Candis Callison, UBC Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs, and, of course, long-time MI roundtabler.

BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods is sponsored by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Global Journalism Innovation Lab, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • International Symposium on Indigenous Communities and Climate Change MEDIA INDIGENA 144

  • Blue Ocean Law helps secure historic ICJ advisory opinion on climate change Blue Ocean Law

  • “After landmark climate win, lawyer hopes for a ‘new legal order’ to protect Indigenous rights” the Guardian

  • Sen̓áḵw Village senakw.com

  • “Reframing Climate Change through Indigenous Narratives” SPPGA

  • Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, by Adam Hanieh Verso Books

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]]><![CDATA[Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 5 of 5 (ep 364)]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-002https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-002Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:02:54 GMTEgg-headed Entanglements / MI 364

ON THIS EPISODE: the last of our five-part series on the seminar, “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration,’” where we jump into genomics, a realm rife with racialized thinking and practice according to population scientist and Princeton graduate anthropology student Noah Collins. Yet despite challenges to Indigenous-led research in terms of access to financial and human resources, Collins notes that hasn’t stopped their projects from prioritizing community over commerce.

Returning to the table with host/producer Rick Harp to discuss Collin’s presentation in depth are Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) and Candis Callison (Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia).

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]]><![CDATA[Interrogating 'The White Possessive' (Pt. 4) • MEDIA INDIGENA 363]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-f51https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-f51Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:59:57 GMTZombie Ontology / MI 363

ON THIS EPISODE: part four of ‘the White Possessive,’ the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration.’” Based on a presentation about pretendianism by Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities), she joins fellow MI roundtabler Candis Callison (Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia) and host/producer Rick Harp to discuss what makes settler self-indigenization—where colonial cosplay works to both emulate and eliminate the Indian—arguably the final frontier of white possessiveness.

🔗 Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • “Playing Indian Constitutes a Structural Form of Colonial Theft, and It Must be Tackled” Unsettle (Substack by K. TallBear)

  • Playing Indian, by Philip J. Deloria Yale University Press

  • “‘Your DNA Is Our History’: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property” (by Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear) Current Anthropology

  • FILM: 28 Days Later Rotten Tomatoes

  • FILM: Battle Royale Rotten Tomatoes

  • FILM: It Follows Rotten Tomatoes

  • FILM: Slash/Back Rotten Tomatoes

  • FILM: Re-Animator Rotten Tomatoes

  • “Indigenous Genocide and Reanimation, Settler Apocalypse and Hope,” by Kim TallBear Aboriginal Policy Studies

  • VIDEO: “Indigenous Elimination, Settler Apocalypse, and Relational Hope,” feat. Kim TallBear YouTube

  • AUDIO: “The literary icon who isn’t Indigenous after all” The Current (CBC Radio)

  • Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers University of Manitoba Press

  • “[Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond] was so light-skinned that she was the target of a whisper campaign during the Charlottetown debate. Indians opposed to the deal said Turpel wasn’t really an Indian … [some] suggested checking into her background”, from ‘Tough Talker’ by Jack Aubry, Ottawa Citizen, September 28, 2001

  • ‘The unravelling story of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’ MEDIA INDIGENA 304

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]]><![CDATA[Interrogating ‘The White Possessive’ (Pt 3) 🎧 MEDIA INDIGENA 362]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-555https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-555Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:00:56 GMTClout & Clicks / MI 362

ON THIS EPISODE: part three of ‘the White Possessive,’ the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration.’” (Check out parts one and two first if you missed them.)

And this time around, the property in question is intellectual. Rooted in a talk by Olga Ulturgasheva (Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester), we digest and discuss her account of how unscrupulous colleagues misappropriated and misrepresented her personal stories and observations, a case study in what she calls “epistemological extractivism.” 

Returning to the roundtable with host/producer Rick Harp are Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) and Candis Callison (Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC). 

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]]><![CDATA[Interrogating ‘The White Possessive’ (Pt 2) 🎧 MEDIA INDIGENA 361]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-d03https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessive-d03Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:53:24 GMTThe Raw and the Cooked / MI 361

ON THIS EPISODE: Part two of ‘the White Possessive.’ And back in part one, we brought you the basics of this analytical framework as articulated by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, an analysis at the heart of the event, “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration.’” Featuring five presentations, the first was by none other than MI’s Candis Callison (Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia), applying her lens as a media scholar.

Here in our second engagement with the ways whiteness works to possess every last thing, we see how that possessiveness seemingly knows no bounds—right down to the extraction of our bodies’ most minute material. Drawing on a presentation by Jennifer Brown (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Alaska Native Studies at the University of Alaska-Southeast) on how that’s played out in Alaska in some dubious public health research and reportage, host/producer Rick Harp is joined once again by Candis and fellow MI regular Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) to reflect further on Brown’s talk.

Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic (by Jen Rose Smith) Duke University Press

  • ‘I’m not poor’: Subject of New York Times article speaks out on use of northern stereotypes APTN News

  • NAJA calls for audit on New York Times story IJA

  • NAJA calls for second apology and audit of New York Times story IJA

  • Inuit, reporters call out New York Times for ‘trauma porn’ National Observer

  • Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers University of Manitoba Press

  • #304 From Nanook To The New York Times: Misrepresentations of the North CANADALAND

  • Angry Inuk documentary National Film Board (NFB)

  • ISUMA TV

  • Zacharias Kunuk IMDb.com

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]]><![CDATA[Interrogating ‘The White Possessive’ 🎧 MEDIA INDIGENA 360]]>https://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessivehttps://mediaindigena.substack.com/p/interrogating-the-white-possessiveWed, 07 Jan 2026 14:39:25 GMTLong Relationships, Long Resistance / MI 360

ON THIS EPISODE: Interrogating ‘the white possessive.’ And according to Indigenous scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson, countries like Canada, Australia and the U.S. are best understood as ‘white possessions’—possessions which take a great deal of work and resources to maintain, a relentless reproduction of “the nation-state’s ownership, control and domination” over stolen Indigenous lands and waters.

But, of course, the machinations of white possessiveness can also be less overt. Secure in their belief in a colonial status quo, states now promote Indigenous ‘inclusion’ within socioeconomic systems predicated on their dispossession and disappearance. Gestures at ‘collaboration’ that are more confabulation, a ‘reconciliation’ that’s really about recuperation. The kind of contradictions discussed extensively at “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration’”—an October 2024 panel inspired by Moreton-Robinson’s insights into whiteness, race and the state—a series of presentations we reflect on over the next few episodes.

Sitting with host/producer Rick Harp, MI regulars Kim TallBear, Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, and Candis Callison, Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Links referenced/consulted this episode:

  • Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration’ SFU Public Square [VIDEO]

  • The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty University of Minnesota Press

  • Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism University of Minnesota Press

  • “Virtuous Racial States: The Possessive Logic of Patriarchal White Sovereignty and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” [PDF] Griffith Law Review (2011) Vol. 20 No. 3, pp 641-658

  • Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (by Kaitlin P. Reed) University of Washington Press

  • “YINTAH” documentary [VIDEO]

  • Political Pundits’ Push-Back on ‘Protectors’ MEDIA INDIGENA 198

  • Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call (authors Arthur Manuel & Ronald M. Derrickson), Between the Lines

  • “Protectors of the Future, Not Protestors of the Past: Indigenous Pacific Activism and Mauna a Wākea,” by Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua [PDF]

  • “B.C. Premier David Eby’s next challenge could be his toughest yet: expert” CBC News

  • “Eby Is Under Fire for Undermining the Rule of Law” The Tyee

  • “B.C. premier’s plans to change Indigenous Rights law, explained” The Narwhal

Additional reading

  • “Canada needs to be the partner it keeps claiming to be” Policy Options

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