Cultural Program Manager, Michael Etherington, at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto shares his thoughts on the practice, representation and education of culture. Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Rebeka Tabobondung invites Kris and Sarain into her home where she runs the online arts & culture publication Muskrat Magazine. Eddy Robinson talks about medicine bundles and his need to create his own cultural "bubble" in the big city.
Oji-Cree songwriter Nick Sherman sets out to write a song about the challenges of living in a town with a reputation steeped in anti-Indigenous racism and corruption. Mixing performance art and politics, we get to see Thunder Bay as never before.
Tribal police officers respond to a call about cyberbullying against a local teenager. Constable Dwayne Honeyman drives a long and treacherous road to track down the subject of a warrant. And Stl'atl'imx Tribal Police officers gain the strength to deal with modern policing issues by drawing lessons from traditions and culture.
We meet Jordan Demeulemeester, one of underEXPOSED's own. He gives Tannis an inside look into a highly successful program, the First Nations Snowboard Team. And the whole gang goes on a moose hunt with Kookum.
Situated in Canada's 'Saudi Arabia' of wind, three Mi'gmaq communities faced an uphill struggle to stake their claim in the Gaspe Bay's booming wind energy sector. Now that effort is paying off with long term economic and social benefits.
Brandy starts her journey in Oregon in Portland where she learns about the Maker movement and craft beer. Then she travels to Albany to ride and carve at Albany's Historic Carousel Museum. Next she goes on an ATV excursion through Deschutes National Forest and learns to be a cattle rancher in Fossil. She finishes her trip in Pendleton where she learns how to make cowboy boots and visits the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.
In the icy waters off of Scotland, Dan recruits some help to dive for fresh scallops. Dan and Art brave the cold winds and rain to forage another rather surprising source of healthy seafood - there for the taking right on the beach. Bon Appetit!
Theda shares her life story about growing up in C&A Country and the various relocations she had to endure as a child. Norma and Pat discuss the importance of teaching the language to our youth and the obstacles they face.
A Wheelchair for Petronilla examines the challenges the disabled face in developing countries and the efforts of the Transitions Foundation in Guatemala to build and provide wheelchairs suitable for Guatemala's habitat. Run almost entirely by people with disabilities, this non-profit organization not only employs the disabled to design and build wheelchairs but also provides a model that can be emulated throughout the world.
Women coming from villages with no light. They're leaving their villages in South America to go to India to become solar engineers. They will bring solar light back home.
The one-hundred-and-twenty hand-crafted birds, formed from coconut fiber and lightweight materials traditionally used in West Coast Indigenous basket making, currently sit on cables placed in the gardens during a recent holiday light show. The birds are part of a public health-focused art installation titled "Birds on a Wire."
Traditional Seneca singer Sadie Buck creates three new songs inspired by a message from her late mother, which she performs with the Six Nations Women Singers. This episode features Sadie's good friend, Charlene Bomberry, as well as Sadie's nephews.
The youth get a jigging lesson from Sagkeeng's Finest, followed by their 1st weigh-in.
Teepee visits his grandmother; Teepee rakes leaves.
Lots of Noongar mob love to koort kwobakin, to celebrate. It's so deadly getting together with moort and koorda, family and friends.
The children and Tiga listen to the sounds of rain as they learn about different dwellings: a warm cozy teepee, drafty caves, houses on wheels, and about the kinds of animal homes in a story entitled Where do you live?
Joe is convinced he's not good at fishing but finding a little forest spirit in distress he uses his other skills to lead a successful fishing style rescue. Out late to view the Northern Lights, the friends race to rescue Buddy's run-away drum before it rolls off a cliff, saving it, then playing it to celebrate the dancing lights in the sky.
Nanna's away for a few days and Little J is worried - why does everything have to change?
Little J is obsessed with the playground craze of "Knucks" while Big Cuz frets Sissy is choosing to play with a new phone instead of her.
The wild woman of the woods captures the children to take them to live in her home forever. Theodore finds the courage to rescue them, but not without a little help from Mouse Woman. The lesson learned is always listen to your parents.
The carnival comes to Wapos Bay, and T-Bear is smitten by the carnival owner's daughter, Evelyn, and will do anything to help out at the carnival. T-Bear's dad Jacob tries everything to keep his son away from the "carnies," as he calls them, because of his own earlier experiences. Raven is bedridden with chicken pox and develops an overactive imagination by watching too many soap operas on TV.
Three's a crowd when Gordon, the new kid in town, comes between Tomias and Dahlia.
We were very excited to have Amy Hill as our first guest of the season as she shares some of her favorite family dishes from Japan made with her own unique flare.
In this episode, Chef Kelly is in Guadeloupe. The young commis chef Benjamin takes Chef Kelly to meet with Maryse to discover the traditional recipe of the "chiquetaille de daurade et son gaspacho de concombre" (sea bream chiquetaille with cucumber gaspacho). For her revisit, Chef Kelly meets with Max, a fisherman in Saint-Fran?ois, as well as two cucumber producers, Steve and Salim.
CAP Podcast talks with the S.T.E.P. Program, which is a planning grant that provides for research purposes as the tribe looks into potentially starting a Charter School. The attendees were Carrie Whitlow, Executive Director of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Education Department, Diedra Flurry, STEP Program Director, Amanda Goljenboom, Education School Administrator, and Jamie Rishel, Administration Assistant.
As soon as they arrive in Sainte-Adele, Quebec, for season four of Hit the Ice, a group of new prospects face physical testing and a first scrimmage. Out of the shuttle van, into the fire!
Mason and Tannis meet sisters, Meghann and Spencer O'Brien. One is a talented rider who retired from her sport to pursue her love of Aboriginal weaving, the other, an X Games medalists on track for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.
Progress on workout plans becomes evident when the participants complete their 'mid-point' check in with Kent.
Juaquin Lonelodge continues the tipi applique project which began in Show 1. On this episode, Juaquin explains the use of Heat Bond and makes preparations for sewing the project.
Part two of the rethinking of Lisa's 'Bloodlines' article, only this time Lisa looks in the mirror and asks herself some hard questions. This episode features interviews with Michaela Washburn, Leslie McCue, Lindy Kinoshameg and a musical performance by rising star Iskwe.
Drew travels to Canada's largest urban woodlot to meet "Sawmill Sid", a carver transforming the urban landscape, then he visits an Inuit artist who is bringing the North south, lastly he meets a statue-maker who casts his own bronze.
Ms. Thorn, San Diegan and of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians brings to her docuseries her native American experience; Her mother was an artist and was involved in the women's rights movement, while her father, part of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians, was one of the first Native Americans to occupy Alcatraz in an effort to gain equal rights for the Native Americans living on reservations, who at the time weren't allowed to vote. In 2018, Thorn was elected as the chairwoman of the Rincon Economic Development Corporation of her tribe and has been on the board for 5 years. She oversees businesses that are owned by the tribe and is an active member of California chapter of the Native American Chamber of Commerce. This will be an immersive cultural experience: Native American Artists and their works which are truly the intersection of Fine Art and historical significance. As a content creator for the presentation of Fine Art as well as the critically-acclaimed docuseries Art of The City TV, she has captured the flavor and historical significance of Native American artistic relevance, and presents to the world the timely story of the cultural capital of the Indigenous people, a story that has always been on the right side of history and on the right side of Artistic Accomplishment; Illustrating Native American Art both as curating and illuminating through the lens of her knowledge and being.
This episode of "Indian Road" features a bio on Henrietta Mann, a story about Clinton's Mohawk Lodge, a look at Sooner Spectator's Native issue, a look at downtown OKC's Red Earth Museum, and info about Washita National Battlefield Historic Site.
Joe Morris Sr. shares his experience working as a Navajo Code Talker during World War II. Lying about his age to obtain a draft registration card, he was inducted into the Marine Corps in 1944. He was assigned to Navajo Communication School that was created to devise an unbreakable code based on the Navajo language for the military to use during combat. This film was created in an effort to preserve and share the story of the Navajo Code Talkers.
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CAP Podcast talks with the S.T.E.P. Program, which is a planning grant that provides for research purposes as the tribe looks into potentially starting a Charter School. The attendees were Carrie Whitlow, Executive Director of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Education Department, Diedra Flurry, STEP Program Director, Amanda Goljenboom, Education School Administrator, and Jamie Rishel, Administration Assistant.
"Native Shorts presented by Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program" is a series that will feature short films produced, premiered or showcased at the Sundance Film Festival through its Native American and Indigenous Program, followed by a brief discussion with hosts Ariel Tweto (Flying Wild Alaska, Wipe-Out) an Inupiaq Eskimo from Unakleet Alaska and the Sundance Institute's own Bird Runningwater, a Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache.
A burglar is terrorizing Rabbit Fall and the crime turns personal when Tara wakes in the middle of the night to discover a dark figure in her room. Why would the burglar invade her home and walk off with nothing but her beloved shawl? Tara fears she's losing her grip on what is real and imagined when the dark figure keeps appearing throughout the investigation. She finds comfort in Harley, who offers her the gift of a home security system. But even this can't allay her fears when she discovers the town burglar is simply a teenage girl, not the stranger in her bedroom.
In the gorgeous highlands of West Scotland Dan and Art stalk for Roe Deer. And there's even a Piper on hand to pipe in Dan's traditional Scottish meal. Complete with haggis and Scotch. Bon Appetit!
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Whaledreamers is the heartfelt story of the return of an aboriginal whale dreaming tribe from the edge of extinction and the equally, long journey of the whales, not only to survive the slaughter by man, but to engage the human race into waking up in time.
Tribal members from the San Manuel, Soboba and Morongo reservations recount the start of the Southern California Pow Wow circuit.