Kris meets with Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, the first ever Associate Curator of Historical Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Sarain does a radio interview with Author/Journalist and CBC radio host Waubgeshig Rice and joins him for a book reading of his new novel "Moon of the Crusted Snow" at Laurentian University. Kris and Sarain visit Tumikuluit Saipaaqivik, Iqaluit's first Inuktitut Daycare, and talk with Executive Director Celina Kalluk who is empowering the next generation of Inuktitut speakers.
Inuk singer Beatrice Deer delves into the history of residential schools to write a song in tribute to the lost children in unmarked graves. Filmed almost entirely in Inuktitut, this episode features an interview with Nakuset, a Montreal-based Survivor.
Community life may have been simpler before it arrived, but Casino Rama has brought economic stability and growth - as well as some new challenges.
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.
Situated in the hottest place in Canada, the Kanaka Bar Indian Band know firsthand the rising threats of climate change. See how they're adapting through innovative approaches to water, food, energy and resource security that are now garnering national praise.
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.
Art takes Dan to a Northern BC community to hunt beaver. It's all a culture shock for Dan. He is taught to skin a beaver by an Elder, learns about edible plants, and participates in a friendly cook-off with community-minded women.
Elder Virgil Surveyor has always believed in education as a key to a fulfilling life. Join Mr. Surveyor as he takes us back to some interesting times. From discrimination during his schoolboy days to serving as a high school principal, Virgil has seen much and has always reserved a place in his life for tradition.
The Emmy-nominated documentary WALKING INTO THE UNKNOWN traces the intimate journey of an American Indian physician and national health columnist as he navigates the health care system and gains a deeper understanding of himself and his health risks. Dr. Arne Vainio works on the Fond du Lac (Ojibwe) Reservation in northern Minnesota, where his Native patients face grim health statistics. His impending 50th birthday - coupled with his frustration with middle-aged Native men who avoid health screenings - prompts a revelation: he needs to heed his own advice. At high risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer, Vainio chooses to confront the health issues that jeopardize his future by undergoing medical screenings, making diet changes and adopting a lifestyle necessary to prevent a fatal outcome. This poignant story reveals Dr. Vainio's vulnerability as he reverses roles and finds himself a patient. The program also includes several powerful testimonials from community members who have experienced the premature loss of Native men in their families, along with explanations of several diagnostic tests told from the patient's point of view.
Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to "kill the Indian and save the man." The children were not allowed to be Indians - to speak their language or express their culture or native identity in any way at the risk of being severely beaten, humiliated or abused. What effects did these actions cause? Many Indians, like Walter, lived with this unresolved trauma into adulthood, acting it out through alcoholism and domestic violence. At age 58, Walter decided to write and publish his memoirs as a way to explain his past abusive behaviors to his estranged children. But dealing with the memories of his boarding school days nearly put an end to it. "The Thick Dark Fog" tells the story of how Walter confronted the "thick dark fog" of his past so that he could renew himself and his community.
More than 100 tribal leaders are in Washington D.C. to testify before the House appropriations committee. Regular contributor Holly Cook Macarro has an update with ICT political correspondent Pauly Denetclaw. Indigenous values of respect for ancestors, grandmother Earth and future generations guide us in everything - including our response to climate change. Mark Trahant has part three of his report from the Quinault Nation in Washington state as it faces pressure from the sea. Joy Harjo has won the minds and hearts of folks all over the globe with her words and music. From poetry, children's books and music, she is a true artist and philosopher, whose work reflects her as Muskogee. Harjo was our nation's 23rd poet laureate. She's a saxophone player, as well as a mother and grandmother.
Progress on workout plans becomes evident when the participants complete their 'mid-point' check in with Kent.
Teepee rides a bus and paints a picture for the first time.
Lots of Noongar mob love to koort kwobakin, to celebrate. It's so deadly getting together with moort and koorda, family and friends.
Tiga, Jodie and Jason rejoice in the delights of summer - swimming, sand castle building, shell collecting at the beach, and stylish sunhats for protection from the sun's rays. Kokum and Tiga fly to the Land of the Midnight Sun in a small float plane and learn traditional net fishing from the elders, while Jodie and Jason imagine a fishing game complete with swans and grizzly bears - their imaginations help them stay cool.
The trio invent their own sports competition but Joe becomes focused on winning until Buddy reminds them it's about fun as a team. When a huge runaway snowball rolls towards Grandpa and his ice sculpture Joe leads the trio in awesome snowboarding teamwork to divert a big crash. Hoping to win the local art contest each of the trio search for something interesting in nature to paint. When a little raccoon needs help, the kids spring into action, giving up their chance to win a prize but learn a valuable lesson about the treasures in nature.
Randy and Katie make a warrior's shield for Mr. Thompson. / Randy wants to make sure Mr. Charles has a fiddle to perform at a concert.
Aboriginal Day festivities are getting underway, but there's even more cause for excitement in Wapos Bay... T-Bear unexpectedly spends the night in the fire tower after he climbs up and is too afraid to come down. Jacob goes up to get his son and realizes he's scared too. In an amusing twist, the story is reported as a political protest on TV. After much soul searching, father and son make it back to solid ground. Meanwhile, Raven doesn't want to go fishing with her mother, Sarah, because she's frightened of the river. Sarah helps her daughter feel at ease in open water, one step at a time. Raven and T-Bear discover how important honesty, patience and courage are, especially when you're scared.
Amy, Casey and Theodore help a lone Coho salmon learn to jump so he can join his family on their journey upstream. They enter the world of the salmon and help Coho learn to jump. The lesson learned is to believe in yourself and work hard.
When Tomias gets offered a place in a Melbourne Boarding School, he doesn't know how to tell Dahlia, deciding instead to hide it from her, whilst the kids' band together to free the town chickens, now locked up by Armstrong, an act that will be his undoing.
I first met Rex 6 years ago as he worked as part of our Cooking Hawaiian Style staff. His energy and Aloha is contagious.We are happy to have one of our Cooking Hawaiian Style ohana on the show this season. Rex shares a family tradition, Stuffed bitter melon with pork hash.
In this episode, Chef Kelly is in French Guiana. The young commis chef Nancy takes Chef Kelly to meet with Priscilla to discover the traditional recipe of the "Bami." For her revisit, Chef Kelly meets with Alerich, a chicken, beef and sow farmer in Mana, as well as a farmer in Sinnamary, Patrick.
More than 100 tribal leaders are in Washington D.C. to testify before the House appropriations committee. Regular contributor Holly Cook Macarro has an update with ICT political correspondent Pauly Denetclaw. Indigenous values of respect for ancestors, grandmother Earth and future generations guide us in everything - including our response to climate change. Mark Trahant has part three of his report from the Quinault Nation in Washington state as it faces pressure from the sea. Joy Harjo has won the minds and hearts of folks all over the globe with her words and music. From poetry, children's books and music, she is a true artist and philosopher, whose work reflects her as Muskogee. Harjo was our nation's 23rd poet laureate. She's a saxophone player, as well as a mother and grandmother.
Historians and Native Indians talk about the reservation system and the various manners in which California Indians fought to maintain and remain within their ancestral lands. Broken treaties, the Modoc Wars, and the perseverance of the Serrano Indians are discussed.
For the first time ever, Hit The Ice holds open tryouts and players from across Canada their way to Winnipeg to try and earn a spot. With only a few sessions to catch the coaches' attention, the players know that the pressure is on.
Veteran action sports photographer, Mark Gallup, take Mason under his wing at stunning Island Lake Lodge Resort. Meanwhile, Tannis is forced to take a timeout.
The youth get a jigging lesson from Sagkeeng's Finest, followed by their 1st weigh-in.
Juaquin continues his beading project. Grab a needle, thread and some beads and join Juaquin as he teaches us how to make regalia with these colorful little components.
In the pilot episode we meet Lisa as she takes her dream to industry insiders and asks if there is a place for an urban native magazine as the print industry is retracting. This episode features interviews with Shelley Ambrose from The Walrus, Jamie Monastyrski from Spirit Magazine and Lorraine Zander from Faze Magazine.
Drew Hayden Taylor seeks to learn the indigenous story of the horse by meeting a daredevil family of "Indian Relay" racers, encountering a Navajo Horse Whisperer, and by exploring unique wild horse sanctuary in the foothills of the Rockies.
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 look at the ONEOK Gallery inside the Oklahoma History Center. The Center has an extensive collection of Cheyenne and Arapaho artifacts on display and in storage. "Battle on tha Plainz," a b-boy dance event hosted in Concho, is also featured, as is a tribal member who turns dead trees into art.
This program follows Navajo students in a collaboration with mathematicians. Using a model called math circles, the students stay late after school and assemble over the summer at Dine College in Tsaile, Arizona, to study mathematics. The math circles approach emphasizes student-centered learning by putting children in charge of exploring mathematics to their own joy and satisfaction.
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The 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee made household names out of men like Carter Camp, Dennis Banks and Russell Means. However, women also played powerful roles in the occupation. They were honored at the 50th anniversary commemorations of the seminal event in American Indian Movement history. St. Mary's Indian Boarding School is a place tied with history to ICT's national correspondent Mary Annette Pember. The school once operated on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin. It was the school her mother attended. Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, went to boarding school in South Dakota. St. Mary's Episcopal School for Indian Girls. Her daughter, Shirley Sneve, has this interview.
Elder Floyd Black Bear has a fascinating background. After serving in the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's, Mr. Black Bear made a huge difference championing causes for Native American youth and tribal members. His work in the community continues to this day.
"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.
Art and Dan go hunting on a Vancouver Island farm where deer have become a pest to local farmers. Art teaches Dan to track and what signs to look for as they build a hunting blind in the rain.
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.
Venture to the Pacific Northwest to capture the stories of ongoing traditions and perseverance of its original inhabitants. For the tribes of this region, water is life. The rivers that crisscross this land were the highways for trade and fresh water grocery stores for thousands of years. Today, tribes celebrate their cultures by participating in a yearly canoe journey, an opportunity for people to gather and travel to all the places their ancestors once inhabited. From totem poles, to language preservation to traditional crafts, host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) discovers the wilds of the North.
Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau, Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave with the process of preparing the food as he struggles to pay his bills, keep the IRS off his back, and keep his business afloat. By turns tragic, bizarre, or just plain ridiculous, SMOKIN' FISH tells the story of one man's attempts to navigate the messy collision between the modern world and an ancient culture.