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Stephanie Scott is the first Indigenous woman to lead the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
AMPLIFYING the voices of Indigenous women will be a priority for the new executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
AMPLIFYING the voices of Indigenous women will be a priority for the new executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
For the first time, the centre named an Indigenous woman to the top post.
Stephanie Scott, who was director of operations and has been involved with the Winnipeg-based centre since 2010, called the promotion a gift.
Jennifer David, Waubgeshig Rice
Storykeepers, a new monthly podcast about Indigenous literature by co-hosts and authors Waubgeshig Rice and Jennifer David, aims to bring conversations about Indigenous books to a wider audience in an audio book-club format.
“We are all story keepers in various senses,” says Rice, the Sudbury-based author of
Moon of the Crusted Snow (ECW Press) and a member of the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ont. “It’s our responsibility collectively, as readers and as writers, to make sure that those stories go forth for future generations.”
David, the Ottawa-based author of
Original People, Original Television: The Launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and a member of the Chapleau Cree First Nation in northern Ontario, first raised the idea of teaming up on a podcast about Indigenous books years ago when Rice was also living in Ottawa, but the timing wasn’t quite right.
Three years ago, when Tobique First Nation musician Jeremy Dutcher accepted the Polaris Music Prize, an award recognizing the best Canadian album of the year, he declared: “Canada, you are in the midst of an Indigenous renaissance.”
The proof was all over the music scene. Dutcher’s win marked the fourth time in five years that a musician with Indigenous heritage including Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq and folk veteran Buffy Sainte-Marie had won the Polaris prize. Indigenous hip-hop outfits like A Tribe Called Red and Snotty Nose Rez Kids were stealing the show at music festivals across the country.
How Indigenous social media influencers inspired podcast host on journey of self-discovery
Jeremy Ratt, host of the CBC podcast Pieces, says Indigenous representation on social media helped show him he was not alone during his personal journey toward better understanding his own identity.
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Jeremy Ratt says online representation helped him feel less alone during journey charted in CBC s Pieces
Posted: Feb 25, 2021 10:11 AM PT | Last Updated: February 25
Jeremy Ratt is the host of a new CBC podcast called Pieces about his personal journey toward better understanding his Woods-Cree roots. He said that journey was helped by seeing Indigenous influencers on social media platforms like TikTok.(Ben Nelms/CBC)
TORONTO An Indigenous woman in northern British Columbia is speaking out after she was allegedly mistreated at two hospitals while in labour, which she says lead to the death of her baby daughter.
In an interview with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Sarah Morrison from Haisla Nation said she was denied proper care at two B.C. hospitals and was denied an ambulance trip, which forced her father to drive her 45 minutes to a different hospital. “I think if all lives were held the same value this wouldn’t have happened,” Morrison told APTN. “The ambulance attendant asked if we could pay, I said: ‘I don’t care how much it is, I will pay it.”