MEDIA INDIGENA 228 (Patreon)

"Where does it stop?" / MI 228

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

New sounds of the city. One of Canada’s largest centres—amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (aka Edmonton)—could be on the verge of Indigenizing the nomenclature of its political sub-divisions. Drawing on languages such as Blackfoot and Cree, the suite of newly-proposed names for Edmonton's 12 wards were recently voted on by city council, with a two-thirds majority favouring the switch. But there’s still a ways to go before it’s official, not to mention those critics who’d like these new names nullified.

At the roundtable this week with host/producer Rick Harp—who himself proudly called Alberta's capital city home for almost two years while at CBC—two Edmontonians extraordinaire: Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama, and Kim TallBear, associate  professor in the U of A’s Faculty of Native Studies.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Indigenous Ward Naming Knowledge Committee City of Edmonton

• "That’s How We Do It In PEE-HAY-SOO-WIN!" Grose Misconduct [interview begins at 37:20]

• Tweet: "#yegcc Council voted to rename our wards using Indigenous names. I... ultimately voted no." @MikeNickelYEG

• "Millhurst, Edmonton" Wikipedia

• "Lakewood, Edmonton" Wikipedia (includes Tipaskan)

• “All White History is Revisionist History,” MEDIA INDIGENA 160 (6 May 2019)

• "824 Māori place names made official" Scoop.co.nz

• "Place Names" Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (The New Zealand Geographic Board)

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