MEDIA INDIGENA 242 (Patreon)

Repping the Queen. With Canada’s last Governor-General stepping down due to scandal, there are those who say her replacement ought to be a First Nations person. And while the idea seems innocuous on its face—what with the bulk of their day-to-day duties confined to ribbon-cutting and rubber-stamping—there is one potential complication: the fact the role literally represents a foreign monarch whose assertion of dominion over Indigenous territories is still kind of controversial.

Joining host/producer Rick Harp are roundtable regulars Brock  Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University, and Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• AMC responds to the resignation of Governor General Julie Payette Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

• Would an Indigenous governor general be a symbol of reconciliation—or bear an impossible burden? Toronto Star

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