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Indigenous Indecorous / MI 249

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

A crapload of controversy. Did an Indigenous member of the Manitoba Legislature cross the line when she claimed members of the governing Conservative party "just don't give a crap about Indigenous women and girls in this province"? The Speaker sure thought so: ejecting the member for refusing to apologize or withdraw her so-called indecorous language. Meanwhile, not so long ago, an Indigenous MP in New Zealand was also ejected from that Parliament for not wearing a tie, or, as he put it, “a colonial noose.”

On this episode, our roundtable unpacks unparliamentary conduct: is it just the usual tempest in a teapot of petty politics, or a thinly-disguised dig at unruly, ill-mannered savages who refuse to behave? Joining host/producer Rick Harp are MI regulars Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment, and Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• "House of Commons Procedure and Practice" House of Commons Canada

• Tina Fontaine Is Further Proof That Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Need Justice Teen Vogue

• Canadian MP says Trudeau 'doesn't give a fuck' about indigenous rights The Guardian

• New Zealand parliament says ties not mandatory after Maori MP ejected BBC

• Anti-protest bill tabled at Legislature Winnipeg Sun

• MPP Mamakwa 'caught off guard' by Premier's 'jumping the queue' comment DrydenNow

• Ford apologizes to Indigenous MPP after accusing Mamakwa of jumping vaccine line CityNews

• Process Nerd: Why Jagmeet Singh was ordered out of the House for calling a Bloc MP racist, and what happens next iPolitics

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