MEDIA INDIGENA 269 // *ALL-NEW* (Patreon)

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." / MI 269

ON THIS WEEK'S *ALL-NEW* INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

For Canadians, it was a revelation that seemingly came out of nowhere: the confirmation back in May of over 200 unmarked graves at Kamloops, BC, thought to be the remains of young people who decades ago attended one of Canada’s nearly 140 Indian Residential schools. Children who never got to go home to the families from whom they’d been forcibly removed.

But if this first came to light in late spring, why discuss it now? Because what began as some 200-odd graves has since multiplied to well over 1,000—with more, perhaps many more, expected. Many Canadians professed shock back in May. Has their concern grown in step with the number of confirmed dead? Has it translated into a substantively different approach to the urgent needs of Indigenous kids alive today? Why did it take literal radar to put these crimes on Canadians’ political radar?

Joining host/producer Rick Harp to discuss these questions and more are Kim TallBear, professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College Trina Roache.

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OTHER LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• “Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials” Truth and Reconciliation Commission [PDF]

• TRC's Calls to Action 71 to 76: "Missing Children and Burial Information"

• Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror Scientific American

• Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc release final report on unmarked graves at former Kamloops residential school CBC News (RCI)

• After summer of horrific discoveries, Indigenous issues are getting little attention in Canada’s election campaign Washington Post

• What You Need To Know About The Biggest Indigenous Issues This Election Chatelaine

• Head of B.C. Civil Liberties Association resigns following controversial tweet Vancouver Sun

• “What Does Indigenization of Education Really Mean?” MEDIA INDIGENA 135 [begins around 43:00 mark]

• Tweet: “Mr. Trudeau says Canada is not fighting Indigenous kids in  Court. *He’s wrong.* Canada was at Fed. Court this summer trying to restrict Jordan’s Principle + get out of compensating the FN kids +  families…” @CaringSociety

• Federal Leaders' Debate 2021 [video] CBC News 

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