MEDIA INDIGENA 340 (Patreon)

Unflagging settler colonialism in Minnesota / Mni Sóta Makoce 🚩 MI 340

This episode, another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the easy-peasy version of MEDIA INDIGENA)—one where the first item went way longer than anyone expected! Joining host/producer Rick Harp on Tuesday, February 6th were Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) and Candis Callison (UBC Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs), as they discuss the multiple Indigenous actors within Mni Sóta Makoce who helped drive the process of reimagining Minnesota’s contested state flag, the pushback, and the possible perils of engaging and enabling settler symbolism.

Some links consulted/referenced this episode:

• A Flag That Unites Us – MN Redesigns State Flag Minnesota Native News
• Indigenous woman picked as the sixth finalist for Minnesota flag redesign Northern News Now
• “Sarah Agaton Howes… whose design ‘Heart Berry’ was among the top six finalists, gave testimony” @erinformn on Instagram
• Minnesota panel chooses new state flag featuring North Star to replace old flag seen as racist AP
• This is Minnesota’s new crowdsourced state flag Fast Company
• Minnesota Reveals New State Flag Design Smithsonian Magazine
• Things to know about Minnesota’s new state flag and seal AP
• Gov. Tim Walz responds to Republican criticisms of new state flag CBS News
• Nobles County commissioners adopt resolution opposing new Minnesota state flag, seal The Globe
• “11 nations and flags of Minnesota Native Americans” Metro State University
• Tahltan Nation flag Wikimedia Commons
• “Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe” flag Wikimedia Commons
• “Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe” flag Oceti Sakowin Power Authority
• Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation flag CRW Flags
• “The Amazing Artwork Inside Vancouver International [Airport]” Key.Aero
• Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota WorldCat

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