Why Canada Needs Natives Needy: Part 2 (ep 351)

On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the second in our summer series): part two of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, our comprehensive look at the systematic incapacitation of Indigenous peoples, and how Canada’s overt efforts at social disintegration have fostered generations of individual displacement and disconnection. 

Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Kim TallBear, professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Society

• Taté Walker, award-winning Lakota storyteller and community organizer

• Candis Callison, associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia

• Trina Roache, assistant professor of journalism at the University of King’s College

• Ken Williams, playwright and associate professor with the University of Alberta department of drama

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music this episode includes ‘Expanding Cycle’ and ‘Up + Up (reprise/arise)’ by Correspondence (CC BY); 'Addiction' by Beat Mekanik (CC BY); 'Hope .mp3' by Vikrant Chettri' (CC BY ND); 'Stale Cookies Still Taste Pretty Good' by Purrple Cat (CC BY SA).