Photo: Sean Howard Photography MM: What do you believe sparked your vision of the (Post) Mistress and how did it evolve musically? TH: [It was] the difference between the straight line and the circle [that inspired me]. In European cultures, the structure of life is one of a straight line, one that goe...
Rebeka Tabobondung interviews Christi Belcourt for MUSKRAT Magazine about the Walking with our Sisters exhibition/memorial hosted by G’zaagin Art Gallery at the Parry Sound Museum. The exhibition ran from January 10 to 26, 2014. Edited by: Malinda Francis
“… I wanted my mom to tell me that she loved me, so badly. And it was such a huge pain, it was like a little child’s pain – like either tell me she loved me or touch me.” Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in) is an award-winning filmmaker whose works requires a level of courage and community-gift-giving ...
…I’ve taken to calling it positivity porn. How do you go through these atrocities and pretend that we are all well adjusted? Filmmaker Jeff Barnaby grew up on the Listuguj Reserve in Québec and makes no apologies for the challenges he faced growing up. While he bounced in and out of foster care he...
This series is dedicated to our Native boys, soon to be Native men who did not receive all of our traditional Cree teachings… What happens when you take two urbanized Cree teenagers from Toronto and send them on a life-altering quest to thirteen distinct Indigenous communities? This is the premise of fi...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo, member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation, discusses the impacts of the Tar Sands project on her family and her traditional territories. Melina shares about the significance of the land for her and the roots of her strength and knowledge. Melina points out that the Tar Sands is a...
Toghestiy exposes the complex and varied extraction interests attempting to impose resource development projects in Wet’suwet’en territory; projects that are environmentally destructive and colonial-controlled. WET’SUWET’EN YINTAH—Despite having the majority of their homelands an...
Richard Van Camp’s ‘The Lesser Blessed’ originally published in 1996 is now a major motion picture. 1. The Lesser Blessed was originally published in 1996. At the time, did you have any idea how far this book would go? Honestly? I had no idea where the novel would end up. I was so prou...
Chrissy Swain shares about her connection to the land, the importance of youth defenders, and how some leadership should “smarten up” and be Anishinaabe. On December 2, 2002, youth and Elders of the Grassy Narrows First Nation established a blockade on a logging road in their territory and sparked one o...
Dustin Johnson speaks to identity as key in defending the land. An interview with youth activist Dustin Johnson who was born and raised Tsimshian from the Killerwhale Clan from the northwest coast of BC. Dustin has worked on decolonization initiatives and anti-oppressive social justice organizing in Van...
