The farewell season of Moosemeat & Marmalade airs on APTN. Photo Credit: Dean Azim APTN’s much-loved food docuseries “Moosemeat & Marmalade” has come to an end after seven seasons. Since its debut in 2015, the Leo award-winning show produced more than 90 episodes, exploring communities from acro...
Featured Image: TVOKids Host Taviss Edwards courtesy of Fifth Ground Entertainment In the lush green forest of Harrison Park, Owen Sound, Anishinaabe chef Zach Keeshig shows 10-year-old Taviss Edwards how to pick cedar tree leaves, which Indigenous peoples use to make tea. Keeshig smiles as he recalls h...
Feature Image Courtesy of Rezolution Pictures F3M Much like how breaking a fever can signify healing, the title of Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond and Catherine Bainbridge’s latest documentary, Red Fever, hints at both challenge and transformation. Premiering at Toronto’s 2024 Hot Docs Festival, the film de...
On March 8 International Women’s Day, the 4-part documentary series Women of This Land, premiered on CBC Gem. Directed by Stephanie Joline, Women Of This Land is a co-production between Princess Space Monster Films and Peep Media’s Jessica Brown and Jackie Torrens in association with CBC Maritimes, with...
In my hands I held centuries. When I was visiting the Nova Scotia Archives in Wikumkewiku’s September 2023, I looked over treaty documents under the helpful, watchful gaze of the archivists who worked there. The faded signatures of the 18th century Peace and Friendship Treaties were illuminated by warm...
Image: Still from Arctic Song/Chanson de l’Arctique, winner of Best Canadian Short Film – Radio-Canada Espaces Autochtones Award (works by Aboriginal filmmakers located in Canada) The Montreal First Peoples Festival was back this year with a full roster of Indigenous focused films that screened th...
After a two-year COVID pause, The Montreal First Peoples Festival was back on the streets, stages, and in theatres from August 9-18, 2022. The Festival has long included Indigenous films as a main Festival presentation and has established a reputation for programming Indigenous focused films hailing fro...
Image credit: Painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images) MUSKRAT Magazine is honoured to help share the Missing Matoaka Project and unveil the real story of Pocahontas. We believe that Indigenous stories must be told through the lens and voices of Indigenous people who bring...
Despite the ongoing pandemic, Indigenous film had a strong outing. We started out with insightful documentaries during the Hot Docs International Film Festival that explored Black and Indigenous relations in One of Ours, and Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Tagala reflected on her truth-telling book Seven F...
Still from Reservation Dogs | Image credit: FX Network The highly acclaimed Reservation Dogs is being praised in the Indigenous community and beyond. A comedy television series showcases Indigenous youth lives on an Oklahoma reservation, the first series to be filmed entirely in the United States. Creat...
