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Indigenous politics, patiently argued.
MEDIA INDIGENA treats Indigenous politics as living structure, not sidebar context. Its roundtables move patiently through climate narratives, tribal recognition, academic extraction, and the claims institutions make on Indigenous identity and knowledge.
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MEDIA INDIGENA is an Indigenous current-affairs roundtable with a steady appetite for difficult questions. It does not treat sovereignty, climate, identity, or scholarship as separate files. Recent episodes are built around long conversations where journalism, academic critique, and community accountability keep crossing paths. The Beyond Fires and Floods series anchors much of the latest material. Recorded around a UBC gathering on Musqueam lands, those episodes ask how Indigenous climate stories are told, who they serve, and what they make possible. The discussions resist the narrow language of civil defense. Climate change is treated not only as fire, flood, and emergency response, but as a symptom of deeper political and colonial arrangements. That frame gives the show room to talk about Pacific Island perspectives, borderless reporting, more-than-human relations, and the long memory carried in archives, photographs, watersheds, and ceremony. It also keeps material consequences in view. A conversation about electric vehicles turns quickly toward the Ring of Fire, battery minerals, peatlands, mercury, fish, and the people who live with the costs of extraction. The White Possessive series brings a different but related pressure. There, the show examines collaboration, intellectual property, Indigenous knowledge, pretendianism, settler self-indigenization, and the racial thinking embedded in genomics. The language can be theoretical, but the point is rarely abstract. Guests and roundtable voices repeatedly bring concepts back to institutions, research practices, popular culture, and the right to refuse. MEDIA INDIGENA is strongest when it lets an argument take its time. A question is posed, tested, reframed, and sometimes left productively unresolved. Rick Harp's role is to guide the room without sanding down disagreement. The show also carries the texture of an audience-funded project, with regular acknowledgements of patrons and supporters folded into the episodes. Its public-forum feel is part of the value. It is careful, skeptical, communal, and willing to sit inside complexity long enough for the structure to show.
Made for: For listeners who follow Indigenous affairs, Canadian politics, climate justice, sovereignty debates, and critical scholarship. It best suits people who prefer layered public conversation over fast takes.
What sets it apart: MEDIA INDIGENA stands apart by bringing Indigenous-led roundtable analysis to issues often flattened by institutions, media frames, and academic language. Its strength is the sustained movement between theory, policy, land, and lived consequence.
A weekly roundtable about Indigenous issues and events in Canada and beyond. Hosted by Rick Harp.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
MEDIA INDIGENA turns Indigenous current affairs into searching conversations about sovereignty, institutional power, research ethics, and the politics embedded in public narratives.
Rick Harp builds MEDIA INDIGENA around sustained conversation, using roundtables and recorded panels to examine how Indigenous sovereignty collides with Canadian institutions, academic practice, resource control, and public narratives.
Rick Harp puts "collaboration" under a bright light; you may bring the glare to your next meeting.
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A thoughtful panel on whom climate journalism serves and how Indigenous storytellers can change its frame.
Climate reporting may cross borders, but it does not easily shed the assumptions of influential Western newsrooms. This live panel considers whom climate stories serve and whether climate change brings global change or extends familiar patterns.
A live Indigenous panel examines the land, water and human costs tied to electric-vehicle minerals.
Clean-energy optimism meets a firm challenge in this live panel hosted by Rick Harp. Four seasoned storytellers trace electric-vehicle minerals to Indigenous lands and connect climate change to relationships among people, animals, land and water.
A live public panel connects Indigenous climate narratives with visual archives, land, water, and cultural continuity.
Beyond Fires & Floods, Pt 1 frames Indigenous accounts of climate change through a live public panel at UBC's Museum of Anthropology, where experienced storytellers speak to an audience of journalists, scholars, and community listeners.
A sharp roundtable on pretendianism uses horror's reanimation to examine settler dependence on Indigenous iconography.
Media Indigena's fourth installment in The White Possessive returns to pretendianism and settler self-indigenization as an "ultimate frontier" of white possessiveness: a form of colonial cosplay that tries to imitate Indigenous identity while also making Indigenous presence…
A sharp roundtable on academic collaboration and the extraction of Indigenous knowledge.
Media Indigena episode 362 makes intellectual property the pressure point in its Sovereignty First seminar series, tracing how academic collaboration can become another route for taking Indigenous knowledge.
A theory of white possession opens into extraction, whiteness, and settler storytelling.
Media Indigena episode 360 uses the idea of the "white possessive" to look at how Canada, Australia, and the U.S. keep asserting ownership and control over stolen Indigenous lands and waters.
A brisk, policy-minded panel on northern control, fisheries, food security, and federal power in Indigenous life.
Media Indigena's Mini-Indigena frames northern infrastructure, fisheries, food security, and treaty relationships as questions of who gets to control Indigenous lives and territories.
Sam Harris interviews scientists and journalists on AI risk, religion, and US politics.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
Host Rick Harp introduces a series on Indigenous scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson's concept of 'the white possessive,' which frames settler states like Canada as possessions requiring constant work to maintain control over Indigenous lands.
A discussion on the racist symbolism of Minnesota's state flag and the pushback against its proposed redesign.
This episode discusses a conflict between Sami reindeer herders and the Norwegian government over a wind farm that violated Indigenous rights.
The hosts of Media Indigena discuss their entry into podcasting and its role in learning about Indigenous politics at a podcast studies pre-conference.
This episode of Media Indigena examines three Indigenous current affairs stories in Canada.
This episode of Media Indigena features a panel discussion on how Indigenous peoples contend with climate change through storytelling, focusing on global structures and colonialism.
A live panel discussion at UBC's Museum of Anthropology featuring four Indigenous storytellers exploring Indigenous narratives of climate change.
A panel discussion on Indigenous narratives of climate change, recorded live at UBC's Museum of Anthropology.
This episode introduces the BFF gathering on Indigenous narratives in climate change, with an overview of its origins and objectives.
This episode of Media Indigena concludes a five-part series on the white possessive in collaboration, focusing on Indigenous-led genomics research that prioritizes community over commerce.
Kim TallBear says self-indigenization lets settler institutions claim "the Indian in the family tree" while reinforcing colonial databases.
Media Indigena episode 362, part three of the five-part “The White Possessive” series, focuses on Olga Ultorgasheva’s webinar talk from “Sovereignty First, Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of Quote-unquote Collaboration.” Rick Hart, Kim TallBear, and Candice Collison unpack terms like “knowledge production,” “informant,” and “ethnographic refusal,” with TallBear tying them to anthropology and Collison tying them to UBC ethics forms.
This episode debates whether federal recognition should be the sole criterion for tribal membership in the National Congress of American Indians, questioning the role of colonial approval in Indigenous identity.
This episode discusses CSIS warnings about foreign adversaries filling infrastructure gaps in the Arctic and the broader implications for Indigenous treaties and sovereignty.