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Indigenous news and media sources
Page overview
- #Next150 Challenge "Diversify Your News"
- Podcasts, radio, and current news sources
- Video and streaming sources
- Satire and news
- Historical news sources
- #Next150 challenge: Diversify your news"We have put together a starter list of emerging and established Indigenous journalists, writers, storytellers, bloggers, podcasters and media organizations. We’re asking you to read through the list and subscribe to, like, and follow some of these Indigenous voices that you weren’t following before."
- Duncan McCue, journalist. Duncan is Anishinaabe and a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation.
Satire and news
- Walking Eagle News"Walking Eagle News is a work of satire, comedy and parody. Our many stories, while often drawn from real life or ripped from the headlines, are entirely fictional. Most Indigenous communities and people that are featured in our stories are made-up — unless they’re Canadian or Indigenous politicians, then we use their real names but make up quotes from them."
Podcasts, radio, and current news sources
These new sources are mostly Canadian-based and Canadian focused. Also try: An Index of Indigenous Podcasts.
- Aboriginal Multi-Media SocietyRegional news sources from around Canada.
- Ahkameyimok PodcastNational Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations leads discussions on issues affecting First Nations Peoples.
- Anishinabek NewsFeatures current affairs, culture, political objectives, and accomplishments from the Anishinabek Nation, produced by the communications unit of the Anishinabek Nation in Nipissing First Nation.
- APTN's National News podcastsCollection of podcasts centering Indigenous voices on a variety of topics.
- CBC News IndigenousFeatures news and current affairs from Indigenous communities across Canada.
- Ku'ku'kwes NewsCovers Indigenous news from Atlantic Canada.
- Media IndigenaA weekly Indigenous current affairs podcast.
- Mi'kmaq Maliseet Nations NewsA monthly newspaper featuring stories about the Mi’kmaq culture. Produced by Eastern Woodland Print Communications, in Millbrook Mi’kmaw Community, Nova Scotia.
- Missing and Murdered podcastA CBC News original podcast hosted by Connie Walker.
- Muskrat MagazineAn online Indigenous arts and culture publication.
- NationTalkA newswire and listing service that distributes information of interest to Indigenous communities in Canada.
- Turtle Island NewsA weekly news source from the Grand River Territory of the Six Nations in Southern Ontario.
- UnreservedA CBC radio program for Indigenous community, culture, and conversation.
- WapikoniA non-profit organization based in Montreal, Quebec. It hosts educational workshops and film screenings to raise awareness and educate the wider public about Indigenous cultures, issues and rights.
- Warrior Life podcast" ... about warrior life - a lifestyle that focuses on decolonizing our minds, bodies and spirits while at the same time revitalizing our cultures, traditions, laws and governing practices." Hosted by Pam Palmater
- Wawatay NewsFounded in 1974 by the Wawatay Communications Society. It serves the First Nations people and the communities of Nishnawbe Aski Nation in Northern Ontario.
- WindspeakerFounded in 1983. A division of Aboriginal Multi-Media Society.
Full archive via Library and Archives Canada
Video and streaming sources
- Curio.caVideos and sound recordings of selected documentaries produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC / Radio-Canada). Find a selection of English and French language television and radio programs, and news reports.
Coverage: 1945 - present - NFB.ca (National Film Board of Canada)Link to documentaries, animations, experimental films, and fiction produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Coverage: 1930s - present
- Media Resources Library, UWaterlooIncludes links to: Kanopy, Digitalia Film Library, and Criterion-on-Demand.
Historical news sources
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America (formerly American Indian Newspapers)A collection of papers from Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.
Coverage: 1828 - 2016 - CanadianaFind documents from 1st European contact to recent student activism, including items relating to Indigenous-settler relations, cookbooks, women's writings, and more.
Coverage: Pre-1970
- Peel's Prairie ProvincesSearch digitized books and newspaper issues that date back to the exploration and settlement of the Canadian west.
Coverage: 1800s - present - Kitchitwa miteh atchimomasinahiganisaCatholic newsletter published in Alberta. Articles in Cree, French, and English.
Coverage: 1906 - 1920 - Our Voices.ca & Omushkego Oral History ProjectAudio files of stories of the Omushkegowak ("Swampy Cree") people of the Hudson and James Bay Lowlands of northern Manitoba and Ontario. Collected and preserved by Louis Bird, Aboriginal scholar and
storyteller. In Cree and English.
Coverage: 1965 - present. - Windspeaker (digital archive)Coverage: 1986 - 2015
- Turtle Island News newspaper digitized issuesCoverage: 2001 - 2013
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