On Saturday, hear Thomas King, Columpa Bobb, Nadia Myre and Joey Stylez on their stories
By Rosanna Deerchild, CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2014 11:47 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 22, 2014 11:47 AM ET
Rosanna Deerchild
Rosanna Deerchild is the host of Unreserved, on CBC Radio One. She’s an award-winning Cree author and has been a broadcaster for almost 15 years — including stints with APTN, CBC Radio, Global and a variety of indigenous newspapers. She hails from South Indian Lake, Man., and when she is not hosting Unreserved, she is behind the microphone at Manitoba’s premier indigenous radio station, NCI-FM.
From the oral traditions of our ancestors to contemporary forms of books, art, music or film Indigenous Peoples have been sharing stories for thousands of years.
No, not because we’re long-winded. Stories hold our philosophies, our histories, our heroes and our identities; our cultures are contained in story.
Author Thomas King says the truth about stories is that is all we are. If that is true, then we are rich peoples.
Riches that are now being enjoyed by Canadians. Which is what we’re talking about this week on Unreserved.
On the show this week, we’ll introduce you to storytellers who use music, documentary, visual art and theatre.
Here’s what’s on the show:
- Earlier this week, the Sobey Art Award was handed out in Winnipeg to Nadia Myre. This is an annual prize is worth $50,000. Myre is an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation from Quebec.
- Columpa Bobb comes from a family of writers, actors, and poets. And she’s in the process of launching the Urban Indigenous Theatre Company in Winnipeg. She is in studio talking how her career involved to teach young indigenous thespians and how the theatre scene in Canada has changed over the last two decades.
- Thomas King won the Governor-General`s Literary Award this week. He spoke with The Next Chapter`s Shelagh Rogers on writing, growing old, and changing the world.
- Gaston Cooper tours us through the prize artifacts at the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute in Ojue-Bougoumou. This week he shares a story of a particular pelt at the museum and his own memories of hunting for beaver.
- They became known as the Starlight Tours. Police officers leaving aboriginal men on the outskirts of Saskatoon to find their way home. Not all of them made it, including Neil Stonechild. This year marks the tenth anniversary since the Neil Stonechild Inquiry. We’ll look at what’s changed in the last decade with filmmaker Tasha Hubbard who documented the Starlight Tours in the film Two Worlds Colliding.
- Artist K.C. Adams works with photography, sculpture, painting and did set design with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. But this month she is working on a different kind of project — her health. November is Diabetes Awareness Month and KC, along with a few friends, has decided to eat strictly country foods for all of November. She calls it the reclamation of well-being diet.
- Plus music from Shy-Hovorka, Joey Stylez, Tracy Bone and more.
Tune into CBC Radio One after the 5 p.m. news in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nunavut, and after the 4 p.m. news in the Yukon and NWT, for these stories and more on Unreserved. You can also listen on demand.
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