Episodes
May 31, 2021
Ilona Verley: the first Indigenous and first Two-Spirit queen on Canada’s Drag Race
Ilona Verley is Nlaka'pamux and the first Indigenous, Two-Spirit and LA-Based queen to appear on Canada's Drag Race (https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/Canada%27s_Drag_Race), and in the franchise as a whole. Originally from so-called Vancouver, Il...
May 25, 2021
Tanya Talaga: the power of journalism and writing to defend Indigenous rights
Tanya Talaga does not need an introduction at this point: she is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author of Polish and Indigenous descent, and the First Ojibway woman to deliver the CBC Massey Lectures. Her book Seven Fallen Feathers, a nationa...
May 17, 2021
Nimkish: sharing Indigiqueer stories through music
Nimkish is a rising Indigiqueer pop artist living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, known as Vancouver, Canada. Her first album, Heartbreak On The Coast, was released in 2019 and and her latest singl...
May 11, 2021
Nahanni Fontaine: the matriarchy in power for the people
This episode features host Shayla Oulette Stonechild in conversation with Nahanni Fontaine, a Canadian politician, MLA with the NDP in Manitoba, public speaker, advocate, and Indigenous Matriarch, about last week's erasure and censorship of posts about...
May 3, 2021
Korina Emmerich: fighting for greater sustainability in fashion
Originally from the US Pacific Northwest, Korina Emmerich was inspired to create clothes and accessories that honour her patrilineal Indigenous heritage from The Coast Salish Territory, Puyallup tribe. Today her brand, EMME Studio, is a fixture in lead...
April 26, 2021
Michelle Chubb: the power of vulnerability on social media
Michelle Chubb, known by her handle @indigenous_baddie (https://www.tiktok.com/@indigenous_baddie), is a 23-year-old social media star, with almost half a million followers on TikTok where she shares content blending Indigenous regalia, relatable anecd...
April 19, 2021
Cheyenne Leskanic: a different approach to recovery
Cheyenne Leskanic is of Mvskoke, Italian & Scottish ancestry and she is the founder of Three Medicines Longhouse & Three Medicines Birth. With a little over a decade of experience as a Yoga teacher, and as many years of recovery from substance...
April 5, 2021
Nikki Sanchez: the future is our responsibility
“The history is not your fault, but it is absolutely your responsibility.” In this episode, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild speaks with decolonial educator Nikki Sanchez, a Pipil/Maya and Irish/Scottish academic, who is also an Indigenous media maker an...
March 29, 2021
Tenille Campbell: celebrating Indigenous joy
“For too much of my youth I did worry about what my friends thought, I did worry about what boys thought and I did worry about what people I didn’t know thought of me.” Host Shayla Oulette Stonechild speaks with Tenille Campbell, a Dene and Métis poet,...
March 22, 2021
Megan Tipler: teaching Indigenous excellence
Host Shayla Oulette Stonechild speaks with Megan Tipler, a Métis, Edmonton-based educator and artist who believes in the power of representation, and of teaching Indigenous success. Last summer, when her classes moved online due to COVID-19, she came u...
March 15, 2021
Jordan Marie Daniel: running for justice and visibility
“It’s because Indigenous people are constantly fighting our own erasure. The stereotypes that exist out there portray a certain image or behaviour about us that was chosen for us and not by us. Representation matters so much whether it’s from storytell...
March 8, 2021
Sierra Tasi Baker: decolonizing urban design
This first episode of Matriarch Movement features a conversation with Sierra Tasi Baker, lead design consultant at Sky Spirit Studio (https://www.skyspiritstudio.com/), the urban planning organization founded by her family on principles of ancestral go...
March 3, 2021
Welcome to Matriarch Movement
On Matriarch Movement, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild shares stories of Indigenous women, from Canada to Turtle Island and beyond. Through interviews where issues facing Indigenous women are brought to light, and with portraits that challenge the mains...