Season 1
Nov. 29, 2021
Dr. Shannon Prince: Discussing Law, Matriarchy and Heritage
This week on Matriarch Movement, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by Dr. Shannon Prince, Attorney, Legal Commentator, and Author of Cherokee descent. Her book Tactics for Racial Justice: Building an Antiracist Organization and Community is fort...
Oct. 11, 2021
Nicole McLaren: a safe space to learn
This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by Nicole McLaren. Nicole is a mother, wife and entrepreneur at heart. Her steady search for opportunities, combined with her enterprising, Indigenous roots led her to launch Raven Reads – a subscript...
Sept. 8, 2021
Christi Belcourt: earth inspires art
Christi Belcourt is a Michif (Métis) visual artist and author living and working in Canada with a deep respect for Mother Earth, the traditions, and the knowledge of her people. Belcourt's work often focuses on questions around identity, culture, place...
Aug. 30, 2021
Kelly Boutsalis: good and accurate representation of Indigenous people
This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by none other than Kelly Boutsalis. Kelly is a writer and journalist, based in Toronto. She is Mohawk, and from the Six Nations reserve. Her words have appeared in the Toronto Star, CBC, Elle Canada,...
Aug. 23, 2021
Leah Gazan: genocide takes many forms
Meet Leah Gazan, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre. Leah is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, located in Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory. Leah's lineage has played a big role in her fight, she credits a lot of her inspiration to her moth...
Aug. 16, 2021
Adeline Bird: removing the white lens in media
This week's episode is about finding self-love and learning to love yourself. Adeline Bird is an Afro-Anishnabe Author, Filmmaker, and Producer. She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but is a proud member of Treaty #4 Rolling River First Nations....
Aug. 2, 2021
Caitlyn Kasper: we are all treaty people
This week on the podcast, host Shayla Stonechild is joined by Caitlyn Kasper. Caitlyn is an Anishinaabek woman from the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation. She holds an Honours Specialist in Political Science from the University of Toronto and a...
July 26, 2021
Mumilaaq Qaqqaq: leading change and defending human rights
If you've been following Shayla for a while, you know that this episode has been highly anticipated. This week, host Shayla Stonechild is joined by Inuk politician, Mumilaaq Qaqqaq. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq (ᒧᒥᓛᖅ ᖃᖅᑲᖅ), is an Inuk woman, Member of Parliament, a...
July 19, 2021
Falen Johnson: the future is Indigenous
This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by writer, podcaster, and CBC Radio host, Falen Johnson. Falen is Mohawk and Tuscarora (Bear Clan) from Six Nations Grand River Territory. Her writing has been featured in Brick, The Canadian Theatre...
July 12, 2021
Angela Sterritt: more than a reporter
This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by Vancouver-based, award-winning journalist, author, and artist from the Gitanmaax band of the Gitxsan nation, Angela Sterritt. In 2021, Angela won a Canadian Screen Award for reporter of the year fo...
July 5, 2021
Chief Lady Bird: beyond the artist
This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by Chippewa and Potawatomi artist from Rama First Nation and Moosedeer Point First Nation, Chief Lady Bird. You may have seen her thought-provoking artwork that explores contemporary colonialism and I...
June 28, 2021
Monday Blues: finding inspiration in dual identities
This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by guest Monday Blues. Monday is a Two-Spirit Togolese-Secwépemc showgirl, model, decolonial life & business coach, and jewelry designer. Monday is a grad of the Erickson International Coaching Pr...
June 21, 2021
Ashley Callingbull: making history and creating a new narrative
Ashley Callingbull is a Cree First Nations woman from the Enoch Cree Nation in the province of Alberta, Canada. She is a model, actress, jingle dress dancer and First Nation’s activist who was the reigning Mrs. Universe 2015. She is perhaps best known...
June 15, 2021
Leigh Joseph: honouring our food and plant medicine
Leigh Joseph is a member of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) First Nation; her ancestral name is Styawat and she is an ethnobotanist by training who completed a Masters of Science in Ethnobotany at the University of Victoria under the guidance of her Skwxwú7...
June 7, 2021
Lesley Hampton: decolonizing fashion
Lesley Hampton is an Anishinaabe and Mohawk womenswear designer and artist based in Toronto whose fashion label (https://lesleyhampton.com/) is focuses on body positivity and Indigenous representation. Lesley’s brand offers collections that range from...
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,...