Ahkameyimok Podcast with Perry Bellegarde
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Ahkameyimok Podcast with Perry Bellegarde
National Chief Perry Bellegarde leads discussions on important issues from a First Nations perspective
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In Remembrance - 2020 interview with the Rt Hon. Brian Mulroney
This conversation with the late Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18th Prime Minister, was originally posted in August 2020.
"Some people...
Episode 62: Bryan Trottier - All Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice
Bryan Trottier needs little introduction. The Hockey Hall of Fame player was a key member and leading scorer for the New York Islanders Stanley Cup dy...
Episode 61: Kuper Island with Duncan McCue
The host of the popular CBC Kuper Island Podcast on the challenges and revelations from reporting about one of Canada's most notorious Residential Sch...
Episode 60: The Valley of the Birdtail with Douglas Sanderson and Andrew Stobo Sniderman
Chief Perry is thrilled to be joined Douglas Sanderson and Andrew Stobo Sniderman for a fascinating and thoughtful conversation about their new book,...
Episode 59: Akhameyimok Returns - Kimberly Murray: Speaking Out for the Residential School Children in Unmarked Graves
"The survivors felt if this had been white children, the community wouldn't be the ones having to investigate their own genocide." - Kimberly Murray
What Brings You Hope?
****As we move into 2022, we're reposting Perry's episode on Hope, one of the most popular of the past year. We hope it brings you joy and inspiration...
Season's Greetings from Perry Bellegarde and the Ahkameyimok Podcast
A holiday message from Perry Bellegarde, with best wishes for the year ahead from Perry and the Ahkameyimok Podcast team.
Best of Ahkameyimok - Overcoming Sexual Abuse in Hockey with Sheldon Kennedy
*** In light of revelations that the NHL Chicago Blackhawks covered up a case of sexual abuse of one it's players by a member of it's coaching staff,...
Best of Ahkameyimok - Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Marie Wilson
*** In honour of the first ever National Day of Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th, we are re-posting this interview with Marie Wilson, who wa...
Best of Ahkameyimok - Revitalizing Indigenous Languages w/ Dr Lorna Williams
***Encore Presentation***
***This interview with Dr Lorna Williams originally aired on Jan 21, 2021 ***
What is the state of Fi...
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh: The Best of Ahkameyimok - The Political Interviews
ENCORE PRESENTATION
***This interview with federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was originally aired on March 3rd, 2021***
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Green Party Leader Annamie Paul: The Best of Ahkameyimok - The Political Interviews
ENCORE PRESENTATION
***This interview with the Green Party Leader Annamie Paul was first posted on October 15, 2020, sh...
Catherine McKenna: The Best of Ahkameyimok - The Political Interviews
ENCORE PRESENTATION
***With the Akhameyimok Podcast on summer hiatus and a federal election now underway, we are re-running National Chief Belle...
Erin O'Toole: Best of Ahkameyimok - The Political Interviews
ENCORE PRESENTATION
***With the Akhameyimok Podcast on summer hiatus and a federal election now underway, we are re-running National Chief Belle...
Episode 58: Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies - Norval Morrisseau Documentary
"I just wanted to buy a painting, really."
Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies is our guest on this episode of #Ahkameyimok. He and Perry talk a...
Episode 57: What Brings You Hope?
As National Chief, Perry Bellegarde has always focused on the importance hope: "Always leave more hope in a room than was there when you arrived."
Episode 56: 751 Unmarked Graves with Cowesess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme
On this Canada Day, a special episode on the devastating and ongoing impact of the Residential School system. The shocking find of 751 unmarked graves...
Episode 55: Ron Ignace - First Indigenous Languages Commissioner
"For those of us who are survivors of the oppression of our languages and the part of the cultural and physical genocide brought on us by the Church a...
Episode 54: John Milloy - Residential Schools : A National Crime
"The Feds founded the first three federal residential schools in 1883 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. First Nations people formed the majority of the pop...
Episode 53: Marie Wilson - The Mass Grave at Kamloops Residential School
***The subject matter and content of this episode may not be suitable for all listeners***
"We did hear of children's bones being found in the f...
**Encore: Chief Willie Littlechild on Bill C-15 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
**** Encore Presentation ****
Bill C-15 - the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People Act - is now moving to the Canadian Senate, afte...
Episode 52: Conner Roulette: First Nations Hockey Gold Medal Winner
Conner Roulette won Gold this month, playing for Team Canada at the Under 18 World Hockey Championships in Texas, helping defeat Russia in the champio...
Episode 51: Chief Terry Paul - The Fight for Atlantic First Nations Fisheries
"The Mi'kmaq are not leaving. We've told the associations, we told the DFO, we told anyone who would listen. The Government has to do something, and t...
Episode 50: Tabatha Bull - CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
"We've been working really hard with the government of Canada on meeting their 5% target of procurement from Indigenous business. We did some work wit...
Episode 49: Sheryl Lightfoot - Representing First Nations at the United Nations
"The rule of thumb, "Nothing about us, without us," also applies to the United Nations and we (First Nations people) should always be in the room, par...
Episode 48: Hon Catherine McKenna - Canadian Minister of Infrastructure
On this special Earth Day episode of the Ahkameyimok Podcast, Catherine McKenna, the Federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities and a former E...
Episode 47: Louise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer: Canada's First Indigenous Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
"It's very complex, our language, and it's filled with spirituality and land and psychology and it's directly related to where we come from. We are a...
Episode 46: Environmental, Social, Governance Investment Standards and First Nations with Mark Podlasly
Mark Podlasly says the trend towards investors using Environmental, Social and Governance investment standards, or ESG, is overall a positive trend ex...
Episode 45: COVID-19 and Vaccine Update with Dr Evan Adams
For the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic among First Nations, National Chief Perry Bellegarde talks with Dr. Evan Adams, Deputy Chief Medical Offi...
Episode 44: Acakosuk - A First Nations Reading of the Night Sky with Wilfred Buck
"When I went to school and started hearing stories about Roman and Greek mythology and the stars of Orion and Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, I assumed that i...
Episode 43: Murray Rankin - BC Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
"The fact that DRIPA was passed unanimously needs to be underscored. This isn't an agenda of the NDP government, it's something that was embraced by a...
Episode 42: Dr Alika Lafontaine - The First Indigenous President of the Canadian Medical Association
"The part of becoming the first indigenous President of the Canadian Medical Association that resonates most with me is knowing that youth out there a...
Episode 41: Jagmeet Singh - Federal NDP Leader
Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal New Democratic Party, joins us on this episode of the Ahkameyimok Podcast. Singh and National Chief Bellegarde di...
Episode 40: Romeo Saganash - Indigenous Rights are Human Rights. Bill C-15
Former NDP Member of Parliament Romeo Saganash visits the Ahkameyimok Podcast to discuss how Bill C-15, which works to ensure Canadian laws live up to...
Episode 39: Autumn Peltier - The Water Walker
"If you see the message coming from someone who is from my age or younger, that's when you know you are doing something wrong and something has to be...
Episode 38: Andrew Ference - How the NHL Plans to Bring Hockey to First Nations
"It's not just to say that we're doing the right thing because we have a certain number of First Nations people involved. It's to learn and have the k...
Episode 37: Chief Willie Littlechild - The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and Bill C-15
Chief Willie Littlechild knows a thing or two about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He helped write the first draf...
Episode 36: First Nations and Mental Health w/ Dr. Carol Hopkins #BellLetsTalk
On #BellLetsTalk Day, as part of the AFN effort to help support mental health all across Canada, National Chief Perry Bellegarde is joined by Dr Carol...
Episode 35: Racism in BC Healthcare w/ Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond discusses the findings from her independent investigation in Indigenous racism in British Columbia's health care system.
Episode 34: Reviving and Revitalizing Indigenous Languages w/ Dr Lorna Williams
What is the state of First Nations languages in Canada? One of the leading experts on the promotion and restoration of Indigenous culture and language...