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Named one of Audible's Best Canadian Podcasts of 2025. Join Rosanna Deerchild every Friday for vibrant conversations with our cousins, aunties, elders and heroes. Rosanna guides us on the path to better understanding our shared story. Together, we learn and unlearn, laugh and become gentler in all our relations.Our award-winning show is rooted in radio, where we’ve spent the last decade becoming a trusted space for Indigenous-led conversations.We are based in what is now known as Canada. Rosanna hails from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, and now lives and works in Winnipeg (Treaty 1).

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Big city to tiny rez: how a move to community helped Luna Red understand her Black and Mi’kmaw identity

2026-11-13 · 46 min

“I know I’m Indigenous. But am I Mi’kmaw?” Luna Red always knew she was Black and Indigenous, but it took a move from the city to the rez to connect with her Mi’kmaw culture. Rosanna sits down with east coast recording…
Small actions go a long way to honour Indigenous veterans

2026-11-06 · 45 min

“The war never leaves the man," sings Mike Bern, and as the son of a Vietnam vet, he would know. The impacts of service on our Indigenous veterans is often overlooked and misunderstood, but as Rosanna hears this week,…
Repairing and preparing after wildfire season

2026-10-30 · 54 min

c̓ʔak̕ʷm Jennifer Lewis knows she can’t stop a wildfire, “But I sure can support and love.” This summer, as fires raged around them, she brought her nation together to pray, sing, and grieve together. Rosanna speaks to…
All my creepy crawly relations

2026-10-23 · 48 min

Even entomologists find some bugs gross, but Kyle Bobiwash says everything has its place! Rosanna speaks to nature lovers who remind us that “All My Relations” includes even the ones we sometimes find a little creepy or…
Why we walk for water

2026-10-16 · 50 min

Grandmother Lucy Ducharme wants you to walk with water, and she’s not the only one. More and more Elders and water advocates across turtle island are asking us to rethink our relationships with our waterways by spending…
Investing in strong Northern communities through Indigenous-led development

2026-10-08 · 48 min

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s commitment to authentic storytelling is rooted in her experience as an Inuk woman. From documentaries to the successful series North of North, she’s been sharing stories about the North, from the…
“Treaty defense mode” for the Alberta referendum

2026-10-02 · 54 min

Tania Cameron says the question of separatism is tied to treaty, and so she brought her Rock the Indigenous Vote campaign to Alberta to help educate communities and encourage them to have their say at the polls. Rosanna…
Reconciliation through friendships and forests!

2026-09-25 · 54 min

“Displaced relatives,” not invasive species – that’s how the Friends of Tryon Creek think about plants and people. Rosanna hears from coordinators Lili Yazzi and Lena Ouse-Hicks on how a mission to restore a native…
Unmapped: Portland

2026-09-18 · 24 min

Wapato and fish: these were the first foods of the Portland food scene – before Portland was Portland, of course. Indigenous tribes as far as Canada’s Great Plains traveled down the Columbia River to the U.S Pacific…
Why Colten Boushie’s story still matters 10 years after his death

2026-09-11 · 51 min

“It encapsulated all of the injustice that has been done to Indigenous people across Canada.” 10 years ago, Colten Boushie’s death sent shockwaves across Canada and unearthed deep tensions rooted in colonization and…

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Oldest episode in feed: 11/2025 · over a year
Typical length: 48 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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