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).
Latest episodes
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48 min
All my creepy crawly relations
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 on…
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50 min
Why we walk for water
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 relat…
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48 min
Investing in strong Northern communities through Indigenous-led development
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 sh…
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54 min
“Treaty defense mode” for the Alberta referendum
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…
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54 min
Reconciliation through friendships and forests!
“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…
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24 min
Unmapped: Portland
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 th…
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51 min
Why Colten Boushie’s story still matters 10 years after his death
“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…
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36 min
Summer listen: First America
From our friends at Pushkin – this is the untold story of America. This summer the United States celebrated the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independen…
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49 min
Returning to the land and seeding cultural connection
Have you ever tried gardening by moonlight? Shirli Ewachuk says that thanks to the moon’s connection to water in the ground, the sky, soil and seasons work together to create the j…
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50 min
Unreserved LIVE: National Indigenous Peoples Day
As the place where the Assiniboine and Red rivers meet, The Forks marks an important trade route for Indigenous people that pre-dates colonization by thousands of years. This Natio…
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14 min
The return of Woodland style dance
An almost forgotten dance is making a comeback on the powwow trail. This weekend the Great Lakes Woodland style dance is one of many styles you’ll find at the Wáhkóhtowin Powwow on…
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50 min
“Written out of the story of America” – these creatives are writing the Indigenous perspective back in
Did you know the Declaration of Independence contains a racial slur? When Rebecca Nagle learned that “merciless Indian savages” were a main grievance of America’s founders it chang…
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52 min
A future of stargazing guided by our ancestors
The story of Tshakapesh and his snaring of the sun is another way of explaining the annular eclipse – it’s one of the Innu stories passed down over thousands of years that is based…
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53 min
Striking a chord: Why Indigenous communities picked up country music and made it their own
As early as the 1500s, the fiddle reached some of the most remote and northerly Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Dave McLeod says that’s part of the reason country music ha…
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48 min
Hearing the symphony in Indigenous story
Sharing Chickasaw culture through orchestral composition is Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's heartwork. He wants his music to empower Indigenous people and create an opportunity for…
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51 min
Mother’s day stories of strength and cultural reconnection
For generations, Innu women gave birth in traditional tents surrounded by family. Thea Penashue tells Rosanna how she wanted her second child to be born in the same way her own mot…
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54 min
Modern method? Reviving the “aquaculture” techniques of our ancestors
Scientists started talking about clam gardens in the 90s – but nations along the west coast built and maintained these beaches for thousands of years before. Rosanna speaks with Sk…
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49 min
How Indigenous entrepreneurs are creating food security solutions for their communities
Have you ever tried to grow vegetables in the dead of winter? Ben Feagin Jr. had an invention for that. He hopes his greenhouse bubble will help provide Indigenous communities with…
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49 min
Reframing history by reconnecting relatives through archival photos
In 2010, a researcher placed an ad in the Lakota Times that read, “Looking for information about mystery woman,” with a 19th century black and white photograph. In the centre of th…
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54 min
Why A Minor Chorus is a book that builds bridges
Every year Canada Reads chooses one book that everyone should read right now – and it’s a series of great debates that gets us there! In this live recording of Unreserved, Rosanna…