If you were to make a "starter pack" for people who want to learn about Canada's #indigenous culture, what would you recommend for a:
a) book
b) tv show
c) movie
d) music album/artist
e) web site
f) social media creator
g) podcast

If possible, please include #FirstNations, #Métis, and #Inuit representation. Thank you!

@tod For (e) website, I suggest:

1. The native land map at https://native-land.ca/. It covers indigenous nations both on and beyond Turtle Island. The searchable address feature is quite nice.

2. Treaty map by the Yellow head Institute, provides Indigenous perspectives on treaties in Canada https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org/map/

@tod For (a), book, I'll suggest 3:

Manoomin is a series of essays about "wild rice". History, stories, recipes, ecology, language.

Portage Lake is a set of autobiographical essays by Maude Kegg, in English and Ojibwe. Organised by season, its a great set of lessons about place, culture and language. Set in Minnesota, just south of the border.

Indigenous Toronto provides many indigenous perspectives about this city, past and present.

@tod books by Eden Robinson, Tomson Highway, Drew Hayden Taylor. They are all indigenous, and from different nations in different parts of Canada.
North Of 60 (FULL EPISODES)

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@davecb @tod perhaps (for contemporary culture): Beans, about the OKA crisis. I lived near there then - the authenticity is refreshing. And the racism was shocking - I was not aware of that at the time.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11735544/
Beans (2020) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama

1h 32m

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@deborahh @tod I also watched beans, and found it cut a little too close to the bone (I'm brown, not first nations, but it still digs)
@tod Métis writer Chelsea Vowel's Indigenous Writes: a Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada might be a good place to begin.

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Not sure if he counts as a social media creator, but I would suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khelsilem as he's very online

Khelsilem - Wikipedia

@tod g) for a podcast I’d recommend CBC Radio’s “Unreserved” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved It has broad coverage and eye opening insights.
Home | Unreserved | CBC Radio

Unreserved is the space for Indigenous voices — our cousins, our aunties, our elders, our heroes. Rosanna Deerchild guides us on the path to better understand our shared story. Together, we learn and unlearn, laugh and become gentler in all our relations.

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@tod Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk artist who makes some of the most sublime music I've heard in ages and who has written a book, Split Tooth, which is an uncompromising book about Inuit culture and Inuit life in the modern North.

The book is not for the faint of heart. It has very bad things to say about the state of affairs in Canada's north, and she does not mince words. You *will* be triggered. Whatever your triggers are. They are in there.

@tod Here is a sampler of her music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tribOieFWM
Tanya Tagaq - Teeth Agape [Official Music Video]

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