Aug 13, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min · 20 segments
This week I am honoured to sit down and chat with one of my favorite humans on planet earth and the universe! Michelle Robinson from The Native Calgarian Podcast stops by and we talk recovery, grief…
Yeah.
How so? How do you mean?
And even in the 80s here in Calgary, they were mentally experimenting on my mother.
Like we just passed a law saying you can't sterilize indigenous women anymore against their will.
And at our book club last night, we had a member you know, talk about how, I don't think that Canadians understand we've been so suppressed for so long that our truth coming out is a brand new revelation for Canadians, unfortunately.
yeah,
even though I've been talking about this for 10 years, running this book club, uh, you know, having the podcast and, and trying to talk about it and engage with folks on policy levels.
And because we're Canada, we have new immigrants regularly who have no idea about any of this because none of our immigration conversation has updated enough for newcomers to know.
And I think like, well, you've been doing it for 10 years and so many folks have been trying to educate the settlers of this country and of course of the states too, right? When I talk about it, I kind of talk about both at the same time because they're so similar in terms of what the governments did and corporations did to indigenous nations.
Not that that's not happening everywhere, because it is.
We know the exploitative nature of capitalism, right? Which means there's a group that doesn't get affected negatively by the production.
But there's other groups that are constantly in genocide because of it.
all those groups are indigenous.
Yeah.
How so? How do you mean?
And even in the 80s here in Calgary, they were mentally experimenting on my mother.
Like we just passed a law saying you can't sterilize indigenous women anymore against their will.
And at our book club last night, we had a member you know, talk about how, I don't think that Canadians understand we've been so suppressed for so long that our truth coming out is a brand new revelation for Canadians, unfortunately.
yeah,
even though I've been talking about this for 10 years, running this book club, uh, you know, having the podcast and, and trying to talk about it and engage with folks on policy levels.
And because we're Canada, we have new immigrants regularly who have no idea about any of this because none of our immigration conversation has updated enough for newcomers to know.
And I think like, well, you've been doing it for 10 years and so many folks have been trying to educate the settlers of this country and of course of the states too, right? When I talk about it, I kind of talk about both at the same time because they're so similar in terms of what the governments did and corporations did to indigenous nations.
Not that that's not happening everywhere, because it is.
We know the exploitative nature of capitalism, right? Which means there's a group that doesn't get affected negatively by the production.
But there's other groups that are constantly in genocide because of it.
all those groups are indigenous.
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