Unreserved
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
A fearless space for Indigenous voices. 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).
Location:
Canada, ON
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
A fearless space for Indigenous voices. 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).
Twitter:
@cbcradio
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.cbc.ca/unreserved
Episodes
Unreserved live: 10 year anniversary show
6/21/2024
Unreserved turns 10 (that's like 100 in rez dog years). Join Rosanna for a special live taping for our ten year anniversary celebration recorded at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg.
Duration:01:06:32
Our recommendations on how to celebrate NIPD all summer long
6/13/2024
Podcasts, movies, books, Pride events and some favourite summer ingredients -- your summer lists just got Indigenous! We gathered some friends to put together a list of recommendations that will help us all celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day and keep it going all summer long. It already has Rosanna on to a couple new podcasts. We hope it inspires you too!
Duration:00:51:15
Bonus: Connie Walker joins Kathleen Goldhar on Crime Story to discuss her new podcast
6/12/2024
Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best.
In this special episode of Crime Story, Connie Walker joins Kathleen to discuss the new season of her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater that investigates a crisis of policing on America’s largest reservation. Connie investigates the disappearance of two women on the Navajo Nation, a place where people say you can get away with murder.
More episodes of Crime Story are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/B7YVZzK0
Duration:00:51:50
Radiodays (live): Raising Our Voices
6/7/2024
From a time when skidoos helped deliver important radio messages to today’s ever-evolving content in the podcast world, we hear from three experts on what it takes to claim space and share our stories.
Recorded live at Radiodays North America, Rosanna is joined by Shawn Spruce, the host of Native America Calling, David McLeod – CEO of NCI-FM, and Shayla Oulette Stonechild who is founder and host of the Matriarch Movement podcast.
Duration:00:49:45
The power of the paddle
5/31/2024
Grab your paddles and hop in our canoe as we learn how canoeing does more than bring us closer to nature. This week Rosanna takes us on a journey across Turtle Island to learn how the canoe connects us to our past and carries knowledge into the future.
The sights and sounds of the river can teach language and culture and heal intergenerational trauma. This week Rosanna speaks with paddlers and paddling enthusiasts about how canoes are more than objects for transportation, they carry stories and our cultures through time.
Duration:00:44:49
Intersections
5/24/2024
Drawing from nimîipuu and Nigerian traditions, beadwork is one way for Afro-Indigenous artist Mikailah Thompson to express her identity. She's one of the people speaking with Rosanna this week about living and creating at the intersections, where multiple cultures, practices and traditions meet.
Duration:00:50:26
Honouring our mothers and the generations of knowledge they carry
5/10/2024
A moss bag is a traditional way of carrying our babies, sometimes called a baby’s second teacher. The first is their mom. Our women hold important knowledge and this week Rosanna speaks with three warriors who are reclaiming traditional parenting ways.
From caring for mothers through trauma using tipi teachings to using story to inspire parents to raise little warriors and passing on Inuvialuit culture. These Indigenous women are holding up those who hold up our worlds - Happy mothers day.
Duration:00:54:09
Decolonizing the classroom
5/3/2024
No more pencils, no more books - we’re taking a break from the classroom to learn about the land, each other and our cultures. This week Rosanna speaks with Indigenous educators about decolonizing the classroom. From curriculum bundles that help Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers incorporate traditional knowledge in their classrooms to communities looking to re-write curriculum completely, Indigenous approaches are changing the way we teach and learn.
Duration:00:49:55
Hockey – as healing, history and hope
4/26/2024
Canada’s beloved game has a well-known dark side: a racist, sexist, toxic culture. But Indigenous lovers of the game are using the power of hockey for positive change, making the ice a space for healing, inclusion, and a ton of fun. This episode shares their stories, from elite players to amateur hockey organizers to fans, and explores how and why they use hockey to change lives. And along the way, celebrate that Indigenous people rock at hockey!
Duration:00:49:59
Reclaiming Inuit Throat Singing
4/19/2024
Join us in studio where Inuit throat singers share songs and the stories behind their rhythmic patterns and sounds. This week Rosanna speaks with four Inuit throat singers who are reclaiming this almost lost tradition. For nearly a century, Christian missionaries in the north banned the practice as part of government and church efforts to assimilate Inuit. This is a show about survival and reclamation.
Duration:00:45:47
Unmapped: Niagara Falls
4/12/2024
This week we’re taking you to Niagara Falls for the second installment of our occasional series Unmapped. Rosanna is unmapping Niagara Falls, aka Onguiaahra – from the Haudenosaunee contributions to the War of 1812 to the Tuscarora women keeping their culture and traditions alive through beading, there is much more to know beyond the iconic waterfall.
Duration:00:51:05
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
3/29/2024
Data tells a story, and that’s why survivors of the notorious Mohawk Institute – Canada’s longest running residential school – are reclaiming data and sharing their truths. This week Rosanna speaks with Indigenous people who are reclaiming data to better understand the past and build towards the future. From traditional knowledge passed down through oral storytelling to the records kept by governments and institutions, data is power. Keeping that power in Indigenous hands is data sovereignty.
Duration:00:54:09
Dancing to our own beat
3/22/2024
What can, or should, we do with pieces of the past, such as audio recordings of our ancestors? They can inspire art and action but there are also protocols around how these things are shared. This week Rosanna talks with artists who are combining lessons of the past with their own artistic flare and passing it on to the next generation.
Duration:00:49:06
Indigenous playwrights take centre stage
3/15/2024
“Humour is the WD40 of healing.” Indigenous playwrights are telling stories their own way – and it includes a lot of laughter! This week Rosanna explores what’s behind a shift in the theatre world that has Indigenous playwrights showing works on about a dozen of the biggest stages in Canada. They’re moving away from the early years of tackling mostly heavy subjects to telling stories that can be playful, unique, dark and funny.
Duration:00:54:08
Dance revolution
3/8/2024
Resistance and rebellion run deep in the history of dance in Indigenous communities. Margaret Grenier’s Gitxsan grandmother hid family items in her walls to protect important dance traditions from destruction. This week Rosanna speaks with dancers and choreographers about how they are reviving, restoring and re-imagining the art of dance.
Duration:00:50:04
Food and memory
2/23/2024
For many Indigenous people, food memories are intricately tied to family, community and culture. Meet three Indigenous chefs who are using their food knowledge to transport people to the past and inspire Indigenous menus of the future.
Duration:01:00:13
Claiming space in the Great Outdoors
2/16/2024
Join us as we check out some birds, hit the halfpipe and prepare for the sugar bush. You'll hear how Indigenous nature enthusiasts are empowering others to get outside and claim space in the Great Outdoors.
Duration:00:51:20
2SLGBTQ+ Love Songs
2/9/2024
There are a lot of love stories out there, but not everyone can see themselves in them. This week we hear from Trans, Queer and Two Spirit artists on how they’re pushing against heteronormative narratives in today’s love stories and love songs. So everyone can see - and hear - themselves in love.
Duration:00:53:58
Gentle book, giant impact: 10 years of Braiding Sweetgrass
2/2/2024
It was an invitation to reconnect with the land, but Robin Wall Kimmerer's bestselling book ended up being more of a call to action. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is now ten years old. Robin tells us how her humble book of essays spread like seeds in the wind around the world, selling more than 1.6 million copies in the US alone. We also hear from readers and friends who were inspired by the book and took action in their own lives to change their relationships with plants, animals, rain drops...and each other!
Duration:00:51:31
Unmapped: NYC
1/26/2024
We're headed to New York, baby! This episode is part of a travel series from Unreserved called Unmapped. The series invites us to look for the Indigenous presence in some of the most iconic travel destinations around the world. Meet the people who are nurturing community and raising the visibility of Indigenous pasts, presents and futures.
Duration:00:54:08