This may be my shortest post yet, but do not despair! I’ve got 50 minutes of jam packed audio to make up for any perceived lack of loquaciousness!
Imagine this: two Métis nerds get together, drink a bottle of wine, watch a Sci-Fi movie or television episode and critique it from an Indigenous perspective. Gold? WHY YES! And gold is exactly what Molly Swain and I are offering.
We think this winning combination might interest folks beyond our Aunties, so we’ve uploaded our first podcast to SoundCloud!
In this inaugural episode of otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk (Métis In Space), Molly and Chelsea review Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4 Episode 8, “Pangs,” where “On Thanksgiving, Buffy encounters the spirit of a Native American warrior whose people were wiped out by settlers.”
So slip on your most comfortable moose-hide moccasins, grab a mug of bush tea and give Métis in Space a listen!
5 Comments
mIYA · August 3, 2014 at 1:51 pm
IT SOUNDS VERY INTERESTING…
Erin · August 3, 2014 at 2:22 pm
Great podcast! I especially love the ask-a-white-guy segment. Thanks for this!
Joemac (@Joemac) · September 11, 2014 at 7:24 am
You hear about the new red wine? It’s called we want our land back! http://www.mountainguide.com/the-last-metis/
Erik Weissengruber · October 26, 2014 at 9:45 am
Wow! Just found your cast! It would be great to hear you address the way colonial anthropology got spun into sci-fi. The peoples of the Mississippi and their monuments were subjected to some weird distortions by pulp fictioneers like H.P. Lovecraft. Keep up the great work. I am sure there are many other examples.
âpihtawikosisân · October 26, 2014 at 11:43 am
Oh this comes up a fair amount, check out Episode 6: Star Trek “The Paradise Syndrome” for how Sci-Fi creates worlds where aliens really do build all those incredible ancient monuments that Indigenous peoples are clearly too backwards to have done.