Ahkameyimok Podcast with Perry Bellegarde
Latest Episodes
**Encore: Chief Willie Littlechild on Bill C-15 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
National Chief Perry Bellegarde - Assembly of First Nations
Episode 52: Conner Roulette: First Nations Hockey Gold Medal Winner
Conner Roulette won gold playing for Team Canada at the Under 18 World Hockey Championships in Texas, helping defeat Russia in the championship game. He is a forward with the WHL's Seattle Thunderbirds and a proud member of the Misipawistik Cree Nation in
Episode 51: Chief Terry Paul - The Fight for Atlantic First Nations Fisheries
Terry Paul has been Chief of the Membertou First Nation in Cape Breton since 1984. He is one of the founders of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association. And he assisted Donald Marshall Jr. in his successful 1999 Supreme Court defense of th
Episode 50: Tabatha Bull - CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Tabatha Bull is the President and CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. She joins National Chief Bellegarde to talk about challenges facing First Nations businesses in the pandemic, her thoughts on what the Federal Budget means for First Na
Episode 49: Sheryl Lightfoot - Representing First Nations at the United Nations
Sheryl Lightfoot is the first First Nations woman from Canada to be appointed as the North America Representative to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Episode 48: Hon Catherine McKenna - Canadian Minister of Infrastructure
Catherine McKenna on the important role First Nations play in the fight against climate change. Also, why cold water swimming has been an important part of her life
Episode 47: Louise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer: Canada's First Indigenous Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
Canada's first Indigenous Poet Laureate on the importance of indigenous language
Episode 46: Environmental, Social, Governance Investment Standards and First Nations with Mark Podlasly
Mark Podlasly on how ESG investment standards would be improved with more First Nations input
Episode 45: COVID-19 and Vaccine Update with Dr Evan Adams
Dr Evan Adams has good news about the COVID vaccine rollout in First Nations
Episode 44: Acakosuk - A First Nations Reading of the Night Sky with Wilfred Buck
Wilfred Buck on the First Nations readings and tales about the stars above us.