Ahkameyimok Podcast with Perry Bellegarde

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
May 28, 2021

National Chief Perry Bellegarde - Assembly of First Nations

Episode 52: Conner Roulette: First Nations Hockey Gold Medal Winner
May 20, 2021

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
May 13, 2021

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
May 05, 2021

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
April 29, 2021

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
April 22, 2021

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.
April 15, 2021

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
April 08, 2021

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
April 01, 2021

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
March 25, 2021

Wilfred Buck on the First Nations readings and tales about the stars above us.