Unreserved: Seeing the world through the indigenous lens

The issue of racism in popular culture came up this week in Winnipeg, when indigenous educator Tasha Spillett complained to a book store about the images in the hugely popular comicTintin in America.

While guest hosting Unreserved this week, I had a chance to speak about the incident and racism in literature with renowned Tlicho storytellerRichard Van Camp. He's the author of several books and more recentlyseveral graphic novels.

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Van Camp says he and other indigenous artists have had enough of tired, old, negative stereotypes. He's part of a movement that wants the world to see indigenous peoplethrough an indigenous lens.

With an ever-growing number of indigenous authors and artists, Van Camp says maybe the time has come for publishers to update and re-imagine classic works with their help.

This week on Unreserved:

Sheila Watt-Cloutierdiscusses her new book The Right to be Cold. Watt-Cloutierwas raised by hermother and grandmother in thesmall Arctic community of Kuujjuaq, Que.At the age of10, she was sent away to school in southern Canadaand she lost touch with this traditional way of life.

Fifty years later, Watt-Cloutier has become an Inuit leader, an internationally renowned activist and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Winnipeg artist K.C. Adams, who is of Cree, Ojibway and British descent,speaks about her latest project,Perceptionborn of the need to fight racism in Winnipeg, prior to theMaclean'smagazine article proclaiming the city to the be the most racist in Canada.

David Hart performs traditional music and sings in English and Innu. David`s goal? To play every aboriginal community in Quebec, for starters.

We'll hear music by Hart, as well asDustin Harder and the Dusty Roads Band, Shawnee, and Art Napolean.

Tune into CBC Radio One after the5 p.m.news in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nunavutand after the4 p.m.news in Yukon and the N.W.T.for these stories and more on Unreserved.You can alsolisten on demand.