Radio & Film
I’m Not The Indian You Had In Mind
I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind explores the stereotypical portrayal of First Nations in the media. Thomas King, Tara Beagan, and Lorne Cardinal narrate this spoken word short that offers an insight of how First Nations people today are changing old ideas and empowering themselves in the greater community.
Totem
Totem is the quirky story of an art dealer who discovers that he has a totem pole growing out of the floor of his gallery.
What to do, what to do? The easiest answer is to chop it down and cart it away.
Ah, if only easy solutions were really easy.
Borders
Borders follows a Blackfoot woman and her son as they try to cross the U.S/Canadian border.
No problem.
Except when they get to the U.S. border and the guard asks the mother for her citizenship, she tells him Blackfoot. And since the only acceptable answers are U.S. or Canadian, the woman is sent back to the Canadian border where she is asked the same question and gives the same answer.
What happens next is the story.
The Closer You Get to Canada
Welcome to the Fernhill Senior Game Preserve where young people get to hunt old people.
Well, after all we’ve shot everything else.
A Short History of Indians in Canada
Bob Haynie’s first trip to Toronto is made memorable by the evening he spends walking along Bay Street, watching Indians fly into the sides of the skyscrapers.
Well, after all, Toronto is in the flyway.
Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour
The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour is a fifteen minute political/social satire radio series that revolves around Native people and Native concerns.
Set in Blossom, Alberta, the show features Edna Rain as Gracie Heavyhand, Floyd Favell as Jasper Friendlybear, and Thomas King as himself as they sit around in the Dead Dog Cafe and discuss the affairs of the world.
While Jasper tries to talk Tom into paying for his coffee.
Medicine River