• What Brings You Hope?

  • Dec 30 2021
  • Length: 40 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • ****As we move into 2022, we're reposting Perry's episode on Hope, one of the most popular of the past year. We hope it brings you joy and inspiration as we enter the New Year.****

    ***Encore Episode***

    In his seven years as National Chief, Perry Bellegarde focused on the importance hope: "Always leave more hope in a room than was there when you arrived."

    Over the run of the Ahkameyimok Podcast, no matter how difficult the conversation or the issue, he always ends by asking his guests this question:

    What brings you hope?

    These are some of his favorite answers to that question.

    01: 18 -- Chief Willie Littlechild - former TRC Commissioner, Member of Parliament, lawyer, social activist and author of the first draft of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

    02:24 Dr Lorna Williams - Canada's leading expert on the promotion and revival of Indigenous languages.

    4:14 William Prince - Award winning and chart topping country music star

    6:30 Rt Hon Brian Mulroney - Canada's 18th Prime Minister

    7:40 Dr Dan Longboat - Founding Director of Trent University's Indigenous Environmental Science Program

    10:42 Marion Crowe - CEO of the First Nations Health Managers Association

    11:41 Wade Davis, best-selling author, film-maker, explorer, UBC Anthropology Professor

    12:32 Mary Ellen Turpel Lafond - fmr judge, law professor, children's advocate

    14:27 Jagmeet Singh - Leader of the federal New Democratic Party of Canada

    15:13 Bobbie Jo Greenland-Morgan - Grand Chief of the Gwich'in Tribal Council

    17:40 Kevin Loring - Artistic Director of the Indigenous Theatre, National Arts Centre, Ottawa

    19:40 Elder Wilfred Buck - leading First Nations astronomy and star lore expert

    21:52 Senator Kim Pate - international expert in legal and prison reform

    24:01 Brigadier-General Joe Paul, the highest ranking First Nations officer in the Canadian Armed Forces

    25:12 Brad Regehr - The first First Nations President of the Canadian Bar Association

    26:21 Louise Bernice Halfe - Canada's first Indigenous Parliamentary Poet Laureate

    28:05 Dr Alika Lafontaine - the first Indigenous person elected as the President of the Canadian Medical Association

    30:03 Romeo Saganash, former Member of Parliament, and leading advocate for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

    31:41 Conner Roulette, First Nations gold medal winning junior hockey star

    33:09 Chief Cadmus Delorme, Cowessess First Nation, home to 751 unmarked graves found at the Marieval Residential School

    34:30 Tom Jackson, actor, musician, social activist

    36:36 Marie Wilson, former Commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission

    The Akhameyimok Podcast is produced by David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions

    Theme music is by the Red Dog Singers, Treaty 4 territory, Saskatchewan

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