Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in CanadaIn the early 1990s, Indigenous media experienced a boom across Canada, resulting in a vast landscape of film, TV, and digital media. Coinciding with a resurgence of Indigenous political activism, Indigenous media highlighted issues around sovereignty and Indigenous rights to broader audiences in Canada. In Producing Sovereignty, Karrmen Crey considers the conditionssocial movements, state policy, and evolutions in technologythat enabled this

Having learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen

I advise it be read with and for Humility

and deluded—and yet relentlessly exact

When the stubborn turtle refuses to move

L'essential est invisible pour les yeux

the methods of preparing wild rice and corn

The Removed is spirited

As one character after another tells it in these stories

one of our leading Native American voices

Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land

original maps

"a spiritual bad-ass