Matriarch Movement – Details, episodes & analysis

Regalia isn’t a costume, it’s a connection to self and community.  Deanne Hupfield, Speaker, Pow Wow Dancer and Teacher, and Regalia-Making Instructor, joins the Matriarch Movement to have a candid conversation about her journey into pow wow dancing, regalia making, and matriarchy.  Deanne shares her insights on the realities of generational trauma from the Sixties Scoop; from overcoming addiction and juvenile detention, to rebuilding her family. Thanks for checking out this episode of the Matriarch Movement podcast! If you enjoyed the conversation, please leave a comment and thumbs-up on YouTube, or leave a five star review on your favourite podcast app! Find Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram: @shayla0h Find more about Matriarch Movement at www.matriarchmovement.com Find more about Deanne Hupfield at https://www.deannehupfield.com/ Our producer is Nicole Robertson with Muskwa Productions. Our podcast producer is Kattie Laur. Our videographer is Sara Cornthwaite. Behind the scenes photography is by Kiki Guerard, Michelle Aregentieri, and Stephanie Neves. Special thanks to the Indigenous Screen Office for supporting this video podcast! Hiy Hiy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Indigenous peoples have overcome a lot of darkness, and we’re still able to dance. In this episode, Shayla Stonechild is joined by Jingle Dancer, Content Creator and Indigenous Advocate, Santee Siouxx, to chat about what it means to go back to the ceremony and tap into your dream state. Santee shares how finding ceremony evolved her relationship with dance, grief, and kinship. Matriarch Movement is created and hosted by Shayla Oulette Stonechild and produced by Kattie Laur. Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@matriarch.movement  Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram @shayla0h Follow Santee Siouxx on Instagram @santeesiouxx Follow Matriarch Movement on Instagram @matriarch.movement Matriarch Movement is a non-profit, platform and podcast amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement and medicine. Learn more at matriarchmovement.ca  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For a long time it’s been non-Indigenous people telling Indigenous stories, and that means that stereotypes and a lack of humanity and empathy has been perpetuated in the media for years. Award-winning Indigenous podcaster and journalist, Connie Walker, joins the Matriarch Movement podcast to discuss her approach to trauma-informed storytelling, and what it was like to uncover the truth behind her family’s history in Canada’s residential school system. We unpack the power in giving Indigenous people the agency and the opportunity to tell their own stories, why we’re so inspired by the younger generation, and what a meaningful future could look like for native journalists. Matriarch Movement is created and hosted by Shayla Oulette Stonechild and produced by Kattie Laur. Theme music is "Sisters" by Wolf Saga, Chippewa Travellers and David R. Maracle. Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram @shayla0h Follow Matriarch Movement on Instagram @matriarch.movement Matriarch Movement is a non-profit, platform and podcast amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement and medicine. Learn more at matriarchmovement.ca Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where do Indigenous youth find the space to be revolutionary? Riley Yesno has explored the many facets of Indigenous resurgence throughout most of her life, and has been advocating for “reconciliation” since she was 15 years old. Her time on the Prime Minister's Youth council was troubling  – proudly hailing herself as a “shit disturber” – but that time still inspired her interest in native politics. Today she’s working on her PhD, studying Indigenous youth and reconciliation and hosts the podcast, REDsurgence. We discuss the state of Indigenous youth revolutions from in-person community, to organizing and representation in the digital age, and Land Back and what it really means for Indigenous futurism. Matriarch Movement is created and hosted by Shayla Oulette Stonechild and produced by Kattie Laur. Theme music is "Sisters" by Wolf Saga, Chippewa Travellers and David R. Maracle. Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram @shayla0h Follow Matriarch Movement on Instagram @matriarch.movement Matriarch Movement is a non-profit, platform and podcast amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement and medicine. Learn more at matriarchmovement.ca  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when Indigenous fashion is on the global stage? In February 2023, Sage Paul took seven Indigenous designers to Milan Fashion Week as a part of a three-year partnership between Indigenous Fashion Arts and White Milano, a tradeshow for international womenswear. Sage Paul is the Founding Executive and Artistic Director at Indigenous Fashion Arts, and in this episode I talk to her about her goal of increasing the visibility of Indigenous artists and the impact of partnerships like the one with White Milano. We also unpack some of the important themes that come up in the Indigenous fashion space in North America like family and sovereignty, but also our complex relationships to fur and the Hudson's Bay Company, and how those themes impact Indigenous fashion. Matriarch Movement is created and hosted by Shayla Oulette Stonechild and produced by Kattie Laur. Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram @shayla0h Follow Matriarch Movement on Instagram @matriarch.movementMatriarch Movement is a non-profit, platform and podcast amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement and medicine. Learn more at matriarchmovement.ca  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this first 2022 episode of Matriarch Movement, Shayla welcomes award-winning Cree/Métis director and screenwriter, Asia Youngman. Asia’s films have been screened at a variety of festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, and the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Her latest film, HATHA, received support from the Harold Greenberg Fund and Creative BC through the BC Shorts Program and premiered at the 40th Vancouver International Film Festival. Asia is an alumna from the TIFF Filmmaker Lab, the TIFF Talent Accelerator, the Canadian Academy Directors Program for Women, the Berlinale DocSalon Toolbox Programme and the Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative. She is the owner of Visceral Village Productions which she founded in 2019. ....... Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram Follow Matriarch Movement on Instagram Find out more about Shayla and The Matriarch Movement podcast Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Matriarch Movement, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by Dr. Shannon Prince, Attorney, Legal Commentator, and Author of Cherokee descent. Her book Tactics for Racial Justice: Building an Antiracist Organization and Community is forthcoming from Routledge on November 30th as part of the Giving Voice to Values series. She represents the Cherokee Nation in its landmark lawsuit against the opioid industry for causing the opioid epidemic on its reservation as well as the Oneida Indian Nation and is helping launch her firm’s Tribal Affairs Task Force. Dr. Prince has also done volunteer work creating resources for Native American nations seeking to gain federal recognition and is trained in Native American mediation practices. She earned her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College, her law degree from Yale Law School, and her master’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her writing has been published in Indian Country Today, I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, and Native American Voices, among other venues. She is an avid fancy shawl dancer, medicine keeper, yogi, and beadworker. In this episode, Shannon discusses how she got into law, her experience in university, and talks about being a matriarch and being a good ancestor. She also talks about her Cherokee background and how her cultural practices have helped her ground herself in her career and life, her experience being the only Black, Indigenous or person of colour in a room, and shares advice to the younger generation on how to get into law. ... Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram Follow Matriarch Movement on Instagram Find out more about Shayla and The Matriarch Movement podcast Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by Jessica Barudin. Jessica is Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw, a member of the 'Namgis First Nation with ties to the Kwakiutl and Haxwamis on her mother’s side and Russian-Jewish on her father’s side. She is a proud mother of two daughters, wife, Sundancer, Indigenous health researcher, yoga teacher and doula. She has spent the last ten years working professionally in Indigenous peoples’ health and education including a variety of roles in health research, health promotion, project management, and community engagement. Jessica has a Masters of Applied Science in Physical Therapy from the McGill University and an Undergraduate Degree in Human Kinetics from the University of British Columbia. She currently works with the First Nations Health Authority as the Traditional Wellness Specialist for Vancouver Island. Listen to this episode to hear Shayla and Jessica discuss going from urban life in Montreal back to her home community in Vancouver Island, Jessica’s Kwakwaka’wakw heritage, her process of becoming a yoga teacher in 2012, and how the wellness industry has changed since then; further, they discuss the First Nations Womens’ Yoga Initiative, and the cohort of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people she has brought together during quarantine to learn and practice yoga, and how she has integrated her language into this practice. ... Follow Jessica Barudin on Instagram Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram Visit thebrandisfemale.com. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Matten is of Red River Metis-Cree descent and is directly a descendant of Cuthbert Grant, the first rebel Metis leader famously known for the Battle of the Seven Oaks in Canada. Most recently, Jessica is set to star in Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) and Graham Roland's produced "Dark Winds" television series opposite Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon for the AMC Network this Fall 2021. You can find Jessica on 3 Canadian Screen Award nominated and winning shows: Frontier, Blackstone and Mohawk Girls. She has also developed a small cult following in North America for her performance in the starring role of ElleMaija Tailfeather's short film, "A Red Girl's Reasoning". Besides acting, Jessica runs an Indigenous wellness and fitness company with her family called Lemon Cree where which has helped thousands of Indigenous people achieve their fitness, wellness and health goals. She also runs the viral campaign #N8Vgirls to help spread awareness globally on the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada. Listen to this episode to hear Shayla and Jessica discuss the similarities in their upbringings, using privilege to uplift other Indigenous people in the film industry, fitness and how Jessica does her own stunts, the unglamorous side of acting, Jessica's friendship with Jason Mamoa, how limited resources are on reserves, and missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit—along with why this cause hits so close to home for Jessica. ... Follow Jessica Matten on Instagram Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aly Bear (Tatanka Ska Win) is a proud mother and descendant of Dakota, Anishinaabe and Nehiyaw heritage. She is a member of the Whitecap Dakota First Nation where her father, Darcy Bear, currently serves as the Nation's Chief. Aly has worked tirelessly to advance her education while balancing her duties as a single parent. She obtained her juris doctor from the University of Saskatchewan, College of Law, in 2020. Since, Aly worked on a wide range of files, including corporate commercial, labour and employment, civil litigation and intellectual property. However, her passion and primary focus as a lawyer has been, and continues to be, revitalizing and implementing traditional Indigenous laws and finding expression for these laws in modern-day Indigenous governance structures. One of the highlights of Aly's legal career to date has been the opportunity to work on the Whitecap Dakota First Nation's Self Government and Dakota Treaty files. After much thought and careful consideration, Aly has decided to run for third Vice-Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. Aly is passionate about her roots, and connecting to her identity through ceremony. In this episode, Aly talks about being from Saskatchewan, what law school was like as a single mother, why she went into law, how reclaiming the Indigenous governance systems with the 7 sacred teachings, rather than the western governance systems, is so crucial, the negative effects of western law's fragmented systems, the need for sacred Indigenous ceremonial space in public settings, and the RCMP in Canada. ... Follow Aly Bear on Instagram Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram Visit thebrandisfemale.com. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices