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RAVEN (De)BriefsA podcast about decolonizing law. Author: RAVEN Trust
Raven (De)briefs is a podcast for anyone wondering just what we mean when we talk about LAW on Turtle Island. Join host and RAVEN founder Susan Smitten for a courageous conversation with Indigenous folks about rights, responsibility, and redress. Language: en Genres: News, News Commentary, Politics Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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S3 E7 - Fostering Care with Bryant Doradea - HK aka Higher Knowledge
Episode 7
Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
Today on the show we’re talking with Bryant Doradea — HK aka Higher Knowledge. He’s a youth worker, activist and multimedia artist who joined RAVEN first for the Canned Salmon festival in 2021, and most recently brought his storytelling and teachings through hip hop to our Vancouver Festival Afloat concert . As we celebrate the landmark settlement of Cindy Blackstock's class action lawsuit, we're taking a look at kids in foster care. There are, right now, more Indigenous kids in the social welfare system than were ever at residential school at any given time. It’s a reality that has led many to observe that the foster care system IS the new residential school, for how it both pulls kids away from the land and their culture, and how it perpetuates the colonization of Indigenous families. Illuminating the path he's taken, that builds power — not in spite of, but from out of — the deep well of his own struggles, HK shares about how he uses his hard-won learnings to help Indigenous youth - in the inner city, on the 'rez, and on the land.
