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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a writer, scholar, organizer and storyteller of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and is a member of Alderville First Nation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, and teaches in the PhD Program in Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She has also lectured at the University of British Columbia, Athabasca University, Ryerson University, the University of Victoria, the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg and the Dechinta Centre for Learning and Research.Presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU Office of Aboriginal Peoples, and UBC First Nations Studies.
Author: Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Date created: 2013-11-13
This personal narrative explores an early childhood memory of regular morning awakening to my dad getting ready for work when I crawled out of bed to help him eat his poached eggs on toast. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my journey throughout graduate school, and how lived experience alongside performance in radio and musical soundtracks pave the way for me to find the answers to key life questions - answers that bring a deeper understanding to music and words as portals into memory, identity and self advocacy. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores – in a nutshell – the journey of graduate school in which a path is laid, and how by following this path I come full circle. This circling occurs first, through reflections of childhood songs and then, the memory of my family's 1976 road trip to the Canadian Prairies when The Carpenters sing of being young, listening to the radio and "waiting for my favorite songs…." One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative is a metaphor that represents taking risks in life and finding ledges that invite us to look beyond our fears so we might achieve our full depth of beingness and potential. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores how music influences people's life, identity and means for expression, and how song lyrics can be an extension of the living story. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my ancestors journey from Ireland to North America where they settled on the Red River Valley and later the Canadian Prairies, and how my mother made her way to the west coast of Canada. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my perception of psychiatric hospitals, my mother's experiences of being a patient in psychiatric hospitals, and how music was a solace to my mother throughout. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This narrative explores a childhood experience of moving to a new city, and illustrates how music can be an extension of voice and of that early experience. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This narrative explores an early memory of the year I discovered there was no Santa Clause but that there was David Cassidy. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This narrative explores my family road trip, at age 13, to the Canadian Prairies, and the music that came along for the ride. This tale also explores my discovery of my father's childhood home, my prairie cousins, and the music of the land. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This narrative explores the sentimentality of my family's road trip to the Canadian Prairies, and how music is woven throughout my memory of this experience. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores music's power to express and find one's voice amid times of girl's and women's self advocacy. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores leaving home for the first time, learning life priorities, and having the school of hard knocks forcing me to grow up. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my first experience of becoming engaged and running a home, having things go sideways and knowing when it's time to leave, and recognizing the difference between settling down (through choice) and settling (because of fear). Unlike most of the narratives, this radio tale is a combination of personal narrative and commentary. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative is about falling in love and falling out of love, life lessons, starting over, and discovering U-Hauls and self storage. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station. Recording context is radio broadcast; audio; voice; music.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my relationship with my mom, our shared musical soundscapes, and how music united us. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my return to my mother's prairie homestead in McGee Saskatchewan, spending time on the land to write her life, and the music that reflects this experience. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18
This personal narrative explores my father's final two days of life where. During my stay at his care home, I play the country music he loved so dearly, speak to him of his life with my mom, my gratitude for what he gave our family. One of a series of Radio Tale audio essays recorded at SFU's CJSF Radio Station.
Author: Harder, Elaine
Date created: 2020-05-18