Podcasts by Muddied Water

Muddied Water

Who are the Metis? It’s complicated. This podcast explores the history of Metis people in Manitoba, beginning with Louis Riel who was hero to some and traitor to others. Host Stephanie Cram unravels the intricate history of the Metis...and follows the thread from resistance to renaissance.

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S2 Episode 2: The Buffalo Hunt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

First Nations people living in and around the Red River Settlement had a name for Métis people. Translated from Saulteaux, it is “the people that own themselves.” Métis people maintained much of th...

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S2 Episode 3: Rooster Town from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Where are you from? The answer to that is an important part of understanding the identity of Métis people. Having a strip of land to call home is not just an issue of Indigenous rights but an impor...

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S2 Episode 4: Church and State from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Métis people have a complicated relationship with the Church. For some, Catholicism is an important part of their identity; for others it is a reminder of the harm done by colonization, particularl...

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S2 Episode 5: Resurgence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Throughout history, Métis people have protected the land with their bodies and sometimes their lives, which is a source of inspiration for Jenna Vandal whose own family stories of resistance motiva...

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S2 Muddied Water 1870, Homeland of the Métis trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Who are the Métis? It’s complicated. This podcast explores the history of Métis people in Manitoba, beginning with Louis Riel who was hero to some and traitor to others. Host Stephanie Cram unravel...

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S1 Episode 6: Bloody Saturday from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On June 21st, the government sent in the militia. One man is shot dead, dozens are wounded, and thousands are sent running for their lives. Hear from eyewitnesses to the event known as Bloody Satur...

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S1 Episode 5: The slave pact from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

May 30th, 1919, Winnipeg police officers were asked to sign a document. In it they pledge allegiance to the Police Commissioners and promise not to join 30,000 other workers in a city-wide strike. ...

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S1 Episode 4: The south side of the tracks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the other side of 30,000 striking workers one man's name stands alone: A.J. Andrews. He and his Citizens Committee of 1,000 are credited with breaking the back of the strike in 1919. But how did...

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S1 Episode 1: Wild woman of the west from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

She shouted from pulpits, raised her fists on the picket line and sang songs of freedom outside of prison walls the night the strike leaders were arrested. Oh ya, and she also ran the Labour Cafe, ...

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S1 Episode 2: Our friends of the rat-hole persuasion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bill Pritchard was one of the brains behind the strike. He was in Winnipeg just six days but would end up imprisoned for a year because of his "involvement" in the strike. In this episode we focus ...

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S1 Episode 3: Milk and bread from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When the city stopped the first day of the strike, milk was not delivered to the Children's Hospital. This is how we come to know Ethel Johns, the superintendent of the Children's Hospital at the t...

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Muddied Water trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Muddied Water is a podcast about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike that explores our desire to find heroes in an often unclear past. In a "fight for fair" that brought strikers out in the thousands,...

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S1 Episode 3: Milk and bread from 2019-06-12T20:07

When the city stopped the first day of the strike, milk was not delivered to the Children's Hospital. This is how we come to know Ethel Johns, the superintendent of the Children's Hospital at the t...

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Muddied Water trailer from 2019-06-06T12:00

Muddied Water is a podcast about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike that explores our desire to find heroes in an often unclear past. In a"fight for fair"that brought strikers out in the thousands, y...

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