A conversation with Governor General Mary Simon

Air Date: August 2, 2024

Summary

Her Excellency Mary Simon had a conversation with pîkiskwêwin producers at the First Nations University of Canada. She spoke about the importance of Indigenous language radio, her early career as a CBC journalists, her move to political life, how she maintains her Inuktitut language and her role as Governor General of Canada.

Interviewers: Lindell Haywahe, Amanda Leader, Michael Shorting-Bear, Belinda Nelson and Brittany Poitras.

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Conversations with FNUC students

MODERATOR
Lindell Haywahe

Episode Moderator

Lindell Haywahe

Lindell Haywahe is from the Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation in Saskatchewan. She is a host and producer of the pîkiskwêwin podcast series Iapi Wakan. She is a producer and mentor at www.CFNUradio.ca, the streaming, student-run radio station at the First Nations University of Canada. In July 2024, she won an Indigenous Media Award from the Indigenous Journalists Association for her podcast Maria Campbell: 50th Anniversary of Halfbreed.