Unreserved: Cowboys and Indians, Mohawk Girls and sacred fires

Relationships take work. Both sides must be willing to meet in the middle as equals, giving each other a respectful space to have discussion and debate.

Rosanna Deerchild discusses owning the Aboriginal image in popular culture

Rosanna Deerchild CBC News Posted: Nov 29, 2014 12:11 PM EST | Last Updated: November 29, 2014

Relationships take work. Both sides must be willing to meet in the middle as equals, giving each other a respectful space to have discussion and debate.

Even if that discussion is difficult, or at times even hurtful, our words to each other should always lead down a path of truth and hopefully reconciliation.

On Unreserved we always make room in the circle.Together, we can talk a new story for our children and grandchildren to follow.This week on the show:

Uncomfortable conversations about cowboys, Indians and indigenous women

When University of Regina cheerleaders were reprimanded for posing as Cowboys and Indiansand sharing the photo on social media, they were ordered to take a racial sensitivity workshop with Shauneen Pete, the university's executive lead for Indigenization.

The sexed up buck-skin girl isn't just a costume.A tweet from an aboriginal game developer in Oregon got social media in Canada buzzing this week. Elizabeth LePensee raised concerns about a video game called Custer's Revenge.

Owning ourimages on the small screen

Ernie Webb, executive producer with Rezolution Pictures, talks about their new series Mohawk Girls thats being billed as Sex and the City meets The Rez.

Speaking of the small screen,some of the characters in the fourth season of the gritty APTN show Blackstone wear hand-made jewelry by a mother and daughter from Edmonton. Sarah Buffalo and her mother Chrystal talk about the Plains Cree-style necklaces and earrings in the show.

Keeping the fire of peace lit in the heat of confrontation

Most of the Kinder Morgan protesters who crossed the police line that marks the injunction site on Burnaby Mountain were arrested immediately, with one notable exception. Behind the police line on Burnaby Mountain a Squamish woman tends a sacred fire,in cooperation with the RCMPa special behind-the-scenes look at the Kinder Morgan injunction site.

With music from A Tribe Called Red, Inez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Leela Gilday and Desiree Dorion.

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