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Duncan McCue

@duncanmccue.bsky.social
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Nd’Anishinaabe. Journalism prof at CarletonU. Sometimes found at CBC Radio. Author #DecolonizingJournalism #TheShoeBoy. Fan of frybread & Leafs. carleton.ca/sjc/journalism-in-indig…

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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 15/10/2025
Upcoming Mir Centre for Peace speaker: Duncan McCue (Selkirk College)
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Upcoming Mir Centre for Peace speaker: Duncan McCue - Nelson News
An award-winning journalist, author, professor and member of the Georgina Island First Nation in Ontario is a guest speaker at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson on Oct. 29.
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Miigwech, thank you for listening 🧡
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CoachC 🇨🇦 @socrgal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sept 30. Truth and Reconciliation. As a settler it is my job to listen and learn. Kuper Island with Duncan McCue www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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Kuper Island | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
An 8-part series that tells the stories of four students: three who survived and one who didn’t. They attended one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools – where unsolved deaths, abuse, and li...
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Our Certificate in Journalism in Indigenous Communities has kicked off, with its first cohort of 20 learners! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Journalism program for Indigenous learners, taught by Indigenous faculty, welcomes 1st students | CBC News
Twenty students from across Canada have been selected for the inaugural cohort of a new journalism program offered by Kenjgewin Teg on Manitoulin Island and Ottawa's Carleton University.
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Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi @clahchischiligi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
High Country News & the @indigenousja.bsky.social join forces next week to host a free webinar for Indigenous photojournalists interested in collaborating with HCN and to learn about freelancing in general. Join us at 11 a.m. MT, Sept. 23. Register here: indigenousjournalists.org/2025/09/call...
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Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Join me, Joy SpearChief-Morris (CBC), Alessia Passafiume (CP) & Duncan McCue (Carleton U) to talk Truth & Reconciliation & politics. Wed. Sept 17, 6:30 pm @ 3 Brasseurs, 240 Sparks St., Ottawa. It's Free. #Indigenous #cdnpoli #cdnmedia Space is limited. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/shared-byl...
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Shared Bylines: Mixer on the Hill
In Conversation: Truth and Reconciliation – Mapping the Intersection of Indigenous and Political Reporting
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Global Indigenous cinema is taking center stage at the Toronto International Film Festival’s 50th anniversary, marking the festival’s most expansive Indigenous program to date. redpopnews.com/tiff-2025-to... #redpopnews #TIFF2025
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TIFF 2025 to Showcase Best of Indigenous Cinema From Around the World
Global Indigenous cinema is taking center stage at the Toronto International Film Festival's 50th anniversary, marking the festival's most expansive Indigenous program to date. For this milestone year...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 19/08/2025
a really great and well-researched story from @zoeyunker.bsky.social about the context and implications of the Cowichan decision, including how the namesake of Port Moody, B.C., secretly bought a Cowichan village site that should have been a reserve: thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
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Inside Richmond’s Precedent-Setting Cowichan Tribes v. Canada Case | The Tyee
The BC Supreme Court decision affirms Aboriginal title on private lands. What’s next?
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...
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Archival research has found 171 confirmed deaths at Kuper Island residential school, 50 more than previously thought
Archival research conducted on behalf of the Penelakut Tribe has found 50 more deaths at the former residential school than previous estimates
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A journalist in Northern Ontario posted these FYIs about talking to reporters. And they’re all true of course - but I had a conversation with a Native writer yesterday (before seeing this) - and every point is a rule we talked about breaking in First Nations communities.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Cabin Radio, an independent online radio station and news outlet based in Yellowknife, has been granted its FM license after nearly a decade in operation.
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A new frequency for Yellowknife’s independent radio voice | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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Longreads @longreads.com · 30/07/2025
"The Sacagawea found in the oral histories of the Hidatsas is both grander and humbler — more like a person, less like a symbol — than the one taught in schools." — @cwhe.bsky.social for The New York Times Magazine
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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've got an article out on the Narwhal today... talking about the First Nations Leaders Summit from the inside. One thing I talk about in this piece that I haven't elsewhere was how weird it was to see the disrespect from Cabinet Ministers to Musqueam MP, Wade Grant.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Todd Labrador is a traditional Mi’kmaw birchbark canoe maker in southwestern Nova Scotia. But the birch trees he relies on are dying and the bark is no longer usable. Labrador has just enough bark left from last year to build one final Mi’kmaw birchbark canoe.
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One last canoe: Mi’kmaw builder faces dying birch trees | APTN News
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Guesting on The Current all week - always happy to keep Matt’s chair warm but extra shot of java required this AM!
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This is probably one of the most important documentaries of the last decade for NDN Country and the US in general because tribal disenrollment has led to armed conflicts and it is a precursor to the end of US birthright citizenship. youtu.be/DcrtdiDASUg?...
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You’re No Indian – Official Trailer | Tribal Disenrollment Documentary
YouTube video by You're No Indian Film
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Proud of my Reporting in Indigenous Communities students’ excellent work on this piece about the impact of #climatechange on birch crafts amongst Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg, published with our media partner @cangeo.bsky.social canadiangeographic.ca/articles/pee...
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Peeling back the impact of climate change on traditional birch crafts in Kitigan Zibi
Algonquin artist Pinock Smith is keeping the tradition of building birchbark canoes alive. But, as harvesting birchbark becomes increasingly difficult because of climate change, how will artists like ...
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Miigwech Keili 🧡
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Keili Bartlett @keilibartlett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Incredible to hear how much care went into making the Kuper Island podcast. Duncan McCue gives a masterclass in reporting on trauma with respect and sensitivity. Take a listen:
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A pleasure to have such an in-depth chat about the Kuper Island pod with true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson. Check out the episode - just dropped in the Wicked Words feed podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
To mark 25 years of reporting, we asked APTN News staff past and present to reflect on the moments that left a mark. Watch here: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/2...
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APTN News 25 | The Moments That Shaped Us
APTN News is celebrating 25 years. Present and former staff members reflect on the moments that made a lasting impression.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 06/06/2025
His grandfather didn’t have the right to vote. Now, Wade Grant is representing Vancouver in parliament. A profile on the first Musqueam MP by @sevawood.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/wade-grant-v...
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How Indigenous MP Wade Grant plans to face divisive issues
Former Musqueam councillor Wade Grant believes he can take on climate change, affordability, Indigenous rights in Vancouver while uniting people
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Canadian Journalism Foundation @cjf-fjc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is proud to announce that award-winning Anishnaabe journalist Lenard Monkman is the inaugural recipient of the CJF Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship in partnership with the @cmadocs.bsky.social (CMA). Read: www.newswire.ca/news-release... #CJFAwards
A photograph of Lenard Monkman wearing a plain black shirt and posing against an orange backgroundA graphic with a multi-coloured background and a quote from CJF President and Executive Director Natalie TurveyA graphic with a multi-coloured background and a quote from Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Joss ReimerA graphic with a multi-coloured background and a quote from selection committee chair and Pulitzer- and Peabody Award-Winning Journalist Connie Walker
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 30/05/2025
“My friend, the journalist Duncan McCue (@duncanmccue.bsky.social), coined this idea: ‘Be a storyteller, not a story taker.’ This really resonated with me.” — Investigative journalist @conniewalker.bsky.social. Full Q&A: twp.ai/9PSAOg
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‘Giving Sources Power’: Reporting on Indigenous Communities and Creating Compelling Investigative Podcasts
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
carleton.ca/sjc/journali...
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How to Apply to the Certificate Program | School of Journalism and Communication
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Indigenous? Interested in journalism?Still time to apply for CJIIC. Deadline: June 1. Our all-Indigenous lineup of journalism instructors are prepping now for fall! www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Carleton University launches new program aimed at training Indigenous journalists | CBC News
Three educational institutions in Ontario have teamed up to offer a new model of journalism school aimed at "passing the mic" to Indigenous learners in remote communities who may have faced roadblocks...
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
cc @inuittapiriit.bsky.social
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Proud of my Reporting in Indigenous Communities students’ stellar work on this piece about urban Inuit in Ottawa sharing country food, published with our media partner @cangeo.bsky.social canadiangeographic.ca/articles/a-v...
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‘A visceral way of connecting with your culture’: How Isaruit Inuit Arts brings country food to urban Inuit in Ottawa
For Ottawa’s urban Inuit, weekly drop-in meals at Isaruit Inuit Arts are a taste of home in the south
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The University of Ottawa has announced a new initiative for Algonquin students from federally recognized First Nations.
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Algonquin students from federally recognized First Nations to receive free tuition at University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa is offering free tuition to federal registered Algonquin students from Ontario and Quebec.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 06/05/2025
A beetle, ash trees and basketmaking. We partnered with @duncanmccue.bsky.social's Reporting in Indigenous Communities class at Carleton University for a story about one Mohawk community’s fight to protect black ash trees and a long tradition of basketmaking from the invasive emerald ash borer.
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We are so pleased to have @thenarwhal.ca (and @cangeo.bsky.social) as our media partners for our RIIC class this year! Appreciate all the guidance you’ve offered and helping us amplify Indigenous stories from Ottawa and Ottawa Valley!
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Elaine Anselmi @elaineanselmi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What a treat to work with students in @duncanmccue.bsky.social's reporting in Indigenous communities course @carleton.ca on this story out of Akwesasne on the fight to save black ash trees — and the practice of basketweaving along with them.
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Miigwech! That was quite an unexpected surprise and an honour!
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Northwestern Medill School @medillschool.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Congratulations to Medill faculty member @cbrennansports.bsky.social (BSJ80, MSJ81) and @duncanmccue.bsky.social, 2023 IJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award Winner, on becoming members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more: spr.ly/633262bGQC
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Sayaač̓atḥ (John Alan Jack) @garacaius.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Timely and accurate reporting of indigenous/First Nations news in Nuu-chah-nulth territory has been of high benefit for years, we are lucky to have Ha-shilth-sa on the West Coast. More journalists helps create a landscape where citizens of our Nations could get good information to make good choices.
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
@mediaindigena.bsky.social @jsource.bsky.social @indigenousja.bsky.social
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We’re hiring Indigenous journalists for 7 contract instructor positions, both in person and online courses. DEADLINE APR 2 carleton.ca/sjc/careers/...
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We’re accepting applications now for our first cohort of CJIIC students in Sept 2025 🎙️💪🏽🪶
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
cc @indigenousja.bsky.social @mediaindigena.bsky.social @jsource.bsky.social carleton.ca/sjc/journali...
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Certificate in Journalism in Indigenous Communities | School of Journalism and Communication
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🎙️ Calling Indigenous journalists: We’re hiring 7 contract instructors. Come help us build our new Certificate in Journalism in Indigenous Communities at Carleton U. Deadline Apr 1 👉🏽 carleton.ca/sjc/careers/...
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Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) @jhrnews.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Next in our Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship speaker series: Duncan McCue, award-winning broadcaster, educator & author of 'Decolonizing Journalism': A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities'! @duncanmccue.bsky.social 📅 Thu, Mar 13, 1-1:45pm CT 🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
So glad you enjoyed ✍🏽
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Not to remove one thing from “Sugarcane”, rather to spread word to those who watch it that there are (at least) two EXCELLENT recent 🇨🇦-centric podcasts out there about residential schools: @duncanmccue.bsky.social (“Kuper Island”) and @conniewalker.bsky.social (“Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”)
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Miigwech for spreading word about our res school pods - and I’m with you - GO SUGARCANE!! ✊🏽🧡
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A journalism course is being offered to Indigenous students in Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk Territory.
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Journalism course in Kahnesatake offers understanding of colonialism
A journalism course being offered to Indigenous students in Kanehsatake Mohawk Territory is not only teaching skills to be a reporter – but is offering an understanding of how colonialism affects Indi...
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cool! Which library?
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no1ricefarmer.northsky.social @no1ricefarmer.northsky.social · 19/02/2025
#TheShoeBoy 📚✍️ Thank you for signing the book @duncanmccue.bsky.social
Photo of title page of library book "The Shoe Boy - A Trapline Memoir" by Duncan McCue - signed by author writing "Thanks for borrowing The Shoe Boy" Duncan McCue (autographed of author)
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kolk...
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Journalism program will allow Indigenous students to learn from their home communities | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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Duncan McCue @duncanmccue.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Miigwech Mary! ✊🏽
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