Pretending in Prison | Pretendians #2
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Marvin "Casper" Ouimet was your ordinary terrifying Hells Angel mob boss until he was sent to prison for conspiracy to commit murder. That's where he declared himself to be Indigenous. The prison asked no questions, and granted him access to a special program for Native inmates, in which prisoners get private cells, spiritual guidance, better food and ultimately – reduced sentences. But what about the real Natives in these programs?
Hosts: Robert Jago & Angel Ellis
Credits: Jesse Brown (Publisher, Executive Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor, Mixer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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| 0:00.0 | Canada Land, funded by you. |
| 0:04.0 | Angel, I want to read you a few recent headlines. |
| 0:07.0 | This one's from The Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | National Travesty, report shows one-third of Canada's prisoners are indigenous. |
| 0:14.6 | This is from the CBC. |
| 0:16.4 | Over-representation of indigenous people in federal prisons reaches disturbing historic high. |
| 0:21.9 | In some prisons, as many as half of all prisoners are indigenous. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm kind of excited that we're going to dig into this today because it's a real |
| 0:29.3 | problem in America too. For such a small sliver of the overall population, we represent an |
| 0:36.8 | enormous part of that incarcerated population. |
| 0:45.0 | Today we're going to look at one case in particular. |
| 0:49.0 | You know how some people find Jesus in prison? Today's show is about a white guy from the Hell's Angels Biker gang |
| 0:52.0 | who found his spirit animal in lock up. |
| 0:55.1 | He's just one of many pretendients in prison. |
| 1:01.2 | My name is Robert Jago and I'm a freelance writer from the |
| 1:03.3 | Guatemalan First Nation and Nooksak Indian Tribe. |
| 1:05.5 | And I'm Angel Ellis, a citizen of the Muskogee Nation located in |
| 1:09.1 | Ogle, Oklahoma. I've been a journalist for over 15 years. |
| 1:13.0 | From Canada Land, this is Pretendians, a show where we talk about the frauds, fakes, and |
| 1:18.1 | fonies, and the harms they cost a real native people. |
| 1:21.0 | We'll dance around the bonfire, sing a silly song. |
| 1:25.2 | Imagining we're braves and maidens all day long. |
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