Rerun: #430 Connie Walker (Feb 2021)

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Connie Walker is an investigative reporter and podcast host. Her latest show is Stolen: The Search for Jermain. “For so long, there has been this kind of history of journalists coming in and taking stories from Indigenous communities. And that kind of extractive, transactional kind of journalism really causes a lot of harm. And so much of our work is trying to undo and address that. There is a way to be a storyteller and help amplify and give people agency in their stories.” Show notes: @connie_walker Walker's CBC News archive 00:00 Missing & Murdered (CBC News) 04:00 "The Injustice to Pamela George Continues Long After Her Murder" (Heather Mallick • Toronto Star • Jan 2020) 08:00 Street Cents (CBC) 12:00 "Alicia Ross: Everyone’s Daughter" (Catherine McDonald • Global News • Apr 2020) 14:00 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 1: "Indigenous in the City" (CBC • 2012) 19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 2: "It’s Time" (CBC • 2012) 19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 3: "Whose Land Is It Anyway?" (CBC • 2012) 19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 4: "At the Crossroads" (CBC • 2012) 22:00 "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview" (Royal Canadian Mounted Police • 2014) 24:00 "Missing and Murdered: The Life and Mysterious Death of Leah Anderson" (CBC News • Mar 2015) 26:00 Serial 27:00 "Amber Tuccaro's Unsolved Murder: Do You Recognize This Voice?" (Marnie Luke and Connie Walker • CBC News • Jun 2015) 27:00 "Unresolved: Patricia Carpenter" (Holly Moore • CBC News • Jun 2016) 27:00 Missing & Murdered Season 1: Who Killed Alberta Williams? (Connie Walker and Marnie Luke • CBC News) 27:00 Missing & Murdered Season 2: Finding Cleo (Connie Walker and Marnie Luke • CBC News) 35:00 Ochberg Fellowship 37:00 "Duncan McCue on Reporting in Indigenous Communities" (Ryerson Today • Apr 2018) 37:00 Reporting in Indigenous Communities Guide (Duncan McCue) 39:00 Stolen (Gimlet • 2021) 39:00 "Jermain Charlo Missing Two Years on Tuesday" (Seaborn Larson • Missoulian • Jun 2020) 44:00 "Monday's Montanan: Lauren Small Rodriguez Helps Native Trafficking Survivors" (Patrick Reilly • Missoulian • Feb 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the long form podcast. I'm your co host, Evan Ratliffe. We are actually
0:09.9	on our annual two week break for the holidays, so no new show this week. But we're bringing
0:16.0	you one of our favorites of the year in case you missed it. It's a conversation I had with
0:20.7	Connie Walker back in early 2021. Connie was the reporter and host of a show called Missing
0:28.2	and Murdered, a podcast from the CBC about the mysterious deaths of Indigenous women in Canada,
0:34.6	including an incredible season two, which is called Finding Cleo. And then she moved to Gimlet media,
0:39.9	where she reported and hosted a show this year called Stolen, The Search for Germain. That whole
0:46.1	show wasn't completed when we spoke. And now it is, I encourage you to go listen to it. And I really
0:53.3	appreciated this conversation that she and I had and wanted to play it for you again. Long form
0:59.2	is produced in partnership with Vox. And here's my conversation with Connie Walker from February 2021.
1:16.9	Connie, welcome to the long form podcast. Thanks so much for having me. I've wanted to have you on
1:21.9	for a while. And I'm a big fan of the shows that you've done. And I didn't actually know that your
1:27.9	new show is coming out. So this wasn't timed to I wasn't like I did Intel. I shouldn't reveal this
1:33.0	actually, but it's great timing that your show is coming out right now. And I've been fortunate to
1:38.9	get to listen to a couple of episodes. So we can talk about that. At the beginning of the new show,
1:45.5	you say something like, and I'm beginning to paraphrase a little bit here. So much of my work has
1:51.0	been about women who I can never meet whose lives have been stolen, who've been cut short. And I'm
1:57.2	very interested in sort of how that became your work. And you actually refer to this original
2:04.5	murder that you learned about when you were younger. So I want to talk a little bit about
2:08.5	the circumstances around that. And first sort of where did you grow up and where were you at the time
2:14.1	that you you first learned about that? Sure. Yeah. I grew up on my reserve in Southern Saskatchewan.
2:20.4	So a very kind of rural area. I come from a really small community called the Oknees First Nation.
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