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Mumilaaq Qaqqaq hosts her first audio podcast series Creating Canada, inspired by university students. From the Content Creator: My name is Mumilaaq Qaqqaq. I have a long history of building on many skill sets. I enjoy facilitating, organizing workshops, and developing different types of curriculum – and I am really good at it. I am originally from Baker Lake, Nunavut but have now lived in many places across Canada. Throughout my life I have never had access to Canadian history. After spending a lot of high school reading things like Shakespeare and about the world wars, it took me a long time to realize I hadn’t really understood why things were set in my life as an Inuk in Canada. After teaching university courses in the winter of 2022 I felt hope again as so many students were not only eager to learn but to do more and better. The excuse for Canadians to say they were not taught about their own country's history can now stop. As someone who also wasn’t taught why things are the way they are for Indigenous peoples, I have taught myself an incredible amount since my early 20s. Never having access to my own history, nor Canada wanting access to it adequately, I have had to put a lot of pieces together on my own. I have taught myself and grew so passionate about bringing issues to light I stumbled into a national spotlight in 2019 after a very quick flash in 2017. Having been very fortunate in being able to build on skill sets, I want to learn and do so much more. Often, I am reduced to a very narrow window of my life. The 2 years of gaining international attention comes from years of hard work, complete life experience, lots of intelligence, intentional structure, and purposeful organization. I hope doing this podcast is a small stepping stone to all the different kinds of creation and creating I hope to do. In this 26 episode podcast series, Creating Canada, we will walk through different and important parts of how Canada came to be a country. The first episode will cover more on myself, a bit of experience, and more details on what the podcast series will look like. The last episode will review what we learned, what we can hope to do moving forward, and (as in each episode) something you C.A.N do moving forward. We will look at federal policy creation, colonial disruption, and attempt to completely dismantle every aspect of Indigenous life, land, and being. We will look at different items in relation to topic. The first topics we will cover will be related to health. “Residential schools”, “Indian hospitals”, among other institutions have had continuous major health impacts on Indigenous nations, families, and individuals. Never had we seen tragedy and turmoil in Indigenous health until non-Indigenous influence entered the country. The next topics will be related to economic events. Many partners like the Hudson’s Bay Company and Indian agents played powerful roles in dictating Indigenous lives. We will end the series by looking at solutions based items including topics of education, entertainment, among other things. The policies that have created Canada have also created an almost complete dependence for Indigenous Peoples on the federal government. A government that has helped itself much more than the peoples it's meant to. The Canadian government, along with their partnered institutions, forced situations. This podcast series, Creating Canada, is meant to help understand them.