Paolo Kagaoan

Banchi Hanuse’s new documentary starts out talking about the ooligan, a fish that swims through the Bella Coola.This year, as well as recent years, the ooligan are coming to the Bella Coola much later than usual, which Qwaxw notices. Qwaxw is a host for Nuxalk radio, speaking to his audience in both English and Nuxalk. Nuxalk is a Salish language with only seventeen fluent speakers.

The information is Saipan is new to me as someone who dips in and out of watching association football. To me, the 2002 World Cup was about South Korea’s ascendancy, Ireland and Roy Keane being a footnote. The film includes archive footage of Irish media then, a comedian unable to believe they made it in. But they do, despite either budget shortfalls of its beleaguered Anglo Irish manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan).

Underneath the Michigan State University stadium are miniatures depicting early life in the settler state most call the United States. These objects aren’t the only ones stuck in that limbo – this place is also where the university stores Indigenous remains. Settlers treat Indigenous people with disrespect when they’re alive and even when they’re dead. This is something that MACRA, an advocacy group, would like to reverse.