b'MEDIUMS: INDIGENOUS VOICES IN MEDIAESSENTIAL READS AND MORE BY INDIGENOUS AUTHORS AND STORYTELLERS BY ASHLEY ALBERTBOOKSmall Ceremonies by Kyle EdwardsSmall Ceremonies is the debut novel by Kyle Edwards that centres on Tomahawk, Clinton and their families. Tommy and Clinton are two Indigenous friends on the verge of adulthood and striving for more as they play for their high schools struggling hockey team. Over the course of a year, their story intertwines with a diverse cast of characters in Winnipeg, including a university student confronting microaggressions, an ex-convict torn between protecting or exploiting his brother, a rink attendant haunted by lost love and a determined journalist investigating the leagues motives. Throughout the novel, Edwards showcases his ability to balance a large cast of characters and gives them unique voices and backstories that readers can connect with.PODCAST Edwards grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation and is a member of Ebb and Flow First Nation. He Kuper Island has worked as a journalist over the years, winning two National Magazine Awards for his reporting. Small hosted by Duncan McCue Ceremonies won the 2025 Governor Generals Literary Award for fiction.Kuper Island is an eight-part podcast series that tells the stories of four students that attended one of Canadas most notorious residential schools. Kuper Island Indian Residential School was located on what is now Penelakut Island and operated from 1890 until about 1975. Host Duncan McCue shares the experiences of three survivorsStay Connected with and one student who did not return home from the Kuper Islandthe Chiefs of Ontario!Indian Residential School. The podcast explores the schools history and investigates its deep and lasting effects on these individuals asFor all the latest news from COOincluding well as the broader community. Through in-depth and personaldetails on upcoming events, updates on COO interviews, listeners are exposed to the unvarnished truth about theinitiatives and morestay tuned to our social institution, which was infamously referred to as Alcatraz. media accounts:McCue is an Anishinaabe from Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation. He is an investigative journalist, CBC correspondent andfacebook.com/ChiefsofOntariothe author of Decolonizing Journalism.@chiefsofontario@ChiefsofOntariolinkedin.com/company/chiefsofontario@chiefsofontario.bsky.socialPhotos courtesy of CBC.40l I ssue2 2025/26C hIefs ofo ntarIoA dvocAte magazIne'