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b"Before COVID-19 took over our news headlines,\\u202fCanadians were worried about other issues. There were bushfires in Australia, impeachment in the United States, and royals leaving the United Kingdom. Here in Canada, one of the growing issues making headlines was the\\u202fspreading demonstrations in support of the\\u202fWet\\u2019suwet\\u2019en\\u202fprotest against\\u202fCoastal Gaslink Pipeline in BC.\\u202f\\u202f\\xa0\\nAt the time, Brock\\u2019s Centre for Canadian Studies was hosting a researcher in Indigenous activism as part of the international\\xa0Fulbright program. Dr. Jason Black from the University of North Carolina was at Brock to work on research for his new book project.\\u202f\\u202f\\xa0\\nToday\\u2019s episode features a conversation with Jason we recorded in February, when the Kansas City Chiefs had just won the Super Bowl and the COVID-19 pandemic crisis had not yet disrupted the school year.\\u202fAt the end of our conversation, we have an update from Jason on how the pandemic situation is impacting Indigenous activism.\\u202f\\xa0\\nDr. Jason Black\\xa0was\\xa0the 2020 Fulbright Research Chair in Transnational Studies with the Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University.\\xa0He\\xa0visited from the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he is a professor and the chairperson. He holds a PhD in Rhetorical Studies from the University of Maryland and has researched and published extensively on rhetoric and discourse around LGTBQ and Indigenous activist movements. His most recent publications include\\xa0Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports\\xa0(co-authored with Andrew Billings) and Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination. While at Brock, he taught CANA3V92 \\u201cSocial Activism and Culture in Canada and the United States.\\u201d\\xa0\\n\\xa0Find a full transcript at\\xa0https://brocku.ca/humanities/foreword\\n\\xa0\\nLinks\\n\\xa0Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports\\xa0(co-authored with Andrew Billings,\\xa0 University of Illinois Press, 2018)\\nDecolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination (co-edited with Casey Ryan Kelly, Peter Lang Publishing, 2018)\\nBrock welcomes Fulbright Chair in Transnational Studies (Brock News)\\nSuperbowl reignites debate over Chiefs' name (Brock News)\\nProfessor says SuperBowl will reignite conversation around 'controversial' Chiefs name (CBC Hamilton)\\nWhy won't the Kansas City Chiefs change their logo and symbols (CBC Here and Now)\\nCentre for Canadian Studies, Brock University\\n\\xa0\\nCredits\\nWe love to hear from our listeners! Join us on\\xa0Twitter,\\xa0Facebook, and\\xa0Instagram\\xa0@brockhumanities.\\nPlease subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don\\u2019t miss an episode.\\nLearn more about the Faculty of Humanities, including our events, programs of study, and departments,\\xa0online.\\nForeword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.\\nSound design and editing by\\xa0Serena Atallah. Theme music is by\\xa0Khalid Imam.\\nSpecial thanks to Brock University\\u2019s MakerSpace and Brock University Marketing and Communications for studio and web support.\\nThis podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University."