(Ottawa, ON) – April 3, 2024 – On this week’s episode of Roots and Hoots, host Gordon sits down with Natasha Fisher, an Ojibwe and Finnish singer, songwriter, and producer from Long Lake #58 First Nation. Natasha’s wisdom coupled with a delightful sense of joy and down-to-earth personality shines throughout the interview as she and Gordon discuss her community, her music and upcoming projects and the experiences that have helped shape her into the woman she is today.

Natasha’s lifelong love for music has been a tool for connection and comfort. She shares how her dad’s love of 60’s and 70’s music would reverberate through the household, and still today when she goes back to visit. She shares how music has helped her to identify her voice and feelings, and to find the right words to say. Writing has also been a way that Natasha has grown and healed herself through life. In her early twenties, Natasha found herself living in Toronto and looking for a sign as to what her next step should be. No less than an hour later, her cousin Classic Roots called her with the opportunity to be a part of the Reach for Life tour where she would take on the role of delivering music workshops and public speaking to Indigenous youth in Northern communities. While this role took her outside of her comfort zone, she rose to the challenge and embraced the opportunity whole heartedly.

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Natasha is uplifting in her message of how the artist practice can lead to mindfulness and happiness. As a young artist with a collaborative and musical spirit, Natasha is developing a bigger following on TikTok and social media every day. In the wake of the discovery of mass graves at Residential School sites across Canada, Natasha speaks to the awareness and interest that arose in these last few years, and how Indigenous Peoples’ histories and perspectives are being sought and shared more than ever. On the topic of Reconciliation, Natasha sees the need for continued healing through reclamation of traditions and cultures, while also seeing truth as the ultimate pathway to unity. Only through truth and a shared journey of healing, can relations truly repair and grow.

The LHF is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for over 24 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School Systems and subsequent Child Welfare System on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote hope and healing in Canada. The LHF works to encourage Canadians to address discrimination and injustice in order to contribute to the equity, dignity, and respectful treatment of Indigenous Peoples.

The LHF has close to 30 educational exhibitions that promote awareness of Indigenous history that are free to borrow and is working on making exhibitions available online. LHF also has curriculum for K-12 and for adults, along with Activity Guides, Workshops and Training, two Podcast series, all aimed at educating Canadians about Indigenous history and the shared history of Residential and Day Schools, the Child Welfare System, and other colonial acts of oppression. The LHF works to develop empathy and understanding so as to eliminate ongoing racism against Indigenous Peoples and to foster Reconciliation in Canada.

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Legacy of Hope Foundation
Phone: 613-237-4806 Ext. 303 info@legacyofhope.ca