Gregory Coyes is Métis/Cree from St.Albert, Alberta. A guitarist and songwriter currently based on the unceded Territory of the Squamish in North Vancouver. He has worked extensively in the Canadian broadcasting community over the past thirty years as an award-winning filmmaker, teacher and writer. Coyes has worked as a producer and a director for the NFB and many of his series and programs have been broadcast on major networks in Canada. He has served as a consultant and editor for the Smithsonian Research and Education Complex at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, and he also teaches video production techniques and coordinates the Indigenous Digital Filmmaking program at Capilano University in Vancouver. His most recent projects include LIVE from the HUNDRED YEARS CAFE (2013), an 8-episode series featuring contemporary Aboriginal music for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) and the CBC. He is the founder of SLOW MEDIA, an online video library, and recently completed his MFA in Film at the University of British Columbia which focuses on the selfsame video library.
Among the First Nations of Canada there are still those who know the old songs, the ancient trails where the strong medicine grows, and how to gather and use it in healing ways. Dr.Dale Auger is a remarkable Cree artist, educator, and medicine man, and our host. Medicine walks in the rich boreal forest of the northern Alberta Cree, as well as with the Haida on their enchanted north Pacific arch...
Among the First Nations of Canada there are still those who know the old songs, the ancient trails where the strong medicine grows, and how to gather and use it in healing ways. Dr.Dale Auger is a remarkable Cree artist, educator, and medicine man, and our host. Medicine walks in the rich boreal forest of the northern Alberta Cree, as well as with the Haida on their enchanted north Pacific arch...