Name: Wiikwemkoong embraces #NativeTikTok by Warren Schlote
Duration: 4 min 55 s
Description: Wiikwemkoong planned to host a virtual powwow over TikTok amidst in-person event cancellations during the pandemic. I spoke with organizers and dancers about the strong Indigenous presence on the app and why it fit with this event.

Like many good origin stories, this begins with technical difficulties. Markus Schwabe, who hosts Morning North on CBC Radio One in northeastern Ontario, has been hosting from his home during the pandemic. On a morning I was working as the technician, he couldn’t connect in time for the start of the show. Here’s the impromptu segment I put together instead.

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Wiikwemkoong planned to host a virtual powwow over TikTok amidst in-person event cancellations during the pandemic. I spoke with organizers and dancers about the strong Indigenous presence on the app and why it fit with this event.

Wiikwemkoong embraces #NativeTikTok

Award-winning multimedia journalist. No longer as young as the person in my display picture.

Wiikwemkoong embraces #NativeTikTok

Warren Schlote

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