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<\/p>\nThe broadcast can be heard on 106.1 FM. While Letendre said it is meant for the festival grounds, it can also be heard in surrounding areas. It is the second year Batoche Resistance Radio has been on the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Letendre isn\u2019t new to hosting a live show. She previously hosted a TV show in Saskatoon called The Loading Zone in the 1990s before running a production company and later starting to work with the M\u00e9tis Nation and Saskatchewan Tribal Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The biggest difference between the show at last years festival and this is the location, and how many people can access it in person.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year we were in the lodge, but we were kind of tucked away and nobody really knew we were there. But now where we are, we\u2019re getting a lot of foot traffic.\u00a0We have posters now that are up everywhere for people to finally see.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can give a shout out.\u00a0E-mail us and we\u2019ll shout out for you if there\u2019s a birthday or anything. We\u2019ve been getting them constantly, so that\u2019s our feedback. We know it\u2019s working, so that we\u2019re getting that interaction from people that aren\u2019t on the site.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t livestream the show at every hour of the day, but they do stream the important components of the festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they do have fiddle competitions and stuff like that, we will broadcast it over the FM station.\u00a0A lot of our older people need to be in their air-conditioned campers, but they still want to hear what\u2019s going on. So, it really benefits them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They also run live interviews around the grounds with their co-host, \u2018J-Bird\u2019 who is around the ground talking to as many people around the festival as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Letendre, Back to Batoche is much more important than just the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been coming to Batoche for a very long time. My fourth great uncle founded Batoche, Xavier Letendre,\u201d she said, mentioning her favourite\u00a0part of the event is the culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI came from that era from the 70s and 80s where we weren\u2019t allowed to talk about that and I didn\u2019t even know we were M\u00e9tis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy very first real school, we went, we went to Batoche. It was our first trip.\u00a0I said, \u2018Why is my last name everywhere here?\u2019\u00a0That\u2019s how I found out. After that, we started learning. My dad started talking about it and I just wanted to learn more about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Letendre said back then, research came from libraries with no such thing as internet to research which is why she got into media production.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can start teaching people our culture because it was hard to find and now if we can share it and get our people back you know it\u2019s really good for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She mentioned one other part of the festival that she considers to be one of her favourites.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey feed the elders and they have a lodge there for them to cool down and take a break and then they feed them breakfast, lunch, and supper. I love it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Letendre will continue to bring Batoche Resistance Radio to the airwaves through the weekend until July 19, when the 56th\u00a0annual Back to Batoche festival comes to a close.\u00a0<\/p>\n
-with files from Logan Lehmann\/paNOW\u00a0<\/p>\n
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