Bernelda Wheeler was one of the hosts of Our Native Land, a CBC Radio program by and for Indigenous people that ran from 1965 to 1985. Content. Skip to Main Content Accessibility Help.

Bernelda Wheeler was not only one of Canada’s first female indigenous journalists, she was also an actress, an award-winning author and an activist. For a decade, she was the producer ...

CBC’s The Secret Life of Canada gives crash courses on everything from the homosexual history of Winnipeg to Bernelda Wheeler, dubbed the First Lady of Indigenous Broadcasting in Canada.

These historical figures may not be on money or monuments but their legacies live on. When Bernelda Wheeler took the microphone, she was instantly a revolutionary voice on the radio. Wheeler was ...