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A Culturally Inappropriate Armageddon is a short Science-Fiction story in two parts by Aboriginal Canadian author Drew Hayden Taylor. Part 1 follows a Native North American radio station that inadvertently triggers an alien invasion of the earth when it broadcasts an antique recording of a native song into space. Beginning in 1991, Part 1 of A Culturally Inappropriate Armageddon follows Emily Porter as she founds C-RES, a radio station dedicated to preserving Aboriginal Canadian culture by broadcasting in Ottowa. Over time the station grapples with conflict between Emily and Tracey, the station's program manager, over the content that the station should play on air before broadcasting an antique recording of a song sung by Elders of Emily and Tracey's tribe in the early 20th century. Years later, the imminent news of a first contact scenario between humanity and a space-faring alien species causes Emily and the rest of the crew at the C-RES radio station to prepare for the event by putting on a show celebrating the event, which has several ominous parallels to Native American mythology. A year after first contact, Emily and the rest of the Radio Station crew is scavenging around in rubble as they realize and reflect on how the antique recording they played years ago brought the aliens to Earth, who used the recording as a homing beacon in order to carry out a mass genocide against humanity.

Part 2 follows Willie Whitefish, an elderly aboriginal man who watches the news of an imminent first contact with extraterrestrial aliens with suspicion and skepticism. Reflecting on his experiences as a aboriginal person in Canada, Whitefish expresses doubt on the news of first contact thanks to his ever-lingering suspicion of the white-dominated Canadian government. As the news continues on, Whitefish then reflects on the history of Native Peoples in the Americas, with whom he draws parallels to the present-day celebrations of an imminent first contact, ending the story with the refrain, "Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.".