FVR Program Archives

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Matt Remle (Hunkpapa Lakota). Matt lives in Duwamish Territory — Seattle, Washington — with his family. He is the editor and writer for Last Real Indians and works for the Office of Native Education for the Marysville School District. Matt is the...

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Munya Andrews. Munya is an Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born to an Aboriginal woman and Scottish father, she is proud of her Aboriginal and Celtic heritage. Her Bardi ‘...

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Tiokasin’s guest for the full hour is NINA WILSON, a founder of the Idle No More Movement. She is a Nakota Dakota Neheyaw woman from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. Nina lives on reserve raising her youngest who...

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Shelley Buck, President of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Indian Community in Minnesota. The Prairie Island Indian Community, a federally recognized Indian Nation, is located in southeastern Minnesota along the banks of the Mississippi River,...

Sunday, November 14, 2021

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Joe Pitawanakwat Guest for the full hour of this week’s episode. Joe is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter. He is the Founder and Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now fully online,...

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Dr. Kisha Supernant. She is Métis, Papaschase and British, and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research interests include...

Sunday, October 17, 2021

In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and...

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

JENNI MONET, an investigative journalist, media critic, and founder of the weekly newsletter, Indigenously: Decolonizing Your Newsfeed. Jenni’s been reporting from Indian Country for as long as she’s been a journalist, from the coups d' état on...

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

dr. linda manyguns is a Blackfoot woman born on the tsutina nation, now registered at siksika. she is the grandmother to five children. linda grew up in europe as an airforce brat. in her early years she worked as a high steel construction worker, a...

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Tiokasin welcomes Dr. Rosita Worl back to “First Voices Radio.” Dr. Rosita Worl is President of the...

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

During this special repeat episode of “First Voices Radio,” Anne Keala Kelly sits in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Her guest for the full hour is Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree). Since her groundbreaking debut, It’s My Way...

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Update on Thacker Pass with guest Will Falk. Will and Max Wilbert (another of our frequent guests), launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada in January of this year.

Will is a biophilic writer,...

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

As we’ve reported before on “First Voices Radio,” since April 28, 2021, tens of thousands of Colombians have been protesting in the streets in just about every part of the country. They’ve been participating in a months-long National Strike against...

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Steve DeAngelo is a prominent, life-long cannabis entrepreneur, activist, author, and on-screen personality. He co-founded several iconic cannabis businesses and organizations: Harborside, Steep Hill Laboratory, the Arc-View Group, and the National...

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Martín Prechtel (Cree) who speaks Tzotzil of the Mayan (Chiapas) and Keres of the Pueblo where he grew up, is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history,...

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

George Nuku. George is an artist from Aotearoa. He is of Scottish, German and Maori descent and has been a full-time practitioner of arts for 35 years. George’s works range from delicate pearl shell, bone and jade amulets to life-size plexiglass...

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Tiokasin Ghosthorse devotes the entire hour to a discussion with author, Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist, and master trainer Resmaa Menakem. They discuss grief, trauma, Indigeneity, reclamation of cultures, and autonomous...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

ALEXIS BUNTEN, (Aleut/Yup’ik) has served as a manager, consultant and applied researcher for Indigenous, social and environmental programming for over 15 years. After receiving a BA in Art History at Dartmouth College, Alexis returned to...

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Míċeál Ó Coisdealḃa joins Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Míċeál is an Irish Republican activist who was born in Connemara, Ireland, a native Irish-speaking area. Following travels during his earlier years, including time in Australia and learning about...

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Konkankoh has more than 40 years of diverse and global experience across social entrepreneurship development sectors in Africa and in Europe. His career spans senior leadership and entrepreneurial roles in social transformation, environmental...

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Nick Mulvey. Nick Mulvey is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He played the hang as a founding member of the band Portico Quartet. In 2011, Nick started his career as a singer-songwriter releasing the EPs “...

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Leona Morgan (Diné, she/her), an Indigenous activist and community organizer who has been fighting Nuclear Colonialism since 2007. She is focused on preventing new uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping, and transport of radioactive materials in the...

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Manish Jain. Manish is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations and inter-cultural dialogue. Inspired by MK Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Ivan Illich, his village grandmother,...

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Janene Yazzie about LANDBACK, a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands. Janene is a Diné woman from the Navajo Nation who has worked on...

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Karli Moore is Lumbee, grew up on a family farm in southeastern North Carolina. She currently serves as an associate program officer at the Native American Agriculture Fund in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Karlie has experience with family farm operations...

Thursday, December 17, 2020

LEYA HALE is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She makes her home in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her companion and three children. Leya works as a Producer for Twin Cities PBS. She is best known for her first...

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Max Wilbert. Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide. A third-generation dissident, Max grew up on Duwamish land in post–WTO Seattle. Max is the author of two books, most recently “Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What...

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Mark K. Tilsen in the first half-hour. Mark is an Oglala Lakota poet educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At Standing Rock Mark stepped into the role of a direct action trainer and police liaison. Since then he has led...

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Matthew O’Neill is a musical artist living in Upstate New York.

Tiokasin will be talking with Matthew about his latest project, “Music for The Mother,” the debut album featuring the Ancestral Teyuna Music from...

Thursday, October 1, 2020

We Honor our friend and comrade — Andre Vltchek. Andre, was a regular guest for several years, died suddenly on September 22 in Istanbul, Turkey. Andre was a Russian-born author, documentary filmmaker, philosopher, artist, and...

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Roberto Rodriguez, Ph.D. — or “Dr. Cintli." He is an Associate Professor in the Mexican American Studies Department at the University of Arizona. Dr. Cintli is a longtime, award-winning writer. His last 2 books, “Our Sacred Maiz is our...

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Bernadette Demientieff. Bernadette is a member of the Gwich’in Nation. She is the executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, which was formed in 1988 in response to proposed oil drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic...

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Alison McDowell in the first half-hour. Alison is a mother and independent researcher based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She blogs about the intersection of race, finance, and technology at ...

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Debra Utacia Krol — a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe — is an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic. Her current coverage area, supported by the Catena Foundation and the Water Funder Initiative, is the intersection of...

Thursday, July 23, 2020

PHILMER BLUEHOUSE (Diné) developed the Peacemaker Court system in the Navajo Judiciary. Philmer also worked in the criminal justice system and has a number of writings available online.

T. LULANI ARQUETTE...

Thursday, July 9, 2020

RAYE ZARAGOZA. Raye is an award-winning singer-songwriter who Paste Magazine called “one of the most politically relevant artists in her genre.” First-generation Japanese-American on her mother’s side, indigenous on her father’s side,...

Thursday, July 2, 2020

“Are We the Living Prayers of Our Ancestors?: Radical Reconsiderations and Remembrances in Times of Amnesia,” is a conversation with Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse conducted by Alnoor Ladha. Alnoor, of Sufi lineage, was a recent...

Thursday, June 18, 2020

During this episode of “First Voices Radio,” Anne Keala Kelly sits in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Her guest for the full hour is Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree). Since her groundbreaking...

Thursday, June 4, 2020

HADRIEN COUMANS                                 UKUMBWA SAUTI

HADRIEN COUMANS. Hadrien is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Lenape Center and Advisor for Well-being. Hadrien is of service to people; supporting individuals,...

Thursday, May 14, 2020

From the earliest conquest to the latest conquest, First Peoples have survived oppression and genocide. “From Columbus to Cannon Ball” traces the concept of claimed rights at the root of the continued fight for sovereign land in the face of bigotry, covert and...

Friday, May 1, 2020

AFRICAN PROPHECY and THE MAYAN CALENDAR regarding the relationship with COVID-19

Chief Tamale Bwoya, Grand Chief (Mugema) of the Buganda Kingdom (E.A). Chief Tamale Bwoya — a traditional Chief of Uganda, spiritual...

Friday, April 17, 2020

Kenn Orphan back as his sole guest for the hour. Kenn is an artist, writer, radical nature lover, and a weary but committed activist. He writes about art and culture, socio-economic injustice, geopolitical issues, and the existential threats —...

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back DOUG GEORGE - KANENTIIO for an important hourlong episode focused on a recent column by Doug, titled “How the Mohawks Responded to Historical Plagues” (...

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Join Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse as he welcomes back two guests—Kenn Orphan and Ukumbwa Sauti in an hourlong discussion about the fear that is currently gripping people and holding everyone in place across the planet. The three will discuss the impact on economies...

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is away from the studio this week. In this special repeat edition of “First Voices Radio,” the voices and wisdom of three Native elders, two of them who are no longer with us, are featured. They are: Chief Oren Lyons...

Thursday, January 9, 2020

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes MAX NESTERAK, reporter and producer of “Uprooted: The 1950s Plan to Erase Indian Country” (Minnesota Public Radio and APM Reports, Nov. 1, 2019). Max is a reporter for a soon-to-...

Thursday, December 19, 2019

This week Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with returning guest DR. PAULETTE STEEVES. Dr. Steeves is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and earlier this year she was appointed Tier...

Thursday, December 5, 2019

ANNE KEALA KELLY (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) is in studio this week as Guest Host of “First Voices Radio.” She speaks with two guests during this episode. Keala continues a dialogue in the first half-hour about recent events—and much more—in...

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Tiokasin Ghosthorse focuses attention on the fast-moving political situation in Bolivia. To help our listeners gain much-needed information and perspective, he welcomes GUILLAUME LONG, a Senior Policy Analyst at...

Thursday, October 31, 2019

ALEX WHITE PLUME was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation and grew up strongly connected to Lakota culture. He is a former Vice-President and Tribal President of the Oglala Lakota Nation and is one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot...

Thursday, October 10, 2019

MARIO MURILLO is a Professor and the Vice Dean of the Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University and teaches in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program there. He has covered Latin America for a number of radio outlets and...

Thursday, September 12, 2019

GERALD "JERRY" HILL is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. He is President of the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has been a member of the Indigenous Language Board of Directors since 1997. A second language speaker of Oneida,...

Thursday, August 29, 2019

XIYE BASTIDA, (Otomi-Toltec), a teenage climate activist based in New York City. She is one of the lead organizers of the “Fridays For Future” youth climate strike movement. For the first climate strike in March, 2019, Xiye mobilized 600 students from her school and has...

Thursday, August 1, 2019

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks KEALA KELLY. Keala, who is Native Hawaiian, is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and activist. Her...

Thursday, June 6, 2019

DERRICK JENSEN is a long-time grassroots environmental activist  Derrick is the author of more than 25 books, including: “A Language Older Than Words,” “Endgame,” and “The Myth of Human Supremacy.” Derrick is primarily an advocate for Indigenous peoples and wild nature, and...

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Evan Pritchard (Mi’kmaq), the host of the Tribal Harmony series, is an award-winning historian and author of more than 40 books on Native American culture including “Native New Yorkers,” “Henry Hudson and the Algonquins” (both now with Chicago Review Press) and “Bird...

Sunday, April 21, 2019

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST on 09/19/2012. We honor POLLY HIGGINS who passed away today. 

POLLY HIGGINS is a lawyer who has dedicated her life to one client - Mother Earth. (...

Thursday, April 4, 2019

In the first half-hour, IAN ZABARTE is Principal Headman of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation. In 2018, he was appointed to the Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

In the second half-hour,...

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Ukumbwa Sauti is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in West Africa. He is a diviner, numerologist, and spiritual counselor. Ukumbwa is a Producer/Partner at Moja Mediaworks, developing the World Ancestor Concert and facilitating social justice...

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

PART 2 of 2

Mario Murillo is a veteran community radio practitioner and currently serves as the Vice Dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication. Mario has been a guest as well as a guest host on “First Voices Radio” on many...

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

In the first half-hour of this week’s edition of “First Voices Radio,” we feature two speakers from a panel at the COP 24 Climate Summit, a two-week conference that was held in Katowice, Poland in December 2018. (COP 24 is the acronym for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the...

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

This week’s show features portions of a panel discussion from “The Waters Connect Us: Gathering with Those Who Work in Water Protection and Restoration,” which took place on November 14, 2018 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The...

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

James (Omahkohkiaaiipooyii) Craven is the guest for the full hour of this edition of “First Voices Radio.” James, who is Blackfoot, is a Vietnam-Era veteran of the U.S. Army. Now semi-retired, he was a professor of economics and geography for more than 35 years and has...

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Guy Reiter  is Executive Director of Menikanaehkem, Inc. Menikanaehkem is a grassroots community organization based on the Menominee Reservation in northeast Wisconsin. It is an organization of people working toward the goal of community wellness. One of their initiatives...

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes three guests. His first guest is Shawna Bluestar Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape and Azteca). Shawna is a spiritual guide and mentor for women, supporting them to share their unique gifts and voices. She is working with her father Steven T....

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Annita Lucchesi is a doctoral student and cartographer at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Annita’s dissertation work examines the ways in which maps can help us to better understand the international issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls,...

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez. Roberto Rodriguez is a long-time journalist/columnist who returned after 30 years to the classroom to get his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His 2008 dissertation was on the 7,000 year history of maiz. It led to...

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with BARBARA MANN, author of “Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America” (2016). Barbara Alice Mann, Ph.D. is Professor of Humanities in the Jesup Scott Honors College of the University of...

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Tommy Orange, author of “There There.” Tommy is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of...

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Ofelia Rivas. Ofelia is an elder and activist from the Tohono O'odham Nation. She is the Founder of O’odham Rights Cultural and Environmental Justice Commission, and Founder of O’odham Voice Against the Wall...

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

GREGG DEAL (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) Artist-Activist  as been a regular guest on “First Voices Radio.”

Over the years, he and Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse have dissected many critical issues — cultural appropriation, decolonization, the continuing use...

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Chase Huntley from The Wilderness Society. Chase oversees The Wilderness Society’s energy and climate change program, which focuses on guiding needed development, protecting wild places and reducing emissions....

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back UKUMBWA SAUTI is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in west Africa and is a diviner, numerologist and spiritual counselor. He is a Producer/partner at moja...

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

SEAN SHERMAN., Oglala Lakota, is Founder and CEO Chef of The Sioux Chef. Sean has been cooking in Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana for the last 27 years. During the last few years, his main culinary focus has been on the revitalizing of indigenous foods systems in a modern...

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with two guests. In the first half-hour, Lucía Oliva Hennelly is an interdisciplinary problem solver and collaboration catalyst passionate about creating solutions at the intersections of climate...

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with Ben Carnes, a Native activist and organizer from Broken Bow, Oklahoma, in the Chahta (Choctaw) Nation. Ben's passion to stand for his people arose as a teen when he began to learn the truths about the U.S. government...

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

In this special repeat edition of “First Voices Radio,” “Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness” is a lecture by Dr. Michael Yellow...

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with Ross Hamilton. Ross is the author of several books on Native American prehistory including: "The Mystery of the Serpent Mound," "A Tradition of Giants," and "Star Mounds: Legacy of a Native American Mystery." His...

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

TRENTON JOSEPH CASILLAS BAKEBERG and KEALA KELLY Tiokasin Ghosthorse continues to bring us reports on events occurring at Standing Rock, North Dakota and the efforts by thousands of water protectors to stop the construction of the Dakota...

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

MARK TILSEN and MELISSA NELSON 

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Mark Kenneth Tilsen Jr.,who has been at Standing Rock for several weeks. Mark, Oglala Lakota, is an educator and poet from Porcupine, South Dakota. In the second half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Melissa K. Nelson In the second half...

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Guest Host Charlie Uruchima with Guests: Doris Loayza and Dr. Sergio Romero
Show Affiliates: An important note. The show experienced some fairly serious sound issues for the first 30 minutes. The right channel dropped out for the majority of the first 30 minutes during the first interview. This technical issue may have happened between broadcast and...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE goes into the vast 23-year-old program archive and selects three interviews that made an impact on audiences when they were first aired. The words of these three remarkable individuals "William Iggiagruk Hensley, Mari Boine and John Trudell "continue to resonate today. Hensley is the author of "Fifty Miles from Tomorrow"; Mari Boine is a Norwegian Sami...

Thursday, October 15, 2015

MARTIN PRECHTEL (CREE) to continue a discussion began last month about Prechtel's most recent book, "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise." A leading thinker, writer, and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people, Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico Mart n teaches at...

Thursday, October 1, 2015

PUALANI CASE (Kanaka Maoli) is from the Island of Hawai i (also known as the Big Island). With a degree in Hawaiian Language and Culture and a Teaching Degree in Social Studies, she has been a public school teacher as well as a Kumu Hula for more than 25 years. Pua and her ohana, or family, are active as leaders in and beyond their community, immersed in culture and tradition...

Thursday, September 10, 2015

MARTIN PRECHTEL (CREE), author of "The Smell of Rain on Dust" (North Atlantic Books, 2015). Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer, and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico, Martin teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen "a hands-...

Thursday, August 20, 2015

OREN LYONS - Traditional Onondaga Chief and Elder at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, NYC
JOHN TRUDELL - Dakota Activist, Poet, Author at B.C., Canada
PHILLIP DEERE - Muskogee Creek

Thursday, July 23, 2015

GLENN APARICIO PARRY for Part 2 of a discussion of Parry s latest book, Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity and Nature (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 2015). Parry delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

GROVER GAUNTT and TUFFY SIERRA
www.zenpeacemakers.org
Contact: (347) 210-9556
info@zenpeacemakers.com
In this retreat we will bear witness to the genocide of the American Indians beginning in the 16th...

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

AARON CARAPELLA (Cherokee) is the Producer of a series of tribal nations maps. (www.tribalnationsmaps.com) The map displays the original pre-contact homelands of the hundreds of tribal nations that existed across what is now Canada and the "lower 48" of the United States. Most of...

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

MATT PETERSON and MALEK RASAMNY about their documentary film project "The Native and the Refugee: Reservations, Sovereignty and Autonomy," which investigates the experiences of Palestinian refugee camps and American Indian reservations and the similar struggles that exist between Native Americans and Palestinians. The second half-hour features social...

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

KAMAHANA KEALOHA has been working as an organizer of a group of Kanaka Maoli representing several Hawaiian islands and a multi-ethnic group of supporters who are opposing the construction of a 30-meter telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea—also known as Mauna A Wakea—the most sacred place in the Hawaiian Islands for the Kanaka Maoli. The group, led by Lanakila Mangauil, a prominent...

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

PAUL WALKER the International Director of the Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) Program for Green Cross International (GCI). The ESS Program is an international effort to facilitate the safe demilitarization, nonproliferation, and remediation of nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons stockpiles. Walker received the Right Livelihood Award (RLA,...

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

AKIO MATSUMURA www.akiomatsumura.com - is a renowned diplomat who has dedicated his life to building bridges between government, business, and spiritual leaders in the cause of world peace. He is the founder and Secretary General of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders...

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

PEARL MEANS (Diñe) walked at the side of American Indian Activist, Artist, Author, Actor Russell Means as his wife, business manager and collaborator. From Activism to the Arts, from Indigenous policies to Hollywood she accompanied, organized and managed the affairs of the most influential American Indian of our time.
She serves as:
Co-Representative of the Russell...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

In this edition FVIR Host - TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE speaks to the narrative of spiritual de-colonization and the marginalization of Native peoples among alternative and progressive minded westerners. The usage of the English language as a capitive and illusory language which leaves Americans in an "in search of mentality."
DEBORAH REGER hosts Moccasin Tracks...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

REBROADCAST - Originally broadcast Feb. 28, 2013 on WBAI NYC
STAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery
ROSS HAMILTON has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with activist Vine Deloria Jr...

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

PAUL STAMETS has been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years. Over this time, he has discovered and coauthored four new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation. He received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the...

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

On October 31st - A statement regarding the situation at Fukushima, Japan was released to the general public. This statement reflects the wisdom of the Spiritual People of the Earth, of North and South America, working in unity to restore peace, harmony and balance for our collective future and for all living beings.
This statement is written in black and white with a foreign...

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

MUTABARUKA Voices his thoughts on COLUMBUS GHOST - A Jamaican (born Allan Hope, 26 December 1952, Rae Town, Kingston) is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious".
LARRY MERCULIEF Indigenous Elder for Modern Times -Merculieff will spoke on indigenous elder wisdom and modern day personal to...

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

GREGG DEAL Pyramind Lake Paiute of (www.lastamericanindianonearth.com) The premise of the project is to take what would be commonly known to be Indigenous looking (by way of popular culture, misunderstandings, misconceptions) and to confront the general public with...

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Today First Voices Indigenous Radio will be featuring a new segment with Niijii Radio and WINONA LADUKE(Anishinabe) - HONOR THE EARTH (www.honorearth.org).
Winona LaDuke's Albitoose radio program (meaning Wednesday in the Anishinabe language), and KKWE 89.9 FM, in Callaway, Minnesota. With...

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

DEBORAH REGER - Host of Moccasin Tracks in WGDR (www.wgdr.com) Goddard Community College. Moccasin Tracks explores the efforts, thoughts and wisdom of the Indigenous Peoples of Vermont- and beyond- and also grassroots activism, including non-violent civil-resistance. The show questions cooperation or...

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

ANTHONY DELLAFLORA Producer of The Language of Spirituality (www.thelanguageofspirituality.com)
Do the languages and cosmologies of Native Americans hold the keys to the mysteries of quantum physics and the nature of reality? That is the intriguing premise of...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

EVAN PRITCHARD- a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations) is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and is currently Professor of Native American history at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he also teaches ethics and philosophy. www....

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

SETH ADLER (www.leftforum.org)
The Left Forum 2013 updates on the conference coming to Pace University New York on June 7-9, 2013
ELVIRA & HORTENCIA COLORADO - COATLICUE THEATRE COMPANY : 25 years of performance, culture and activism
Hemispheric Institute of...

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

CANDACE DUCHENEAUX (Lakota) (www.facebook.com) and type in Mni or Mni Indigenous Water Summit to get the latest information and logistics
Water justice, sovereignty, and security for present and future generations of Turtle Island Indigenous nations through the restoration, preservation, and...

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

KALYANEE MAM (Director) of A RIVER CHANGES COURSE
http://www.ariverchangescourse.com/
https://www.facebook.com/...

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

MARIJO MOORE( www.marijomoore.com) of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry is the author of many books and co-editor with Trace A. Demeyer of the latest release by rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING.
...

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

ANNIE LEONARD is an expert on the materials economy. The Story of Stuff, details the costs and consequences of consumer culture. www.storyofstuff.com
BOB RANDALL www....

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

STAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery
ROSS HAMILTON (www.serpentmound.org) has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with...

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

1)TIOKASIN tells of encounter "in our country they need to speak English!" 15 years ago.
2) Signing Ceremony - January 25, 2013 
Ihanktonwan Homelands, Yankton Sioux Tribe, South Dakota International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects

Supported by Yankton Sioux Tribe, The Black Hills Treaty Council, The Great Plains Tribal Chairman's...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

JENNIFER ASHAWASEGAI is a citizen of the Anishinabek Nation and member of Henvey Inlet First Nation. Jennifer is also a freelance journalist and published in Indigenous newspapers throughout North America, as well as discusses northern Ontario 'Nish' news on a weekly basis on Aboriginal People's Television Network National News. She will update us on Idle No More and the...

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

JOHN SCHERTOW is an indigenous media activist of Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) and mixed-European descent, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Since 2004, John has served as editor & publisher of www. IntercontinentalCry.org an online magazine which he also founded. In addition to his work as an editor and publisher, John has written more than 1000 articles on the struggles of...

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

*ALEX WHITE PLUMEis Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people...

Thursday, December 6, 2012

This program seeks to create further awareness of the struggles of the Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne Indians to get the U.S. government to return their sacred land in South Dakota. "Paha Sapa" means "Black Hills" in the Lakota language. The story is told by the tribe's own members, some of whom are descendants of such famous chiefs as Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Black Elk. You will hear Lakota...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

ROBERT JENSEN is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and author of the personal memoir All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, a compelling memoir that highlights the religious debate currently raging in the United States. I had the chance to contact Dr. Jensen to discuss some of the themes he raised...

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

DERRICK JENSEN has been called "the philosopher-poet of the environmental movement." Derrick interviewed a number of people who each hold an impassioned critique of this culture and can offer ideas on what can be done to build a real resistance movement. Derrick interviews WAZIYATA WIN- a Dakota Nation Historian and "anti-colonial" activitst as well as author...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL PRESS SERVICE (www.ipsnews.net)
IN NORTH AMERICA - U.N. Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Population
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Prof. EVAN PRITCHARD- www.algonquinculture.org - He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York.
He is also the author of the widely praised No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, and many other books, including an Algonkian...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

MARIO A. MURILLO substituting for Tiokasin Ghosthorse
MAIRA IRIGARAY- an attorney and the Brazil Program Director of Amazon Watch in San Francisco. She’s been actively involved in the movement to stop Belo Monte for years and just returned from Brazil. Runs 15:15
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

MARIO MURILLO Guest Host's FVIR - In Cauca, Colombia, the war against indigenous people continues to escalate as the Nasa communities resist armed actors from all camps. On Sunday, a spiritual leader, or The Wala, was assassinated in his home in the municipality of Caloto.Segment #1: Context of the Current Crisis of Indigenous Resistance Across the Americas
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of August 9th to 16th, 2012
STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Climate Connections (www.climateconnections.org)
In
Africa - MOSHI, Tanzania
A...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

PART 2 of 2
Wisdomkeepers are the guardians of nature's mysteries within the Lakota ceremonies and their practices, the medicine that is ruled by them, the songs that infuse our senses and our spiritual body, and the forces they produce that are identical to nature and its motivating power. These oral and entirely spontaneous transmissions, given by the three holy men,...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

DR. KRISHNA BHATTACHAN (www.nefin.org.np) Professor of Sociology in Tribhuwan University in Nepal is a leader of indigenous people's movement and coordinator of the "Indigenous Peoples' Mega Front.
Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) an umbrella organization of Nepalese...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of June 28th - July 5th 2012
STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources (www.indigenouspeoplesissues.com)...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

SKYWAVES – June 21st, 2012
Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of June 21st - June 28th, 2012.
“This is Skywaves: Indigenous News Worldwide, a news feature about the remaining cultures of Indigenous peoples globally and the struggles they face daily, including those in your...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of June 14th - June 21st, 2012
STORY ONE:
Source: Intercontinental Cry (www.intercontinentalcry...

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of June 7th - June 13th, 2012
STORY ONE:
Source: First Peoples Human Rights Coalition (www.firstpeoplesrights.org...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA
*Originally broadcast March 29th, 2012 w/additional music.
DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO is an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian and the author of "Iroquois On Fire". He...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNYSLVANIA
STAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery - PART TWO of TWO
ROSS HAMILTON has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with activist Vine Deloria...

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
STORY ONE:
Source: Cultural Survival www.culturalsurvival.org
In Central America
Panama: Report Shows Government Plans More Dams
An investigative reporting crew released a documentary this month on Al...

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
STAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery - PART ONE of TWO
ROSS HAMILTON has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with activist Vine...

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
STORY ONE:
SOURCE: www.survivalinternational.org
In South America
In Brazil
‘They’re killing us’: world’s most endangered tribe cries for help. Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil’s rainforest have been...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
SKYWAVES:Indigenous News Worldwide broadcasts within the first 15 minutes.
The Ramapough/Lunaape Nation is calling on all humans of good conscience to join a prayer rally/vigil on our Ceremonial Land:
Where: Mahwah, New Jersey 95 Halifax Road
Date: Saturday, May 5th, 2012...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

SKYWAVES:Indigenous News Worldwide
A news feature about the remaining cultures of Indigenous peoples globally and the struggles they face daily - including those in your back yard.
STORY ONE:
Read Orginal Article here: www.ens-newswire.com/
In South America
...

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Skywaves: Indigenous News Worldwide.
A news feature about the remaining cultures of Indigenous peoples globally and the struggles they face daily - including those in your back yard.
STORY ONE:
In South America
Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark...

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide - March 29th, 2012
There are an estimated 350 million indigenous peoples remaining with Mother Earth. They legally own more than 11% of the world’s forests and those coincide with areas that hold up to 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Traditional knowledge is a different but no less valid way of understanding the world....

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
Story One: Botswana, Africa: Bushmen Make A Splash On World Water Day - For the first time in ten years, Botswana's Bushmen are celebrating World Water Day as they enjoy unobstructed access to the life-giving substance.
Story Two:Canada, North America - First Nations from Alberta and the Northwest Territories gathered in Edmonton...

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA *FVIR Will be in fundraising mode until March 1st and programming will vary until regular programming resumes.
DOUGIE MACLEAN www.dougiemaclean.com is Scotland's pre-eminent singer-songwriter and a national musical...

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

DELANEY BRUCEwww.whoisleonardpeltier.info) EVENT IN NYC on Saturday, February 4, 2012 • 2 to 6 p.m. - Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Assembly Hall 
(120th and For more info: 
nyclpdoc@gmail.com • nycjericho@gmail.com • 718-325-4407
...

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - Scanton, PA (go to audiport.org for your radio stations download)
WINONA LADUKE Anishinabaweg (www.niijiiradio.com>from the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Winona is the Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project the Parent Organization of Niijii...

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
DEMELZA CHAMPAGNE, JOHN FREISEN, JAKE LITTLE, JEREME AMOUAK and FARREL - NEW YORK - All join in a discussion about the current "Occupation" movement and the use of language.
"To most, the irony of a progressive social movement using the term “occupy” to reshape how Americans think about issues of...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

EDITIED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PA.
GRANDMOTHER MARGARET BEHAN -Montana- is a member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers (www.grandmotherscouncil.org). These women have been travelling to each other's homelands for several...

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NEW YORK
MAHINA MOVEMENT (mahinamovement.com), Vaimoana Niumeitolu, Gabriella Callendar, Erica DeLaRosa
Mahina Movement is the phenomenal 3 women trio who combine poetry and song to create passionate music tied to flesh and bone, straight from the heart. Mahina Movement’s extraordinary melodies tell stories of the personal...

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR KVNF PAONIA, COLORADO
MUTABARUKA Voices his thoughts on COLUMBUS GHOST - A Jamaican (born Allan Hope, 26 December 1952, Rae Town, Kingston) is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious". He lives in Potosi District, St. James with his significant other, Yvonne, and their two...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI 99.5 FM NY, NEW YORK
BINDI COLE and KALIA BROOKSwww.mocada.org Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art. The word “No” does not exist in the majority of the over 200 Australian Aboriginal languages, and where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved...

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NY
September 11th, 2011 marks the tenth anniversary day in the American’s history as one of tragedy and rememberance. 10 years later questions are still be asked as to what really happened that day 9-11-01.
Les Jamieson is one who has asked those questions or rather one who has questioned the answers most accepted by media pundits and...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR KVNF PAONIA COLORADO
"What a Way to Go" is a total rejection of the self-destruction paradigm that hard-wires Amerian culture. Brutal honesty is applied to issues of our day. ␣ ␣ But these aren't just issues of our day; they are issues of the universe because the planet itself is becoming altered before our eyes toward unending extinction. It is clear we are caught in...

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

EDITED FOR KVNF PAONIA COLORADO
Black Elk Speaks / John G. Neihardt| produced by Ralph and Natasha Friar. - WBAI presents the continuing readings by Native Americans of "Black Elk Speaks" by John G. Neihardt. It is the story of the great spiritual leader of the Oglala Sioux who was born in 1863 and lived through the onslaught of the frontier settlers and soldiers desecrating his peoples...

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WPKN BRIDGEPORT - NEW HAVEN, CT
JOHN TRUDELL www.johntrudell.com - DNA (Descendants Now Ancestors) - July 4th, 2011 marks the 236 year of the Declaration of Dependence, that’s right, Dependence. Some people look at this system of democracy and often question its,...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WPKN BRIDGEPORT - NEW HAVEN, CONN.
SUZAN SHOWN HARJO Observances and ceremonies will be held across the country from June 17 through June 21 to mark the 2011 National Days of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places.
“Native and non-Native people nationwide gather at this time for Solstice ceremonies and to honor sacred places,” said Suzan...

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

REBECCA ADAMSON www.firstpeoplesworldwide.org and PHILLEMON NAKALI LOYELEi (Nyangatom tribal member from Ethiopia’s South Omo River Valley) testified on May in Washington D.C. at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission with Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass.,...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

EDITED VERSION WBAI NEW YORK
DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO - Awkesasne Mohawk www.hiawatha.syr.edu The Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge (HIIK) was established on February 19, 2011 (501.3.c is pending approval). The Institute is the fulfillment of a dream first envisioned by the...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

EDITED VERSION KFAI Minneapolis - Saint Paul
FAR NORTH
JERRY REYNOLDS and REBECCA ADAMSON...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

EDITED VERSION WPKN BRIDGEPORT-NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT
Bridget Brehan & Victoria Cumes Jochola and www.nisgua.org Marlin Mine in Guatemala's Western highlands. Owned by Goldcorp, Inc., the second-largest gold mining company in the world, Marlin is an open-pit and underground mine and Goldcorp's...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

EDITED VERSION WPKN BRIDGEPORT - NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
ELVIRA & HORTENCIA COLORADO www.8000drumsorg -1:00 pm in Riverbank Park @ 145th & Hudson River on Sunday, March 20, 20011. For further info: 212-431-1666 or 646-492-7463.
WANBLI SINA WIN email:...

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

STEPHANY SEAY 406-646-0070 Media & Outreach, Buffalo Field Campaign, West Yellowstone, MT (bfc-media@wildrockies.org) www.buffalofieldcampaign.org
One hundred and ninety-nine of America's last wild...

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

ROBERTO RODRIQUEZ drcinti.blogspot.com Tucson, Arizona the national narrative has been crafted as a story about heroism and healing. And it is a true and uplifting story. Yet, Arizona’s actual hate has generally been off the radar. And again, this hate isn’t necessarily about right-left, Republican vs. Democrats, conservatives (Tea Partiers) vs. Liberals. Instead, most of the...

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

STEPHANY SEAY - www.buffalofieldcampaign.org Buffalo Field Campaign in Montana. The wild bison of the Yellowstone region are America’s last continuously wild population. During 2007-2008 more than 1,300 wild bison were captured in Yellowstone National Park and shipped to...

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

SANTI HITORANGI www.saverapanui New Evictions By Chilean Forces Of Rapanui The Chilean government is now moving to evict all Rapanui from their lands in a move to grab and privatize the Moai.
NICKOLAS KOZLOFF...

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

SUSAN HITO (www.saverapanui.org) On Friday, December 3, Chilean troops opened fire on unarmed Rapa Nui (Easter Island) People who have been peacefully occupying tribal land taken over by the State. The attack has left 21 Rapanui wounded with 3 needing to be evacuated to mainland Chile to be...

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

1st of 3 Hours of Special - First Voices Indigenous Radio 9AM to 10AM
CHRISTINE HALVORSON
Program Director
Rainforest Foundation In a critical decision, one of Brazil’s Supreme Court Judges voted in favor of maintaining Raposa Serra do Sol (RSS) as a continuous indigenous land. Although the other judges on the Court still need to vote on the matter, this was seen as...

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

***REMINDER: FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO MOVES TO 9AM - THURSDAYS Beginning November 18th***
DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years www.davidamram.comHe has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works; numerous scores for Broadway theater and film; two operas...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Grandmother Jyoti of the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers www.grandmotherscounil.org. In the fall of 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers gathered from all over the world, from Alaska, North, South, and Central America; Africa; and Asia. “We are...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Johnathan Mazower www.survivalinternational.org reports on several fronts regarding the near extinction of 34 Indigenous groups in South America and a recent victory by the Dongria Kondh people of India against an international mining corporation Vedanta's billionaire owner...

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

SUSAN HITORANGI www.saverapanui.org Updates regarding the "reoccupation of Rapanui lands" misnomered as Easter Island, by the Rapanui people and the arrest warrants for a large number of its original inhabitants. Illegally taken Rapanui lands by the Chilean government is in question.
...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Emily Schiffer, Dana Dupris, Carlys High Bear, Demi Beautiful Bald Eagle, Wynema Dupris, Karlisle High Bear, Samantha High Bear, Jessie Carlson
www.myviewpoint.org
MyViewpointPhotography@gmail.com
My...

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Canunpa Gluha Mani In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order that removed the Nebraska land from the reservation; the legality of this order has been disputed. Ever since, Whiteclay has been notable primarily for the vast quantities of alcohol sold to residents of the legally dry Pine Ridge reservation. The status of Whiteclay's beer stores became a...

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

JAMIE BILLIOT (Dulac People of the Houma Nation, Louisiana), Director of the Community Center in Dulac, here at the USSF to speak to the affects of the BP Gulf oil spill.
CLAYTON THOMAS-MULLER(Mathais Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada) is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. Clayton is the...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Hello Listeners!!!
ON MAY 20th from 10AM to 12PM (noon)
FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO
will be fundraising/membership driving to stay on the air. FVIR supporters must pledge between the hours of 10AM to 12PM for several premiums.
Please help keep First Voices Indigenous Radio on the air!.
We need to show a strong financially...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

KARMEN RAMIREZ BOSCAN (Wayuu) - the real life of Avatar’s Indigenous peoples - talks about the impact of Colombia’s armed conflict and trans-national companies. The Wayuu’s opposition to eight megaprojects - Jepirachi Wind Park, the Caribe Gas Pipeline between Colombia and Venezuela, the Rancheria River dam, and especially to the El Cerrejon mine were the reasons for the...

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

JOHN CHASE Yup'ik Eskimo hunter living above the arctic circle in Kotzebue, Alaska, talks about the idea of 'nukalpiaq'. It is a Yup'ik name for a person - a great hunter and provider. They are generally young men. He is interviewed by Andrei Jacobs.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

ELIAS PAILLAN, a Mapuche radio journalist exposes the inefficiency and limitations of state after the Feb. 27th earthquake & tsunami wreaked havoc in the countryside and coastline of south central Chile, leaving thousands of victims and destroyed villages. The mainstream media in the U.S. encloses the bubble created to sell as a developed country - Chile.
...

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

BILL MILLER a Mohican, 3 x Grammy Award winning singer songwriter and a master of the Native flute along with multiple Native American Music awards in recognition of his songwriting.
TARA PRETENDS EAGLE WEBER Founder of the Intertribal Warrior Society for Children, created in honor of her son's...

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Concepcion, Chile - Jose Alywin Observatorio Ciudadono - The 8.8 magnitude earthquake on February 27th, ultimately exposes the political elite and the media who deny, that of a country where affluence coexists with material poverty, the First World with Third World. Despite the efforts they have made for years to show Chile as a winner, a...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Commentary on the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti and the militarization of the country by the U.S. A magnitude 5.9 aftershock, since the 12 ­January cataclysm, caused no serious reported damage or casualties.
Basem Khader Gaza Blockade http://www....

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Basem Khader - former economist with the United Nations updates us on the situation at the Egypt/Gaza border. Website: electronicintifada.net
Phillip Whiteman Jr. and Lynette Two Bulls have organized the Northern Cheyenne's Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run - about 100 tribal members - most...

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Protecting Mother Earth: The Battle to Defend Sacred Sites and the Indigenous Youth Movement
“Government agencies and others in charge of protecting the relationships between our people, the land, air and water have repeatedly broken treaties and promises. In doing so...

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Native Americans, Military Service and PTSD
We take a look at the culturally-unique experience of Native Americans and combat experience. How are Native American veterans coping with post traumatic stress disorder and why are they the ethnic group with the highest proportion of military enlistment in the U.S.? Compared to the general population, nearly three times as...

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

A Debate on the Native Hawaii Recognition Bill; 100 Days: An Update on the Six Nations Standoff in Caledonia; The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Moves Towards Federal Recognition
100 Days of Occupation: Six Nations Standoff at Caledonia Continuessix nations standoff in Caledonia...

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Bringing Indigenous Issues to the United Nations: Re-defining the Millennium Development Goals; Bolivian Water War Leader Oscar Olivera Collaborates in Film Project, Fundraiser Tonight!
Fundraiser for "Gringomobile Diaries: Bolivia", will show raw clips of the film and raise money for post-production costs. Also showing "Gringoton (Gringo-thon)" and other award-...

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Western Shoshone Condemn U.S. Nuclear Simulation Plans on Tribal Lands; Biker Bar Threatens to Desecrate Bear Butte
Charon Asetoyer: Candidate for the South Dakota State Senate!
Charon Asetoyer (Comanche) is the Executive Director of the Native Women's Health...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Oil Pipeline in Peru Ruptures a Fifth Time: How Amazon Indians are Being Burned
IDB, Peruvian Government and Amazon Pipeline Consortia Evade Questions and Criticism about Camisea Failures The major oil pipeline Camisea in Peru ruptured for a fifth time in 18 months, triggering a fire that injured local residents of the village of Echarate in the southern region of...

Monday, February 6, 2006

Agreement Between Coastal Native Canadian Nations, Loggers and Environmentalists Protects Sacred Forest
The New York Times reports that a coalition of Native Americans, loggers and environmentalists have announced an agreement that will protect the Great Bear Rain Forest, home to sacred sites for the Gitga'at in British Columbia. The article reports "The process has...

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Indigenous Environmental Network Director Charges Bush Administration With Crimes Against Humanity; A Discussion With Charmaine Whiteface, Defender of the Black Hills
Indigenous People Demand an End to the Bush Administration's Human Rights Violations We speak with an...

Sunday, January 1, 2006

Homeless for Over a Century, a Tribe Awaits U.S. Redemption
Here is an article that describes one tribe's struggle for federal recognition, highlighting the history of U.S. land theft that displaced the tribe and left them marginalized. The article also provides a good outline of how the the recognition process unfolds, including its shortcomings and inadequacies,...

Monday, November 14, 2005

Vine Deloria Jr. Passes After a Life of Seminal Work
November 14, 2005 article in Indian Country Today by Jim Adams
TUCSON, Ariz. - Vine Deloria Jr., the intellectual star of the American Indian renaissance, passed on Nov. 13, after struggling for several...

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Renee Gurneau, President of the Red Lake College
Jose Barreiro, Senior Editor of Indian Country Today
Kent Nerburn, Author, sculptor, and educator, speaking on...

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Gwitch'in Nation Launches National Campaign to Protect the Arctic Refuge and a Way of Life Protect the arctic Refuge
The Gwitch'in Nation launched...

Friday, August 12, 2005

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Please send information or news to firstvoices@wbai.org to let Tiokasin and Mattie know the latest news and background on people and communities that you want others to know about. First Voices Indigenous Radio belongs to the Indigenous peoples of the world...

Monday, August 8, 2005

July 15, 2005 Show
The struggle to end the racist practice of using Indian mascots is looked at with the history of the word "Redskins." What are the origins and how has the word been used?
Beverly Jacobs is the President of the Native Women's Association in Canada, and tells us about the gendered and racialized forms of violence and oppression Native women...

Thursday, May 5, 2005

Navajo Uranium Mining Ban Under Scrutiny
On Friday, April 30th President Joe Shirley Jr. signed an agreement to ban uranium mining and processing on Navajo lands. The Dine Natural Resources Protection Act was first approved by the Dine council by a vote of 63-19 and the ban enjoys widespread support on the reservation.
"I don't want to subject any more of...

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Navajo Nation Council Bans Uranium Mining
April 4, 2005, Editors Report/Indian Country Today
Uranium mining has been a health and environmental scourge, and yet an economic engine as well at Navajo. For some 50 years, Navajo have lived with the effects of thousands of open pit mines, many left unredeemed after decades of exposure. But health and life issues...