FVR Program Archives
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Sunday, April 24, 2022DEBORAH ANDERSON award-winning filmmaker and photographer is the director, producer, and writer of a new documentary film, “Women of the White Buffalo.” The film shows the lives of the modern-day Native women as we listen to their stories of loss, suicide, murder, and epidemic meth addiction among their community, mirrored by their deep ancestral roots, traditional ceremony,... |
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Sunday, April 17, 2022Do the languages and cosmologies of Indigenous peoples hold the keys to the mysteries of quantum physics and the nature of reality? The intriguing premise of “The Language of Spirituality,” a documentary film about the intersection of spirituality, modern science, and language. Inspired by a series of dialogues between western physicists, Indigenous scholars, elders, and linguists, the... |
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Sunday, April 10, 2022MUNYA ANDREWS 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 'saltwater' people come from the Dampier Peninsula and the offshore islands north of Broome. Regarded by Melbourne University as a "leading Australian thinker," Munya is an... |
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Sunday, April 3, 2022MELANIE GOODCHILD is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar. She is moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations. Melanie is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Social & Ecological Sustainability at the University of Waterloo and is a Research Fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience. She is a proud member of... |
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Sunday, March 27, 2022Kwitsel Tatel will never give up. Born Sto:lo Coast Salish to a lineage of land defenders and water protectors, Kwitsel has spent her entire life fighting for Indigenous sovereignty and rights. She is a survivor of residential... |
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Sunday, March 20, 2022Fred Leonard. Fred is the author of “Grandma’s Spirit Calling Us Home to Tyendinaga,” a book about his Tyendinaga Mohawk ancestors from the mid-1600s to the 1900s. Fred was born in 1969 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada (next door to Tyendinaga Mohawk... |
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Sunday, March 13, 2022Ed Kabotie. Ed is a multifaceted creative from the Tewa village of Khap'o Owinge and the Hopi village of Shungopavi. His creative expressions take the forms of paintings, drawings... |
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Sunday, March 6, 2022Dr. Tink Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at... |
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Sunday, February 27, 2022David Graeber and David Wengrow are the co-authors of “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). “This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast. There is not a single chapter that does not (playfully) disrupt... |
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Sunday, February 13, 2022Tiokasin’s guest for the full hour is ... |
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Sunday, February 6, 2022Tiokasin’s guest for the full hour is Elder Albert Marshall from the Moose Clan of the Mi'kmaw Nation. He lives in the community of Eskasoni in Unama’ki – Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Albert is a fluent speaker of the Mi'kmaw language, a passionate... |
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Sunday, January 30, 2022Tiokasin catches up with Dr. Manuel Rozental who gives us a report on current events in Colombia. Manuel is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel’s been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth,... |
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Sunday, January 16, 2022In the first half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Stephanie Witkowski. Stephanie is executive director of... |
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Sunday, January 9, 2022It is our honor to spend the full hour with Robbie... |
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Sunday, January 2, 2022Matt 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... |
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Sunday, December 26, 2021Top 10 listener favorite songs from 2021. Thank you for your support of First Voices Radio! ... |
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Tuesday, December 21, 2021Munya 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 ‘... |
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Sunday, December 12, 2021500 Years EP by Earth Surface People, ... |
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021Tiokasin’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... |
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Sunday, November 28, 2021Martín 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, Martín teaches at his... |
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Sunday, November 21, 2021Shelley 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,... |
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Sunday, November 21, 2021Shelley 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,... |
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Sunday, November 14, 2021
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,... |
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Sunday, November 7, 2021Vince Fontaine (Anishinaabe) has been at the forefront of Indigenous music making in Canada for more than 30 years. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vince is the JUNO Award-winning founder of First Nations rock icons Eagle & Hawk. He is the founder... |
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Sunday, October 31, 2021Dr. 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... |
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Sunday, October 24, 2021“Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite — erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead.” Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the topic of land acknowledgements. The inspiration is an article that was... |
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Sunday, October 17, 2021In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and... |
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Sunday, October 10, 2021In early June of this year, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada.The school was one of the largest Indian residential schools in Canada and operated from the late 19th century to the late 1970s. Indigenous children,... |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021JENNI 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... |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021Zumila Wobaga, or Charmaine White Face is Oglala Tituwan Oceti Sakowin. Zumila is a great-grandmother, scientist, and writer. She can be reached at cwhiteface@gmail.com. Tiokasin and Zumila will talk about... |
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021dr. 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... |
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021Dylan Shields about his experience on the recent Whitestone Hill Memorial Horseback Ride with a group from a number of Dakota and Lakota nations. Dylan, a filmmaker, grew up on the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada among the... |
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021Tiokasin welcomes Dr. Rosita Worl back to “First Voices Radio.” Dr. Rosita Worl is President of the... |
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021Debra Utacia Krol is an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic. She is a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe. Debra’s current coverage area — which is supported by the Catena Foundation and the Water Funder Initiative — is the... |
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021During 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... |
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021Frances G. Charles, Tribal Chairwoman of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Port Angeles, Washington. She graduated in 1977 from the Port Angeles High School and she then went on to work with the Olympic National Forest Service devoting 12 years of... |
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021Update 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,... |
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021Tiokasin welcomes back Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Dr. Paulette Steeves was born in Whitehorse Yukon Territories and grew up in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Algoma University in Sault Ste.... |
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021As 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... |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021OFELIA RIVAS is our guest for the full hour. She is an elder and activist from the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. Ofelia will have a new website online soon:... |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021Steve 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... |
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021Doug George-Kanentiio is my guest for the full hour. A few weeks ago, the remains of 215 children were found at the Kamloops Indian School in British Columbia, Canada and as of today there were more than 500 more children graves found in four more... |
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021Martín 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,... |
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021Charmaine White Face. Charmaine is Oglala Tituwan Oceti Sakowin. She is a great-grandmother, scientist and writer. Tiokasin and Charmaine discuss her column, “Fighting for Religious Freedom,” which was published in Native Sun News Today in Rapid City, South Dakota on May 20,... |
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021George 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... |
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021Eda Zavala Lopez. Eda is a direct descendant of the Wari people of Peru. She inherited ancient traditions and profound knowledge related to plants, spirits and magical storytelling from her ancestors. Eda is dedicated to Amazonian Indigenous... |
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021Tiokasin 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... |
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Michaeleen Doucleff. Author of HUNT, GATHER, PARENT: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans. A correspondent for National Public Radio’s Science Desk,... |
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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... |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Julia Barnes is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of “Sea of Life” and “Bright Green Lies.” “Bright Green Lies” — which is also the title of the new book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert — investigates... |
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021Míċeál 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... |
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021Myron Smart and Will Falk. They will be giving us an update on the latest activities at Thacker Pass in Nevada. Myron Smart is a descendant of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. He was raised in his traditional ways of life in... |
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021Konkankoh 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... |
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Thursday, March 11, 2021Corrina Gould and Christopher “Toby” McLeod. Corrina Gould is Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone, born and raised in Oakland, California. She is the spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan and co-founder of... |
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Thursday, March 4, 2021Tiokasin 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 “... |
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Thursday, February 25, 2021Francene Blythe-Lewis. Francene is Executive Director of Vision Maker Media, a public media nonprofit in Lincoln, Nebraska. Vision Maker Media is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. Francene leads Vision Maker Media to seek and advance new... |
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Thursday, February 18, 2021Leona 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... |
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
Stephany Seay from the Buffalo Field Campaign. Stephany was born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and raised in Virginia. She became aware of this culture’s capacity for mindless destruction as the beaches and forests she grew up in... |
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Thursday, February 4, 2021Manish 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,... |
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Thursday, January 21, 2021Darryl Leroux. Darryl is associate professor in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). His book, "Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity," explores... |
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Thursday, January 14, 2021Janene 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... |
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Thursday, January 7, 2021Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, Co-Directors and Co-Founders of Whose Knowledge? Show Theme: “Collective Consciousness Perspectives.” Adele Vrana has led... |
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Thursday, December 31, 2020Karli 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... |
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Thursday, December 24, 2020INFORMATION for Ukumbwa Sauti and CODY COYOTE (Below). Ukumbwa 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 and... |
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Thursday, December 17, 2020LEYA 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... |
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Thursday, December 10, 2020Bryan Nurnberger. Bryan is President and Founder of ... |
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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... |
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, Co-Directors and Co-Founders of Whose Knowledge? Adele Vrana has led business development and partnerships initiatives to help build a more plural and diverse communities in her native country of... |
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Thursday, November 12, 2020Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa is one of the most important Indigenous leaders in Chile. The son of a prominent Rapa Nui politician, he lived in the United States for many years. Since 1990 Mayor Paoa has been a key figure in the life of the Island.... |
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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... |
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Thursday, October 22, 2020Chief Terrance Paul, who is the Co-Chair and Fisheries Lead for the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs. Chief Paul has held the position of Chief of Membertou First Nation since 1984. During this time, Chief Paul has guided his community and... |
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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... |
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
Debra Utacia Krol, a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe, is an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic. Her current coverage area, which is supported by the Catena Foundation and the Water Funder Initiative, is the intersection of climate, culture... |
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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... |
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Peter Buffet is a well established musician, composer and producer as well as Co-Chairman of the NoVo Foundation. Highlights of Peter’s music, film, and television work include the Fire Dance scene in the Oscar-winning film "Dances... |
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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... |
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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Nikki Ducheneaux. Nikki is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and also Bitterroot Salish from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. She is a founder and partner at Big Fire Law and Policy Group, a 100% Native... |
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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... |
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Colombian activist, researcher, and community organizer Manuel Rozental back to the airwaves to continue his talk from last week. Manuel’s been involved for four decades with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous... |
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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 ... |
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Dr. Marta Moreno-Vega was born and raised in El Barrio, also known as Spanish Harlem and East Harlem, New York City. The global movement for Black lives and collective liberation inspires Dr. Moreno-Vega’s unwavering vision for a... |
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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... |
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Thursday, July 30, 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,... |
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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.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020MARTíN PRECHTEL (Cree-Irish) 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,... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
ADRIAN SUTHERLAND. Adrian comes from Attawapiskat on the remote coast of James Bay, Ontario, Canada. He’s a singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and frontman and founder of the roots-rock band Midnight Shine. Adrian is a... |
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Alnoor Ladha. Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers,... |
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Thursday, June 18, 2020During 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... |
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Thursday, June 11, 2020Tiokasin welcomes back ANDRE VLTCHEK. Andre — a revolutionary and internationalist —is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker, investigative journalist, poet, playwright, and photographer who travels widely around the world reporting on the plight... |
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
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,... |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Trenton Casillas-Bakeberg is from Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Trenton is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe... |
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Thursday, May 14, 2020From 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... |
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
This week, “First Voices Radio” features LOUISE BENALLY. Louise is President of Indigenous Cultural Ways, a project of Native American Farmers Association. She is Director of Indigenous Cultural Concepts, a project of Media Island... |
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Friday, May 1, 2020AFRICAN 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... |
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Friday, April 24, 2020Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes ANDRE VLTCHEK back to “First Voices Radio” as his sole guest for the hour. Andre is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker, investigative journalist, poet, playwright, and photographer who travels... |
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Friday, April 17, 2020Kenn 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 —... |
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Friday, April 10, 2020On this week’s show, Anne Keala Kelly sits in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse as Guest Host. She talks for the entire hour with Lori Jump, director of StrongHearts Native Helpline. The incidences of domestic violence have risen... |
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Thursday, April 2, 2020Tiokasin 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” (... |
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Thursday, March 26, 2020From the "Archive of November 2005" Join Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse for a special episode of “First Voices Radio,” drawn from our show’s immense 28-year-old archive. This show, from 2005, includes 50... |
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Thursday, March 12, 2020Join 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... |
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse as he features 3CR 855 Community Radio in Melbourne, Australia. Last month, Tiokasin was on special assignment in Australia and had the great honor of meeting and spending time with Radio Hosts and... |
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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... |
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
ANNE KEALA KELLY sits in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse as Guest Host. Keala talks with LULA WILES, a trio of young women who write and perform songs in the American folk tradition. Eleanor... |
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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-... |
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
In the first half-hour, Guest Host KEALA KELLY interviews ANDRE VLTCHEK about his recent experiences in Bolivia and his knowledge and insights about what that country is currently undergoing as well as his insight into... |
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Thursday, December 19, 2019This 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... |
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Thursday, December 12, 2019A Special Tribute to JOHN TRUDELL (Feb. 15, 1946—Dec. 8, 2015)—Recorded Live at the Colony Café in Woodstock, New York in 2003. This week, “First Voices Radio” features a special hourlong tribute to JOHN TRUDELL. Host... |
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Thursday, December 5, 2019ANNE 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... |
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Thursday, November 28, 2019Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse focuses attention on Bolivia again this week. He welcomes two guests who will be sharing the hour with him to discuss what’s at the root of the issue from a historical and contemporary perspective not only in Bolivia but... |
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Thursday, November 21, 2019Tiokasin 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... |
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Friday, November 15, 2019First Voices Radio extends a warm welcome to ANNE KEALA KELLY from the illegally occupied Hawaiian Kingdom, sitting in as Guest Host for Tiokasin Ghosthorse who is away from the studio this week. Keala (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) has been a frequent guest... |
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Thursday, October 31, 2019ALEX 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... |
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Thursday, October 17, 2019JACQUELINE KEELER and ELLSWORTH CHYTKA - Jacqueline is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. Her book “The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears” is available from Torrey House Press and the forthcoming “Standing Rock to the Bundy... |
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Thursday, October 10, 2019MARIO 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... |
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
KENN ORPHAN is an artist, writer, radical nature lover, weary but committed activist, and hospice social worker. He writes about art and culture, socio-economic injustice, geopolitical issues and the existential threats we collectively face from corporate capitalism, the... |
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Thursday, September 12, 2019GERALD "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,... |
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Thursday, September 5, 2019OFELIA RIVAS. Ofelia is an elder and activist from the Tohono O'odham Nation. She is the Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. She will bring us up to date on U.S./Mexico border issues and how they continue to affect her people. ROBERTO "DR. CINTLI"... |
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Thursday, August 29, 2019XIYE 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... |
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Keala Kelly (Native Hawaiian) is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and activist. Her... |
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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... |
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
In the first half-hour, First Voices Radio aired an exclusive audio premiere of a new documentary, titled: “Keepers of the Pass.” The documentary covers the 2-year saga of the ordeal brought by the Rampough Lenape of New Jersey and their... |
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Thursday, June 6, 2019DERRICK 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... |
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the political ecology of climate change mitigation in tropical forests, particularly the role of Indigenous peoples, and... |
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Thursday, May 9, 2019Evan 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... |
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Thursday, May 2, 2019KENN ORPHAN is our guest for the entire hour. Kenn is an artist, writer, radical nature lover, weary but committed activist, and hospice social worker. He writes about art and culture, socio-economic injustice, geopolitical issues and the existential threats we collectively... |
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Sunday, April 21, 2019ORIGINALLY 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. (... |
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Thursday, April 18, 2019MARIO MURILLO is a veteran community radio practitioner who currently serves as the Vice Dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University. Mario will talk with Tiokasin about the Minga protest in Colombia. A powerful indigenous movement in... |
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Thursday, April 4, 2019In 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,... |
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
ANDREW MILLER brings two decades of human rights activism and international field experience to his work as Amazon Watch's Washington, D.C. Advocacy Director. Since 2007, Andrew has collaborated closely with Indigenous partners from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and... |
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019Ukumbwa 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... |
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Martín Prechtel (Cree) 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, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s... |
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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... |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019From December 10 through December 22, 2018, the Bogota-based international human rights organization DeJusticia hosted its Second Global Workshop for Indigenous Leaders in the Ecuadorian Amazon, specifically in the Kichwa territory of Sarayaku, on the banks... |
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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... |
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez as his first guest of the hour. Dr. Cintli 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 his book: “... |
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018This 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... |
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
In the first half-hour, we turn our focus to Brazil and the implications for the Indigenous peoples and the environment as a result of the recent election. Dr. Alan Tormaid Campbell has a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Oxford in England.... |
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018James (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... |
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Hadrien Coumans is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Lenape Center, a Manhattan-based non-profit with the mission of continuing Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland, through Lenape arts and culture. He is an adopted member of White Turkey-Fugate family (Lenape). As an advisor for well-being and a... |
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018Guy 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... |
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018GERALD 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... |
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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.... |
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with returning guest Martín Prechtel (Cree). Martín is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people; and is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh... |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018Annita 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,... |
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Monday, August 13, 2018
In the first half of this edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee). Crystal is Founder, President and CEO of Echo Hawk Consulting. The mission of Echo Hawk Consulting is to help to create new platforms,... |
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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... |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018Linda Black Elk, another returning guest. Linda is an ethnobotanist and science educator at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. She actively works towards food and wellness sovereignty. Linda will be talking about the Mní Wičóni Clinic and Farm, a free clinic... |
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018Host 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... |
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations and the 19th Generation Keeper of Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. He is the author of White Buffalo Teachings. A tireless advocate of maintaining traditional spiritual practices, Chief Looking Horse is a... |
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018Tommy 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... |
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Thursday, May 24, 2018Dr. Anne Klaeysen and... |
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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... |
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Michelle Schenandoah, Executive Producer of a new half-hour film, “An Indigenous Response to #MeToo.” Michelle... |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018GREGG 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... |
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Monday, March 26, 2018Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Allison Akootchook Warden, Iñupiaq, Native Village of Kaktovik. Allison is a 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow in Music. Through the medium of rap and performance, interdisciplinary hip-hop artist... |
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse will discuss the "history of gold mining in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the current test drilling with guests Cheryl Angel and Tonia Stands. |
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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... |
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018. Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) and Keala Kelly (Native Hawaiian) to the third in an ongoing series of discussions they will be having in 2018. Todays topic:... |
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017SEAN 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... |
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017In the first half-hour, Glenn Aparicio Parry, Ph.D., is the author of the Nautilus award-winning book Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Books, 2015), and an educator, speaker, dialogue moderator, and... |
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017Host 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... |
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Thursday, September 14, 2017On this edition of “First Voices Radio” Host TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE welcomes back Tonia Stands and Gregg Deal. In the first half-hour: TONIA STANDS is Founder of “No Uranium in Treaty Territory (NUITT)." She is a... |
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017Host 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... |
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
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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... |
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Bryan Nurnberger. Bryan founded Simply Smiles, Inc., in 2003 and serves as the organization’s President. Bryan is also the founder of Connecticut's first Benefit... |
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Thursday, July 13, 2017Tiokasin 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... |
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes two guests. His guest in the first half-hour is Tonia Stands. Tonia, is Founder of “No Uranium in Treaty Territory (NUITT). She is a water protector, land defender and Witko Oglala... |
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016TRENTON JOSEPH CASILLAS BAKEBERG and KEALA KELLY |
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016Raye Zaragoza, Linda Black Elk |
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016MARK 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... |
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Thursday, November 26, 2015Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with legendary musician ROBBIE ROBERTSON (Cayuga/Mohawk) Roberton was the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of the musical group The Band. He talks about his life, music and his new book for young readers, "Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, which was published by Abrams in September 2015. Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive... |
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Thursday, November 19, 2015Guest Host Charlie Uruchima with Guests: Doris Loayza and Dr. Sergio Romero |
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Thursday, November 12, 2015Guest Host CHARLIE URUCHIMA, who is sitting in for Host TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE while he is away this month. Charlie speaks with three guests " Genesis Tuyuc, a first generation Maya Kaqchikel activist in New York City and former President of the Native American and Indigenous Student Group at New York University; Santy Quinde Barrera Baidal, a writer of short stories,poems, and... |
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Thursday, October 29, 2015TIOKASIN 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... |
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Thursday, October 22, 2015ROSS HAMILTON who has been a guest on the show before and always has interesting insights and knowledge to share, 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 research specialty is the lost and forgotten history of North America... |
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Thursday, October 15, 2015MARTIN 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... |
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Thursday, October 8, 2015MINDAHI BASTIDA (Otomi) and GERALDINE ENCINA (Mapuche) describe Three Steps and Thirteen Principles Inspired by Native Peoples to Reconnect with the Planetary Community The social and planetary crisis can be represented as a crossroads. Put simply, one road leads to the destruction of the self and all his/her interrelations. Where am I? and Who am I?... |
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Thursday, October 1, 2015PUALANI 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... |
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Thursday, September 24, 2015LOUISE BENALLY (Dineh) Benally is a long-time human and environmental rights activist who resides on the Navajo Nation. Ghosthorse also speaks with the three artists who are "Postcommodity," interdisciplinary Indigenous arts collective based in the Southwest. Postcommodity's land art installation "Repellent Fence" will be on view Oct. 9-12, 2015 near Douglas, AZ and Agua... |
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Thursday, September 10, 2015MARTIN 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-... |
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Thursday, August 27, 2015VIOLET CATCHES - Cheyenne River Mnicoujou/Oglala Lakota Three extraordinary Native women who are doing important work in their communities and beyond "perpetuating a Native language (Lakota) and advocating for the protection of Mother Earth. |
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Thursday, August 20, 2015OREN LYONS - Traditional Onondaga Chief and Elder at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, NYC |
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Thursday, July 30, 2015CARLA RAE MARSHALL (Cheyenne River Lakota) has provided independent creative and media services to various non-profit organizations including South Dakota Coalition Ending Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence (www.sdcedsv.org). She currently works through SDCEDVSV bringing awareness and prevention of Sex Trafficking in Indian Country of... |
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Thursday, July 23, 2015GLENN 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. |
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015In the first hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks about the cross-country journey of APACHE STRONGHOLD, www.Apache-Stronghold.com which is a group of Apache people and others who are traveling from Arizona to the East Coast to raise awareness about the protection of their sacred... |
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015GROVER GAUNTT and TUFFY SIERRA |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015GLENN APARICIO PARRY Author of "Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity and Nature." The book delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview. Inspired by groundbreaking dialogues that Parry organized between Native American elders and leading-edge... |
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015AARON 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... |
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015STEPHANY SEAY is the Media Coordinator of the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, the courts, and the policy arena to protect America's last wild, migratory buffalo. (www.buffalofieldcampaign.org) |
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015MATT 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... |
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015DANIEL KAUFMN is the Executive Director the Endangered Language Alliance in New York City. The Endangered Language Alliance is an independent non-profit and is the only organization in the world focused on the immense linguistic diversity of urban areas. Many of the New York area’s estimated 800 languages are highly endangered. ELA documents and describes under-described and... |
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015KAMAHANA 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... |
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015UKUMBWA SAUTIis an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in west Africa and is a diviner, numerologist and spiritual counselor. He also works as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Media Studies. Ukumbwa has created a line of research and critique called "Indigeny & Energetics," some of the perspectives of which reside on his blog of the same name. Part of... |
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015PAUL 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,... |
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Sunday, March 15, 2015"First Voices Indigenous Radio" Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse returns to the airwaves after a yearlong sabbatical. |
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014AKIO 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... |
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014ROSS HAMILTON updates us on several theories of the Serpent Mounds in Ohio and the origin stories of the TALL BEINGS in Native lore and non-Native myth. He talks of the restoration of the order of light with Native American message now being heard and humanity as a whole must heed in order to allow the next age to take its place. Otherwise we as humans jeopardize our chances... |
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014PEARL 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. |
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014MADONNA THUNDER HAWK is a member of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and is grandmother to a generation of Native American activists. is a co-founder of The Lakota Peoples Law Project (LPLP) (www.lakotalaw.org) working in South Dakota to stop the illegal seizure of Indian... |
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014In 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." |
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013A TIMELESS BROADCAST! SITANKA WOKIKSUYE with ALEX WHITE PLUME from December 2012 |
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013REBROADCAST - Originally broadcast Feb. 28, 2013 on WBAI NYC |
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE(Lakota) shares some of his thoughts on the upcoming American holiday season and Indigenous people's enduring legacy and perspective. |
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013PAUL 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... |
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Thursday, November 7, 2013"SEEDS OF OUR ANCESTORS, SEEDS OF LIFE" |
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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. |
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013SUREE TOWFIGHNIA - Director/Co-Producer of Crying Earth Rise Up (www.cryingearthriseup.com) is an intimate portrait of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on sacred water. |
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013MUTABARUKA 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". |
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013DARLENE PIPEBOY a Dakota elder talks about the realities, philosophies of her people and their relationship to the politics, belief systems of religion and how Indigenous peoples are surviving. She also discusses the foretelling through experience of prophecies by the way Mother Earth is moving to change things. |
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013GREGG 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... |
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013DR. DANIEL WILDCAT (Yuchi Muscogee) |
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013Today First Voices Indigenous Radio will be featuring a new segment with Niijii Radio and WINONA LADUKE(Anishinabe) - HONOR THE EARTH (www.honorearth.org). |
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013BRIAN KELLY |
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013DEBORAH 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... |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013BEN OOFANA (Kiowa) Longhorn Mountain (www.facebook.com/SaveLonghornMountain) has tremendous spiritual significance and is considered to be the most sacred of all sites by the Kiowa people of Oklahoma. Longhorn Mountain is used by the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache... |
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013ANTHONY DELLAFLORA Producer of The Language of Spirituality (www.thelanguageofspirituality.com) |
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013KAREN SUSSMAN - President of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros talks about the emergency situation of 4 herd of wild horses that were originally slated for slaughter, but facing a downsizing due to the cost of maintaining the herds. The (www.ISPMB.org) wild horse ranch is... |
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013EVAN 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.... |
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (Itazipcola Lakota Nation) www.worldpeaceandprayerday.com |
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013SETH ADLER (www.leftforum.org) |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO is an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association and author of "Iroquois On Fire". |
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013CANDACE DUCHENEAUX (Lakota) (www.facebook.com) and type in Mni or Mni Indigenous Water Summit to get the latest information and logistics |
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013DEBRA WHITE PLUME (Lakota) Director of Owe Aku (www.oweakuinternational.org) works to bring back our way of life which includes humanity's role in nature: we are a part of it, not outside of it, not having dominion over it. To achieve this Owe Aku works to stop mining that... |
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013KALYANEE MAM (Director) of A RIVER CHANGES COURSE |
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013JANENE YAZZIE-COLLYMORE is a Dine independent scholar, entrepreneur, and human rights advocate. She is from the Black Streak Wood People clan, born for the Bitter water people. Her grandparents are from the the Comanche and White Mountain Apache Nations. As CEO of Sixth World Solutions (www.sixth-... |
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013MARIJO 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. |
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013Prof. EVAN PRITCHARD - www.algonquinculture.org - He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. |
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013ANNIE LEONARD is an expert on the materials economy. The Story of Stuff, details the costs and consequences of consumer culture. www.storyofstuff.com |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013IAN HANCOCK (Romani: Yanko le Red osko) (born August 29, 1942) (www.radoc.net) is a linguist, Romani scholar, and political advocate. He was born and raised in England, and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies. |
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013STAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery |
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013JOSEPH MARSHALL III (www.josephmarshall.com) born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe. Because he was raised in a traditional Lakota household by his maternal grandparents, his first language is Lakota.... |
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Wednesday, February 6, 20131)TIOKASIN tells of encounter "in our country they need to speak English!" 15 years ago. |
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013ELLEN GABRIEL - Mohawk (Kanien'keha:ka Nation) www.facebook.com/ellen.gabriel |
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013JENNIFER 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... |
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013CHASE IRON EYES (Hunkpapa Lakota) - is a founding writer at www.lastrealindians.com, as well as a speaker and attorney. Chase was a principal organizer for the recent effort to reclaim Black Hills sacred land and is instrumental in organizing the 1st annual Wounded Knee Survivors Run.... |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013JOHN 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... |
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013Dr. PAMELA PALMATER is a Mi'kmaw citizen and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. She is a mother of two boys, Mitchell and Jeremy ages 20 and 18 and comes from a large family of 8 sisters and 3 brothers. She has been a practicing lawyer for 14 years and she holds the position of Associate Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance in the... |
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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... |
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012Elivra Colorado talks about an event ACH'JABIL a Maya Ceremony to be held on Dec. 21st at the American Indian Community House. |
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Thursday, December 6, 2012This 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... |
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012JUAN GONZALEZ (Wakatel Balam) (wakatel_balam@hotmail.com) spoke at the 2012 Day of Mourning in Plymouth MA about the reality of the so-called Maya Prophecies. He spoke of the Council of Maya Elders Aj'qij'ab is the traditional way of organization |
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012ROBERT 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... |
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012An audio collage of speakers and music, prophecy, activism and spoken word from the archives of First Voices Indigenous Radio circa 1981 to 2010. |
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012DERRICK 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... |
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012EVAN 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.... |
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012Prof. EVAN PRITCHARD- www.algonquinculture.org - He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. |
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012STORY ONE: |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012MARIO A. MURILLO substituting for Tiokasin Ghosthorse |
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012STORY ONE: |
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012MARIO 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, 2012Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of August 9th to 16th, 2012 |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012JOHN KANE - Guest Host |
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012PART 2 of 2 |
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of July 5th - July 12th, 2012 |
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012DR. 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. |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of June 28th - July 5th 2012 |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012ANDREW MILLER (www.amazonwatch.org) We discuss the current situation in Brazil regarding the Belo Monte "super" dam currently under construction. Various Native peoples who face extinction and other problems such as no more river(s) to maintain their once flourshing lands and peoples. This... |
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012SKYWAVES – June 21st, 2012 |
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA |
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012ANNIE LEONARD -The Story Of Stuff - From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental... |
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA *FVIR Will be in fundraising mode until March 1st and programming will vary until regular programming resumes. |
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012DELANEY BRUCEwww.whoisleonardpeltier.info) EVENT IN NYC on Saturday, February 4, 2012 • 2 to 6 p.m. - Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Assembly Hall
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011REBECCA 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.,... |
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011STEPHANY SEAY 406-646-0070 Media & Outreach, Buffalo Field Campaign, West Yellowstone, MT (bfc-media@wildrockies.org) www.buffalofieldcampaign.org |
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011KELSEY MILLER (www.kalpulli.drupalgardens.com) discusses Kapulli Turtle Island Multiversity and working to help bring people back to a sustainable, sane kind of life - is an organization dedicated to education of ecological restoration and cultural restoration. We are... |
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011ROBERTO 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... |
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011MAURA HARRINGTON shelltosea.com In Dec. 2010, the people of County Mayo awaited a decision about the multinational Shell continuing with the Corrib Gas Project. If permission is granted, the people of County Mayo, West Ireland will direct action against the project. A senior figure in Shell said that there could be dozens of gasfields similar to a major one off Ireland's west... |
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011STEPHANY 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... |
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010MAURA HARRINGTON www.shelltosea.com is a spokeswoman for the Shell to Sea campaign, from County Mayo, Ireland. The Shell to Sea campaign has been involved in a local community based protest against the SHELL OIL Company for over ten years. Kilcommon parish, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland opposes... |
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010SANTI 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. |
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010SANTI HITORANGI (www.saverapanui.org)who was wounded by fourteen pellet shots in his back and legs while he filmed the events of December 3rd, was forced to leave the island without notice because he was hunted by the Chilean Special Forces to destroy his media and evidence of the undue... |
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010SUSAN 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... |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010Aaron Huey www.aaronhuey.com is a photographer for the National Geographic magazines, the Smithsonian Magazine, Harpers, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many more in the foreign press. Huey has photographed Taliban ambushes and drug eradication in Afghanistan, antiquities smuggling in... |
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Wednesday, November 24, 20101st of 3 Hours of Special - First Voices Indigenous Radio 9AM to 10AM |
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010DELANEY BRUCE www.whoisleonardpeltier.info Peltier Family Accuses U.S. Government of Medical Neglect “A man dies from prostate cancer every 16 minutes in this country. Why does my brother have to wait over a year to receive even a diagnosis?” Leonard Peltier... |
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010***REMINDER: FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO MOVES TO 9AM - THURSDAYS Beginning November 18th*** |
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010*FVIR will broadcast at a new time 9AM beginning Nov. 18th |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010Grandmother 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... |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010JENNIFER KRIESBERG (Tuscarora Nation) of the Red Diva Project's "The Road Forward" which brings attention to missing and murdered aboriginal women, according to the Native Women's Association of Canada is: 582. The "unofficial" number is over 1,200 www.nwac.ca/ |
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010Johnathan 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... |
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010SANTI HITORANGI www.saverapanui.org Armed Chilean Police forcibly removed the unarmed Rapanui Hito family in the middle of the night from the Hanga Roa Hotel. The Hito family are being charged with criminal trespass and terrorism. They are in imminent danger of being taken from the island... |
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010SUSAN 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. |
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010JAMES SWAN of the United Urban Warrior Society is a group of people working to help reassure the community, and the Native American population, by conducting community policing in Rapid City, South Dakota. EMAIL: aimbhc@yahoo.com |
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010Emily Schiffer, Dana Dupris, Carlys High Bear, Demi Beautiful Bald Eagle, Wynema Dupris, Karlisle High Bear, Samantha High Bear, Jessie Carlson |
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010Tina Cordova, Louise Benally & Anna Rondon a coalition of community groups affected by uranium mining and committed to renewable energy development — announces the 31st Anniversary Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill of July 16 - 1979. The purposes of this event are to remember and honor the Diné communities that were affected by the largest release of... |
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010Canunpa 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... |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010Ronald Holloway of The NJ Sand Hill Band Of Lenape & Cherokee Indians filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court in Newark NJ laying claim to the State of NJ as well as charging the then Governor Corzine, NJ Sec'ty of State Nina Wells; NJ Attorney General Ann Milgram and NJ Senate President, Richard Codey with violation of human rights, genocide, and breaking of treaties etc.... |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010JAMIE 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. |
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010SCOTT RICHARD LYONS (Ojibwe/Dakota) is associate professor of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches Indigenous and American literatures. Author of the new book X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent During the 18th and 19th centuries, North American Indian leaders leaders community signed treaties with the Europeans powers and the American and... |
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010Reports of 3 Blackhawk helicopters attempting to land on the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre site for "educational and historical" purposes is thwarted by the traditional Lakota and the logic used by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Indian Reorganization Act government to communicate. ... |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010KARMEN 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... |
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010KAREN REDHAWK DALLET (Shadow Catchers Institute) & BRAD GARNESS(Alaskan Inter-Council) and KAI LANDOW & TOM ANTHONY -Attny. Hawaii Kingdom |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010JOHN 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. |
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010WILMA MANKILLER 64, the once dirt-poor Oklahoma farm girl who grew up to become an activist for American Indian causes and women's rights, an author and the first woman to hold the Cherokee Nation’s highest office, died Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010ELIAS 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. |
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010JOSE AYLWIN - MAPUCHE In the wake of February's 8.8 earthquake in Chile In contrast of official Chilean claims that ‘the situation is under control’, reports from the south of the country claim that rural communities are currently without ‘food, water, gas, electricity and telecommunications’. The status of the Mapuche-... |
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010BILL 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. |
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010>MARIJO MOORE Author of The Boy With A Tree Growing From His Ear by Renegade Publishing and 17 other books. We review the motion within the pages of her newest books. Contact: 828-665-7630 |
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010Concepcion, 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... |
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010Dahoud Andre and Miriam Neptune Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees - speak regarding the relief efforts being denied by the U.S militarization in Haiti. Joseph Brings Plenty- Cheyenne River (Lakota) Sioux Tribe- Chairman on the declared "disaster area" by the... |
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010Commentary 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. |
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010Basem Khader - former economist with the United Nations updates us on the situation at the Egypt/Gaza border. Website: electronicintifada.net |
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007Environmental Justice & Indigenous Rights: Battling Climate Change and Protecting Sacred Sites |
Wednesday, July 26, 2006Protecting Mother Earth: The Battle to Defend Sacred Sites and the Indigenous Youth Movement |
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Thursday, June 29, 2006Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Suffers Water Crisis, Files Lawsuit For Rights to Reservoir Project; Language Teacher Succeeds in Making Lakota Part of High School Curriculum |
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006Native Americans, Military Service and PTSD |
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006Penobscot Nation Part of Unique Collaboration to Restore River and Salmon; Montana Coal Wars Veteran Gail Small on Energy Policies, Land Rights, Abramoff and More |
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006A 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 |
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006Carrie Dann on the Pentagon's Cancelled "Divine Strake" Test Blast; Tohono O'odham Battle Secret Plans to Build a Hazardous Waste Dump Near Ceremonial Land; Winona LaDuke on Food Sovereignty: the New Arena of Colonialism |
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006Bringing Indigenous Issues to the United Nations: Re-defining the Millennium Development Goals; Bolivian Water War Leader Oscar Olivera Collaborates in Film Project, Fundraiser Tonight! |
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Thursday, April 6, 2006Mohawk Nation Clashes With Canadian Authorities; Lakota Elders Share Wisdom on Issues From Global Warming to Abortion |
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006Western Shoshone Condemn U.S. Nuclear Simulation Plans on Tribal Lands; Biker Bar Threatens to Desecrate Bear Butte |
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006Abramoff Scandal's Impact on Indian Country; Native American Author Gabriel Horn on "Contemplations of a Primal Mind" |
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006Oil Pipeline in Peru Ruptures a Fifth Time: How Amazon Indians are Being Burned |
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006Abortion Ban in South Dakota Draws Native Opposition, and Indigenous Peoples' Demands for UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights Continue into 11th Year |
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Monday, February 6, 2006Agreement Between Coastal Native Canadian Nations, Loggers and Environmentalists Protects Sacred Forest |
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006Confronting Myths: From the Legend of Pocahontas to the Discourse on Palestine |
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006Indigenous Environmental Network Director Charges Bush Administration With Crimes Against Humanity; A Discussion With Charmaine Whiteface, Defender of the Black Hills |
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006Burial Ground Threatened, the Abramoff Scandal, Mohawks Under Siege |
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Sunday, January 1, 2006Homeless for Over a Century, a Tribe Awaits U.S. Redemption |
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005Here are today's guests: |
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Monday, November 14, 2005Vine Deloria Jr. Passes After a Life of Seminal Work |
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005Angus Hemlock, legal researcher for the traditional governing body for the Kanienkehaka nation (Mohawk nation) |
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Wednesday, November 2, 2005Renee Gurneau, President of the Red Lake College |
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005Fundraiser: Pro-Choice Movement in Mexico partnering with Zapatistas2 |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005News on Colombia from Mario Murillo and Maori Music |
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Friday, August 12, 2005Send us news about Indigenous communities and People |
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005INDIGENOUS NEWS: South African Government Charged With Ignoring Indigenous Needs. |
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Monday, August 8, 2005July 15, 2005 Show |
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Monday, May 9, 2005Ponca v. Carbon Black Company |
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Thursday, May 5, 2005Navajo Uranium Mining Ban Under Scrutiny |
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005Gracie Horne announces the World Peace and Prayer Day 2005 at Paha Sapa, known to many people as the Black Hills, South Dakota. Sounds like it'll be a great time. This event is on June 21, and will be preceded by the Prayer Run for World Peace, which begins on May 15 and ends on June 15 in Piedmont, South Dakota.... |
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005Navajo Nation Council Bans Uranium Mining |
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Saturday, April 23, 2005Peru Plans Reserve for Isolated Indigenous Group |
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005Indigenous Environmental Network makes a statement at the 13th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development |
