FVIR Program Archives

Sunday, November 21, 2021

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

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Vince 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...

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...

Sunday, October 10, 2021

In 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,...

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Zumila 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...

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Dylan 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...

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Debra 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...

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Frances 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...

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Tiokasin 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....

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

OFELIA 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:...

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Doug 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...

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

 Charmaine 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,...

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Eda 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...

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,...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

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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...

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Myron 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...

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Corrina 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...

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Francene 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...

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...

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Darryl 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...

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Tiokasin 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...

Thursday, December 24, 2020

INFORMATION 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...

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Bryan Nurnberger. Bryan is President and Founder of ...

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...

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Mayor 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....

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Chief 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Thursday, July 16, 2020

MARTíN 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,...

Thursday, July 2, 2020

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

Thursday, June 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,...

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Tiokasin 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...

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

TRENTON CASILLAS-BAKEBERG                             TIMOTHY J. GREENE, SR.

Trenton Casillas-Bakeberg is from Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Trenton is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe...

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...

Friday, April 24, 2020

Host 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...

Friday, April 10, 2020

On 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...

Thursday, March 26, 2020

From 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...

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...

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...

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...

Thursday, December 12, 2019

A 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...

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Host 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...

Friday, November 15, 2019

First 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...

Thursday, October 17, 2019

JACQUELINE 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...

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...

Thursday, September 5, 2019

OFELIA 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"...

Thursday, August 22, 2019

 Keala Kelly (Native Hawaiian) is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and activist. Her...

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...

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...

Thursday, May 2, 2019

KENN 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...

Thursday, April 18, 2019

MARIO 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...

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...

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...

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

From 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...

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Roberto 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: “...

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....

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...

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

GERALD 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...

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Tiokasin 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...

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,...

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Linda 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...

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Chief 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...

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Dr. Anne Klaeysen and...

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Michelle Schenandoah, Executive Producer of a new half-hour film, “An Indigenous Response to #MeToo.” Michelle...

Monday, March 26, 2018

Tiokasin 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...

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Host 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.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

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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:...

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

In 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...

Thursday, September 14, 2017

On 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...

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Seneca-Cayuga documentary filmmaker Erica Tremblay. Erica is the Director of Video at the Bustle Digital Group. Her films have been featured on PBS and the Independent Film Channel...

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Tiokasin 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...

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Host 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...

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Raye Zaragoza, Linda Black Elk Ghosthorse continues to bring us up-to-the-minute reports on activities taking place at Standing Rock Reservation and the efforts by thousands of water protectors to stop the construction of...

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Host 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...

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Guest 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...

Thursday, October 22, 2015

ROSS 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...

Thursday, October 8, 2015

MINDAHI 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?...

Thursday, September 24, 2015

LOUISE 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...

Thursday, August 27, 2015

VIOLET CATCHES - Cheyenne River Mnicoujou/Oglala Lakota
OFELIA RIVAS - Tohono Odham - Arizona
CHARMAINE WHITE FACE 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.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

CARLA 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...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

In 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...

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

GLENN 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...

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

STEPHANY 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)
MADONNA THUNDERHAWK...

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

DANIEL 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...

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

UKUMBWA 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...

Sunday, March 15, 2015

"First Voices Indigenous Radio" Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse returns to the airwaves after a yearlong sabbatical.
His guests are Juan Carlos Machicado Figueroa(Inka) and Bryan Nurnberger, Founder and President of Simply Smiles, Inc.
Juan Carlos Machicado Figueroa is a professional tour guide, lives in Cusco, Peru and...

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

ROSS 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...

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

MADONNA 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...

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A TIMELESS BROADCAST! SITANKA WOKIKSUYE with ALEX WHITE PLUME from December 2012
ALEXANDER WHITE PLUME is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Sitanka Wokiksuye (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...

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE(Lakota) shares some of his thoughts on the upcoming American holiday season and Indigenous people's enduring legacy and perspective.
JOHN TRUDELL (Dakota) In 1980 JT gave a "Thanksgiving Day" Address regarding the American system and how the nuclear firmanent is not the reality and the elite class of citizens accept the illusion of...

Thursday, November 7, 2013

"SEEDS OF OUR ANCESTORS, SEEDS OF LIFE"
WINONA LADUKE is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate...

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

SUREE 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.
It tells a timely story of protecting land, water and a way of life. A...

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

DARLENE 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.
Her contacts are: 605.932.3628 Email -...

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

DR. DANIEL WILDCAT (Yuchi Muscogee)
Power and Place: Rights of Mother Earth
Thanks to Censored News, Indigenous Environmental Network and Earthcycles for the audio recordging this past week at the Rights for Mother Earth Gathering in Lawrence, Kansas at the Haskell Indian Nations University.
JONAS ELROD was leading an ordinary life until he...

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

BRIAN KELLY
Brian jumped into the alternative media scene in 2012 when he became involved with a group called the One People's Public Trust, an organization who had been quietly dismantling the global banking elite, utilizing a vast arrangement of UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) filings to unwind the system from within. Brian played a major role in unveiling this movement...

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

BEN 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...

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

KAREN 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...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (Itazipcola Lakota Nation) www.worldpeaceandprayerday.com
Following the birth of a White Buffalo Calf in 1994, the Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations Arvol Looking Horse, was directed to honor the Four...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO is an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association and author of "Iroquois On Fire".
(www.Indianz.com) From article "Oneida Nation violates Iroquois laws"
"The Oneida Nation of New York did not exist until 1993, the Seneca...

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

DEBRA 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...

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

JANENE 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-...

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

IAN 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.
He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

JOSEPH 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....

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

ELLEN GABRIEL - Mohawk (Kanien'keha:ka Nation) www.facebook.com/ellen.gabriel
OTIS TAYLOR - Releasing album w/Mato Najin (Nakota) - My World Is Gone www.otistaylor.com...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

CHASE 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....

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Dr. 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...

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Elivra Colorado talks about an event ACH'JABIL a Maya Ceremony to be held on Dec. 21st at the American Indian Community House.
Shaun Finnerty also will be appearing at the AICH event and will discuss the implications of the myth created by non-Native peoples and the 2012 Dec. 21 Prophecy.
Dr. Pamela D. Palmater is a Mi'kmaw lawyer...

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

JUAN 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
and represents all the Maya communities,
their work...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

An audio collage of speakers and music, prophecy, activism and spoken word from the archives of First Voices Indigenous Radio circa 1981 to 2010.
In order of appearance;
Arvol Looking Horse
John Trudell
Tim Bennett (Life At The End of Empire: What A Way To Go)
Tom Cook (In Bolivia)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: The Guardian (www.guardian.com)
IN SOUTH AMERICA - BOLIVA
Bolivia enacts law to protect Amazon pink dolphins
Bolivian President Evo Morales has enacted a law aimed at protecting a unique species of dolphins that live in the country's Amazon rivers.
The...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: : CARE2 (www.care2.com)
IN AOTEORA or New Zealand
New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood
From the dawn of history, and in cultures throughout the world, humans have been prone to imbue Earth’s life-giving rivers with qualities of life itself — a...

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Amesty International (www.amnesty.org)
In SOUTH AMERICA - BRAZIL
Mato Grosso do Sul: Indigenous Community Attacked, Threatened
The Arroio Kor indigenous community in the central-western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, have been attacked by gunmen...

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources News (www.indigenouspeoplesissues.com)
IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Mexico: Statement Concerning Military Intervention In Kumiai Community
We are joined together at this first statewide gathering of...

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

JOHN KANE - Guest Host
My guest today was Len Violi, a New York based attorney who represents a couple of Native companies and individuals involved with the tobacco industry as it exists in "Indian Country". Len has argued cases in state and federal courts as it relates to Native commerce. Mr. Violi has also brought the U.S. into an international...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

PART 1 of 2
Wisdomkeepers are the guardians of nature's mysteries within the Lakota ceremonies and their practices, the medicine that is ruled by them, the songs that infuse our senses and our spiritual body, and the forces they produce that are identical to nature and its motivating power. These oral and entirely spontaneous transmissions, given by the three holy men,...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of July 5th - July 12th, 2012
STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Front Line Defenders (www.frontlinedefenders.org)
In South America\Brazil
On 24...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

ANDREW 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...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

*NOTICE* Due to agreements with AUDIOPORT.org and Pacifica Radio Network - we will be uploading a weekly boilerplate or a generic version of reference to your radio staion. In other words, no specific station ID's but for music at the Intro, 30min break and outro. FVIR will be uploading one program for your station's rebroadcast in order to save and use less bandwidth space on AUDIOPORT.* IF...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

*NOTICE* Due to agreements with AUDIOPORT.org and Pacifica Radio Network - we will be uploading a weekly boilerplate or a generic version of reference to your radio staion. In other words, no specific station ID's but for music at the Intro, 30min break and outro.
FVIR will be uploading one program for your station's rebroadcast in order to save and use less bandwidth space on AUDIOPORT...

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

THIS JUNE 7TH, 2012 broadcast is available to download to all radio stations. It is an edited version for time content only.
*NOTICE* Due to agreements with AUDIOPORT.org and Pacifica Radio Network - we will be uploading a weekly boilerplate or a generic version of reference to your radio staion. In other words, no specific station ID's but for music at the Intro, 30min...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

ANNIE 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...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
STORY ONE:
Source: Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources www.indigneouspeoplesissues.com
In Australia
Australia Challenged At United Nations Over Racist Laws
The United Nations has heard...

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
STORY ONE:
Source: corpwatch.org
In Asia
An oil spill in northern Russia from a joint venture between Lukoil and Bashneft has damaged fragile reindeer pastures in yet another blow to the indigenous Nenets people. Environmental activists have warned about such disasters for decades but few precautions...

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

EDITED EDITION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide also broadcasts within the first 15 minutes.
GREGORY CH'OC www.satiim.org.bz - Punta Gorda Town, Belize - Executive Director of the Sarstoon Temash Institute for...

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
ROBERTO CINTL RODRIQUEZhttp://drcintli.blogspot.com/ and ARCHIVED COLUMN OF THE AMERICAS http://web.me.com/columnoftheamericas
In Tucson, Arizona’...

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA
DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIOis an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian and the author of "Iroquois On Fire". He resides in upstate Onieda Territory with his wife Joanne...

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PA
DARLENE 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. Her...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 3:00 pm -4:50 pm
@ PACE University - Room W615 New York, NY
www.leftforum.org
PANEL: Examines the struggles of Indigenous peoples defending their lands, sources, seizure of land, expropriation, environmental degradation,...

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA
*FVIR will be in a fundraising mode until March 8th when regular programming will resume.
FVIR celebrates it 10th year on WBAI NY and Tiokasin Ghosthorse's 20th year on the radio!
Today is a compilation of various songs including:
What's Going On - Los Lobos
Geronimo's Cadillac - Dick Gaughan
...

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
DEBRA WHITE PLUME- Manderson, SD - is the Director of Owe Aku or Bring Back the Way - a grassroots nongovernmental organization dedicated to the preservation of the Lakota Way of Life and Treaty Rights.
On Sunday January 15th, a group of powerful Native women held a day long conference called Winyan...

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - Scanton, PA (go to audiport.org for your radio stations download)
KAHENTINETHA HORNE of The Kanion'ke:haka/Mohawk Nation (www.mohawknationnews.com) is a member of the Rotino'shonni:onwe/Iroquois Confederacy.
What are we going to do? Is the...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PA (Please go to Audioport.org for your stations downloadable version)
TOM WEISS rideforrenewables.com. December 21, 2011 (Port Arthur, TX) – Renewable energy advocate Tom Weis ended his 2,150-mile Keystone XL “Tour of Resistance” at the fence line community of West Port Arthur in the shadow of giant oil refineries...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NYC (Open ended no intro - break - outro - please insert your station ID breaks)
One of the objectives of this technologic reality has to do with erasing the memories of the human beings, because we have a common collective experience. We are all the descendants of tribes. - John Trudell
From Descendants Now Ancestors 2001 (JohnTrudell.com...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WJFF JEFFERSONVILLE, NEW YORK
PHILLIP DEERE (Muskogee Creek> Phillip was a traditional healer from Nuyaka Grounds, Okemah, Oklahoma, who became a spiritual leader, civil and human rights activist, oral historian and storyteller.
Phillip was a founder of the Traditional Youths and Elders Circle and a spiritual guide for the...

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NEW YORK
LEFT ON RED www.leftonredmusic.com Live in studio with their new conscious aware music CD The Underground Busking Experience. Their October touris designed to promote and educate about fair trade chocolate and the child slavery in the cocoa farms in...

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI 99.5 FM NEW YORK, NY
JENNIFER JESSUM & SIMON JOSEPH (www.holymanfilm.com)
Holy Man is the story of Douglas White, an 88 year old Lakota wicasa wakan or medicine man from Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in...

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NY
Robbie Robertson, (born Jaime Royal Robertson, July 5, 1943); is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The Band has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR KVNF PAONIA, COLORADO
from a 3-hour fundraising edition.
Peter Joseph presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of...

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

EDITED FOR WPKN BRIDGEPORT-NEW HAVEN, CT
CORRINA GOULD Chochenyo Ohlone – www.protectglencove.org
Sogorea Te or Ssogoréate was a large village and
gathering/ceremonial ground utilized by dozens of tribes who lived near and around the San Francisco Bay Area, For over 3500...

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

EDITED VERSION FOR WPKN - BRIDGEPORT - NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
WILLIE CORDUFF - www.shelltosea.com Rossport, Ireland -
An Irish environmental activist from the farming community of Rossport, parish of Kilcommon, Erris COUNTY MAYO Ireland. Corduff's parents first arrived in Rossport in...

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

EDITED VERSION for WBAI NEW YORK
LISA & JOHNNY BONTA , May 24th - A Pyramid Lake Paiute family was attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads at a Fernley, Nevada, convenience store, east of Reno. Family members were beaten with a crowbar and baseball bats, and stabbed. The neo nazis tried to cut off Bonta's braid. The victim, Bonta, was then arrested because of the white...

Saturday, May 21, 2011

EDITED VERSION for KVNF PAONIA COLORADO
SEVERN SUZUKI In 1992 the UN Earth Summit was held in Rio - its findings contributed to the much-discussed Kyoto Protocol designed to combat climate change. Yet the enduring memory of that summit was a dramatic speech given by a 12 year-old girl from Canada.
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER has made a commitment to human...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

EDITED VERSION WPKN BRIDGEPORT-NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
MADONNA THUNDER HAWK www.lakotapeopleslawproject.org is a co-founder of The Lakota Peoples Law Project (LPLP) The Lakota People’s Law Project (LPLP) is working in South Dakota to stop the illegal seizure of...

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

EDITED VERSION KFAI MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL
JOANNE SHENANDOAH www.joanneshenandoah A GRAMMY Award and 12 Time Native American Music award winning artist; and Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy, Joanne Shenandoah has fulfilled the promise of her Native American name, Tekaliwah-...

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

EDITED VERSION KVNF PAONIA COLORADO
MARILYN ELLE www.ipsecinfo.org INDIAN POINT - A nuclear power plant in upstate New York that is located on two major fault lines susceptible to earthquakes and the current controversy of keeping it open. With one reactor shut down with storage of spent...

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Pine Ridge Billboard Project
AARON HUEY ...

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

KELSEY 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...

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

MAURA 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...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

MAURA 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...

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

SANTI 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...

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Aaron 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...

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

DELANEY 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...

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

*FVIR will broadcast at a new time 9AM beginning Nov. 18th
ZUBEN ORNELAS www.realityhouse.org OR www.AICH.org Crossing Generations an event HONORING OUR WARRIORS (VETERANS), sponsored by the...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

JENNIFER 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/
JAMES CRAVEN (Blackfeet...

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

SANTI 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...

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

JAMES 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
KARAH WOODWARD Digital Warrior Media...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tina 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...

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Ronald 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....

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

SCOTT 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...

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Reports 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. ...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

KAREN REDHAWK DALLET (Shadow Catchers Institute) & BRAD GARNESS(Alaskan Inter-Council) and KAI LANDOW & TOM ANTHONY -Attny. Hawaii Kingdom
"On April 19-22, 2010, over 15,000 people and up to 70 governments from all over the world will gather to attend the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth...

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

WILMA 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.
PETER BRATT – Director of La Mission Interview by Andrei...

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

JOSE 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-...

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
RUDOLFO SALM Stop Belo Monte...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Dahoud 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...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Environmental Justice & Indigenous Rights: Battling Climate Change and Protecting Sacred Sites
Native Activists Rally to Protect Sacred Medicine Lake in CA
Native American organizers and allies are fighting to protect Medicine Lake – a sacred place near Mount Shasta in the Highlands of Northern California. The Bureau of Land Management, California Energy Commission and...

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Suffers Water Crisis, Files Lawsuit For Rights to Reservoir Project; Language Teacher Succeeds in Making Lakota Part of High School Curriculum
Kickapoo Tribe Files Lawsuit Against U.S. and Local Officials for Water Rights
The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas relies on water from the Delaware River for consumption, but they...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Penobscot Nation Part of Unique Collaboration to Restore River and Salmon; Montana Coal Wars Veteran Gail Small on Energy Policies, Land Rights, Abramoff and More
Cecilia Fire Thunder Refuses to Be Silenced
In South Dakota, Oglala Sioux Tribe President Cecilia Fire Thunder is speaking out against a gag order issued by the Oglala Sioux...

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Carrie 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
Divine Strake Test Called Off, Western Shoshone Protest Ongoing Violation of Land Sovereignty...

Thursday, April 6, 2006

Mohawk Nation Clashes With Canadian Authorities; Lakota Elders Share Wisdom on Issues From Global Warming to Abortion
Mohawks Continue Peaceful Takeover to Halt Non-Indigenous Development on Tribal Land
We speak with Hazel Hill, an Onkwehonweh at Grand River community, currently in a jurisdictional dispute with the Canadian government. There is an effort by...

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Abramoff Scandal's Impact on Indian Country; Native American Author Gabriel Horn on "Contemplations of a Primal Mind"
Abramoff Scandal Rocks Indian Country: Is There Going to be Permanent Damage as a Result?
Disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to almost five years in prison in a Miami case for wire fraud and conspiracy in a $147.5...

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Abortion Ban in South Dakota Draws Native Opposition, and Indigenous Peoples' Demands for UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights Continue into 11th Year
Native Women Unite in South Dakota to Fight Abortion Ban
Native American women are organizing at the grass-roots level to protest the bill that was recently signed by Governor Rounds of South...

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Confronting Myths: From the Legend of Pocahontas to the Discourse on Palestine
Louisiana's Coastal Tribes Appeal For Help
In southern Louisiana, leaders of four coastal Native American tribes, the Bayou Lafourche, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle...

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Burial Ground Threatened, the Abramoff Scandal, Mohawks Under Siege
Slave and Native American Burial Ground Threatened by Development
A historic burial ground reported to hold the remains of slaves, Native Americans and early Dutch settlers...

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Here are today's guests:
* Marijo Moore, Author and former commentator on First Voices Indigenous Radio, speaks about her new book called "Confessions of a Madwoman": go to her web site www.marijomoore.com.
* Leslye Abbey, social worker and independent filmmaker, she is screening a...

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Angus Hemlock, legal researcher for the traditional governing body for the Kanienkehaka nation (Mohawk nation)
Lola Forester, Aboriginal host and programmer for the National Aboriginal Radio...

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Fundraiser: Pro-Choice Movement in Mexico partnering with Zapatistas2
September 1st, 2005 at 8pm
Carlito's Cafe 1701 Lexington Avenue, between 106 and 107
El Barrio of East Harlem
"Aborto Sin Pena" ("Abortion Without Shame/Abortion Without Penalty") is almost complete! Fundraiser tonight to complete the project. Clips...

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

News on Colombia from Mario Murillo and Maori Music
We speak with Nicholas Przybyla, veteran of Operation: Enduring Freedom and East Timor and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Nicholas Przybyla speaks about the new documentary film, which he helped produce, Operation: Veteran Freedom. The film chronicles the...

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

INDIGENOUS NEWS: South African Government Charged With Ignoring Indigenous Needs.
A United Nations expert on Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, has called for the South African government to improve efforts to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples. During a 12 day visit, Stavenhagen met with government officials and representatives of Indigenous...

Monday, May 9, 2005

Ponca v. Carbon Black Company
"The Continental Carbon Company has exhibited a callous disregard towards the Ponca Tribe of Indians and our people by continuing to pollute our people, our lands, and our air. The Ponca Tribe was forced to take this land at gunpoint by the government, and now it is all we have left," Ponca Tribal Chairman Dwight Buffalohead said in a...

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Gracie 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....

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Peru Plans Reserve for Isolated Indigenous Group
The Peruvian government has created a commission that is in the early stages of designing plans for a reserve for the Mashco-Piro Indigenous group, one of 11 Indigenous groups living in voluntary isolation in the Peruvian Amazon. There is no reliable data on the Mashco-Piro, but there are estimates that there are 800...