First Voices Radio: Recent Episodes

Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Since 1992, "First Voices Radio" has been exploring global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Tiokasin is joined by two guests for the full hour.

Hataałiinez Wheeler is a very modern kind of crooner: a pensive, deep-voiced troubadour whose serene surf-country songs tap into the hope and despondency of a new generation. The music he makes as Hataałii — a Navajo term that means “to sing,” a fitting diminutive of his given name — is at turns witty and world-weary, sunny but endearingly solipsistic.

Albert Haskie is a software developer from the Navajo Nation. He is the creator of the app Adoone’é. Serving as the lead developer in the project, Albert has strived to uphold his culture and traditions as a Navajo/Diné. It is his deep-rooted belief that everyone should have access to the resources that preserve and celebrate their Navajo/Diné heritage. Albert finds great joy in tackling Navajo/Diné language and culture preservation in the 21st century. With Adoone’é he aims to contribute to his community and empower others to do the same. Albert says that “Together, we can foster a world where Navajo/Diné individuals can achieve fluency in the Navajo/Diné language.”

Read. More about Hataałiinez Wheeler here: https://bit.ly/44LBdUI.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Laugh Out Loud
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:14:04)
Song Title: Standing Ovation
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:21:49)

4.Song Title: Midnight Soldier
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:26:13)

Song Title: Story of Francisco
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:29:24)
Song Title: Pain in Popejoy’s Hand
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:43:12)
Song Title: Fusion (Live) (Internal Flight variation)
Artist: Estas Tonne
Album: Fusion (Internal Flight variation) Live in Zurich, 2022
Label: ETMusic
(00:47:52)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Tiokasin is joined by Dr. Emma McNicol, a feminist philosopher and expert on Simone de Beauvoir. Emma works at the nexus of race, culture and gender theory, examining themes of exclusion and intersectionality in historical and contemporary feminist theory.

Emma is the Senior Project Coordinator of Fire to Flourish's National Indigenous Disaster Resilience program, a project exploring Indigenous leadership in the face of natural hazards intensified by climate crisis.

Recommended reading: https://bit.ly/3qW7Q4a

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

2.Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover - Childish Gambino
Album: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf + Rothstein/RCA Records
(00:22:00)

Song Title: Your Freedom is the End of Me
Artist: Melanie De Biaso
Album: Lilies (2017)
Label: [PIAS] Le Label
(00:48:35)
Song Title: Harvest Moon (by Neil Young)
Artist: The Brothers Comatose (feat. AJ Lee and Blue Summit)
Single: 2022
Label: Universal Music Australia
(00:52:17)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

From the 2000 program archive. Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage.

Means was active in international issues of Indigenous peoples, including working with groups in Central and South America and with the United Nations for recognition of their rights. He was active in politics at his native Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and at the state and national level. Beginning an acting career in 1992, he appeared on numerous television series and in several films, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Pocahontas” and released his own music CD. Means published his autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread,” in 1995.

He was given the name Waŋblí Ohítika meaning “Brave Eagle” in the Lakota language. He talks about an array of topic but mostly patriarchy and matriarchy, and what it means to become a “Pow Wow” Indian.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Sacred Black Hills
Artist: Larry Long
Album: Fun for Freedom / Sweet Thunder (1984)
Label: Flying Fish Records
(00:30:00)
Song Title: Don’t Wanna Fight
Artist: Alabama Shakes
Album: Sound and Color (2015)
Label: ATO Records
(00:47:19)
Song Title: He Sapa Ki, Un Kita Pi
Artist: Earl Bullhead
Album: Keeper of the Drum (1995)
Label: Soar Records
(00:53:38)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse is back this week with a very special show. He will begin with an untitled musical track featuring Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Duduk, voice and Native flute. Tiokasin will talk about the conference that he recently attended in Portugal.

In the second half-hour, from our extensive archive stretching back 31 years: Darlene and Willard Pipeboy were frequent guests on First Voices ‘Indigenous’ Radio (as it was known at the time) from 1999 through the mid-2000s. Both carried knowledge and common sense of the Lakota and Dakota wichohan (life ways). This interview was drawn from the 2003 archive before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, before the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan in 2011, and other events as the Western world and Earth continue to clash.

Please listen to these two Wakán (note: there is not really a word for “elder” since it is a noun).

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Artists: Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse (00:02:38)
Song Title: Sunrise Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Album: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:10:57)
Song Title: Psychos
Artist: Jenny Lewis
Album: Joy’All (2023)
Label: Blue Note Records
(00:13:20 )
Song Title: Conquer
Artist: RIVVRS
Album: Unfamiliar Skin (2016)
Label: Rogue Fire
(00:20:42)
Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: Xavier Rudd, J-Milla
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D)
(00:25:00)
Song Title: What About Me?
Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album: What About Me? (1970)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:53:50)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Sitting in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week is First Voices Radio’s Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), an independent journalist, filmmaker and activist from Moku Nui (Big Island) in the illegally occupied Hawaiian Islands.

Keala begins with commentary about this past week’s deadly wildfires that completely destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui, located on the island’s west side. Lahaina is the historic seat of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Fires are still burning in other areas of Maui and also on Moku Nui.

For the majority of the hour, Keala speaks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), CEO and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs, continuing a conversation about repatriation that was begun in March 2023 on this program. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 22 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. She has served Indian Country in the private sector as an attorney, leading a large national firm’s Indian law practice that worked to strengthen, maintain and protect Indian nation sovereignty, self-determination and culture.

More information at: https://www.indian-affairs.org/.

This episode ends with a tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, “… who became a warrior woman and stood up to call out the centuries of soul-devouring abuse heaped on children by the Catholic church. It happened to the Irish and we all know it happened to the First Peoples of the Americas and other colonized countries.” — Anne Keala Kelly

Production Credits:
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Co-Host
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Danny Boy (single)
Artist: Sinead O’Connor
Description: Sung acapella on 12/24/1993 broadcast of The Late Late Show (Irish Talk Show)
(00:49:35)
Song Title: Natural Mystic
Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers
Album: Exodus (1977)
Label: Island Records
(00:54:05)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

For this week's episode, we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Steven T. Newcomb. For the replay, Tiokasin recorded some additional commentary at the end and added a few new music selections.

Don’t just repudiate….rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than four decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.

Steve and Tiokasin discuss the Vatican’s formal repudiation of the Doctrine in March 2023. Steve is the author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 and Chicago Review Press) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve is available for film screenings and talks.

For more information and booking: http://originalfreenations.com/.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Mr. Soul
Artist: Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil Young)
Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
Label: Atco Records
(00:30:23)
Song Title: Fallen Angel
Artist: Robbie Robertson
Album: Robbie Robertson (1987)
Label: Geffen Records
(00:42:10)
Song Title: Blackbird Song
Artist: Lee DeWyze
Album: The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2
Label: Republic Records
(00:47:08)
Song Title: The Stray
Artist: Ellen Benevides (Apache) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on flute
Unreleased Single: 2003
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:53:54)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

On this week's show, Darryl Leroux returns to "First Voices Radio" to spend the entire hour with Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Tiokasin and Darryl will discuss Darryl's new article, “State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting,” which was published in the latest issue of American Indian Culture & Research Journal, a leading, peer-reviewed Native American Studies/Indigenous Studies journal in the U.S. Darryl is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is French-Canadian from northern Ontario, Canada.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Stolen Lands
Artist: Julian Taylor
Album: Beyond the Reservoir (2022)
Label: Howling Turtle
(00:22:20)
Song Title: Robbie Robertson
Artist: Remembrance
Album: Sinematic (2019)
Label: UME Direct
(00:51:22)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Tiokasin spends the hour with Jonathan Gonzales and Christian Matute Sagbay. Jonathan was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African).

Christian Matute Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: In the Land of the Blind
Artist: Cy Curnin
Album: Lockdown (2020)
Label: Self-Released
(00:28:45)
Song Title: I Am My Own Worst Enemy (single)
Artist: Cy Cumin
Album: N/A (single)
Label: N/A
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zOO5szEjnM4
(00:53:02)
Song Title: Remembrance
Artist: Robbie Robertson
Album: Sinematic (2019)
Label: UME Direct
(00:56:35)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

About First Voices Radio:
”First Voices Radio,” now in its 31st year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

In the first half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs, Yakama and Diné), executive director since 2018 of The Museum at Warm Springs in Warm Springs, Oregon. The Museum opened its doors to the public on March 14, 1993 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary throughout 2023 with special exhibits, public programs and events. Built to Smithsonian Institution professional standards, The Museum’s mission is to preserve, advance and share the traditions, cultural and artistic heritage of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. Elizabeth is an internationally renowned poet, author, essayist and visual artist. She is also an educator, mentor, collaborator and community leader. In 2016, Elizabeth became the first Native American to be named Oregon’s Poet Laureate.

Find out more about The Museum at Warm Springs at museumatwarmsprings.org

In the second half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Charles Lyons and Christian Poirier about Charles’ July 11, 2023 article for the environmental news site Mongabay, titled “Six months on, the Yanomami crisis continues amid rising violence.” The article was produced with funding from Earth Journalism Network. Charles, who is based in Rio de Janeiro, is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He is currently making a documentary film about former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He is senior consultant for Amazon Aid Foundation.

Last year, Charles produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour, which included two long-form reports –– one on deforestation in the Amazon; the other on Indigenous rights. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce and edit coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour. He is currently writing a series of articles on illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries for Mongabay. Christian Poirier is a senior member of Amazon Watch’s team. Having coordinated the Brazil Program since 2009, Christian helped lead international solidarity campaigns to halt the construction of large Amazon dams and to call on the global private sector to cease its complicity in environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon. He has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of international development and advocacy, focusing on environmental, agrarian, and social justice issues.

Read Charles’ article at https://bit.ly/43wEXJ8

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Joy’All
Artist: Jenny Lewis
Album: Joy’All (2023)
Label: Blue Note/Capitol
(00:28:39)
Song Title: Mad World
Artist: Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules
Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (2001)
Label: Down Up Down Music
(00:56:20)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

In the first half-hour, mycologist John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi.

As former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, John co-founded the Catskill Regional Mycoflora Project as well as the Gary Lincoff Memorial Scholarship. He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He is an instructor for the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification courses in NY. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production.

John has presented at the New York Botanical Gardens, Telluride Mushroom Festival, and North American Mycological Association Annual Foray, as well as several colleges and universities. His goal is to educate and inspire people to work with fungi to improve their health, communities, and the environment. More information about Catskill Fungi can be found at https://catskillfungi.com/.

Special Report:
In the second half-hour, “First Voices Radio” looks at a story that has not gotten much attention in the news, despite recent developments coming out of Albany, NY. It’s about Indigenous recognition and sovereignty, particularly on Long Island.

The fight for the Montaukett Indian Nation to be reinstated as a state-recognized tribe might have an end in sight with the passage of a new bill in the New York state senate that passed unanimously on May 31. This comes more than a century after the Montaukett lost their recognition in the infamous 1910 Pharaoh v. Benson case. This legislative action comes with calls both locally in New York and nationwide to rise up for Indigenous sovereignty.

Recently, Native paddlers from tribes all over the country paddled more than 1,500 miles in the northeast to call attention to these issues and defend their water rights. Hofstra University Graduate Journalism Student Cody Hmelar caught up to the canoers when they reached New York and prepared this audio feature for the hyper-local online news site, The Long Island Advocate.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Radioactive
Artist: Imagine Dragons
Album: Night Visions (2012)
Label: KIDinaKORNER
(00:25:20)
Song Title: I’m Going Home
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: Coincidence and Likely Stories (1992)
Label: Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI
(00:49:40)
Song Title: Ghost Dance Song
Artist: Red Shadow Singers
Album: Ghost Dance Songs (2004)
Label: Arbor Records Ltd.
(00:52:42)
Song Title: Riders on the Storm
Artist: The Doors
Album: Classics from The Doors (1971)
Label: Revolver Music
(00:55:30)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Miryam Yataco back to “First Voices Radio.” Miryam is a Quechua Peruvian-born language rights advocate, an expert in bilingualism, and a sociolinguist. Her work is rooted in the idea of language rights as human rights.

In Peru, Miryam worked with Quechua Indigenous Congress women as a congressional assistant in matters of language rights. Miryam is a former faculty member at New York University where she worked for 22 years. She has published on matters of language policies, Indigenous language/territory reclamation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization of knowledge and power. Miryam is currently a research associate at the Linguistic Department within Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and she is a founder member of a group of Indigenous scholars and activists forwarding the aims of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Iron Sky
Artist: Paolo Nutini
Album: Caustic Love (2014)
Label: Atlantic Records
(00:29:40)
Song Title: Land Rights
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: White Moth (2007)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D)
(00:45:05)
Song Title: Mind Control
Artist: Stephen Marley
Album: Mind Control (2007)
Label: Tuff Gong
(00:51:15)
Song Title: States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Album: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North
(00:56:05)

AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Ruby Gibson to “First Voices Radio.”

Dr. Gibson, a mixed blood woman of Lakota/Ojibwe and Mediterranean descent, has spent the past 40 years dedicated to the craft and science of Historical Trauma reconciliation, cultural healing, and generational well-being among Native and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Gibson founded Freedom Lodge, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, in Rapid City, SD to serve our relatives and communities. She developed the transgenerational trauma recovery model Somatic Archaeology© and is the author of "My Body, My Earth,” “The Practice of Somatic Archaeology,” and “My Body, My Breath, A Tool for Transformation,” which are available in English, Romanian and Spanish. Dr. Gibson developed and teaches a Historical Trauma Master Class, and builds leadership skills in Native Wellness amongst the graduates.

She also teaches a Somatic Archaeology© Master Class for non-Native students. Using our Body and Mother Earth as benevolent sources of biological, emotional and ancestral memory, Dr. Ruby’s techniques are being field tested among clients and students with amazing effectiveness. She is honored to witness the courage and amazing capacity that each person has to reconcile suffering. As the mother of four beautiful children, one granddaughter, and two grandsons, Dr. Ruby has a heart full of hope for the next seven generations! Contact Dr. Ruby at https://freedomlodge.org/, http://www.mybodymybreath.org/ and https://rubygibson.com/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Manuel Blas, Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Antidrug (Single)
Artist: Bridget Loudon
Label: Loudsound (2023)
(00:28:19)
Song Title: Ship of Fools
Artist: World Party
Album: Private Revolution (1986)
Label: Chrysalis Records
(00:43:15)
Song Title: The Pusher
Artist: Steppenwolf
Album: Steppenwolf (1968)
Label: ABC Dunhill Records
(00:48:48)
Song Title: That Smell
Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Album: Street Survivors (1977)
Label: MCA Records
(00:54:42)

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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with regular guest and friend of “First Voices Radio” Dr. Manuel Rozental.

Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel’s been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He is part of an initiative: Pueblos en Camino, Peoples on the Path with a mandate to weave autonomies and resistance between peoples.

Tiokasin and Manuel discuss the recent, extraordinary story of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and spent 40 days alone in the Colombian Amazon. Manuel relays new evidence and details of their experience from the Indigenous point of view. This is a story beyond what the mainstream media and the institutions are telling us.

The truth has come out and is being largely ignored. The children—three girls of the Huitoto nation (ages 13, 9 and 11 months) and a boy age 4—survived a plane crash in the jungle, escaping from threats to their father by FARC dissidents. The mother died in the crash. The children, lead by the oldest girl, survived 40 days in the thickest jungle. Her skills and knowledge of the jungle made this possible. This is something that has astonished everyone. The Special Forces of the Colombian armed forces used all their technology to search and rescue them and failed. Except that they were joined by Indigenous guards and spiritual elders. It was an elder, Rubio, who meeting in ritual with the elder of the forest (spirit) lead to their location, and the Indigenous guard following his guidance found them alive. They are recovering well.

Manuel says: “This is a message from the jungle and its people to the world! Women, indigenous knowledge, the Mother Jungle, the spiritual power and wisdom spoke. If we are to survive, we need these skills. A slap in the face to modernity and arrogance. An Indigenous guard who took part in the effort called for the rescue of all Indigenous children from the streets of the cities where they have been turned beggars and miserable, and committed everyone to rescue them from modernity. The story is being and will be exploited, but this truths must be known!” A very special thanks to our friend Manuel for this important perspective and what we know and will always remember.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Michael G. Haskins, Studio Engineer, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Manuel Blas, Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Laugh Out Loud
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing Into Darkness (Release Date: June 30, 2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:50:20)
Song Title: From the Beginning
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Album: Trilogy (1972)
Label: Cotillion Records
(00:53:00)

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This week we are revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's 2016 conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Robin is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the widely acclaimed “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” (Milkweed Editions, 2013). In 2022, the was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers—the plants around us. Robin’s first book, “Gathering Moss,” was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.

Robin’s writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s “On Being” with Krista Tippett and has addressed the general assembly of the U.N. about “Healing Our Relationships with Nature.” She lives in Syracuse, NY where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. As a writer and a scientist, Robin’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities but also restoration of our relationships to land. Robin holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, and MS and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. In 2022, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

For more information about Robin, visit https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Michael G. Haskins, Studio Engineer, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Manuel Blas, Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
Artist: Dire Straits
Album: Communiqué (1979)
Label: Warner Records
(00:52:39)

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Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s guest for the full hour is Alnoor Ladha.

Alnoor is an activist, journalist, political strategist and community organizer. From 2012 to 2019 he was the co-founder and executive director of the global activist collective The Rules. He is currently the council chair for Culture Hack Labs. Alnoor talks of various possibilities involving the changes it will take for humankind in the Anthropocene. The language and attitude exposé it would take for the recognition of capitalistic societies steeped in warmongering languages, speculative logos, and denial of Indigenous cultures sustaining Earth, including harboring ideas to postpone the end of the world.

Join Tiokasin and Alnoor as they focus on the broader transition from our current meta-crisis to adjacent possible futures.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Manuel Blas, Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: We Deserve to Dream
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Armada Music
(00:24:03)
Song Title: Vuoi Vui Me
Artist: Mari Boine
Album: In the Hand of the Night Idjagiedas (2006)
Label: Lean AS
(00:55:17)

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In a country where land is seen as a commodity and a means to generate wealth, what does it mean when the land has been stolen?

Democratizing wealth is not an easy topic, and in order to sort it out, we must rectify a past filled with enslavement, genocide, brutality, and thievery. NDN Collective defines LANDBACK "as a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands.

The Rooted Resources Festival was held in May 2022 in Kingston, NY. The event shined a light on localizing economic power to nurture solidarity, awareness and action. It was recorded at the Rooted Resources Festival, hosted by the Good Work Institute in Kingston, NY.

The Landback panelists featured were Kapi'olani A. Laronal of the Hawaiian, Haida (Eagle), Tsimsian and Filipino Nations and Tiokasin Ghosthorse of the Mnikwojou/Itazipcola Lakota Nation and moderated by Micah. For more information about Good Work Institute, visit https://goodworkinstitute.org/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: It Ain’t Over
Artist: The Black Keys
Album: Dropout Boogie (2022)
Label: Nonesuch Records
(00:29:45)
Song: Un soupir éternal (Dance of the Invisible Dervishes at Festival International de Carthage, Tunisia)
Artist: Dhafer Youssef
Album: This song is included on Dhafer Youssef’s 2006 album Divine Shadows
Label: Jazzland Recordings
(00:53:50)

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First Voices Radio digs deep into our 30-year-old archive and brings listeners another interpretation and observation surrounding the American holiday known as “Thanksgiving.” The late John Trudell’s “Thanksgiving Day Address” is from 1980 but how his observations have stood the test of time and still ring true. The names of U.S. politicians that John mentions have changed over the years but the issues that Native peoples faced then and now remain the same. John Trudell (1946-2015) has been identified as a poet, a fighter for Native American rights, an agitator, and many other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suits him he would have refused to be pinned down. “Actually I don’t consider myself to be any of those things. They’re things that I do…but they’re parts of me. They’re not the total.” Indeed, Trudell was the complex sum of all that he saw, endured and accomplished during his 69 years, a time when he experienced more than most people might in several lifetimes. More information about John Trudell can be found at https://www.johntrudell.com/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Caravan of Fools
Artist: John Prine
Album: The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
Label: Oh Boy Records
(00:02:08)
Song: The Cleansing (Red Earth Song)
Artist: John Trudell
CD: Tribal Voice (1983)
Label: Effective Records
(00:29:30)
Song: Wildseed
Artist: John Trudell and Kwest
Album: Through the Dust (2014)
Label: Dialect Records
(00:45:15)
Song Title: The States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Coburn
Album: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North
(00:50:15)
Song Title: This is not America
Artist: David Bowie and Pat Metheny Group
Single: The Falcon and the Snowman (1984)
Label: EMI

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Tiokasin welcomes three guests this week: Jonathan Gonzales, Lucas Jatobá and Christian Matute Sagbay.

Jonathan was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African).

Lucas Jatobá is a photographer and filmmaker who was born in Manaus, northern Brazil. He had been living in Rio de Janeiro since 2014, where he went to study Anthropology at the Fluminense Federal University. Lucas started working as a freelancer, doing professional and volunteer documentation works on topics related to human rights, especially issues related to urban social issues.

Christian Matute Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: J-MILLA and Xavier Rudd
Album: Xavier Rudd: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artist Services Australia (P&D)
(00:27:46)
Song: States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
CD: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North
(00:51:46)

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Tiokasin’s guest for the full hour is Dr. Tink Tinker. They discuss the 50th anniversary of the publication of "God is Red" by Vine Deloria, Jr. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school.

Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
Artist: Dire Straits
Album: Once Upon a Time in the West (2007)
Label: RCA Records
(00:29:47)
Song Title: Freedom
Artist: Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boyton
Album: Django Unchained (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2012)
Label: Universal Republic / Loma Vista Recordings
(00:56:15)

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Repeated by popular demand. Tiokasin talks with Kerri Kelly, author of “American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal” (North Atlantic Books, 2022). The book dives deep into wellness culture and economy while asserting a central thesis: When we are preoccupied with our own pursuit of wellness we fail to see and work toward a culture of collective care and wellbeing that actually works for everyone.

Kerri is an activist, wellness disruptor and the high-profile, well-connected founder of CTZNWELL, a movement that is democratizing well-being for all. A community organizer and wellness activist, Kelli is recognized across communities for her inspired work to bridge transformational practice with social justice. Her leadership has inspired a movement that is actively organizing around issues of racial and economic justice, healthcare as a human right, civic engagement and more. Kerri is a powerful facilitator, TED speaker, and host of the prominent podcast CTZN. For more information: https://kerrikelly.co and https://ctznwell.org

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Star People
Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City
Album: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba), to be re-released by Warner Records in 2022
(00:29:50)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Raye Zaragoza
Album: Women in Color (2020)
Label: Rebel River Records
(00:55:35)

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Tiokasin’s guests for the full hour are Lynn Murphy and Alnoor Ladha.

Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a ”‘conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy.

Alnoor Ladha is an activist, journalist, political strategist and community organizer. From 2012 to 2019 he was the co-founder and executive director of the global activist collective The Rules. He is currently the Council Chair for Culture Hack Labs.

Lynn and Alnoor are the co-directors of Transition Resource Circle focusing on the broader transition from our current meta-crisis to adjacent possible futures. They work with resources and resource holders to alchemize and liberate capital to be in service to Life. They are also co-authors of “Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Crisis.”

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Death Have Mercy
Artist: Harry Manx
Album: Faith Lift (2021)
Label: Dog My Cat Records
(00:29:27)
Song: I Know I’m Not Alone
Artist: Michael Franti & Spearhead
Album: Yell Fire! (2006)
Label: ANTI-
(00:55:10)

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Linford D. Fisher is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of “The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America” (2012) and the co-author of “Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island’s Founding Father” (2014). Professor Fisher is the Principal Investigator of a digital project titled “Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas,” a community-centered, collaborative project that seeks to broaden our understanding of Indigenous experiences of settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of slavery and servitude. Professor

Fisher is the author of more than a dozen articles, book chapters, and essays on a diverse array of topics. He is currently finishing a book-length project, tentatively titled “America Enslaved: Native Slavery in the English Caribbean and the United States,” on Native American enslavement in English colonies in North America and the Caribbean and, later, in the United States, between Columbus and the American Civil War. More information about Prof. Fisher’s project is at indigenousslavery.org.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Rolling Thunder
Artist: Leela Gilday
Album: North Star Calling (2019)
Label: Diva Sound Records
(00:34:05)
Song: States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
CD: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North
(00:38:25)
Song Title: K’eintah Natse Ju
Artist: Leela Gilday
Album: North Star Calling (2019)
Label: Diva Sound Records
(00:44:04)
Song Title: From the Beginning (remastered 2015)
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Album: Trilogy (1972)
Label: Cotillion Records
(00:49:48)
Song Title: It's a Sign
Artist: Smokey D Palmtree
Album: Peach of Mind (2021)
Label: Produced, mixed, and mastered by Adrian D Thomas (AKA Smokey D Palmtree) (53:52)

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Tiokasin spends the entire hour with Marley Shebala (Diné and A:shiwi) — investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger.

In the Diné way, she is Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan), her mother’s clan, and born for Cha’al (Frog clan), which is her father’s clan. Her mom is from Lake Valley, New Mexico, which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation and next to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Her father is from the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. And so her home towns are Lake Valley and Zuni.

“Marley Shebala's Notebook” is her website where she provides current news coverage of the Navajo government and Navajo communities on and off the Navajo Nation. She also produces Navajo Nation environmental news and political analysis of the Navajo government and legislative process. She hosted "Politics on the Navajo Nation," an internet news show. But due to unreliable WiFi on the Navajo Nation where she resides, the weekly news show was cancelled until she can raise funds to increase WiFi power at her residence. She is available for presentations on the benefits of a free and open press in Indian Country and how to achieve accurate and fair news coverage of the Navajo Nation and Indian Country.

Marley works part-time at the Gallup Independent newspaper, which is headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico. She is the only reporter at the Gallup Independent Diné Bureau in Window Rock, Arizona, which covers the Navajo Nation. Before working for the Gallup Independent, she worked as the Navajo Times newspaper’s’ senior reporter specializing in investigative reporting on politics, domestic violence, law enforcement, veterans and the environment. She also covered a wide range of general interest stories.

Marley’s stories have won numerous awards from state and national organizations over the more than 30 years she has been in journalism. More information on Marley’s website: http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Mr. Soul (songwriter: Neil Young)
Artist: Buffalo Springfield
Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
Label: Atco Records
(00:26:26)
Song: Ship of Fools
Artist: World Party
CD: Private Revolution (1986)
Label: Chrysalis Records
(00:45:05)
Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Album: N/A - released as a single in October 2019
Label: N/A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE
(00:49:27)
Song Title: Who Discovered America?
Artist: Ozomatli
Album: Street Signs (2004)
Label: Real World Records and Concord Records
(00:56:04)

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In the first half of the show, Tiokasin welcomes back longtime friend of “First Voices Radio” Gregg Deal, (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe). Gregg is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and "disruptor." His work is informed by his Native identity and includes exhaustive critiques of American society, politics, popular culture and history. Through paintings, murals, performance work, filmmaking, spoken word, and more, Gregg invites the viewer to confront these issues both in the present and the past tense. In a 2018 TED Talk, Greg described his work as “honoring Indigenous experiences, challenging stereotypes, and pushing for accurate representations of Indigenous people in art.” It is in these "disruptions" of stereotypes and ahistorical representations which Gregg uses the term to describe his work. Gregg has exhibited his work at notable institutions both locally, nationally, and internationally including the Denver Art Museum, RedLine Gallery, and The Smithsonian Institution.

The artist currently lives with his wife and five children along the Front Range of Colorado. Gregg’s current exhibit, “End of Silence,” is on view through October 12th at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, Colorado. A major review in The Denver Post on September 19, called the exhibit, “loud in every way,” and also said it is “one of the best, and most ambitious, exhibitions this year in the region. It has a lot to say, as much about painting and pop culture as it does the politics of convenience, human mistreatment and oppression — and in that way it lives up to its title.” More information about Gregg is at greggdeal.com.
In the second half, we feature a discussion about “Saging the World,” a 20-minute documentary which is the focal point of a campaign to deter the global rush on white sage (Salvia apiana), driven by widespread cultural appropriation of smudging. Tiokasin’s guests are Co-Directors Rose Ramirez and Deborah Small. The film was created by Rose and Deborah in partnership with the California Native Plant Society. More information: https://www.cnps.org/conservation/white-sage.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: The Path
Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City
Album: Code Red (2021); Released on September 30, 2022
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Winnipeg (2021); Warner Canada (2022) (00:27:46)

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Tiokasin’s guest for the full hour is Anne Keala Kelly. Keala is a Kānaka Maoli filmmaker, journalist and activist living on Hawai‘i Island. Her works address the critical links between cultural, environmental and spiritual survival in the movement for Hawaiian self-determination, and Indigenous peoples’ struggles for territorial and political autonomy. She is an outspoken advocate for Indigenous self-representation in mass media, a Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism fellow, and has an MFA from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.

Keala’s reporting and commentary have appeared in many publications, including Indian Country Today, The Nation, the Honolulu Civil Beat and the Honolulu Weekly. Keala is the author of “Our Rights to Self-Determination: A Hawaiian Manifesto,” which was just published. For more information about Keala and her work, visit www.annekealakelly.com and www.nohohewa.com. Buy her book at www.kuleanaworks.com.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Rainmaker
Artist: Jason Lee Wilson
Album: Tennessee (2020)
Label: Dragging Canoe Music
(00:27:10)
Song: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:54:30)

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Dr. Marlina Rose Selva (Psy.D., LMFT) lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on traditional Ohlone land. Dr. Selva is of Nicaraguan, Mexican, Mescalero Apache and Greek descent. Marlina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked in the field since 2005. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She earned her Master of Arts and Doctor of Psychology degrees in Marital and Family Therapy from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University in Irvine.

Dr. Selva currently works in private practice with adolescents and families, specializing in foster care and adoption. She provides presentations to parents, educators and administrators on topics related to mental health. Dr. Selva also serves on the Board of Directors of the Ohlone Audubon Society, bringing an Indigenous perspective to conservation and environmental advocacy towards the protection of habitat for birds and other Native species. She advocates strongly with the local community for creek protections. Her activism involves protecting Indigenous rights, land and ways of life.
Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He’s worked for PBS NewsHour, The New York Times, United Nations-television, ABC News, and elsewhere. Last year, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce coverage of the pandemic in Brazil for PBS and prior to that was Executive Producer at an environmental non-profit focused on climate change. He holds a doctorate in film and theater from Columbia University, is author of the book The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, and has taught film at Yale, UCLA, Columbia, and Savannah School of Art & Design. Charles is currently directing a documentary about former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; producing coverage of the Brazilian election for PBS; and co-writing a series of articles for Mongabay, with support from Amazon Aid Foundation, about illegal gold mining in the Amazon.

Charles and Tiokasin discuss an article that Charles co-wrote with Charlie Espinosa, recently published in Mongabay, a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform, on the continuing struggle by Indigenous people in Suriname against illegal gold mining on their territory, with funding support from Amazon Aid Foundation — “Can Two New Bills Reshape Indigenous Rights and Illegal Gold Mining in Suriname?” Read the article: https://bit.ly/3UeBuf3

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: It Ain’t Over
Artist: The Black Keys
Album: Dropout Boogie (2022)
Label: Nonesuch Records, Inc.
(00:31:20)

Song: Little Men and Women
Artist: Deep Forest
CD: Deep Forest (1992)
Label: Epic Records
(00:57:50)

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Synopsis:
Colonization is a political agenda of an ideology quite often associated with forcing non-westernized peoples who suffer from the consequences of colonization, in the appropriation of land use benefiting the colonizer. This is quite often rationalized as the eminent good for all people, including the Original Peoples of a particular region, in this case the Indigenous peoples of Cauca in Colombia, South America.

Guest for the Full Hour:
Tiokasin catches up with “First Voices Radio” friend and regular guest Dr. Manuel Rozental with a report on current events from Colombia and Abya Yala including recent events in Chile involving the Mapuche people and the progressive government of Gabriel Boric.

Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel has been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He is part of an initiative: Pueblos en Camino, Peoples on the Path with a mandate to weave autonomies and resistance between peoples.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: The City: Grass and Concrete
Artist: Mark-Almond
Album: Mark-Almond (Bonus Track Edition) (1971)
Label: Verve Records
(00:48:40)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations (Tiokasin dedicated this song to the memory of Andre Vltchek)
Album: Nanna (2015)
Label: Nettwerk
(00:51:51)

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Debra Utacia Krol returns to “First Voices Radio” for the full hour. Debra is an award-winning Indigenous affairs reporter at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. She is a citizen of the Xolon SalinanTribe. Debra’s current coverage area — which is supported by the Catena Foundation and the Water Funder Initiative — is the intersection of climate, culture and commerce. Debra has more than two decades of expertise in reporting on Native issues for publications large and small, with an emphasis on environmental and science issues, and has been a contributor to two books on Native traditions. Debra has been doing excellent reporting on the issue of Indigenous peoples’ water rights in Arizona.

In the first half of the show, she and Tiokasin will be discussing her recent investigative report in The Arizona Republic: “Arizona loses more of its Colorado River water allocation under new drought plan” (Aug. 16, updated Aug. 19, 2022).

In the second half, they will discuss another of Debra’s recent investigative articles for The Arizona Republic: “Poachers cash in on sage craze, imperiling the plant’s survival for Native cultural needs” (Aug. 28, updated Sept. 1, 2022).

Read the articles here: https://bit.ly/3CXaNFk; https://bit.ly/3KIG14M

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: It Feels Like Summer
Artist: Childish Gambino
Album: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:26:32)
Song Title: By the River Side
Artist: Matthew O’Neil
Album: Songs of Connection (2022)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:42:04)
Song Title: What About Me
Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album: What About Me (1970)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:47:17)
Song Title: Circles
Artist: Post Malone
Album: Hollywood’s Bleeding (2019)
Label: Republic Records
(00:54:34)

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Tiokasin's guest in the first half-hour is Candice Hopkins, a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation. Candice is executive director of Forge Project in Taghkanic, NY. Forge Project is a Native-led initiative centered on Indigenous art, decolonial education and supporting leaders in culture, food security and land justice. Candice's writing and curatorial practice explore the intersections of history, contemporary art and Indigeneity. She is Senior Curator for the 2019 and 2022 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art.

Candice was part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the work of the media art collective Isuma; and co-curator of notable exhibitions including the national traveling survey Art for New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now; SITElines.2018: Casa Tomada, SITE Santa Fe; documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; and Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Notable essays include “The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier,” in the documenta 14 Reader; “Outlawed Social Life,” in South as a State of Mind; and “The Appropriation Debates (or The Gallows of History),” in Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press, 2020). For more information about Forge Project, visit forgeproject.com

In the second half, Tiokasin comments on the Aug. 26, 2022 article in Canada’s National Observer newspaper, “Native American Journalists Association bars New York Times from its conference over harmful coverage”: https://bit.ly/3e5ePks

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Album: On Limited Edition Vinyl (2019)
Label: N/A
(00:23:55)
Song Title: When It Rains It Pours
Artist: Thelma Plum
Album: N/A (Single)
Label: N/A (Single)
(00:40:50)
Song Title: Blue Moon Drive
Artist: iskwē, Tom Wilson feat. Chuck Copenace
Album: Mother Love (2022)
Label: iskwē Music, Inc.
(00:44:45)
Song Title: Things have Changed
Artist: Bob Dylan
CD: Wonder Boys - Music from The Motion Picture (2000)
Label: Columbia/Sony Music/Soundtrax
(00:48:45)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
Album: Nanna (2015)
Label: Nettwerk
(00:54:10)

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In 1993, Indigenous peoples, including the Yakima, Klickitat and other area nations gathered to stop the violent disrespect to a time immemorial place of sustenance called Nanainmi Waki ‘Uulktt for the Klickitat Nation.

John Trudell (Dakota, d. 2015) spoke to bring attention and support to efforts of recognizing and honoring treaty rights often dismissed by Western concepts of property, the guise of money, and the system which makes everyone vulnerable to a situational acceptance of democracy. Trudell spoke at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in front of an audience of innocence and apologetic predatory energy. Listen in to this timeless recording only edited for broadcast without removal of context.

We want to thank you for listening to "First Voices Radio." Hoka hey John Trudell.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Out in the World
Artist: GUM
Album: Out in the World (2020)
Label: Spinning Top Music
(00:27:26)
Song Title: The Universal Soldier
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: It’s My Way (1964)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:55:53)

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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Martín Prechtel for the full hour about grief and praise. Martín is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people — 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 Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own.

Martín’s books include: “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar”; “Long Life, Honey in the Heart”: “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun”; “Stealing Benefacio’s Roses”; “The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic” and “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise.” His latest book, “Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel” was published in June 2021. More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Michael G. Haskins, Studio Engineer, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Artist: Marie Boine
Album: Idjagiedas (In the Hand of Night) (2006)
Label: Universal Music Group
(00:18:48)
Song Title: Ukiug
Artist: The Jerry Cans
Album: Inuusiq/Life (2016)
Label: Aakuluk Music
(00:23:30)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
Album: Nanna (2015)
Label: Nettwerk
(00:50:15)
Song Title: Mik Maq Honor Song
Artist: Red Shadow Singers
Album: Ghost Dance Songs (2006)
Label: Arbor Records Ltd.
(00:54:38)

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Tiokasin welcomes back Jennifer Robin (Choctaw) aka "Miss Jiff" to the show. Jennifer is the owner of Ofi Ni Productions and is a multiple award-winning producer and radio host, and television segment producer. Her weekly two-hour live program, "Resilience Radio," airs on KVMR 89.5 FM in Nevada City, CA. It presents Native American authors, artists, musicians, storytellers and activists and showcases contemporary Native music.

Over the years Jennifer has interviewed hundreds of well-known Natives, including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dennis Banks and John Trudell. "Resilience Radio" has an international following and is known for the authentic Indigenous voice. Jennifer's field work in Cannonball, North Dakota during the Standing Rock protest is available as a one-hour audio special. She was a broadcaster for SPIRIT Radio, Standing Rock's official station. Jennifer's ability to engage in honest, in-depth interviews is as entertaining as it is informative. She is a member of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA).

Regular guest Doug George-Kanentiio (Akwesasne Mohawk) was born and raised at the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. He attended school on and near the reservation before enrolling at Syracuse University and then the Antioch School of Law. Doug was a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association before serving the Mohawk Nation as editor of the journals Akwesasne Notes and Indian Time. He worked with the late Vine Deloria, Jr., on the Traditional Knowledge conferences before joining the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Doug is vice-president for the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge, a non-profit higher learning facility that is based on Iroquois principles. He resides on Oneida Iroquois Territory.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Revolution
Artist: SOJA
Album: Peace in the Time of War (2002)
Label: DMV Records
(00:30:04)
Song Title: Bullet the Blue Sky
Artist: U2
Album: The Joshua Tree (1987)
Label: Island Records
(00:50:08)
Song Title: Away From Here
Artist: Smokey D Palmtree
Album: Peace of Mind (2021)
Label: Gila River Records
(00:56:18)

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Tiokasin talks with Kerri Kelly, author of American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal, (North Atlantic Books, 2022). The book dives deep into wellness culture and economy while asserting a central thesis: When we are preoccupied with our own pursuit of wellness, we fail to see and work toward a culture of collective care and wellbeing that actually works for everyone.

Kerri is an activist, wellness disruptor and the high-profile, well-connected founder of CTZNWELL, a movement that is democratizing well-being for all. A community organizer and wellness activist, Kelli is recognized across communities for her inspired work to bridge transformational practice with social justice. Her leadership has inspired a movement that is actively organizing around issues of racial and economic justice, healthcare as a human right, civic engagement and more. Kerri is a powerful facilitator, TED speaker, and host of the prominent podcast CTZN. For more information: https://kerrikelly.co and https://ctznwell.org

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Star People
Artist: Vince Fontaine's Indian City
Album: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba), to be re-released by Warner Music Canada on Sept. 30, 2022
(00:29:50)
Song Title: All Men Choose the Path They Walk
Artist: Archie Roach
Album: The Tracker (Soundtrack) (2002)
Label: Mushroom Records
(00:55:55)

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Tiokasin's guest is Will Falk, who will give an update on Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. In January 2021, Will and Max Wilbert launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass.

Will is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist. He believes the ongoing destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. Activism has taken Will to the Unist'ot'en Camp - an Indigenous cultural center and pipeline blockade on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory in so-called British Columbia, Canada, to a construction blockade on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i, and to endangered pinyon-juniper forests in the Great Basin.

Will's first book, How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me was published in August, 2019 by Homebound Publications. For more information, visit https://www.protectthackerpass.org/. Look for Will's poetry on his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/willfalk35. For more information about Will, visit https://willfalk.org/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Mother Earth
Artist: Karliene
Single: Mother Earth (2019)
Label: N/A (Available on YouTube)
(00:24:40)
Song Title: Single Pride of Man
Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album: Quicksilver Messenger Service (1968)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:28:45)
Song Title: Revolution
Artist: SOJA
Album: Peace in Time of War (2002)
Label: DMV Records
(00:32:34)
Song Title: Bo Bo's Groove
Artist: Tom Principato Band
Album: Raising the Roof (2008)
Label: Powerhouse Records
(00:37:30)
Song Title: Mother Earth
Artist: SOJA
Album: Peace in Time of War (2002)
Label: DMV Records
(00:37:30)
Song Title: Through the Eyes of Love
Artist: Walter Trout and the Radicals
Album: Notodden Blues Festival - The Best of People and Blues - Nbf, Vol. 3 (2004)
Label: Bluestown Records
(00:46:45)
Song Title: American Dream
Artist: J.S. Ondara
Album: Tales of America (The Second Coming) (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast / Universal Music Canada
(00:55:00)

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In the first half-hour Tiokasin welcomes film Director Jesse Short Bull. Jesse wrote and produced the 2013 short Istinma, set in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Jesse received a 2016 Sundance Institute Native American and Indigenous Program Development Grant and also attended the Creative Producing Summit at Sundance. In 2014 he was part of the effort to change the name of Shannon County to Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota.

Currently employed by the Oglala Lakota tribal government, Jesse is a member of the board of the Black Hills Film Festival. With the First Peoples Fund, Jesse leads youth filmmaking workshops in the Oglala Lakota Nation. Lakota Nation vs. United States - directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli - had its world premier on June 11, 2022 at the Tribeca Film Festival. View the trailer here: https://youtu.be/HtK5JPZx_XM

In the second half, returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school.

Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
Album: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:28:25)

AKANTU INSTITUTE
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Joe Pitawanakwat is Tiokasin Ghosthorse's 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, education based business, focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significance through experiences.

Joe's programming is easily adaptable to make appropriate and successfully delivered to a variety of organizations, including more than 100 First Nations communities, 20 Universities and 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada and the United States and beyond. Joe has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blends and reinforces it with an array of western sciences. Follow Joe on Instagram @creators.garden. Subscribe to Creator's Garden on YouTube.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Burning Times
Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave
Album: Burning Times (1993)
Label: Earth Beat
(00:22:05)
Song Title: Shade of History (soundtrack)
Artist: Julian Cote feat. Pura Fe
Album: Shade of History (2018)
Label: Pine Needle Productions
(00:52:38)

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In the first segment, Tiokasin talks with Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, author of the New York Times bestseller Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Raising Children (Simon and Schuster, 2021). The book describes a way of raising helpful and confident children, which moms and dads have turned to for millennia. It also explains how American families can incorporate this approach into their busy lives.

Michaeleen wrote the book after traveling to three continents with her 3-year-old daughter, Rosy. Maya, Inuit, and Hadzabe families showed her how to tame tantrums, motivate kids to be helpful, and build children's confidence and self-sufficiency.

Michaeleen is also a global health correspondent for NPR's Science Desk, where she reports about disease outbreaks and children's health. More about Michaeleen at michaeleendoucleff.com

In the second segment, William Iggiagruk Hensley (Iñupiaq) is the author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). It is a stirring memoir of his childhood among the Iñupiaq people in Alaska, his lifelong crusade, including a stint in Congress, to protect their culture and way of life.

William brilliantly portrays how the lessons he learned in childhood, battling the wilderness of Alaska without many basic necessities, helped him as an adult to battle the hardships of political corruption and deceit in order to preserve his heritage.

In 1971, after years of William's tireless lobbying, the U.S. conveyed 44 million acres and earmarked nearly $1 billion for use by Alaska Native peoples. This is the inspiring true story of one man's quest to preserve and defend his people's "Ilitqusiat" - or Native Spirit.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:25)

Song Title: Straight Up
Artist: Kory Thornton
Album: N/A (released as a single in 2020)
Label: Music and Beyond Records
(00:49:40)

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Tanya Mailelani Naehu is an educator, performer, artist, community organizer, and activist of Aloha 'Āina from the island of Moloka'i, Hawaiʻi. Stemming from a very diverse multi-racial genealogy, she is Boricua being of African, Taino and Spanish descent as well as Kanaka Maoli, Portuguese and Chinese. As co-founder of Ka Hale Hoaka, an online school of Hawaiian knowledge, her teachings are grounded in Indigenous philosophies and practices such as mo'olelo, ʻōlelo Hawai'i, hula and oli.

Ka Hale Hoaka's online curriculum has enabled Hawaiian schools to break away from a Eurocentric curriculum developed on the mainland and provide students of all ages with the ability to learn sciences, social studies, language arts, fine arts and more through an indigenous cultural lens.

Using the online learning platform Thinkific, Kumu Maile has been able to create an easy-to-use, interactive learning experience that's accessible to any person or school across Hawaiʻi and the world. More information about Maile's work can be found at: kahalehoaka.com, molokainuiahinaproject on Facebook, and huiokuapa.org.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: The Barber's Guitar
Artist: Jimmy Thackerey and The Drivers
Album: Spare Keys (2016)
Label: Rio Blanco Records
(00:30:15)
Song Title: Caravan of Fools
Artist: John Prine
Album: The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
Label: Oh Boy Records
(00:44:20)
Song Title: Amen
Artist: Enigma
Album: The Fall of a Rebel Angel (2016)
Label: Republic Records
(00:46:45)
Song Title: Ship of Fools
Artist: World Party
Album: Private Revolution (1986)
Label: Chrysallis
(00:56:20)

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On this episode Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse is joined by One Way Sky, a "Chill-Hype" alternative rock band comprised of community members from the Gila River Indian Community and the Tohono O'odham Nation. The band members are: Adrian D. Thomas: rhythm guitar, lead vocalist; Cody Bruguier; drums; David Romero, guitar; and Loma Manuel, bass.

One Way Sky's music blends the genres of hard rock, indie, jazz and "chill-wave." Their debut EP, Soul Searcher, was released in 2021.

Adrian, Cody and David join Tiokasin for an hour of talk and music. For more
information about One Way Sky, you can find them on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify and other platforms.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Humanity
Artist: One Way Sky
EP: Soul Searcher (2021)
Label: Akimel Records
(00:07:25:)
Song Title: Reap and Sow
Artist: One Way Sky
EP: Soul Searcher (2021)
Label: Akimel Records
(00:16:53)
Song Title: Away From Here
Artist: Smokey D Palmtree
EP: Peace of Mind (2021)
Label: Gila River Records
(00:22:45)
Song Title: Soul Searcher
Artist: One Way Sky
EP: Soul Searcher (2021)
Label: Akimel Records
(00:27:25)
Song Title: Time Drift
Artist: Smokey D Palmtree
EP: Peace of Mind (2021)
Label: Gila River Records
(00:31:10)
Song Title: Soul Searcher
Artist: One Way Sky
EP: Soul Searcher (2021)
Label: Akimel Records
(00:31:00)
Song Title: Voice of Earth
Artist: NASA
Album: NASA Space Sounds (2015)
Label: NASA
(00:39:50)
Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)
(00:48:35)
Song Title: He Sapa Ki, Un Kita Pi
Artist: Earl Bullhead
Album: Keeper of the Drum (1995)
Label: SOAR
(00:53:48)

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Dwaine Perry is Chief of the Ramapough-Lunaape Nation located in Mahweh, New Jersey. Chief Perry has a long history of advocacy and has sat with elders and Indigenous leaders in the Himalayas, the Andes and throughout North America, seeking and coalescing the seeds of unity and truth remaining in the colonized mind. He champions human rights today, focusing primarily on issues concerning the Ramapough Lunaape Nation and the Indigenous community at-large.

STEVEN T. NEWCOMB (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than three decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve is author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve's website is http://originalfreenations.com/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: Don't Wanna Fight
Artist: Alabama Shakes
CD: Sound and Color (2015)
Label: ATO Records
(00:20:52)
Song Title: Mad World
Artist: Gary Jules and Michael Andrews (by Michael Gondry)
Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (2001)
Label: Down Up Down Music
(00:23:38)
Song Title: Shape of Becoming
Artist: Jahan
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
(00:26:52)
Song: The Unforgotten
Artist: Iskwé
Album: acākosīk (2019)
Label: iskwé Music, Inc.
(00:58:15)

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Show Synopsis: A special hour of music and commentary from Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

Song Title: What have I done to Help
Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
CD: Reunions (2020)
Label: Southeastern Records
(00:03:05)
Song Title: Palestine
Artist: Jim Page (from Seattle, Wa)
Album: N/A (single debut)
Label: N/A
(00:09:37)
Song Title: Justice
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Album: Inner City Front
Label: True North
(00:16:26)
Song: Just Another Holy Man
Artist: Floyd Red Crow Westerman from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota
Live Performance: "Caught live somewhere, some place," said Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Label: N/A
(00:21:13)
Song Title: The Rain Falls and the Sky Shudders
Artist: Moby
Album: Move (1993)
Label: Elektra Records
(00:27:55)
Song Title: Blue Moon Drive
Artist: Iskwē and Tom Wilson and featuring Chuck Copenace
Album: Blue Moon Drive
Label: Red Music Rising
(00:31:38)
Song Title: Aataga
Artist: Ritt
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
(00:35:43)
Song Title: Grand Entry
Artist: Northern Cree
Album: Dance Hard (1997)
Label: Canyon Records
(00:37:10)
Song Title: Honor Song
Artist: Jeremy Dutcher and YoYo Ma
Album: Notes for the Future
Label: Sony Classical Records
(00:45:22)
Song Title: White Man's World
Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Album: The Nashville Sound (2017)
Label: Southeastern Records
(00:48:37)

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Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest for the full hour is 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, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change.

TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in anarchist organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play and make trouble together. Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and explores/writes about the intersection between politics and spirituality in troubled times.

"This is not about saving the world. Even the idea of saving the world is such a hubristic, western thought. The world doesn't need saving. It's we who need saving. It's we who need redemption. And that possibility only exists if we're willing to humble ourselves to the emergence of what could be." - Alnoor Ladha

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Norupo
Song Length: 03:84
Artist: Heilung
CD: Futha (2019)
Label: Season of Mist
(00:54:22)

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"There is a reason why the Six Nations-Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) were not invited to Rome to meet the pope and secure an apology for the victims of the residential schools. We don't want an apology, we want justice," writes residential school survivor Doug George-Kanentiio (Akwesasne Mohawk) in a column that was widely published in April. Tiokasin and Doug discuss the recent papal apology.

Doug was born and raised at the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. Doug George-Kanentiio was born and raised at the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. He attended school on and near the reservation before enrolling at Syracuse University and then the Antioch School of Law.

Doug was a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association before serving the Mohawk Nation as editor of the journals Akwesasne Notes and Indian Time. He worked with the late Vine Deloria, Jr., on the Traditional Knowledge conferences before joining the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Doug is vice-president for the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge, a non-profit higher learning facility that is based on Iroquois principles. He resides on Oneida Iroquois Territory. Read Doug's column: https://bit.ly/39KA5dm

The second half-hour, Tiokasin discusses Native elder abuse with CC Hovie, Communications Manager at StrongHearts Native Helpline. Domestic abuse can look similar in elder relationships as it does in their younger counterparts, but some elders may be more vulnerable to the impacts of abuse and less able to get support. CC Hovie is Anishinaabe Ojibwe from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Indians.

In her job, CC develops and oversees all StrongHearts' communications and media efforts to support the organization's mission, vision and goals. Prior to working at StrongHearts, CC was the Program Coordinator for the Grand Traverse County Senior Center Network in Michigan.

CC is experienced in public relations, media appearances, and marketing strategies. She volunteered as the Marketing Director for several non-profits and helped them create brand identity by leveraging her skills in electronic and print media. In 2002, CC began working in the domestic violence prevention field at the Advocacy Resource Center for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

She attended Lake Superior State University and Ferris State University with a concentration on Business Management. For more information about StrongHearts Native Helpline, visit strongheartshelpline.org.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:15)

Song Title: Wela'lin
Song Length: 03:01
Artist: Emma Stevens, Morgan Toney & SHIFT FROM THA 902
Album: N/A (Single, 2021)
Label: N/A
(00:26:37)
Song Title: Another Day in Paradise
Song Length: 05:22
Artist: Phil Collins
Album: Another Day in Paradise (1989)
Label: Atlantic Records
(00:46:40)
Song Title: Come As You Are
Song Length: 03:44
Artist: Nirvana
Album: Nevermind (1992)
Label: DGC
(00:53:10)

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This episode is a special hour of global Indigenous music and commentary by Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Song length: 00:04:50
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:00)

Song Title: Who Discovered America
Song Length: 04:35
Artist: Ozomatli
Album: Street Signs (2004)
Label: Concord Records
(00:06:44)
Song Title: Leonard Peltier in a Cage
Song Length: 01:23
Artist: The Goats
Album: Tricks of the Shade (1992)
Label: Ruffhouse
(00:11:11)
Title: The Walrus: What iskwé learned from her grandfather (Nov. 5, 2018)
Length: 07:20
Artist: iskwé
Source: The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/remembrance-iskwe/
(00:12:36)
Song Title: The Unforgotten
Song Length: 03:46
Artist: iskwé
Album: acākosīk (2019)
Label: iskwé Music, Inc.
(00:25:05)
Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Song Length: 04:47
Artist: Mari Boine
Album: In the Hand of the Night (2006)
Label:
(00:23:32)
Song Title: Amassakoul 'N'Ténéré
Song Length: 03:24
Artist: Tinariwen
Album: Amassakoul (2004)
Label: INDEPENDENT RECORDS
(00:32:01)
Song Title: Ogou (Pran Ke Mwen)
Song Length:
Artist: Lakou Mizik, Joseph Ray
Album: Leave the Bones (2021)
Label: Anjunadeep
(00:35:20)
Song Title: Ready
Song Length:
Artist: Liv Wade
Album: Know Your Medicine (2022)
Label: Liv Wade
(00:41:30)
Song Title: Ngā Iwi E
Song Length: 03:47
Artist: Indigie Femme
CD: Te Hau Waiata
Label: Indigie Femme
(00:44:28)
Song Title: Humanity
Song Length: 04:06
Artist: One Way Sky
CD: Soul Searcher (2021)
Label: Akimel Records
(00:40:09)
Song Title: The City
Song Length: 03:12
Artist: Mark-Almond
Album: Mark-Almond (Bonus Track Edition) (1971)
Label: Verve Records
(00:56:00)

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Edgardo Krebs was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied social anthropology at the University of Oxford in England. Edgardo's main topic of interest is the history of anthropology in Argentina. He did fieldwork among the Tatsimo of southern Madagascar, and in Tierra del Fuego, following the diaries of Sir Baldwin Spencer. He conducted several research trips to the Gran Chaco.

Harpers Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement have published his work, which has also appeared in several scholarly journals and books. Edgardo's book on the first film adaptation of Richard Wright's 1950 film Native Son, which was shot in Buenos Aires with Wright himself playing the lead role, appeared in Spanish. Edgardo was the executive producer of the film's restoration. Edgardo is now working on the biography of Alfred Métraux, one of the pioneers of Gran Chaco ethnography.

Edgardo is a Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Tiokasin and Edgardo discuss "Landmark Napalpí Massacre trial begins in Argentina, 98 years after Indigenous Killings," an article that was published in The Buenos Aires Times on April 20, 2022. The article opens with this sentence: "Almost 100 years after police officers and settlers in Argentina mowed down hundreds of Indigenous people protesting living and working conditions on cotton plantations, a landmark trial has opened in Chaco Province to finally secure some form of accountability."

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Loye Miller, Final Audio Edit

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:15)

Song Title: Tree of Life (lead vocals by Don Amero)
Song Length: 03:14
Artist: Indian City
Album: Here & Now (2017)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, MB, Canada
(00:31:10)
Song Title: Tiny Hands
Song Length: 03:04
Artist: Quantum Tangle
Album: Shelter As We Go (2017)
Label: Coax Records, Calgary, AB, Canada
(00:35:05)
Song Title: Spring to Come
Song Length: 03:07
Artist: Digging Roots
Album: We Are (2009)
Label: Digging Roots
(00:37:45)
Song: Some Kind of Hell
Song Length: 03:34
Artist: Burnstick
Album: Kîyânaw (2019)
Label: Burnstick
(00:41:08)
Song Title: Reap and Sow
Song Length: 05:14
Artist: One Way Sky
EP: Soul Searcher (2021)
Label: Akimel Records
(00:44:57)
Song Title: Star People
Song Length: 03:54
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, MB, Canada
(00:53:23)

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Tiokasin welcomes Dr. Tink Tinker back to "First Voices Radio" this week. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school.

Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.

Dr. Tinker is the author of American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty (Orbis Press, 2008); and is author or editor of several other volumes; and has written nearly a hundred journal articles and chapters for edited volumes. He has served on the Leadership Council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado and was active in the 30-year project to rid Colorado of its state proclaimed columbus day holiday, which was finally successful in April 2020.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Natural Mystic
Artist: Luka Bloom
Album: Keeper of the Flame (2000)
Label: Big Sky Records
(00:29:05)
Spoken Word Presentation: The Plantagon Message (September 2011)
Narrator: Oren Lyons
Album: N/A
Label: N/A. License: Creative Commons Attribution
(00:43:08)
Song Title: The Road to Hell Parts I and II
Artist: Chris Rea
Album: The Road to Hell (1989)
Label: Rhino Entertainment
(00:48:15)
Song: Society
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into the Wind (2007)
Label: BMG Music Entertainment
(00:56:15)

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In the first segment, Tiokasin speaks with award-winning filmmaker and photographer Deborah Anderson, director, producer and writer of the 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, prayer and hope. Women of the White Buffalo features testimonials from nine women from the Lakota Nation, ranging in age from 10 to 98, living on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in South Dakota.

Deborah's work has graced the covers of pop music albums and magazines, as well as the walls of an expansive clientele of private homes and landmark hotels worldwide. Of Indigenous, Black, Irish and Scottish descent, her photographic work has hung in galleries both in Europe and the US, including the world-class Leica Galleries, which have hosted three shows for her Women Of The White Buffalo series. More information at https://womenofthewhitebuffalo.com/home

In the second segment, Tiokasin speaks with Scott Frazier, a Santee and enrolled Crow Tribe citizen. He is currently Executive Director and Indigenous Liaison for Project WET, and recently he formed a new company called Project Indigenous, with the mission of promoting wellness, diversity and environmental consultation to Indigenous peoples.

Tiokasin and Scott discuss the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, which is taking place in 2022. As a highly accomplished and driven leader, Scott keeps a rigorous schedule of public speaking engagements and guest appearances teaching Native environmental education. He has been involved in buffalo issues for many years. When asked what his perspective is as a Native person on water, wellness, and environmental issues, he says: "To me all things on this planet are earth, wind, fire and water. Different proportions, of course, but maintaining a relationship to all… In the Native perspective of nature, we are all part of nature… We are not just observers." More information can be found at https://projectindigenous.com

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: The Cleansing
Artist: John Trudell
Album: Tribal Voice (1983)
Label: Effective
(00:26:50)
Song Title: Lakota Flute Song
Artist: Georgia Wettelin-Larsen
Album: Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women (1995)
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
(00:29:58)

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Do the languages and cosmologies of Indigenous peoples hold the keys to the mysteries of quantum physics and the nature of reality? That is 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 documentary begins by exploring how language and worldview influence each other. Filmmaker Anthony DellaFlora captures this momentous meeting of minds and the beginnings of the ongoing dialogue in The Language of Spirituality. Participants in the dialogues, including Fred Alan Wolf (What the Bleep Do We Know?), Bohm colleague the late F. David Peat and Blackfoot scholar Leroy Little Bear, speak about the dialogues and their implications for the future.For more information, visit http://www.thelanguageofspirituality.com/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)
(00:30:03)
Song Title: Rainy Night in Georgia
Artist: Tony Joe White
Album: Continued (1969)
Label: Warner Records
(00:53:30)

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Munya 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 accomplished author and barrister with degrees in anthropology and law. Educated in Australia and the United States, she is fascinated by comparative religions, languages, mythology and science, and is intrigued by the way in which they interact and inform each other.

Munya's book, Journey into Dreamtime, is an easy guide to Aboriginal spirituality that explains Dreamtime concepts in a simple way. Munya's life purpose is to create better understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal people, leaving behind a legacy of Dreamtime wisdom for generations to come.

Munya's long term vision is to create a fairer, more inclusive Australian society, which recognizes and pays respect to its First Nations people.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Lakota Calling Song / Dream Song / Doing Song / Being Song
Artist: Lakota
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
(00:35:35)
Song Title: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Artist: Tears for Fears
Album: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985)
Label: Phonogram / Mercury
(00:45:40)

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Melanie 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 the Iron Butt Association riding her Harley-Davidson motorcycle 1000 miles in 24 hours!

Melanie is a faculty member with the Academy for Systems Change, the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning and is a Scholar Practitioner Faculty member at the University of Vermont's MS and Ph.D. in Leadership for Sustainability. She is an Advisor to the new Systems Awareness Lab at MIT and in 2022 will be a Systems Changer in Residence with The Omidyar Group. Melanie is an alumna of the IWF Leadership Foundation's Fellows Program (2015-16 class) sponsored by Harvard Business School and INSEAD.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Fallin' Rain (written by Link Wray)
Artist: Neville Brothers
Album: Brother's Keeper (1990)
Label: A&M Records
(00:26:22)
Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)
(00:50:40)
Song: Caravan of Fools
Artist: John Prine
Album: The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
Label: Oh Boy Records
(00:56:02)

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Kwitsel 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 school, where she suffered incomprehensible abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church and the Canadian government, and has spent decades in court working tirelessly to hold Canada accountable for its genocidal behavior against First Nations.

A blunt and outspoken advocate, Kwitsel was exiled from her own community in 2000 after demanding the elected Chief and Council be transparent and accountable to the money they receive from the Canadian government - she has been homeless or precariously housed ever since. For the past year, Kwitsel has been living in a camper van; but since it broke down in the late summer, she has moved into a small car and currently lives in this car around so-called Vancouver. For more information, google "Kwitsel Tatel."

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Universal Soldier
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: It's My Way (1964)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:30:40)
Song Title: Sarereen Hoveen Mernem (means "I die of / for the winds of the mountains, meaning I love the wind of the mountains." The "mountains" refer to the great Armenian Mount Ararat and Masis.)
Instrumental: Armenian duduk wind instrument
Album: N/A
(00:48:50)

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Tiokasin talks with Fred 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 Territory). He has lived in this area most of his life.

Fred has helped with the marketing and promotion of two books: And Grandma Said by Mohawk elder Tom Porter and What I Need To Leave Behind by elder Betty Maracle.

Fred has traveled across North America to meet and learn traditional knowledge, spirituality and history from many elders. He has done public speaking and is a social activist.

Fred has worked on an environmental contaminants research project at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in association with Trent University, and he has worked for the environmental department for National Defense. For the past nine years, Fred has been running his own business.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: The Cleansing
Artist: John Trudell
Album: Tribal Voice (1983)
Label: Effective
(00:28:40)
Song Title: The City: Grass and Concrete, Taxi to Brooklyn
Artist: Mark-Almond
Album: Speak Easy, It's a Whiskey Scene (1971)
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.
(00:35:05)
Song: ImagiNation (feat. David Strickland)
Artist: ImagiNation (Q052 is a Mi'gmaq rapper from Gesgapegiag, Quebec. His collaborators are: Stun, David Strickland, Hyper-T, Will E. Skandalz, Wendego, Simon Nevin and Sensei H. They claim justice for Indigenous people.)
Album: ImagiNation
Label: Musique Nomad
(00:45:25)
Song Title: Voice of Earth
Artist: NASA
Album: NASA Space Sounds (2015)
Label: NASA
(00:52:16)
Song Title: Change on the Rise
Artist: Avi Kaplan
EP: I'll Get By (2019)
Label: Fantasy Records
(00:54:40)

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Tiokasin talks with returning guest and friend of First Voices Radio, Ed 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, silvercraft, and multi-lingual musical compositions.

Kabotie considers himself an "Edu-tainer," using the arts and music to educate people about social justice issues related to the Indigenous people and lands of the Colorado Plateau. His reggae rock band, Tha 'Yoties, are known for their catchy melodies, lively performances and conscious message. Tiokasin and Ed will talk about (in Tiokasin's words): "How education experimenting and living experience are the differences… and how to hold them inclusively."

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: The River
Artist: Ed Kabotie
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
(Song available on YouTube)
(00:26:30)
Song Title: Rule the World
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Album: Love and Hate (2016)
Label: Polydor Records
(00:50:15)
Song Title: Love and Hate
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Album: Love and Hate (2016)
Label: Polydor Records
(00:55:17)

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Dr. Tink Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school.

Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.

Dr. Tinker is the author of American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty (Orbis Press, 2008) and is author or editor of several other volumes. He has written nearly a hundred journal articles and chapters for edited volumes. He has served on the Leadership Council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado and was active in the 30-year project to rid Colorado of its state proclaimed columbus day holiday, which was finally successful in April 2020.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
Album: Nanna (2015)
Label: Nettwerk
(00:22:40)
Song Title: In the Blood
Artist: Robbie Robertson
Album: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:52:20)

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David 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 well-seated intellectual beliefs. It is deep, effortlessly iconoclastic, factually rigorous, and pleasurable to read." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author, The Black Swan

Tiokasin talks with co-author David Wengrow, a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including, What Makes Civilization? David has conducted archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.

Co-author David Graeber (d. 9/2/2020) was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He was the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Guardian and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Rich Man's War
Artist: John Trudell with Jesse Ed Davis
Album: AKA Graffiti Man (1992)
Label: Rykodisc
(00:32:05)
Song Title: Prayer
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse with vocals by Lisa Bodnar
Album: Ghosthorse - Ksa (2007)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:37:55)
Song Title: Darker Than a Shadow
Artist: Terry Callier
Album: Speak Your Peace (2002)
Label: Mr Bongo
(00:43:37)

Artist: Terry Callier
CD: It's About Time
Album: The New Folk Sound (1965)
Label: Prestige Records
(00:52:27)

Song Title: Waiting on a War
Artist: Foo Fighters
CD: Medicine at Midnight (2021)
Label: Roswell Records
(00:55:47)

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In the first segment, Tiokasin talks with Eda Zavala Lopez, 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 healing practices by leading ceremonies with medicinal plants, practicing ancient ways of healing knowledge and empowering her people in preserving their sacred territories.

As a Curandera, Eda directly uses the power of medicinal plants to help heal people emotionally and spirituality, especially women. As a spiritual leader in her village, she is deeply committed to Indigenous Peruvian people in defending their sacred territories and protecting their lands. Find out more about Eda at http://www.edazavalalopez.com/

In the second segment, Tiokasin's guest is Oqwilowgwa Kim Recalma-Clutesi of the Qualicum First Nation, British Columbia, Canada. Oqwilowgwa is a cross-cultural interpreter, teacher, researcher and writer on topics of ethnobiology and tribal history. She is also a nonprofit director, political organizer, and award-winning videographer and film producer.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
Album: Tales of America (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast Records
(00:25:32)
Song Title: Beaiveldttás (Butterfly)
Artist: Marie Boine (Saami)
Album: Eight Seasons (Gávcci Jahkejuogu) (2001)
Label: NorthSide
(00:52:46)

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Tiokasin's guest for the full hour is George Nuku. George is an artist from Aotearoa. He is of Scottish, German and Maori descent and has been a full-time practitioner of arts for 36 years. George's works range from delicate pearl shell, bone and jade amulets to life-size plexiglass sculptures and multi-story high polystyrene depictions of Polynesian demigods and Maori culture heroes.

His decades of art practice has been spent globally, ranging from the world's prestigious art institutions and treasure houses through to communities of all ethnicities and socio-economic status. George has created more than 100 projects to date, including: the British Museum, National Museum of Scotland, Museum of Geneva, Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, United Nations Forum for Indigenous People, Tijibao Cultural Centre in Nouméa, New Caledonia and many more. George carries the thousands' year-old art traditions of his ancestors that promise to both expand life and enhance survival.

George talks about his life's journey ranging from children to the elders to the ancestors - the concepts of time, practicality with Mother Earth, throughout his art carvings to his art carvings to the political aspects of working at the United Nations in the early 2000s.

Tiokasin and George discuss the importance of Indigenous peoples who were largely ignored by the dominant societies; and if it were not for previous generations who didn't need the dominant societies and being noticed by Mother Earth let alone modern day society. The Maori Nation's culture is vibrant, up-to-date and never archaic - the same as many Indigenous peoples thoughts and ways of living with Earth.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Tangihia
Artist: Tama Waipara (Maori) (feat. Hinewehi Mohi)
Album: Fill Up the Silence (2007)
Label: Tama Waipara music
(00:24:50)
Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Mé
Artist: Marie Boine (Saami)
Album: In the Hand of the Night (2006)
Label: Universal Music Group
(00:52:15)

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Tiokasin'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 advocate of cross-cultural understandings and healing and of our human responsibilities to care for all creatures and our Earth Mother. He is the spouse of Murdena Marshall, the father of six children, the grandfather or great grandfather for many more, and a friend to thousands.

In 2009, Albert along with his wife Murdena were conferred the degree Doctor of Letters honoris causa by Cape Breton University for their tireless efforts to help promote cross-cultural understandings, reconciliation, and healing.

Albert is a founding member of the Elder's Lodge for the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership hosted by the IISAAK OLOM Foundation, the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, and the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. For more information: conservation-reconciliation.ca

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Things We Do
Artist: Indigenous
Album: Acoustic Sessions (2010)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:23:37)
Song Title: Rest of My Days
Artist: Indigenous
Album: Acoustic Sessions (2010)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:40:00)
Song Title: Took The Children Away
Artist: Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter
Album: Ruby (2005)
Label: Mushroom

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Colonization is a political agenda of an ideology quite often associated with forcing non-westernized peoples who suffer from the consequences of colonization, in the appropriation of land use benefiting the colonizer. This is quite often rationalized as the eminent good for all people, including the Original Peoples of a particular region, in this case the Indigenous peoples of the Association of Indigenous Councils in Cauca, Colombia, South America.

Tiokasin catches up with First Voices Radio friend and regular guest Dr. Manuel Rozental with a report on current events in Colombia, including the recent news of the cowardly assassination of 14 year-old Indigenous activist Breiner David Cucuñame of the Nasa people, who was shot dead while on patrol protecting his territory with the unarmed group Indigenous Guard.

Manuel puts this most recent assassination into context for us. He reports that as of January 23, 2022, there have been 10 massacres in Colombia with 96 people being assassinated. In 2021, there were more than 96 massacres, with more than 338 people murdered. Proportionally, given the number of Indigenous peoples in Colombia, the greatest number of people assassinated in these massacres were Indigenous and Afro-Colombian people.

Though the media generates confusion about this and conflicting versions, the way to understand these massacres is to understand who benefits from this. The beneficiaries are people related with the huge drug trade, not gangs but the massive trans-national corporate money-making business in the world that involves the Colombian economy massively.

Ninety-two percent of the cocaine produced in the world comes out of Colombia. Territories are being invaded by the monocultures of coca and marijuana, and these are transformed and are being distributed. Those who profit from this are large corporate interests and elites throughout the planet; and then most of the money, though it's Colombian-based, flows north just like it happens with any corporate interest.

Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel's been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: That Smell
Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
CD: Street Survivors (Deluxe Edition) (1977)
Label: MCA
(00:25:32)
Song Title: Spatial Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
CD: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse
(Note: Includes a few closing words from the late John Trudell)
(00:38:00)
Song Title: Sundancer (Leonard Peltier's Words)
Artist: Oliver Shanti & Friends
CD: 15 Years of Sattva Music (2001)
Label: Sattva Music
(00:50:37)

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Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree and Métis) is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation. Dr. Steeves' research focus is on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere, reclaiming and rewriting Indigenous histories and healing and reconciliation, and she argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. Her first book - which should be in every library - is "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americas," published in July 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press.

Dr. Steeves has said that rewriting and un-erasing Indigenous histories becomes a part of healing and reconciliation, transforming public consciousness, and confronting and challenging racism.

During this podcast, Tiokasin talks with Dr. Steeves about her current work on the "Canadian Residential School and Colonial Institutions Database, 1620 to the Present." This is a comprehensive database of Residential Schools, Indian Hospitals, and Indian Day Schools in Canada. There are now 950 sites in the database. Dr. Steeves says, "The numbers of missing and deceased children who were forced to attend residential schools in Canada may never be known. We must work to find the ones we can, to locate the hundreds of unmarked burials at residential schools, Indian day schools, and Indian hospitals, and to acknowledge the children, and honor their memories." Visit https://www.crscid.com/database for more information. If you notice a school or institution is missing, email the information to Dr. Steeves at paulette.steeves@algomau.ca and the information will be added to the database.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Fallen Angel (feat. Peter Gabriel)
Artist: Robbie Robertson
CD: Robbie Robertson (1987)
Label: Geffen Records
(00:38:37)
Audio Selection: Begin Again (Short Film) (2020)
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Synopsis: To celebrate the limited edition vinyl release of "Begin Again," Nick Mulvey together with director Sam Mulvey brings us a short and poignant film reflecting on the meaning of "Begin Again" and how the musical project developed in one of the most unprecedented years in our lifetime.
Film available for viewing on YouTube: Search Nick Mulvey Begin Again
Listen to the song Begin Again: http://nickmulvey.lnk.to/BeginAgainID
(00:42:58)

Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

In the first segment, Tiokasin speaks with Stephanie Witkowski. Stephanie is executive director of 7000 Languages, a nonprofit organization that helps Indigenous people around the world teach, learn and sustain their languages through technology. 7000 Languages creates free online language-learning courses in partnership with Indigenous, minority, and refugee communities so they can keep their languages alive.

Stephanie has more than 10 years of experience in both language revitalization and the non-profit sector. She holds a M.A. in Linguistic from the University at Hawai'i Mānoa with an emphasis in Language Documentation and Conservation and has worked with speakers of multiple under-documented languages, including Native languages of California, the Pacific, and Russia. To find out more about 7000 Languages, visit 7000.org.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes Luella Brien. Four Points Media is the dream of Luella, an Apsáalooke journalist with nearly 20 years of experience in the news industry. Luella has over the last decade envisioned a media company that produces the highest quality investigative and public service journalism. Four Points Media, Inc. is the embodiment of that vision.

Luella is the descendant of powerful healers, educators and leaders and, most importantly, storytellers. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Montana, is a 2002 graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, and was a 2004 Chips Quinn Scholar. Luella has three children and lives on the Crow Indian Reservation in Southeastern Montana.

On January 11, First Voices Radio lost a friend, Vince Fontaine (Sagkeeng First Nation). Vince was a celebrated, JUNO Award-winning Ojibwe musician and a major force in the Canadian music industry for more than three decades, Vince was the founder of the bands Eagle & Hawk and Indian City. We remember Vince with his Indian City band's song "Star People" from the band's fourth album "Code Red," released in November 2021.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Intro
Artist: Red Shadow Singers
CD: Ghost Dance Songs (2006)
Label: Arbor Records, Ltd.
(00:29:00)
Song Title: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:53:25)

In closing, visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

It is our honor this week to spend the full hour with Robbie Thorpe (Gunai/Mara), one of the most outspoken, well-known and respected Aboriginal rights activists in Australia. He is a former volunteer worker at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the Australian capital of Canberra. Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been a permanent protest occupation site since 1972 and is a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians located.

Robbie is the host of two radio programs at 3CR 855 AM Community Radio - "radical radio, community radio" - in Melbourne, Australia. "Bunji's Fire" is a historically informed, critical analysis of Aboriginal affairs and the ongoing political movement for land rights, treaty, sovereignty and the cessation of genocide, which also features the best of blak music. It's heard Wednesdays in Melbourne, from 11 am to 2 pm. "Blak 'n Deadly" airs Fridays from 11 am to noon in Melbourne. The show informs listeners about the latest news in Indigenous music and theatre with First Nations presenters.

When 3CR Community Radio hit Melbourne's airwaves in 1976, it was Australia's first community-owned and community-run grassroots radio station. Outspoken and independent, the station still gives voice to issues that would otherwise go unheard, and to people striving for political and social justice. Listen to 3CR online at 3cr.org.au. Both of Robbie's shows can be streamed live on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7 pm Eastern Time in the US.

In closing, Tiokasin talked about Akantu Institute, an organization that he recently founded. Akantu Institute "contextualizes original wisdom for troubled times." Visit https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining Tiokasin's Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Audio: We Will Not Let Exam Results Decide Our Fate
Artist: Suli Breaks
Spoken Word Single Release, 2013
(00:22:42)
Song Title: Treaty
Artist: Yothu Yindi
CD: Tribal Voice (1991)
Label: Mushroom Records
(00:42:30)
Song Title: Society
Artist: Eddie Vedder
CD: Into the Wild (2007)
Label: J
(00:46:05)
Song Title: Šunka Waḳan Manunpe Olowan Wan
Artist: Common Man Singers
CD: Spirit of Song (1996)
Label: Makoché Music
(00:56:24)

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Matt Remle (Hunkpapa Lakota). Matt lives in Duwamish Territory - Seattle, Washington - with his family. He is the editor and writer for Last Real Indians and works for the Office of Native Education for the Marysville School District. Matt is the co-founder of the group Mazaska Talks which focuses on global divestment from banks and corporations that negatively impact social welfare and the environment.

He is the author of Seattle's Indigenous Peoples' Day resolution, Seattle's resolution calling on Congress to engage in reconciliation with Tribes over the Boarding School Era policies, Seattle's resolution to oppose the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, and Seattle's ordinance to divest from Wells Fargo. He's currently serving on the City of Seattle's stakeholders committee to establish a public bank and served on Seattle's Green New Deal Steering Committee.

In 2014, Matt was awarded Seattle's Individual Human Rights Leader award. In 2017, he was awarded the National Indian Education Association's Educator of the Year, the Billy Frank Jr. Natural Resource Protection Award, and was named one of Seattle's Most Influential People. In 2020, Matt was named by the Seattle Times as one of the "top ten most influential people to watch for in the next decade."

Matt serves on the Steering Committee of Stop the Money Pipeline, a network of more than 130 organizations and tens of thousands of everyday people who are working to hold the financial sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis: stopthemoneypipeline.com

In the second half of the show, Tiokasin catches up with Max Wilbert. Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He is an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. Max's latest book is "Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It."

In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and Will Falk launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Max appears regularly on First Voices Radio to give updates on what's happening at Thacker Pass and what we can do to support the peoples' efforts. To keep up with the news about Thacker Pass, check out the website at protectthackerpass.org and Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: I Know I'm Not Alone
Artist: Michael Franti & Spearhead
CD: Yell Fire (2005)
Label: ANTI-
(00:30:15)
Song Title: Radiate
Artist: Sailing Conductors (feat.Tiokasin Ghosthorse)
CD: Songs for Marianne (2015)
Label: Spinnup
(00:51:20)

During this episode of First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse presents a special hour of music and commentary. He features 11 songs that were listener favorites during 2021.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: What About Those Promises?
Artist: The Thunderbirds Raised Her, feat. Jefferson Sister of Lummi Nation
CD: n/A
Label: n/a
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y7tZDOWhufA
(00:02:52)
Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: N/A - released as a single in October 2019
Label: N/A; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE
(00:07:25)
Song Title: Freedom
Artist: Mau Power Feat. Archie Roach
CD: The Show Will Go On (2014)
Label: Aylan Styles
(00:13:33)
Song Title: In the Blood
Artist: Robbie Robertson
CD: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:19:50)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
CD: Nanna
Label: Nettwerk
(00:24:15)
Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
CD: Tales of America (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast Records
(00:30:25)
Song Title: Ogou (Pran Ka Mwen)
Artist: Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray
CD: Leave The Bones (2021)
Label: Anjunadeep
(00:34:18)
Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Artist: Marie Boine
CD: Idjagiedas (In the Hand of Night) (2006)
Label: Universal Music Group
(00:41:33)
Song Title: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:46:18)
Song Title: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:54:40)

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Munya Andrews. Munya is an Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born to an Aboriginal woman and Scottish father, she is proud of her Aboriginal and Celtic heritage. Her Bardi 'saltwater' people come from the Dampier Peninsula and the off-shore islands north of Broome.

Regarded by Melbourne University as a "leading Australian thinker," Munya is an accomplished author and barrister with degrees in anthropology and law. Educated in Australia and the USA, she is fascinated by comparative religions, languages, mythology and science and intrigued by the way in which they interact and inform each other.

Munya's first book, "The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades," explores world mythology surrounding the Pleiades star cluster and the relationship between science and spirituality. "Seven Sisters" Dreaming serves to empower Aboriginal women and children and Munya embodies its personification. From an early age, she lived a life of social disadvantage, poverty, sexual abuse and not having spoken until the age of five. This book looks at the common themes and wisdom shared by humanity by these stories.

Her second book, "Journey into Dreamtime," is an easy guide to Aboriginal spirituality that explains Dreamtime concepts in a simple way. Munya's life purpose is to create better understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal people, leaving behind a legacy of Dreamtime wisdom for generations to come.

Her third book, "Practical Reconciliation," which she co-authored with Carla Rogers, is a call to action for all Australians to further the cause of Reconciliation by becoming allies to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Munya's long term vision is to create a fairer, more inclusive Australian society, which recognizes and pays respect to its First Nations people.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Stars All Seem to Weep
Artist: Beth Orton
CD: Pass in Time: The Definitive Collection (2003)
Label: Deconstruction/Heavenly
(00:27:18)
Song Title: Star People
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canad
(00:52:20)
Song Title: Sunrise Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Joy Askew
CD: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:56:05)

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dakota Yazzie of Earth Surface People, an Indigenous (Diné) led music collective whose work is based in decolonizing popular music through Indigenous storytelling and history. Earth Surface People was started in 2015 with multi-instrumentalist Dakota Yazzie and jazz saxophonist Jai Ram Rideout. The band's music melds influences from Hip Hop, Neo Soul, Psychedelic, Art Rock and Americana. Earth Surface People is: Cochise Yazzie - Synth, Ken Chavez - Bass, Vocals, Zach Dominguez - Keyboard, Drums , Dakota Lee Yazzie - Guitar, Vocals, Synth, and Jai Ram Rideout - Saxophone.

Follow Earth Surface on Facebook at www.facebook.com/earthsurfacepeople/ and Instagram @earthsurfacepeople. Earth Surface People's "500 Years" EP is available on Bandcamp at earthsurfacepeople.bandcamp.com.

Our second guest is Matthew O'Neill, a musical artist based in the Catskill Mountains. His music seeks to create connection and right relationship with all of our kin. Decolonizing music is a central commitment. Matthew is a lifelong advocate for Indigenous rights and justice for Mother Earth. In 2017, he created the Underwater Panther Coalition record label, with the intention of supporting Native artists and amplifying Indigenous musical ways. Look for Matthew at: www.matthew-oneill.com;; www.underwaterpanthercoalition.com

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Naiche
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:12:15)
Song Title: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:23:40)
Song Title: River
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:35:20)
Song Title: 500 Years
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:46:00)
Song Title: Silver Lining
Artist: First Aid Kit
CD: Stay Gold (2014)
Label: Columbia Records
(00:53:10)

Tiokasin's guest 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 is still at home for a few more years.

She works in many capacities spiritually and professionally. Nina has a western education as well as traditional knowledge. Nina says, "Mainly, I love advocacy work - it is what drives me. I enjoy life, language, culture, singing and family. Family is very important to me. I am grateful for all who live life protecting the land waters and all living beings. We are here to make sure life is balanced and humble. Being a founder of the Idle No More movement has allowed me to meet many fantastic people who are all like minded. We are a spiritual family."

Idle No More started in November 2012, among Treaty People in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta protesting the Canadian government's dismantling of environmental protection laws, endangering First Nations peoples who live on the land. Born out of face-to-face organizing and popular education, but fluent in social media and new technologies, Idle No More has connected the most remote reserves to each other, to urbanized Indigenous people, and to the non-Indigenous population.

Led by women, and with a call for a re-founded nation-to-nation relations based on mutual respect, Idle No More rapidly grew into an inclusive, continent-wide network of urban and rural Indigenous working hand in hand with non-Indigenous allies to build a movement for Indigenous rights and the protection of land, water and sky.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Easy
Artist: Hawkfather & The Swiss Enigma
CD: Kwest (2021)
Label: Hawkfather
(00:26:45)
Song Title: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:53:18)

Martín 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 international school Bolad's Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own.

Martín's books include: "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar"; "Long Life, Honey in the Heart": "The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun"; "Stealing Benefacio's Roses"; "The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic" and "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise." His latest book, "Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel" was published on June 8, 2021.

More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Artist: Marie Boine
CD: Idjagiedas (In the Hand of Night) (2006)
Label: Universal Music Group
(00:18:48)
Song Title: Ukiug
Artist: The Jerry Cans
CD: Inuusiq/Life (2016)
Label: Aakuluk Music
(00:23:30)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
CD: Nanna (2015)
Label: Nettwerk
(00:50:15)
Song Title: Mik Maq Honor Song
Artist: Red Shadow Singers
CD:Ghost Dance Songs (2006)
Label: Arbor Records Ltd.
(00:54:38)

Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first half-hour is 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, approximately 30 miles from the Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tiokasin and President Buck discuss a November 13, 2021 article in the New York Times: "Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe's Ancestral Home."

President Shelley Buck is serving her fifth term on Prairie Island Tribal Council and third term as president. Prior to being elected Tribal Council president, President Buck held other positions within the Prairie Island Indian Community government, including Tribal Council secretary and assistant secretary/treasurer, enrollment clerk in the Prairie Island Enrollment Office and government relations specialist for the Tribe. She has also served on the Pow Wow and Constitution Revision Committees.

She is currently working on a second masters degree in tribal Indian law from the University of Tulsa. President Buck is vice-chair of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.

In the second half-hour, First Voices Radio remembers the late John Trudell, who left us in 2015. Although his remarks are from 1980, his observations have stood the test of time and still resonate today.

The names of U.S. politicians that John mentions have changed over the years but the issues that Indigenous peoples faced then and now remain the same. John Trudell has been identified as a poet, a fighter for Indigenous rights, an agitator, and many other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suited him, he would have refused to be pinned down. John said, "Actually, I don't consider myself to be any of those things. They are things that I do but they are parts of me. They are not the total."

John Trudell was the complex sum of all that he saw, endured and accomplished in his 69 years, a time in which he experienced more than most people might in several lifetimes. More information about John Trudell can be found at https://www.johntrudell.com/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music and Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Caravan of Fools
Artist: John Prine
CD: The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
Label: Oh Boy Records
(00:17:38)
Song Title: Wildseed
Artist: John Trudell and Kwest
CD: Through the Dust (2014)
Label: Dialect Records
(00:53:53)

Joe Pitawanakwat joins Tiokasin Ghosthorse for the full hour of this 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, education based business, focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significance through experiences. Joe's programming is easily adaptable to make appropriate and successfully delivered to a variety of organizations, including more than 100 First Nations communities, 20 Universities, 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada, the United States and beyond.

Joe has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blends and reinforces it with an array of western sciences. Follow Joe on Instagram @creators.garden. Subscribe to Creator's Garden on YouTube.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Burning Times
Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave
CD: Burning Times (1993)
Label: Earth Beat
(00:23:53)
Song Title: Chatting Through Steele (feat. David Hidalgo of Los Lobos)
Artist: Cole Gallagher
CD: N/A (released as single October 29, 2021)
Producer: Vance Powell
(00:54:35)

In the first segment of this episode, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Vince Fontaine. Vince (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 and band leader of the Winnipeg folk-pop collective Indian City. Tiokasin talks with Vince about Indian City's 4th album, CODE RED, which was released on November 3rd. Vince says, "Code Red became a much-used term in 2020, expressing a state of global health emergency during the pandemic; however, in the Indigenous world there has been an ongoing series of Code Reds for decades, if not centuries. This is where the concept and themes for the album emerged." Indian City is on social media (Facebook, Instagram and YouTube). http://indiancity.ca/

In the second segment, Tiokasin speaks with Craig "Santi" Santiago. Santi is an international touring musician and visual artist. When he's not in the recording studio, Santi can be found hiking in the Catskill Mountains and beyond. Santi has shown his visual art in numerous art galleries. He has toured internationally and state side. He has a new record out under his name, titled "Heavy Like Feather."

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music and Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (November 2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:06:35)
Song Title: Code Red (feat. Don Amero and Jeremy Koz)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (November 2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:12: 30)
Song Title: Storyteller (feat. Sandra Sutter)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (November 2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:27:00)
Song Title: Another Long Night
Artist: Craig Santiago
CD: Light Like Feather (2021)
Label: Craig Santiago
(00:47:50)
Song Title: Walk Around the World (feat. Chris Burke-Gaffney)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (November 2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:54:27)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Kisha Supernant. She is Métis, Papaschase and British and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology, the use of digital technologies in archaeology, and heart-centered archaeological practice.

She is the Director of the Exploring Métis Identity Through Archaeology (EMITA) project, a collaborative research project which takes a relational approach to exploring the material past of Métis communities, including her own family, in western Canada.

Recently, she has been involved in work locating the resting places of ancestors and relatives in historic cemeteries and around residential schools with Indigenous communities.

In the second half-hour, Tiokasin welcomes back Director and Producer Leya Hale to talk about her upcoming documentary film, "Bring Her Home." Leya comes from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She makes her home in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her companion and children.

She is a producer for Twin Cities PBS and is best known for her first feature documentary, "The People's Protectors, "a Vision Maker Media grant production and winner of the 2019 Upper Midwest Emmy Award for Best Cultural documentary. In 2020, Leya was awarded the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous Artists and attended the 2020 Berlinale European Film Market as a NATIVe Fellow. Leya is currently working on her second feature, Bring Her Home, a documentary that follows three Indigenous women fighting to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives.

When not producing feature films, Leya works on a variety of short form content in efforts to create social change within the Midwest region. Watch the trailer for "Bring Her Home": https://youtu.be/eEJQlzvsyo0

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Lakota Lullaby
Artist: Alexia Evellyn
CD: N/A
Label: N/A, YouTube: https://youtu.be/lSXIVhe_esM
(00:21:13)
Song Title: The Speck of Dust
Artist: Leonid & Friends
CD: The Speck of Dust (2021)
Label: Leonid Vorobyev
(00:48:32)
Song Title: Šunka Waḳan Manunpe Olowan Wan
Artist: Common Man Singers (Earl Bullhead)
CD: Spirit of the Songs (2006)
Label: Soar Records
(00:55:05)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the topic of land acknowledgements. The inspiration is an article that was published October 7, 2021 in The Conversation: "Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite - erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead."

Guests:

Valerie Lambert (Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma), Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists (a Section of the American Anthropological Association), and an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. Valerie's first book, "Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence" (University of Nebraska Press 2007), is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. It is the winner of the North American Indian Prose Award and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award.

Michael Lambert (Eastern Band Cherokee) is Associate Professor of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. His research has focused on francophone West Africa and American Indians. He is author of Longing for Exile: Migration and the Making of a Translocal Community in Senegal (Heinemann), and co-author (with Leonard Lambert) of Up from These Hills; Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood (U of Nebraska Press.

Elisa (EJ) Sobo, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, is a sociocultural anthropologist. She is past President of the Society for Medical Anthropology and a longstanding member of the editorial boards of Anthropology and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Dr. Sobo has published 13 books (e.g., Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research) and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Read the article and find out more about this week's guests here: https://bit.ly/3nm0D7V

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music and Audio Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Getting Started
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: Coincidences and Likely Stories (1992)
Label: Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI Records
(00:24:50)

Audio Selection
Speaker: Jahan Khalighi, Program Director at Chapter 510, a youth writing, bookmaking and publishing center, Oakland, CA. Janah is a youth educator and community arts organizer.
Background music: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Song Title: Momentum
CD: Akantu: The Origin Series (2021)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:48:57)

Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first segment is Max Wilbert. In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and Will Falk launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Max appears regularly on First Voices Radio to give updates on what is happening at Thacker Pass and what we can do to support the peoples' efforts.

Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He is an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. His latest book is "Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It." To keep up with the news about Thacker Pass, check out the website at protectthackerpass.org and Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Tiokasin's guest in the second segment is Dr. Louellyn White, who is Mohawk from Akwesasne. She is an associate professor of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Louellyn is a descendant of Carlisle Indian School survivors and is the founder and spokesperson for the Carlisle Indian School Farmhouse Coalition. Her book, "Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Indian School," was published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Tiokasin and Dr. White discuss a recent article by Mary Annette Pember in Indian Country Today in which she was featured: "Professor answers call to find boarding school children." https://bit.ly/3aLBtcK.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Mind Control
Artist: Stephen Marley
CD: Mind Control (2007)
Label: Universal Records, Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
(00:27:18)

Song Title: In the Blood
Artist: Robbie Robertson
CD: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:58:30)

In early June 2021, 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, some as young as 3 years old, we were forcibly taken from their families and put into residential schools in Canada. This is also what happened in Native boarding schools in the U.S. during the same time period — children’s hair was cut off, they were forbidden to speak their Indigenous languages, and to see their families. Some didn’t return home for many years and some never returned.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Christine Diindiisi McCleave (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), CEO, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition about the organization’s support of the introduction of a U.S. Bill for a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies. Christine is a leader and an activist for Indigenous rights advocating for truth, justice and healing for the genocidal policy of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. She has dedicated her life and work to pursuing truth and healing for the Indigenous survivors of historical trauma at the hands of colonialism and settler-states. Visit https://boardingschoolhealing.org/

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. According to the National Institute of Justice, domestic violence disproportionately impacts Native Americans and Alaska Natives, with more than 1.5 million Native women and 1.4 million Native men experiencing violence during their lifetime, often by non-Native perpetrators. Domestic violence among Native Americans is not natural or traditional. The domination and subjugation of Native Americans began with colonization and continues today. Colonization was responsible for the theft, occupation, pollution and exploitation of Indigenous lands. Today, Natives who are living in tribal communities on or near lands that are exploited by extractive industries face the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence.

Tiokasin talks with Lori Jump (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), executive director of StrongHearts Native Helpline, a 24/7 culturally appropriate domestic, dating and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Lori is the former executive director and current board member of Uniting Three Fires Against Violence, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault tribal coalition in Michigan. She served on the Federal Task Force researching Violence Against American Indians and Alaska Native Women and has more than 26 years of tribal advocacy experience in her community. StrongHearts Native Helpline can be reached by calling or texting 1-844-762-8483 or clicking on the chat icon at strongheartshelpline.org.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song), Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters, CD: Tahi (1993), Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: All Along the Watchtower, Artist: Featuring Warren Haynes, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville and John Cruz, CD: Listen to the Music (2018), Label: Motema Music

(00:23:28)

Song Title: The Path (acoustic version), Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City, CD: Code Red (November 2021), Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba

(00:50:50)

Song Title: Above the Bones, Artist: Mishka, CD: Above the Bones (2009), Label: Mishka Music

(00:54:33)

In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Jenni Monet, an investigative journalist, media critic, and founder of the weekly newsletter, "Indigenously: Decolonizing Your Newsfeed."

Jenni has been reporting from Indian Country for as long as she's been a journalist, from the coups d'etat on Jicarilla Apache lands in the late '90s to the dramatic demonstrations at Standing Rock a few years ago where she was arrested while on assignment and later acquitted.

Jenni got her start as a broadcaster for CBS News affiliates then segue-wayed into public TV and radio, including a stint a tNational Native News. Along the way, Jenni made a few indie docs, returned to school, and moved to the Middle East to cover global affairs for Al Jazeera where she also traveled throughout the Indigenous world.

Jenni has been working independently since 2015, where her my award-winning reporting has been published by such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PBS News Hour, to name a few. Her media criticism also appears frequently in the Columbia Journalism Review. At times, Jenni can also be seen and heard discussing Indigenous affairs for a variety of media outlets.

Jenni has an MA in international politics from Columbia Journalism School with a concentration in Indigenous human rights policy. She's a founding member of the Indigenous Media Caucus, and resides on her ancestral homelands in the American Southwest where she's Kawaik'a, a tribal citizen of Laguna Pueblo, Big Turkey clan.

Jenni and Tiokasin discuss her most recent newsletter story, "Gabby and Us" and several other topics stemming from this piece: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, domestic violence, mainstream news media bias, "Missing White Woman Syndrome," racism, land acknowledgements and more. More information about Jenni can be found at https://www.jennimonet.com/. Sign up to receive her weekly newsletter at https://www.indigenously.org/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Kothbiro
Artist: Ayub Ogada
CD: The Constant Gardener (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: Higher Octave Music
(00:46:10)
Song Title: Oh, What a World
Artist: Kacey Musgraves
CD: Golden Hour (2018)
Label: MCA Nashville Records
(00:52:38)

In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse remembers Andre Vltchek.

September 22 marked one year since First Voices Radio friend Andre's untimely death in Istanbul, Turkey. Tiokasin remembers his immense contributions: many books of non-fiction and fiction; documentary films; hundreds of essays and media appearances.

We got to know Andre on "First Voices Radio" in early 2017 and from that time on, he became a frequent and generous guest, always making time to come on our show and reporting to us on the issues, and the life and death situations of the worlds forgotten, poor and oppressed peoples, including, of course, the worlds Indigenous peoples.

Andre's new book, published today on his first-year remembrance by Badak Merah publishers in Jakarta Indonesia, is titled Defend China 2: Why the West is so Keen to Slander China. It is available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle in English, Russian and Chinese (simplified and traditional).

In the second segment, Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with returning guest Zumila Wobaga, or Charmaine White Face. She 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 her recent essay, "Kimkimila Wi (The Butterfly Sun)," discussing this special time of year, a time that we need to be seeking balance in our lives. Google her to find more of her writings.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
CD: Nanna
Label: Nettwerk
Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xPxbfWta4Q
(00:07:12)
Song Title: 4R Ancestors
Artist: Keith Secola
CD: Wild Band of Indians (1996)
Label: Normal
(00:52:20)
Song Title: Way Down
Artist: Boozoo Bajou feat. Ben Weaver
CD: Dust My Broom (2005)
Label: !K7 Records
(00:56:30)

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with linda manyguns about a recent article, "Calgary professor won't use capital letters unless it's to acknowledge Indigenous peoples."

dr. linda manyguns is a Blackfoot woman born on the tsutina nation, now registered at siksika. she is the grandmother to five children.

linda grew up in europe as an airforce brat. in her early years she worked as a high steel construction worker, a red seal chef, and was a union leader for cupe (which is the canadian union of public employees).

linda has 4 degrees: (b.a. in sociology; m.a. in sociology; llb, university of ottawa and a ph.d. in Indigenous philosophy from trent university.

at law school, fellow students nominated linda for the karim green spon award for outstanding achievement. she worked at the Indian lands claims commission in Ottawa.

linda was a professor for over ten years and she is now the associate vice president of Indigenization and decolonization at mount royal university in calgary, alberta. read the article from ctv here: https://bit.ly/3nxTfbh.

In the second segment, we hear "It's Time to Get Ready" from Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Wolf Clan, Onondaga Nation. We will hear, "It's Time to Get Ready," about the "ignored warnings and how we are living in the time of a 200 year-old prophecy. It will get worse before it gets better." Get ready. Link to YouTube video (06:15): https://youtu.be/EzUpOpNR6aE.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Surefire (radio)
Artist: Wilderado
CD: Release later 2021
Label: See above
Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xPxbfWta4Q
(00:33:45; 00:55:30)
Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
CD: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:46:16)
Song Title: What's Going On (cover)
Artist: Los Lobos
CD: Just Another Band from East L.A. - A Collection (1993)
Label: Slash Records
(00:50:50)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with 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 Paiute and Shoshone people.

They rode across the northern Plains from Crow Creek, South Dakota to Whitestone Hill State Historic Site, 23 miles southeast of Kulm, Dickey County, North Dakota. They arrived on September 3.

This is the second of four planned Rides held in remembrance of ancestors who were at Whitestone on September 3-5,1863, when white soldiers led by General Alfred Sully attacked a tipi camp of Yanktonai, Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota and Blackfeet (Sihasapa Lakota) as part of a military mission to punish participants of the Dakota War of 1862. Between 100 and 300 Native men, women and children were massacred or captured.

In the second segment, we hear "My Last Warning," featuring Chief Oren Lyons, Wolf Clan, Onondaga Nation. Listen here: https://youtu.be/po6urawfqzQ.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nation
CD: Nanna
Label: Nettwerk
(00:39:00; 00:52:05)

This week, Tiokasin welcomes Dr. Rosita Worl back to "First Voices Radio." Dr. Rosita Worl is President of the Sealaska Heritage Institute. Her Tlingit names are Yeidiklasókw and Kaaháni, is Tlingit, Ch'áak' (Eagle) moiety of the Shangukeidí (Thunderbird) Clan from the Kawdliyaayi Hít (House Lowered From the Sun) in Klukwan.

She is an anthropologist and for many years served as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Southeast. Dr.Worl has a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Anthropology from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Alaska Methodist University. She also holds an honorary doctor of sciences degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Worl has received many honors and works with several different Native organizations. She is an accomplished lecturer and author.

Tiokasin and Dr. Worl will be discussing a recent announcement from the Sealaska Heritage Institute, titled: "Sealaska Heritage Institute Receives Grant to Document Traditional Protocols for Removal of Grief: Institute to Work With Traditional Scholars, Clan Leaders to Produce Book."

In the second half-hour, Tiokasin discusses critical race theory with friend and regular guest Ukumbwa Sauti. This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Ukumbwa Sauti is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in West Africa. He is a diviner, numerologist, and spiritual counselor. He is a Producer and Partner at Moja Mediaworks, developing the World Ancestor Concert, and facilitating Social Justice workshop experiences along with forwarding progressive messaging through online merchandising.

Ukumbwa presents discussions and workshops through the Men's Work initiative, engaging patriarchy and men's violence against women and the LGBTQ community. He has taught Cultural Media Studies and Video Production for 17 years in higher education; and has been active in the Pan-African movement, Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism work and the Occupy/Decolonize to Liberate movements. Ukumbwa has presented at spiritual conferences and political events in the New England region, California and Barbados; and has been active in creating ritual work in Boston, New York and Toronto.

He can be reached for bookings and consultation on Facebook, Twitter and email at ukumbwa@gmail.com. Find his current work at www.worldancestorconcert.com,, on Facebook and other Global Media Network platforms.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

First Voices Radio Theme:
Global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Beg Steal or Borrow
Artist: Ray Montagne and the Pariah Dogs
CD: God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise (2010)
Label: RCA Records
(00:26:58; 00:58:05)

This week on "First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes two guests: Debra Utacia Krol and Ukumbwa Sauti.

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 intersection of climate, culture and commerce. Debra has more than two decades of expertise in reporting on Native issues for publications large and small, with an emphasis on environmental and science issues, and has been a contributor to two books on Native traditions.

In this segment, Debra and Tiokasin discuss a recent article that she wrote for the Arizona Republic, "Blythe Intaglios: Tribes work to protect 'sleeping giants' of the desert." Find it at: https://bit.ly/2XC3AYz

In the second segment Tiokasin discusses critical race theory with friend and regular guest Ukumbwa Sauti. This is Part 1 of a 2-part series that will continue next week. Ukumbwa Sauti is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in West Africa. He is a diviner, numerologist, and spiritual counselor. He is a Producer and Partner at Moja Mediaworks, developing the World Ancestor Concert, and facilitating Social Justice workshop experiences along with forwarding progressive messaging through online merchandising.

Ukumbwa presents discussions and workshops through the Men's Work initiative, engaging patriarchy and men's violence against women and the LGBTQ community. He has taught Cultural Media Studies and Video Production for 17 years in higher education; and has been active in the Pan-African movement, Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism work and the Occupy/Decolonize to Liberate movements. Ukumbwa has presented at spiritual conferences and political events in the New England region, California and Barbados; and has been active in creating ritual work in Boston, New York and Toronto.

He can be reached for bookings and consultation on Facebook, Twitter and email at ukumbwa@gmail.com. Find his current work at www.worldancestorconcert.com,, on Facebook and other Global Media Network platforms.

Production Credits;
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Founder, Executive Producer and Host, First Voices Radio
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Ogou (Pran Ka Mwen)
Artist: Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray
CD: Leave The Bones (2021)
Label: Anjunadeep
(00:29:27; 00:55:0)

This week on a special repeat episode of "First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes 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, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in anarchist organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play and make trouble together.

Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and explores/writes about the intersection between politics and spirituality in troubled times.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Norupo
Artist: Heilung
CD: Futha (2019)
Label: Season of Mist
(00:54:23)

In this special repeat edition, Martín 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 international school Bolad’s Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own.

Martín’s books include: “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar”; “Long Life, Honey in the Heart”: “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun”; “Stealing Benefacio’s Roses”; “The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic” and “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise.” His latest book, “Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel” was published on June 8, 2021. More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Above the Bones

Artist: Mishka

CD: Above the Bones (2009)

Label: Mishka Music

(00:53:10)

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

Will is a biophilic writer, lawyer and the author of “How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me,” published by Homebound Publications. The book describes his relationship with the Colorado River through his involvement in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking rights for a major ecosystem, the Colorado River.

Will has published numerous articles and essays through Earth Island Journal, the Dark Mountain Project, CounterPunch, and many others. For more information about Will, visit willfalk.org.

To keep up with the news about Thacker Pass, check out the website at protectthackerpass.org and Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: What I’ve Seen

Artist: Michael Franti and Spearhead

CD: Yell Fire! (2006)

Label: ANTI- and Liberation Records

(00:29:10)

Song Title: They’re Mining Us

Artist: John Trudell

CD: DNA Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)

Label: Effective Records

(00:33:53)

Song Title: 500 Years

Artist: Rhonda Head

CD: Kisahkihitan (2019)

Label: Rhonda Head

(00:37:30)

Song Title: Who Discovered America

Artist: Ozomatli

CD: Street Signs (2004)

Label: Real World/Concord

(00:41:11)

Song Title: Earth Was Mother

Artist: John Trudell

CD: DNA Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)

Label: Effective Records

(00:45:39)

Song Title: In the Anthropocene

Artist: Nick Mulvey

CD: N/A - released as a single in October 2019

Label: N/A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE

(00:55:10)

This week, 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. Marie, Ontario, and a Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation. Dr. Steeves holds an adjunct faculty position at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Her research focus is on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere, reclaiming and rewriting Indigenous histories and healing and reconciliation. In her research Dr. Steeves argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. Dr. Steeves argues that counter stories to Western narratives of Indigenous histories address issues that remain critical to Indigenous people — sovereignty, self-determination, healing and reconciliation.

She has stated that rewriting and un-erasing Indigenous histories becomes a part of healing and reconciliation transforming public consciousness and confronting and challenging racism. Long-standing academic denial of the deep Indigenous fosters racism and discrimination among the general or Settler population.Re-writing Indigenous histories, framed through Indigenous knowledge, will create discussions that counter racism and discrimination.

Dr. Steeve’s first book The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americas was published July 1, 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Something has to Change

Artist: Rodney Crowell

CD: Triage (2021)

Label: RC1

(00:56:23)

As we’ve reported before on “First Voices Radio,” since April 28, 2021, tens of thousands of Colombians have been protesting in the streets in just about every part of the country. They’ve been participating in a months-long National Strike against the government, demanding widespread change in its social economic program, its response to the COVID pandemic, and respect for the defense of human rights. From the outset, the Colombian State tried to block the protests, first through a court order forbidding the protests in Bogotá. Then, as Colombians refused to obey this order, security forces responded with violence. The results have been alarming. While the massive scale of the protests have died down considerably in recent weeks, Colombian human rights groups are demanding justice for the victims of what they’re calling state-sponsored repression. With that in mind, an international fact-finding mission is currently in Colombia to investigate some of these developments throughout the country. Hofstra University professor Mario Murillo is accompanying the mission, and he joins us now from Bogotá. Mario is professor of Journalism and Latin American studies at Hofstra and the Vice Dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication. Mario has written about and reported on Colombia for many years and is a regular guest and collaborator with “First Voices Radio.”

Our returning guest in the second segment is Max Wilbert. In January, Max launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada with another of our frequent guests and commentators, Will Falk. Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He is an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. His latest book is “Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It.” Max has been involved in fighting both Canadian and Utah tar sands, in resisting industrial-scale water extraction and deforestation in Nevada, in advocating for the last remaining wild buffalo in Yellowstone, in solidarity work with Indigenous communities in British Columbia, and in campaigns against sexual violence. To keep up with the news about Thacker Pass, check out the website at protectthackerpass.org and Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: American Dream

Artist: J. S. Ondara

CD: Tales of America (The Second Coming) (2019)

Label: Verve Forecast Records

(00:18:34)

Song Title: Change on the Rise

Artist: Avi Kaplan

CD: I’ll Get By (2020)

Label: Fantasy Records

(00:22:27)

Song Title: SInakaki He Wakiye (Family Camp Circle)

Artist: Earl Bullhead

CD: Walking the Red Road (1993)

Label: Sound of America

(00:52:35)

Song Title: The Dream

Artist: Robert Mirabel

CD: N/A

Label: N/A

(00:54:20)

Ofelia Rivas is the 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: oodhamrights.org

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Revolution

Artist: The Score

CD: ATLAS (2017)

Label: Republic Records

(00:28:12)

Song Title: Shadows in Silence

Artist: Enigma

CD: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (1996)

Label: Virgin Records

(00:54:45)

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

Since her groundbreaking debut, It's My Way! (1964), Buffy has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate, an innovative artist, and a disrupter of the status quo.

Buffy has spent her whole life creating, and her artistry, humanitarian efforts, and Indigenous leadership have made her a unique force in the music industry. In 1969, she made one of the world's first electronic vocal albums; in 1982 she became the only Indigenous person to win an Oscar; she spent five years on Sesame Street where she became the first woman to breastfeed on national television.

She's been blacklisted and silenced. She's written pop standards sung and recorded by the likes of Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Donovan, Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. She penned "Universal Soldier," the definitive anti-war anthem of the 20th century.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon who keeps one foot firmly planted on either side of the North American border, in the unsurrendered territories that comprise Canada and the USA.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Founder, Executive Producer and Host, First Voices Radio
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka 'Oiwi), Guest Host and Audio Editor
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Medley of Buffy Sainte-Marie Songs (featuring the following songs and artists):

Indigo Girls: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee from Live at The Roxy (Vanguard Records, 1996)

Janis Joplin: Cod'ine, recorded in 1965 but was released in 1995 on This is Janis (James Gurley, Producer)

Eva Cassidy's: Tall Trees in Georgia is from Nightbird, an album posthumously released in 2015 (Blix Street). The song was recorded live at the Blues Alley, Washington, DC, Jan. 3, 1996

Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker: Up Where We Belong, Soundtrack to An Officer and a Gentleman (Island Records, 1982)

Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson Neil Diamond and Johnny Mathis: Until It's Time For You To Go (song from Many a Mile,1965)

Donovan: What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, title track of Donovan's debut album Universal Soldier (Pye Records, 1965)

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Universal Soldier, It's My Way, It's My Way (Vanguard Records,1964)

Song Title: Now that the Buffalo's Gone
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: It's My Way (1964)
Label: Vanguard
(00:14:35)
Song Title: No No Keshagesh
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: Running for the Drum (2008)
Label: Appleseed
(00:26:58)
Song Title: It's My Way
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: It's My Way (1964)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:33:00)
Song Title: Cripple Creek
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie (1987)
Label: Vanguard Records
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvyzbZttFBE
(00:38:00)
Song Title: Little Rockabye, a Lullaby for Pet Adoption
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Book: From her children's book of the same title (2020)
Publisher: Greystone Books
*The song is available on digital platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and others.
(00:51:00)
Song Title: Carry It On"
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: Power in the Blood (2015)
Label: True North Records
(00:54:47)

In the first segment is 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 service working with the fire crews and earning her way to one of the top crew leaders for the area. She has served as Chairwoman for 16 years. Chairwoman Charles played a vital role in the recovery of Tse-whit-zen, one of the largest archaeological recoveries in the Northwest; she took a lead role in the negotiation process for the Ancient Klallam Village on behalf of her people and their ancestors, and as a leader for her community she did a great job in upholding Klallam Cultural Values. Chairwoman Charles has been involved in the culture of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe most of her life, she is an active supporter of the annual Tribal Canoe Journey as well as the language program, Indian Education and honoring Tribal veterans, the youth and the elders of the Tribe. Tiokasin and Chairwoman Charles discuss the article, “Tribes are leading the way to remove dams and restore ecosystems,” published in YES! Magazine on July 14, 2021. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/3xhMnju

In the second segment is Vince Fontaine. Vince has deep roots from his Ojibwe heritage and the community of Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba.
For more than 25 years, Vince has been at the forefront of Indigenous music making in Canada. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the multifaceted, award-winning and visionary Fontaine literally has done it all. He is a guitarist, songwriter, music builder/producer, festival curator/organizer/artistic director, film director and entertainment business owner. He also is one of Canada’s most highly celebrated Indigenous composers. Among his most significant and well-known ventures, Vince is the founder and lead guitarist of the legendary, award-winning roots-rock band Eagle & Hawk, one of the longest-running success stories in Canadian music history. Vince’s music collective, the award-winning Indian City, which he formed in 2012, has released three albums to date with the fourth, “Code Red,” scheduled for release this coming October. More information at: http://www.risingsunproductions.ca/, http://www.eagleandhawk.com/ and http://indiancity.ca/ and on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Tiokasin and Vince discuss the July 1 toppling of the Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II statues in Winnipeg and the discussions that are taking place and have accelerated across Turtle Island since the discovery in May of 215 Indigenous children’s remains on the grounds of Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia — and subsequent findings at other residential schools.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Smile
Artist: Indian City
Single: Released on July 29, 2021 (the single will be included on “Code Red,” an album to be released in October 2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:27:35)
Song Title: Fire Won’t Die
Artist: Indian City
CD: Here & Now (2017)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:50:50)
Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
CD: Tales of America (2018)
Label: Verve Forecast Records
(00:54:05)

In the first segment, Steve DeAngelo is a prominent, life-long cannabis entrepreneur, activist, author, and on-screen personality. He co-founded several iconic cannabis businesses and organizations: Harborside, Steep Hill Laboratory, the Arc-View Group, and the National Cannabis Industry Association. Steve’s creative projects include a book, “The Cannabis Manifesto”; and a Discovery Channel mini-series, “Weed Wars.” He was a lead organizer and fundraiser for I-59, Washington DC’s medical cannabis initiative; and is famed for his successful litigation against the Department of Justice, which halted DOJ’s last-ditch 2011 campaign to shut down California’s medical cannabis dispensaries. Steve lives in California with three dogs, three cats, and his lovely wife Yolanda.

In the second segment, Jennifer Robin (Choctaw) AKA “Miss Jiff,” is the four-time, award-winning Producer and Host of “Resilience Radio” on KVMR 89.5 FM in Nevada City, California — three stations serving the Sierra foothills in northern California. “Resilience Radio,” Jennifer’s 3-hour weekly, live radio show is a mix of interviews and music, and can be heard on Thursdays from 10 am to 1 pm Pacific Time / 1 to 4 pm Eastern Time, streaming at kvmr.org and any time in the KVMR Archives. Resilience Radio’s website is: https://www.kvmr.org/show/resilience-radio/. Jennifer can be found on Facebook at “Jennifer Robin” and “Miss Jiffer” on Instagram. She also has a Resilience Radio YouTube page where she has shared many of her guest interviews.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Feels like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
CD: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:56:43)

Doug George-Kanentiio joins Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse for the full hour. A few weeks ago, the remains of 215 children were found at the Kamloops Indian School in British Columbia, Canada.The Kamloops Indian Residential school was one of the largest in Canada and operated from the late 19th century to the late 1970s. The school was opened and run by the Catholic Church until the federal government took it over in the late 1960s. Indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old, we were forcibly taken from their families and put into residential schools in Canada. Same as what happened in Native boarding schools in the United States, their hair was cut off, they were forbidden to speak their Indigenous languages, and to see their families — some didn’t return home for many years. Countless children suffered terrible indignities, mistreatment, and horrors, including beatings, rape and other forms of sexual violence, disease, and even death. Residential school experiences continue to affect many survivors today. Doug George Kanentiio was one of those students. Doug attended the Mohawk Institute in Branford, Ontario, and wrote about it in a recent column, “Our Mohawk Councils Failed to Protect the Residential School Children,” published by indianz.com on June 14.

Doug George-Kanentiio was born and raised at the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. He attended school on and near the reservation before enrolling at Syracuse University and then the Antioch School of Law. Doug was a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association before serving the Mohawk Nation as editor of the journals Akwesasne Notes and Indian Time. He worked with the late Vine Deloria, Jr. on the Traditional Knowledge conferences before joining the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Doug is currently vice-president for the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge, a non-profit higher learning facility that is based on Iroquois principles. He resides on Oneida Iroquois Territory with his wife, the renowned Grammy-award winning artist Joanne Shenandoah.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Take Me Home
Artist: Indian City
CD: Here and Now (2017)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc.
(00:52:05)
Song Title: It’s OK
Artist: Nightbirde
CD: It’s OK (2020)
Label: Next Level Recording
(00:56:15)

Martín 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 international school Bolad’s Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. Martín’s books include: “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar”; “Long Life, Honey in the Heart”: “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun”; “Stealing Benefacio’s Roses”; “The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic” and “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise.” His latest book, “Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel” was published on June 8, 2021. More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Above the Bones
Artist: Mishka
CD: Above the Bones (2009)
Label: Mishka Music
(00:53:10)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with 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, 2021. “Only 43 years ago, in 1978, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) was passed in the United States Congress. That’s not that long ago,” writes Charmaine. "Many of us were adults who remember this. The fact that such a Bill had to be written in the first place, and then ultimately passed was astonishing because it exposed the hypocrisy of the United States. The establishment of the United States and the U.S. Constitution were based on Religious Freedom, as long as it was Christianity. That is not Freedom."

In the second segment, Tiokasin talks with Hildá Länsman (Sámi) and Erkki Feodoroff (Sámi), two of the four musicians from the band Gàjanas, hailing from Inari-Utsjoki in Finland’s far north. Hildá is the band’s lead vocalist and joiker and Erkki plays bass (the other two band members are Nicholas Francett, guitar and Kevin Francett, drums). Gájanas, or “echo,” performs northern Sámi ethno-progressive music. Echoes of Sámi tradition encounter the present moment and form a colorful combination in their music, a dialogue between traditional and modern Sámi music. In addition, their music emphasizes the strong nature connection of the Sámi people. Hildá Länsman and Viivi Maria Saarenkylä make up the duo VILDÁ. Hildá and Viivi bring things together via joik and accordion in a dynamic and refreshing way, combining mystical yoiks, swinging rhythms and improvisation. Influenced by contemporary pop music and Finnish folk music, VILDÁ takes listener to the northern fells where the winds of the Sámiland blow. Gàjanas and VILDÁ have been nominated this year for a Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Award in the category of “International Indigenous Artist-Group Recording of the Year.” The Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards will take place on June 12 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. For more information: https://bafesfactory.fi/gajanas/ and https://bafesfactory.fi/vilda/. Both bands can also be found on social media. For information about the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival and Music Awards: https://summersolsticefestivals.ca/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Bieggagaikkohat / Snow-Blow
Artist: Gàjanas
CD: Čihkkojuvvon / Hidden (Released on Sámi National Day, February 6, 2021)
Label: Bafe’s Factory, Helsinki, Finland
(00:26:15)
Song Title: Utsjoki - Disko
Artist: VILDÁ
CD: VILDALUODDA - WILDPRINT (released April 4, 2019
Label: Bafe’s Factory, Helsinki, Finland
(00:43:00)
Song Title: Goaskinviellja
Artist: VILDÁ
CD: VILDALUODDA - WILDPRINT (released April 4, 2019
Label: Bafe’s Factory, Helsinki, Finland
(00:49:20)
Song Title:
Artist: Gàjanas
CD: Čihkkojuvvon / Hidden (Released on Sámi National Day, February 6, 2021)
Label: Bafe’s Factory, Helsinki, Finland
(00:54:45)

In this episode of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the whole hour talking with George Nuku. George is an artist from Aotearoa. He is of Scottish, German and Maori descent and has been a full-time practitioner of arts for 35 years. George’s works range from delicate pearl shell, bone and jade amulets to life-size plexiglass sculptures and multi-story high polystyrene depictions of Polynesian demi-gods and Maori culture heroes. The last 20 years of art practice has been spent globally, ranging from the world's prestigious art institutions and treasure houses through to communities of all ethnicities and socio-economic status. George has created more than 100 projects to date, including: the British Museum, National Museum of Scotland, Museum of Geneva, Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, United Nations Forum for Indigenous People, Tijibao Cultural Centre in Nouméa, New Caledonia and many more. George carries the thousands’ year-old art traditions of his ancestors that promise to both expand life and enhance survival.

In this interview George discusses his life’s journey ranging from children to the elders to the ancestors — the concepts of time, practicality with Earth, throughout his art carvings to his art carvings to the political aspects of working at the United Nations in the early 2000s. Tiokasin and George discuss the importance of Indigenous Peoples who were largely ignored by the dominant societies; and if it weren’t for previous generations who didn’t need the dominant societies and being noticed by Mother Earth let alone modern day society. The Maori Nation’s culture is vibrant, up-to-date and never archaic — same as many Indigenous peoples thoughts and ways of living with the Earth. Listen to George as he shared his many gifts!

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Kothbiro
Artist: Ayub Ogada
CD: The Constant Gardener (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: Higher Octave Music
(00:52:50)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back 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 healing practices by leading ceremonies with medicinal plants, practicing ancient ways of healing knowledge and empowering her people in preserving their sacred territories. As a Curandera, Eda directly uses the power of medicinal plants to help heal people emotionally and spirituality, especially women. As a spiritual leader in her village, she is deeply committed to Indigenous Peruvian people in defending their sacred territories and protecting their lands. Find out about Eda at http://www.edazavalalopez.com/

In the second segment, Tiokasin talks with returning guest and friend of “First Voices Radio,” Ed 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, silvercraft, and multi-lingual musical compositions. Ed considers himself an “Edu-tainer,” using the arts and music to educate people about social justice issues related to the Indigenous people and lands of the Colorado Plateau. His reggae rock band, Tha 'Yoties, are known for their catchy melodies, lively performances and conscious message. Tiokasin catches up with Ed about his recent activities and shares a few songs.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
CD: Tales of America (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast Records
(00:26:10)
Song Title: Xoyote Soldier
Artist: Tha ‘Yoties
CD: N/A. Song and Music Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UFszAQrKHck (April 23, 2021)
Label: N/A
(00:30:33)
Song Title: Hopiland (A tribute to the enduring legacy of the Hopi Nation)
Artist: Ed Kabotie
CD: N/A. Song and Music Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BpIj157GCMY (April 20, 2020)
Label: N/A
(00:55:00)

In the first segment, Tiokasin talks with Michaeleen Doucleff. A correspondent for National Public Radio’s Science Desk, Michaeleen was part of the 2015 team that earned a George Foster Peabody award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Prior to joining NPR, Michaeleen was an editor at the journal Cell, where she wrote about the science behind pop culture. Michaeleen has a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in viticulture and enology from the University of California, Davis. She lives with her husband, daughter, and German shepherd, Mango, in San Francisco. Tiokasin will be talking with Michaeleen about her first book, Hunt, Gather, Parent, which was an instant New York Times bestseller.

In the second segment, we hear from regular guest Manuel Rozental, who was interviewed on Friday, April 30 by Mario A. Murillo. This is an international story where the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be once again on the rise. In Colombia as of last Friday, over 500 people died in one day, as a result of Covid-19. It was the worst daily total since the pandemic began last year, and is the equivalent of 5,000 people dying in one day here in the U.S. And while the crisis continues, Colombia is witnessing massive protests in large cities and small towns throughout the country, protesting the government’s proposal for a comprehensive tax reform bill that will adversely impact working people. This past Sunday, Colombia President Iván Duque withdrew the controversial tax reform bill following four days of huge protests across the country. In a televised statement, he said his government would work to produce new proposals and seek consensus with other parties and organizations. He had previously insisted tax hikes were needed to respond to the economic crisis generated by the pandemic. But tens of thousands of people took to the streets in anger at the bill. Unions, who organized the protests, said it would disproportionately impact on the poorest people who were already struggling with the economic impact of Covid-19. This comes as Indigenous communities in Colombia continue to face ongoing threats to their way of life. A number of Indigenous leaders were killed in recent months, which has concerned activists in Colombia and around the world. One of them is Colombian physician and veteran human rights activist Manuel Rozental. During this interview Manuel first explained what the general strike was calling for and how it was tied to the Indigenous movement in Colombia. Mario A. Murillo — a regular guest, commentator and contributor to First Voices Radio — is a journalist, author and Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio, Television and Film in the School of Communication at Hofstra University.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Amassakoul ’N’Ténéré
Artist: Tinariwen
CD: Amassakoul (2004)
Label: World Village
(00:33:18)
Song Title: Riders on the Storm
Artist: Doors
CD: The Very Best of the Doors (2007)
Label: Electra Records / Rhino
(00:55:30)

In the first segment, Tiokasin talks with returning guest Max Wilbert about the new book that he co-authored with Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith titled, “Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It” (Monkfish Press Publishing Company, 2021). Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He’s an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. Max has been involved in fighting both Canadian and Utah tar sands, in resisting industrial-scale water extraction and deforestation in Nevada, in advocating for the last remaining wild buffalo in Yellowstone, in solidarity work with Indigenous communities in British Columbia, and in campaigns against sexual violence. Order the book at: https://bit.ly/3sZgYQq

Tiokasin welcomes back Peter Buffett in the second segment. Peter, a long-time friend of “First Voices Radio,” is a well established musician, composer and producer as well as Co-Chairman of the NoVo Foundation. Highlights of his music, film and television work include the Fire Dance scene in the Oscar winning film Dances With Wolves, the entire score for 500 Nations the 8 hour miniseries for CBS produced by Kevin Costner, and winning an Emmy for his album, Ojibwe. As Co-Chair of the NoVo Foundation, Peter helps guide the strategic plan and serves as a member of the NoVo Grants Committee. Peter and Tiokasin will discuss Peter’s song, “Land of the Free.” Listen here: https://youtu.be/pHNQ9ixx5XE

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Land of the Free (released as a single on April 6, 2021)
Artist: Peter Buffett
Label: N/A
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/VLfU-NjC0mw
(00:54:48)
Song Title: Oh, What a World
Artist: Kacey Musgraves
CD: Golden Hour (2018)
Label: MCA Nashville Records
(00:57:33)

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 Alaska, where she worked at the Sealaska Heritage Institute, and the Alaska Native Heritage Center in programming. Subsequently, Alexis earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at UCLA, and has served as the Project Ethnographer for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project, and as a Senior Researcher at the FrameWorks Institute. Alexis is an accomplished researcher, writer, media-maker, and curriculum developer. She has published widely about Indigenous and environmental issues, with articles in American Indian Quarterly, the Journal of Museum Education and American Ethnologist.
Her 2015 book, “So, how long have you been Native?” Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide,” won the Alaska Library Association Award for its originality, and depth. In addition to writing, Alexis has contributed to several Indigenous-themed productions, including co-producing and writing the script for a documentary nominated for the Native American Film Awards. Alexis has developed educational material for both formal and informal learning environments including university level-courses as well as lifelong learner curriculum. Alexis is also a panelist this week on “The Indigenous Rights of Nature,” a panel discussion organized by Vision Maker Media in partnership with Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program. More about Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program can be found at bioneers.org. The Vision Maker Media panel is available on Facebook and YouTube starting Thursday, April 22. More at visionmakermedia.org

Niya DeGroat is a Diné fashion writer and multidisciplinary creative based in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is originally from Mariano Lake, New Mexico and a citizen of the Navajo Nation. He is also the former Director of Multimedia for Phoenix Fashion Week with years of fashion show production under his belt, including mentoring emerging designers and models. In May 2020, Niya obtained his master’s degree in fashion journalism from the Academy of Art University. As a journalist, he aims to present an Indigenous perspective on fashion by elevating the discussion around contemporary Native fashion. His work has been published in Indian Country Today, Academy Art U News, Fashion School Daily, and Native Max Magazine. Tiokasin and Niya will be discussing Niya’s Feb. 1, 2021 column in Indian Country Today — “Wait a minute America! ‘This is stolen land’: Joe Biden’s inauguration missed the mark by including the tone deaf American folk song”: https://bit.ly/3v5DnNx

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Feels Like Summer Cover
Artist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
CD: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/izFvp_JXaqg
(00:34:15)
Song Title: This Land is Our Land
Artist: Todd Snider
CD: Songs for the Daily Planet (1994)
Label: MCA Records
(00:57:32)

This week, Director Julia Barnes joins Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Julia 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 the change in focus of the mainstream environmental movement, from its original concern with protecting nature, to its current obsession with powering an unsustainable way of life. The film exposes the lies and fantastical thinking behind the notion that solar, wind, hydro, biomass, or green consumerism will save us from climate change. Tackling the most pressing issues of our time will require us to look beyond the mainstream technological solutions and ask deeper questions about what needs to change. The film will premiere online on Earth Day, April 22. For more information about the film and how to buy tickets for the online premiere, visit brightgreenlies.com.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: A Cry in the Forest
Artist: Dan Fogelberg
CD: Dan Fogelberg Live: Greetings from the West (1991)
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
(00:36:53)
Song Title: The Venus Project
Artist: Lost Children of Babylon featuring Rasul Allah, Cosmic Crusador, Atun Sen Geb and Emily Clibourn
CD: Zeitgeist: The Spirit Of The Age (2010)
Label: Soul Kid Records/Chambermusik
(00:42:25)
Song Title: Feels like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
CD: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:53:05)

This week, Míċeál Ó Coisdealḃa (AKA Mike Costello) 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 the Indigenous people in that country, he moved to the U.S., and by the 1960s settled in New Jersey, where he lives today. The situation in Ireland was making the news in the U.S. back in those days; and Míċeál became involved in supporting the struggle for Irish freedom. He was National Chairman of the IPOW (Irish Prisoner of War) Hunger Strike Committee during the Irish Hunger Strike in 1981. Over the years he was involved in a number of fundraising and commemorative events to promote the cause of Irish Freedom. Also, during this time, Míċeál learned about the plight of the Indigenous people here and the great generosity of the Choctaw people, who collected money to help the starving people in Ireland during An t-Ár Mór,” the Great Genocide (also called the potato famine). Míċeál says, “I am awed by the extreme generosity shown to my ancestors by the Native Americans when they were enduring their own horrors.”
Míċeál has today undertaken a project on behalf of the Navajo Nation Covid Relief Fund in an effort to raise awareness. In solidarity with Native nations whose ancestors were forced to walk the “Trails of Tears” in the mid-19th century, Míċeál started his own walk on Thanksgiving eve 2020. “On days that I walk, I am doing 10-12 miles per day toward my goal of 5,045 miles,” he says. Míċeál ’s progress is posted regularly on his Facebook page: “Irish 4 Navajo,” where he also highlights the plight of the Navajo once again, this time in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: The Hawk Project
Artist: The Hawk Project with Dennis Yerry, Ken Little Hawk and Gus Mancini
CD: Let Us Put Our Minds Together (2011)
Label: HAWK
(00:51:00)
Song Title: Oh, What a World
Artist: Kacey Musgaves
CD: Golden Hour (2017)
Label: MCA / Nashville Records
(00:56:45)

In this episode of “First Voices Radio,” Tiokasin welcomes back Stephany Seay. 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 were destroyed by so-called development. Stephany has been an earth activist since the late 1980s, has apprenticed as a wildlife rehabilitator, and is a student of horses. She started following the work of the Buffalo Field Campaign in 1997. In January 2004, she moved to Montana and has been on the front lines with the Buffalo Field Campaign ever since. Stephany has been a member of Deep Green Resistance since 2015 and stands in solidarity with those—human and non-human—who want to bring an end to industrial civilization and the culture that is killing our planet.

In the second half: On May 7, 2020 an international online gathering and sharing of Indigenous knowledge and healing was held with Original Nations of the Western Hemisphere in light of the ancient prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor, which is of great impact and sometimes harsh reality with Mother Earth. This gathering was called the International Day of Blessing for Mother Earth, a call to action and international invitation to connect through and with Indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers with an intention to learn, grow, heal and return to Wotawacin Oṫokohe (completion of our blue energy). Claude Tokala Hocokan Waokiya Ob Mani Two Elk feels the urgency of our moment and has decided to do something about it. Animated by the knowledge of his ancestors and spiritual mentors and working closely with psychologist Dr. Jami Bartgis (Cherokee Nation), Tokala is on a global mission to heal us all and our planet of our collective traumas. Tokala and Jami, with partners from North, Central and South America, have started a network of international collaborators and volunteers dedicated to integrally improving health, well-being, and equity for Indigenous peoples of the Americas. By supporting Indigenous interventions across borders, through prayer, activism, art, education, and outreach, they are working toward the unity of the people and for everyone’s return to a healthful self and a healthy environment. This pandemic and its message to the planet has underscored the urgency of their work and they are gathering to offer blessings for the healing of our Mother (Earth) and her people.

We hear first from the Wicasa Wakan Richard Moves Camp of the Oglala Lakota in Pine Ridge, South Dakota and then we will move to the southern continent to Ecuador and the Quiche Elder Angel Tipan Santillan.

“First Voices Radio” would like to thank Claude Two Elk and JJ Lind for making the audio of Elders available, and to the interpreters, editors and Supporting Partners: Immediate Medium Indigenous Ways, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, International Indian Treaty Conference, InnerCHANGE WORKS, Collapsable Hole (USA), One Fire Associates, LLC (USA), and Oklahoma Health Sciences Center."

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Poem Title: Buffalo Mountain
Artist: ElizaBeth Hill
CD: Hearts of the Nations (1999)
Label: N/A
(00:28:00)
Song Title: Justice
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
CD: Inner City Front (1981)
Label: True North Records
(00:50:32)
Song Title: Just Another Holy Man
Artist: Floyd Red Crow Westerman
This is a cover of “They Killed Him” by Kris Kristofferson from his 1986 album, “Repossessed” (Mercury).
(00:55:15)

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Myron Smart and Will Falk. They offer listeners 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 our Native culture. Some of the things Myron loves include everything outdoors, animals and taking care of his horses. Will Falk is a biophilic writer, lawyer and the author of “How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me,” published by Homebound Publications. More about Will at willfalk.org. More about Thacker Pass: protectthackerpass.org. “LIKE” Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes artist Hiroyuki Hamada. Hiroyuki, who was born in Tokyo, has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, and is represented by Bookstein Projects. He has been awarded various residencies, including those at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation /William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person’s Center, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the MacDowell Colony. Hiroyuki’s work has been featured in various publications, including Stokstad and Cothren’s widely used art history text book “Art: A Brief History” (Pearseon). In 1998 he was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant; he was a two time recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (2009 and 2017), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. Hiroyuki lives and works in East Hampton, New York. Tiokasin will discuss Hiroyuki’s recent essay, “The Mechanism of Invisible Hand, Invisible Cage, and Invisible Empire Over Humanity and Nature” (Dissident Voice, Feb. 9, 2021: https://bit.ly/399Ed3f). Find out more about Hiroyuki and his art at http://hiroyukihamada.com/

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Sundancer 21

Artist: Eagle & Hawk

CD: Liberty (2019)

Label: Rising Sun Productions / Producer: Vince Fontaine

Music Video: https://youtu.be/xOGMCch5GAg

(00:35:25)

Song Title: Rule the World

Artist: Michael Kiwanuka

CD: Love and Hate (2016)

Label: Polydor Records

(00:56:12)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes two guests. Konkankoh has more than 40 years of experience across social entrepreneurship development sectors in Africa and Europe. His career spans senior leadership and entrepreneurial roles in social transformation, environmental management, sustainable development and consulting. Since 1996 when Konkankoh registered Better World Cameroon (BWC), he has been leading a green revolution and youth development concept based on Systems thinking, an innovative method of resolving the cultural challenges pushing thousands of youth to migrate out of Africa. Konkankoh was evicted from his country in 2018 by the civil war and lives today in Portugal where he mentors a group of young change-makers, developing new societal platforms in the domains of education, social inclusion, healthcare, civil society governance, and livelihoods. Konkankoh’s youth development platform Ndanifor Permaculture Ecovillage that was recently burnt down by French Cameroon military included regenerative agriculture systems supported by global philanthropic collaborators. In parallel to Ecovillage design work, Konkankoh is grooming Global Ecovillage Network, Africa’s next-generation leadership engaged in developing a regenerative education system. Faced with the challenges of the Genocide in Ambazonia and COVID-19 pandemic, Konkankoh focuses his attention on reconnecting refugees to the land using Permaculture and looking for support to accompany them with seed funding. Konkankoh’s organization Better World is a not-for-profit incubator and accelerator focused on non-formal education. Konkankoh is a social Innovation advisor to Defend the Sacred Alliance. For more information, visit: https://betterworld-cameroon.com/ and https://spiritofndanifor.wordpress.com/

Koh is a journalist and Communications Manager for BWC. Koh has worked in print and broadcast media in Cameroon but is now involved in freelance, digital media journalism, and activism since moving to Portugal in 2019 due to the severe crackdown on journalists reporting the atrocities happening in Southern Cameroons. Koh has been with BWC for more than 9 years and participates in the organization’s efforts to improve the lives of women and young people through regenerative education and entrepreneurship. Koh’s current work centers around creating awareness in Europe about the ongoing crisis in his country to push for international support towards an end to the war. Koh is also the co-founder of two small startup companies in Cameroon, Njangi and K and K media. Koh is passionate about storytelling, art and technology, believing they're key areas that will take Africa to the level where it is no longer portrayed in Western media narratives as a place of poverty and disease, but where Africans can tell their own stories and forge their path, void of post-colonial shackles and western exploitation.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Kothbiro
Artist: Ayub Ogada
CD: The Constant Gardener (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2005)
Label: Higher Octave Music
(00:41:07)
Song Title: 4R Ancestors
Artist: Keith Secola
EP: Wild Band of Indians (1996)
Label: AKINA Records
(00:46:03)
Song Title: Grand Canyon
Artist: Mat Kearney
Single: October 2020
Label: N/A
(00:50:25)
Song Title: Generation
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: Power in the Blood (2015)
Label: Tr

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes 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 the Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. Corrina has worked tirelessly to protect the 425 shellmounds that ring San Francisco Bay, and is currently focused on protecting the West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site, the first and oldest Ohlone settlement on San Francisco Bay—a designated Berkeley City Landmark since 2000, and one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Sites in America in 2020. More information at https://shellmound.org/ and sogoreate-landtrust.com/

Christopher (Toby) McLeod has been Project Director of the Sacred Land Film Project since 1984. In 2013, he completed the four-part series Standing on Sacred Ground, which aired on PBS. Toby produced and directed In the Light of Reverence (2001) and three other award-winning documentaries broadcast on national television: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? (1983) and NOVA: Poison in the Rockies (1990). Toby has a master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in History from Yale and has received a Student Academy Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Toby has worked with Indigenous communities as a filmmaker, journalist and photographer for 44 years. Standing on Sacred Ground is available from Bullfrog Films, StandingOnSacredGround.org and sacredland.org.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes back Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape). Steve is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than three decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve is author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve’s website is http://originalfreenations.com/. For additional information about Steve and his other projects, visit redthought.org and shawnanbluestar.com

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Make You Crazy
Artist: Brett Dennan feat. Femi Kuti
CD: Hope for the Hopeless (2008)
Label: Dualtone Records
(00:26:08)
Song Title: Begin Again
Artist: Nick Mulvey
EP: Begin Again
Label: Eel Pie Records
(00:29:42)
Song Title: Nicto Kicko
Artist: Laura Niquay
CD: Waska Matisiwin (upcoming release date: April 21, 2021)
Label: Musique Nomade
(00:53:38)

On his edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Nick Mulvey, as his guest for the full hour. Nick Mulvey is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of the band Portico Quartet in which he played the hang. In 2011, Nick started his career as a singer-songwriter releasing the EPs “The Trellis” and “Fever to the Form”; his studio album “First Mind” in 2014 received a Mercury Music Prize nomination. His album, “Wake Up Now,” was released in September 2017, and “Dancing for Answers” was released in 2018.

“Begin Again,” his latest EP, was released in 2020. In Nick’s short cinematic film, which expands on the themes of “Begin Again,” he says: “We are living through an incredible shift. The old ways are dying, right before our very eyes.” View the film: https://youtu.be/wRyIuFRbSQA. Nick’s official website is: https://www.nickmulvey.com/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Film (Audio): Nick Mulvey - Begin Again (A Short Film) - December 2020
Artist: Nick Mulvey
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/wRyIuFRbSQA
Film Synopsis: To celebrate the limited edition vinyl release of “Begin Again,” Nick Mulvey together with director Sam Mulvey brings us a short and poignant film reflecting on the meaning of “Begin Again” and how the musical project developed in one of the most unprecedented years in our lifetime.
(00:03:50)
Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: Released as a single in 2019
Label: N/A. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE
(00:52:17)

On this edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes 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 Native film talent, fund Native media content and produce Native film and television public media intended for public television broadcasting. She works directly in partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its many entities to provide prime Native content for digital and educational platforms. Francene specializes in cultural education, cultural arts programming and executive management in the arts. Her passion for her work has inspired others to gain knowledge and discovery in learning and understanding Native peoples worldwide. As a proud Native woman, Francene Blythe-Lewis is Eastern Cherokee, Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota and Diné. For more information, visit visionmakermedia.org.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Higher Ground
Artist: Playing for Change
CD: PFC2: Songs Around the World (2011)
Label: Concord
(00:23:14)
Song Title: The Cleansing
Artist: John Trudell
CD: Tribal Voice (1983)
Label: Effective
(00:28:11)
Song Title: The Big Ones Get Away
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: Coincidences and Likely Stories
Label: Ensign Records (1992)
(00:47:07)
Song Title: We Are Never Apart
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: Wake Up Now (2017)
Label: FICTION
(00:50:49)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné, she/her), an Indigenous activist and community organizer who has been fighting Nuclear Colonialism since 2007. She is focused on preventing new uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping, and transport of radioactive materials in the southwestern United States. Leona co-founded and works with Haul No! (www.fb.com/HaulNo), Radiation Monitoring Project (www.radmonitoring.org), and Nuclear Issues Study Group (www.fb.com/NuclearIssuesStudyGroup). She also contributes to the international initiative Don’t Nuke The Climate (https://dont-nuke-the-climate.org) which addresses nuclear energy as a global climate threat. Leona is from the Navajo Nation and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In the second segment, Tiokasin speaks with Andy Beck. Andy grew up in the town of Perth in Scotland, and after graduating from Edinburgh University spent the early part of his career working as a software tester and a Technical Writer in several software houses and financial firms. Andy is also a lifelong musician who sang in choirs and played classical violin in school orchestras before graduating to playing keyboards in several rock bands. He currently enjoys teaching himself to play guitar. Growing up in a small town situated within striking distance of the great outdoors has given Andy a keen interest in ecology and the natural world. He is a writer of fiction and recently finished a novel called “Arran,” which is an attempt to make sense of the age we live in — particular the ecological and climate crises — through the eyes of its five main characters. After moving about from place to place, including several years as an immigrant in Toronto, Canada, Andy is now back in his home town of Perth, Scotland.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Begin Again

Artist: Nick Mulvey

EP: Begin Again

Label: Eel Pie Records

(00:24:35)

Song Title: Sundancer 21

Artist: Eagle & Hawk

CD: Eagle & Hawk Liberty (2019)

Label: Rising Sun Productions

(00:58:26)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes returning guest 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 were destroyed by so-called development. Stephany has been an earth activist since the late 1980s, has apprenticed as a wildlife rehabilitator, and is a student of horses. She started following the work of the Buffalo Field Campaign in 1997. In January 2004, she moved to Montana and has been on the front lines with the Buffalo Field Campaign ever since. Stephany has been a member of Deep Green Resistance since 2015 and stands in solidarity with those—human and non-human—who want to bring an end to industrial civilization and the culture that is killing our planet. Stephany counts among her heroes, Derrick Jensen, John Trudell, and the co-founders of Buffalo Field Campaign Mike Mease and Rosalie Little Thunder.

In the second segment, we have updates on the occupation of Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. In January, a group of activists, including our returning guests Max Wilbert and Will Falk, launched an occupation of a proposed mine at Thacker Pass. Lithium Americas corporation plans to rip open 5,000 acres of this land to extract lithium for consumer products. Max Wilbert is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He’s an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. Max has been involved in fighting both Canadian and Utah tar sands, in resisting industrial-scale water extraction and deforestation in Nevada, in advocating for the last remaining wild buffalo in Yellowstone, in solidarity work with Indigenous communities in British Columbia, and in campaigns against sexual violence. Will Falk is a biophilic writer, lawyer and the author of “How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me,” published by Homebound Publications. The book describes his relationship with the Colorado River through his involvement in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking rights for a major ecosystem, the Colorado River. Will has published numerous articles and essays through Earth Island Journal, the Dark Mountain Project, CounterPunch, and many others. More about Will at willfalk.org. More about Thacker Pass: protectthackerpass.org.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Through the Flood
Artist: Indian City feat. Don Amero
CD: Hear and Now (2017)
Label: Rising Sun Productions
(00:26:30)
Song Title: Transform Your Game (We Remain)
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: Wake Up Now (2017)
Label: FICTION
(00:53:53)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Manish Jain. Manish is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations and inter-cultural dialogue. Inspired by MK Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Ivan Illich, his village grandmother, Indigenous communities and Jain spiritual philosophy, Manish is one of the leading planetary voices for de-schooling our lives. Manish has helped thousands of young people escape from factory schooling and recover their dignity, self-worth and “alivelihoods.” He has served for the past 23 years as Chief Beaver of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, based in Udaipur, India and is co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world — the Swaraj University, the Jail University, Complexity University, the Creativity Adda, the Learning Societies Unconference, the Walkouts-Walkon network, Udaipur as a Learning City, the Families Learning Together network in India, Berkana Exchange. Manish co-launched the global Ecoversities Alliance with 150+ members in 40 countries. Manish is a senior advisor to the Economics of Happiness network for localisation.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes Felipe Viveros. Felipe is an independent researcher, strategist and consultant specializing in campaigning, program design and fundraising. He has worked with governments and organizations globally pioneering the prototyping and implementation of a new development paradigm, and has served as the European representative of the GNH Centre Bhutan, the board Chair of /TR and at the Sacred Head Waters Initiative. Felipe is co-writer with Nick Mulvey of “In the Anthropocene,” performed by Nick Mulvey. “In the Anthropocene” was one of First Voices Radio’s “Top Listener Favorite Songs” of 2019 and 2020.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: N/A - released as a single in October 2019
Label: N/A; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE
(00:40:10)

Martín 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 international school Bolad’s Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. Martín’s books include: “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar”; “Long Life, Honey in the Heart”: “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun”; “Stealing Benefacio’s Roses”; “The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic” and “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise.” More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Hypnotized
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
CD: Mystery to Me (1973)
Label: Warner Records
(00:52:38)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with returning guest 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 the many efforts made by white Americans and Canadians to claim an “Indigenous”

identity. He and Tiokasin discuss Darryl’s most recent research demonstrating how Franco-Americans with no Abenaki ancestry have created a series of "Abenaki tribes" in Vermont and New Hampshire.

At the bottom of the hour, Tiokasin pays tribute to great friend and colleague Laura Waterman Wittstock (Seneca, Heron Clan) who recently passed away at the age of 83. Laura, a long time and extremely well regarded Native journalist, was the host and producer of "First Person Radio" on public/community radio KFAI FM in Minneapolis, MN for many years. She was also an educator and founder of the non-profit Migizi Communications in Minneapolis - giving opportunities and encouragement to young Native communicators. Over the years, Laura joined Tiokasin as a guest on “First Voices Radio” and Tiokasin also joined Laura on her show. "First Voices Radio" will miss her very much.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes back Max Wilbert, a writer, organizer and wilderness guide. A third-generation dissident, Max grew up on Duwamish land in post–WTO Seattle. He is the author of two books, including the forthcoming “Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It,” to be published by Monkfish this year. Max’s essays have been published in Earth Island Journal, Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, and have been translated into several languages. Max has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He has been involved in fighting both Canadian and Utah tar sands, in resisting industrial-scale water extraction and deforestation in Nevada, in advocating for the last remaining wild buffalo in Yellowstone, in solidarity work with Indigenous communities in British Columbia, and in campaigns against sexual violence. Last Friday, a group of activists, including Max, launched an occupation of a proposed mine in northern Nevada. Lithium Americas corporation plans to rip open 5,000 acres of this land to extract lithium for consumer products. For more information on this campaign, visit https://protectthackerpass.org.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Long Time Gone

Artist: Crosby, Stills and Nash

CD: Crosby, Stills and Nash (1969)

Label: Atlantic Records

(00:28:10)

Song Title: After the Gold Rush

Artist: Katie Pruitt

CD: Ohio/After the Gold Rush (2020)

Label: Rounder Records

(00:54:47)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Janene Yazzie about LANDBACK, a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands. Janene is a Diné woman from the Navajo Nation who has worked on human rights and Indigenous Rights issues for the past 15 years at the national and international levels. As an advocate, entrepreneur, and community organizer Janene works with Indigenous peoples to develop sustainable and regenerative economies through her company Sixth World Solutions. Janene also works part-time as International Indian Treaty Council's Sustainable Development Program Coordinator.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes Elizabeth Woody, Executive Director of The Museum At Warm Springs in Warm Springs, Oregon. They discuss a January 12, 2021 New York Times article: “Tribal elders are dying from the pandemic causing a cultural crisis for American Indians: The virus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tradition.” Elizabeth Woody is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. She is of Yakama Nation descent and is “born for” Bitter Water clan of the Navajo Nation. Elizabeth is a renowned poet, author, essayist and visual artist, and is also an educator, mentor, collaborator and community leader. Elizabeth earned a Master of Public Administration degree through the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government’s Executive Leadership Institute of Portland State University, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities from The Evergreen State College, and studied Creative Writing and Two-Dimensional Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has written three books of poetry, and in 2016, she became the first Native American to be named Oregon’s Poet Laureate. In 2018, Elizabeth received a National Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Elizabeth has led writing workshops, lectures and has served on multi-disciplinary art fellowship jury panels for several foundations and arts organizations nationally.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: What About Those Promises?
Artist: The Thunderbirds Raised Her, feat. Jefferson Sister of Lummi Nation
CD: n/A
Label: n/a
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y7tZDOWhufA
(00:28:25)
Song Title: Love Theme from Spartacus
Artist: Terry Callier
CD: TimePeace (1998)
Label: Verve Forecast Records
(00:54:25)

In this episode of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, Co-Directors and Co-Founders of Whose Knowledge? for the second in a series of ongoing conversations exploring “Collective Consciousness Perspectives.”

Adele Vrana has led business development and partnerships initiatives to help build a more plural and diverse communities in her native country of Brazil and globally. She is the former Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Wikimedia Foundation and a 2015 Erasmus Prize laureate on behalf of her work to expand access to Wikipedia in the Global South. Adele holds a B.A. in International Relations and a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo. When not re-imagining what the internet of the future would look like and advocating for that online, Adele spends most of her time raising two feminist boys, reading black feminists from the Global South, and spending time with her friends from close and afar.

Anasuya Sengupta has led initiatives in India and the USA, across the global South, and internationally for more than 20 years, to amplify marginalized voices in virtual and physical worlds. Anasuya is the former Chief Grant-making Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women, and a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. Anasuya received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute, and is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. Anasuya holds a Masters of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She also has a B.A. in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University. When not rabble-rousing online, Anasuya makes and breaks pots and poems, takes long walks by the water and in the forest, and contorts herself into yoga poses.

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Liminal Grace
Artist: Gabriel Meyer Halevy
CD: n/a
Label: 2021, Released as a single, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy36SrPxCZA, also on Spotify and Instagram
(00:50:42)
Song Title: Praises
Artist: Bill Miller
CD: The Red Road (1993)
Label: Reprise Records
(00:55:45)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Karli Moore. Karlie, who 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, youth-led food sovereignty initiatives, corporate agribusiness, international agriculture projects and land grant institutions. She has undergraduate degrees in chemistry and agricultural business management from NC State and master's degrees in agricultural economics and international rural development from the University of Arkansas. For more information, visit https://nativeamericanagriculturefund.org/

In the second segment, a special preview of a brand-new musical release from Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse — “Ghosthorse: Akantu - Origin Series.” Recorded live in 2017 at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY. Featured musicians include: Tiokasin Ghosthorse, flute; Dave Eggar, Cello; Charley Buckland, Bass and 12-string guitar; and Paul Juba Mueller, Hammered Dulcimer, Percussion. For more information about the CD: tiokasinghosthorse.hearnow.com/akantu

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Consciousness, The Song of Thoughts
CD: Music for the Mother (2020)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:29:20)
Song Title: Momentum
Artist: Ghosthorse (feat. Dave Eggar, Cello; Charley Buckland, Bass and 12-string guitar; and Paul Juba Mueller, Hammered Dulcimer, Percussion)
CD: Akantu - Origin Series
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:43:48)
Title: Ngā Iwe E
Artist: Indigie Femme
CD: Hau Waiata (2012)
Label: Indigie Femme
(00:54:43)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back a friend, Ukumbwa Sauti is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in West Africa. He is a diviner, numerologist, and spiritual counselor. Ukumbwa is a Producer and Partner at Moja Mediaworks, developing the World Ancestor Concert, and facilitating Social Justice workshop experiences along with forwarding progressive messaging through online merchandising. Ukumbwa presents discussions and workshops through the Men’s Work initiative, engaging patriarchy and men’s violence against women and the LGBTQ community. He has taught Cultural Media Studies and Video Production for 17 years in higher education; and has been active in the Pan-African movement, Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism work and the Occupy/Decolonize to Liberate movements. Ukumbwa has presented at spiritual conferences and political events in the New England region, California and Barbados; and has been active in creating ritual work in Boston, New York and Toronto. He can be reached for bookings and consultation on Facebook, Twitter and email at ukumbwa@gmail.com. Find his current work at www.worldancestorconcert.com, on Facebook and other Global Media Network platforms.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes back Cody Coyote. Cody is a multi-award nominated and award-winning hip-hop and electronic artist. He is Ojibwe and Irish descent with ancestry from Matachewan First Nation in Ontario. In January, Cody’s award-winning song, “Manidoo Dewe’igan” hit #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown in Canada, and has since lead to the creation of this project in partnership with FACTOR — The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings, The Government of Canada, Ajax Creative and ZYK Marketing. With his fusion of strong, profound lyricism accompanied by corresponding influential sounds, Cody grasps his listeners’ attention and delivers a mesmerizing performance. Cody’s new single is “Two Worlds.” Outside of music, Cody is also a motivational speaker, workshop facilitator, and is the Host of “The Beat” on 95.7 ELMNT FM in Ottawa, Ontario. Cody can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. His website is https://www.codycoyotemusic.com/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Wanted Man
Artist: The Last Internationale
CD: We Will Reign (2014)
Label: Epic Records
(00:09:40)
Song Title: Shouting from the Sidelines
Artist: John Trudell
DNA (Descendant Now Ancestor) (2000)
Label: Effective Records
(00:14:38)
Title: Two Worlds
Artist: Cody Coyote
CD: N/A, released as a single only, www.codycoyotemusic.com
Label: N/A
(00:34:20; 00:53:53)

In the first segment, Leya Hale is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She makes her home in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her companion and three children. Leya works as a Producer for Twin Cities PBS. She is best known for her first feature documentary, “The People’s Protectors,” a Vision Maker Media grant production and winner of the 2019 Upper Midwest Emmy Award for Best Cultural Documentary. Recently, Leya was selected as the 2020 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous Artists and attended the 2020 Berlinale European Film Market as a Native Fellow. Leya is currently producing her second feature length documentary about missing and murdered Indigenous women, titled “Bring Her Home.”

In the second segment, Karyn Pugliese aka Pabàmàdiz, is an assistant professor of journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Karyn may be best known for her work as a Parliament Hill reporter and as the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), where she ran the news department for seven years. She has completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Karyn has worked in both daily news and on long-form investigations at a variety of outlets including ichannel, VisionTV, CBC and CTV. Karyn is past president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, and she is a board member of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. She is a Journalists for Human Rights Ambassador and worked as an expert trainer for the program in South Sudan in 2018. Her journalism has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Screen Awards, the Native American Journalists Association and the Public Policy Forum. She holds degrees in Journalism and History. Karyn is a citizen of the Pikwàkanagàn First Nation in Ontario, and is of mixed Algonquin and Italian descent. When she is not engaged in acts of journalism, you'll find her paddling a canoe, shooting photos and eating frybread.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Clocks
Artist: Cold Play
CD: A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:28:05)
Song Title: All Human Beings (Narrated by Sheila Atim) Max Richter, Sheila Atim & Mari Samuelsen
Artist: Max Richter
CD: Max Richter - All Human Beings - International Voices (2020)
Label: Decca, UMO, Classics
(00:54:05)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Bryan Nurnberger, President and Founder of Simply Smiles, an organization that builds villages of foster homes for indigenous children. The Simply Smiles model of foster care is a new and progressive one that provides a desperately needed, scalable and culturally appropriate response for Native children in Oaxaca, Mexico and on the Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation in South Dakota. In 2002, Bryan was a professional mountain climbing guide recovering from a climbing injury when he began volunteering at a Mexican orphanage. His experiences there inspired him to create Simply Smiles. Bryan was given the Lakota name “Cante Waste Wicasa” which means “Kind Hearted Man.” Backed by tribal elders, the tribal council, and the local community, the Simply Smiles Children’s Village on the Cheyenne River Reservation is serving the immediate needs of the most-at-risk Lakota children, but also scaffolding a brighter future by guiding today’s most vulnerable children to become tomorrow’s strongest and most influential adults. Simply Smiles children’s villages foster leaders, role models, and citizens of the world. Bryan says: “Simply Smiles has an important role to play in reaching a brighter future. But when the success story is written it should not be a story of this organization. It should be the story of how Native children wanted something different, something better, and with a little help, worked to achieve it. An organization like ours should be felt not seen. We should be a wind at your back.” More information at https://www.simplysmiles.org/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Raye Zaragoza
CD: Woman in Color (2020)
Label: Rebel River Records
(00:31:25)
Song Title: Another Day in Paradise
Artist: Phil Collins
CD: But Seriously (1989)
Label: Atlantic Records
(00:35:00)
Title: Spiritual Logic
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
CD: Ghosthorse/Akantu: The Origin Series - Live at The National Sawdust, 2017, Brooklyn, NY ) (not yet released)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:40:10)
Song Title: In the Air Tonight
Artist: Phil Collins
CD: Face Value (1981)
Label: Atlantic Records
(00:54:10)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes 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 We Can Do About It” (Monkfish, 2021. Max’s essays have been published in Earth Island Journal, Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, and have been translated into several languages. Max has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He has been involved in fighting both Canadian and Utah tar sands, in resisting industrial-scale water extraction and deforestation in Nevada, in advocating for the last remaining wild buffalo in Yellowstone, in solidarity work with Indigenous communities in British Columbia, and in campaigns against sexual violence.

In the second segment, Tiokasin speaks with returning guest Christine Diindiisi McCleave (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe). Christine is the CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. A descendant of boarding school survivors, Christine completed her master’s thesis at Augsburg University on traditional Native American spirituality and Christianity, and the impact of boarding schools on Indigenous communities today. Christine is a graduate of the mini–MBA program at the University of St. Thomas and holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Northwestern College. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is sending 1,000 care packages to Native elders who are boarding school survivors or their direct descendants. The We Love You! Elder Care Packages, which are being carefully arranged by volunteers from the Tulalip community in Washington State, are filled with items that were created or produced by Indigenous artists, healers, entrepreneurs, companies, and friends from across Turtle Island. More information at https://boardingschoolhealing.org/elder-care-packages/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Chosen Road
Artist: Cary Morin
CD: Dockside Saints (2020)
Label: Cary Morin
(00:21:27)
Song Title: Rule the World
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
CD: Love and Hate (2016)
Label: Polydor Records
(00:45:25)
Song Title: Cold
Artist: Chris Stapleton
CD: Cold (2020)
Label: Mercury Records Nashville
(00:51:22)

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes 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 Brazil and globally. She is the former Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Wikimedia Foundation and a 2015 Erasmus Prize laureate on behalf of her work to expand access to Wikipedia in the Global South. Adele holds a B.A. in International Relations and a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo.

Anasuya Sengupta has led initiatives in India and the USA, across the global South, and internationally for more than 20 years, to amplify marginalized voices in virtual and physical worlds. Anasuya is the former Chief Grant-making Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women, and a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. Anasuya received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute, and is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. Anasuya holds a Masters of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She also has a B.A. in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University.

In this segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Tash Terry of IndigenousWays and Indigie Femme.The birth of IndigenousWays came in 2007. Co-founders, Tash Terry, Diné (Navajo) Nation and Elena Higgins, Maori/Samoan, began performing that year as Indigie Femme, an Indigenous woman empowered musical duo.Based on the overwhelming feedback they received, they were inspired to start Indigenous Ways.Through travels they discovered that globally, Indigenous communities identified a need for survival through deeper integration of their culture, their spirituality and their community.They determined that music, story-telling and the arts provided opportunities to raise awareness and global support for Indigenous communities.IndigenousWays is an Indigenous women-led nonprofit based in Northern New Mexico, where Native Americans represent 10.6 percent of the population.For the past 14 years, the organization has been providing all-inclusive Indigenous educational programs that encompass artistic and musical performances, along with programs developed to acknowledge cultural awareness, values and practices.IndigenousWays is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Soundcloud.More at https://www.indigenousways.org/

Indigie Femme has won many awards along the way, including 2016, 2014 and 2012 New Mexico Music Award and 2013 Aboriginal Peoples Choice as Best International Duo.Indigie Femme’s music can be sampled, and they can be reached, through a variety of platforms including:ReverbNation, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and Instagram.More at https://www.indigiefemme.com/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Audio from 6-minute documentary film: IndigenousWays and the Relief Runs to Black Mountain on the Navajo Nation
Producer: IndigenousWays, Santa Fe, NM, https://www.indigenousways.org
YouTube Link Only: https://youtu.be/Ht4oFsb5y7o
(00:38:35)
Song Title: Nga Iwi E
Artist: Indigie Femme
CD: Hau Waiata (2012)
Label: Indigie Femme
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On this week’s episode, “First Voices Radio” digs deep into its 28-year-old Archive and brings listeners other interpretations and observations surrounding the American holiday known as “Thanksgiving.”

Part 1:

This interview was first aired in 2005. Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Austin and a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. In his writing and teaching, Dr. Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. He has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism. Dr. Jensen and Tiokasin discuss the history of Thanksgiving, based on themes in his book, “The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege” (City Lights, 2005).

Part 2:

This is a special broadcast of the late John Trudell’s “Thanksgiving Day Address.” Although Trudell's remarks are from 1980, listeners will be amazed at how his observations have stood the test of time and still ring very true to today. The names of U.S. politicians that Trudell mentions have changed over the years but the issues that Native people faced then and now remain the same. John Trudell (1946-2015) has been identified as a poet, a fighter for Native American rights, an agitator, and lots of other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suits him he would have refused to be pinned down. “Actually I don’t consider myself to be any of those things. They’re things that I do…but they’re parts of me. They’re not the total.” Indeed, Trudell was the complex sum of all that he saw, endured and accomplished in his 69 years, a time in which he experienced more than most people might in several lifetimes. More information about John Trudell can be found at https://www.johntrudell.com/.

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

CD: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

(00:00:44)

Song Title: Don’t Abuse the Medicine (July 2020)

Artist: Girls Rising

CD: Released as a Single: https://youtu.be/29rIixMxmIQ

Label: Produced by On Native Ground

(00:26:50)

Song Title: The Cleansing

Artist: John Trudell

CD: Tribal Voices (1983)

Label: Effective

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. His government program was called Plan Amor and given its coincidences with the 20/30 agenda of the United Nations, it was chosen as a mirror territory by the organization. With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa decided to close Rapa Nui to tourism and invoke the TAPU which is an ancestral call to order and unrestricted respect for the orders of the authority. Thanks to that decision he managed to stop the advance of the coronavirus when they had only three cases were detected. Mayor Paoa’s formula for attacking the virus has been applauded around the world. His direct style has placed him as one of the most credible politicians in Chile. With the social explosion, he became part of those who sought the creation of a new constitution. For the first time, he managed to unite Indigenous mayors in an association. Mayor Paoa’s word is respected in Rapa Nui, where he is preparing to go to a new term as Mayor.

Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel’s been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He delivers an update and analysis on what’s happening in Chile and other parts of Latin America, as it concerns Indigenous people. Tiokasin also talks with Manuel about Chileans overwhelmingly approving, at the polls, the doing away of the Constitution drafted and approved under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet and gave the green light to the creation of a Constitutional Assembly.

According to official data by Chile's official electoral body, with 45.24% of the vote counted, 77.85% percent of the voters checked the Approval box, an overwhelming figure in contrast to the 22.15% percent who chose to legitimize the current Constitution, which was supported by a majority of right-wing parties. Chileans also overwhelmingly chose a constitutional convention as the method to create a new constitution.

Also, thousands of Chilean citizens cast their votes in 65 countries. Argentina, the United States, Spain, Canada, and Australia were the nations most represented. More than 80% of voters overseas supported approval for a new constitution. This is the first time in the South American nation’s history that citizens are asked whether or not they want a new Magna Carta. Citizens also voted to create a Constitutional Convention to draft the new fundamental law. Manuel also shows the political relationship Chile has with the U.S. and role of the current president-elect Joe Biden.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Dark Days (feat. Nina Persson)
Artist: Local Natives
CD: Sunlit Youth (2016)
Label: Loma Vista Recordings
(00:25:20)

Song Title: Change on the Rise
Artist: Avi Kaplan
CD: I’ll Get By (2020)
Label: Fantasy Records
(00:56:25)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Max Nesterak, reporter and producer of "Uprooted: The 1950s Plan to Erase Indian Country" (Nov. 1, 2019, Minnesota Public Radio and APM Reports). Max is a reporter for Minnesota Reformer, a news outlet in Minnesota, which is part of the States Newsroom Network. Previously, he was at Minnesota Public Radio and National Public Radio.

Tiokasin talks with Oqwilowgwa, Kim Recalma-Clutesi of the Qualicum First Nation, British Columbia, Canada. Oqwilowgwa is a cross-cultural interpreter, teacher, researcher and writer on topics of ethnobiology and tribal history. She is also a nonprofit director, political organizer, and award-winning videographer and film producer. Oqwilowgwa is a co-author of "Indigenous song keepers reveal traditional ecological knowledge in music" (The Conversation, Jan. 2, 2020).

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Lay Laya (Kurdish Lullaby)
Artist: Lay Laya (feat. Mina Deris and Mehdi Abbasi)
CD: Lay Laya (2019)
Label: Hesam Naseri, Mina Deris, Mehdi
(00:28:00)
Song Title: Single World
Artist: Lay Laya (feat. Mina Deris and Mehdi Abbasi)
CD: Lay Laya (2019)
Label: Hesam Naseri, Mina Deris, Mehdi Abbasi
(00:57:44)

Mark K. Tilsen Mark is an Oglala Lakota poet and educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At Standing Rock, he stepped into the role of a direct action trainer and police liaison. Since then he has led trainings and teach in’s about the lessons learned from Standing Rock.

He recently spent six months at L’eau Est La Vie Camp helping fight against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline which is the tail end of the Dakota Access Pipeline ending in Louisiana. Recently Mark has been working with the Mni Luzahan Creek Patrol to provide basic security to our unhoused relatives along Rapid Creek in Rapid City, South Dakota. For more information and ways to help, please visit www.mniluzahan.org. The organization is also on Facebook.

Award-winning artist Cary Morin’s new album, “Dockside Saints,” was released in August 2020. Cary has won numerous awards for his work, particularly for his 2017 release, “Cradle to the Grave.” Born in Billings, Montana, Cary is a Crow tribal member and son of an air force officer.

He spent the bulk of his youth in Great Falls, Montana, where he cut his teeth picking guitar standards at neighborhood get-togethers, before relocating to northern Colorado. There, his musical career hit the ground running with The Atoll, a band he founded in 1989 and that toured nationally, gaining a devoted following. Later, he achieved international acclaim with The Pura Fé Trio, for whom the single “Ole Midlife Crisis,” which Morin wrote and performed with Pura Fé, placed at number 17 on France’s iTunes blues chart.

With The Atoll and The Pura Fé Trio, and as a solo artist, Morin has played celebrated venues across the globe, including Paris Jazz Festival, Winter Park Jazz Festival, Folk Alliance International, River People Festival, Shakori Hill Festival, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and most recently Rochefort En Accords festival in France and The Copenhagen Blues Festival.

Described as “one of the best acoustic pickers on the scene today,” Cary brings together the great musical traditions of America and beyond like no other. With deft fingerstyle guitar and vocals that alternately convey melodic elation and gritty world-weariness, Cary crafts an inimitable style often characterized as acoustic Native Americana with qualities of blues, bluegrass, jazz, jam, reggae, and dance.

More about Cary at https://www.carymorin.com/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Bare Trees
Artist: Cary Morin
CD: Dockside Saints
Label: Independent Label (Cary Morin)
(00:21:55)
Song Title: Jamie Rae
Artist: Cary Morin
CD: Dockside Saints
Label: Independent Label (Cary Morin)
(00:26:12)
Song Title: Valley of the Chiefs
Artist: Cary Morin
CD: Dockside Saints
Label: Independent Label (Cary Morin)
(00:51:20)
Song Title: Prisoner
Artist: Cary Morin
CD: Dockside Saints
Label: Independent Label (Cary Morin)
(00:54:53)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Chief Terrance Paul, Co-Chair and Fisheries Lead for the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs.

Chief Paul and Tiokasin discuss the current situation involving the Mi’kmaw’s treaty rights to fish (in this particular case, gather lobsters) and the violence — imposed by a small and extremely racist minority — that has erupted and escalated since mid-September 2020 causing damage to Mi’kmaw property and endangering Mi’kmaw lives.

Chief Paul brings listeners up to date on all of the latest developments and the Mi’kmaw peoples’ efforts to work with the Canadian federal government to put a stop to the harassment and violence. People — not just Native people — all over the world are watching what is happening and lending support to the Mi’kmaw people in their struggle to maintain their treaty rights.

Chief Paul has held the position of Chief of Membertou First Nation since 1984. During this time, Chief Paul has guided his community and administration into one of the most open and efficient Native communities in Canada.

He has served on numerous boards and task forces, and is one of the original founders of the National Capital Corporation Association (NACCA), which started out as seven Aboriginal corporations and has grown to 50 Aboriginal financial institutions across Canada.

Chief Paul started his career with the Boston Indian Council, where he received his background training in Finance and Management. He began as a Job Placement Officer and was quickly promoted to Director of Finance before being named president of the council. Upon returning home to Membertou, Chief Paul worked as the Economic Development Officer and Band Manager before being elected as Chief.

Chief Paul has achieved many accomplishments in his role as Chief, including doubling the land base for the Membertou Reserve. He also assisted Donald Marshall, Jr., in his successful Supreme Court defense of the Mi'kmaq Treaty Rights to fish, which resulted in approximately $600 million in the Atlantic for the Mi'kmaq. In 2012, Chief Paul was inducted into Junior Achievement Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame recognizing his accomplishments and contributions to Nova Scotia.

Second Interview:

Tiokasin talks with Antonia Perre, a clinical herbalist, gardener and artist who was born and raised in New York City. They have apprenticed with several herbalists around the Northeast, Central and South America, and Thailand.

They graduated from Bard College where they studied environmental and urban studies in 2015 and Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine in 2019. They are a community organizer, gardener, food and environmental justice educator.

They are also the co-founder of collectives: Brujas and Herban Cura. They are passionate to share their knowledge with other folks especially in urban centers, in order to interrupt notions of individualism and separatism from nature and grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities. For more information, visit: https://herbancura.org/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: Ganulu (Great Black Messenger Bird)
CD: Music for the Mother (2020)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:25:36)
Song Title: Salt and the Sea
Artist: The Lumineers

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse begins the hour talking with Matthew O’Neill, a musical artist who lives in Upstate New York. Matthew's latest project is “Music for The Mother,” the debut album featuring the Ancestral Teyuna Music from the Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta in Colombia.

The album is produced by Matthew’s record label, “Underwater Panther Coalition," a label committed to supporting Indigenous rights and celebrating ancestral musical traditions by releasing projects based on time-honored traditions of gratitude, appreciation, respect and reverence for Mother Earth.

The album is particularly special as it's the first record of its kind and first time a female from Teyuna has ever been recorded. Each track is recorded by the spiritual leaders and promotes healing and cultural integrity through song and ceremony. This release serves as an important defining moment of preservation for these Indigenous peoples of the mountain region.

Underwater Panther Coalition shares 50 percent of profits with the Indigenous groups affiliated with each project.

For more information: https://www.underwaterpanthercoalition.com/. Underwater Panther Coalition on Facebook.

In the second half-hour, we feature an interview conducted by Mario Murillo, Host of “Rumba Therapy” heard on Friday evenings from 6-9 pm on WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury, NY.

Mario 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 journals.

Indigenous resistance throughout the hemisphere has accelerated. Mario helps us make sense of the ongoing massacres — occurring on an ongoing basis — of Indigenous peoples defending their territories in Latin America, and also keeps us updated on what’s happening with Indigenous resistance movements throughout Latin America.

Mario interviewed Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse and First Voices Radio Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) about their perspectives on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which was observed on Oct. 12, 2020.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Mario Murillo, Guest Host in the Second Half-Hour
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Ripples of Water
CD: Music for the Mother (2020)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:04:04)
Song Title: Cigarra & Cicada (Spirit of the Seed Consciousness of the Seeds)
CD: Music for the Mother (2020)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:13:35)
Song Title: Consciousness, The Song of Thoughts
CD: Music for the Mother (2020)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:24:57)
Song Title: Who Discovered America?
Artist: Ozomatli
CD: Street Signs (2004)
Label: Real World Records and Concord Records
(00:29:05)
Song Title: Abu Senulan (Mother Earth)
CD: Music for the Mother (2020)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:59:18)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse begins the hour talking with Debra Utacia Krol.

Debra Utacia Krol, a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe, is an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic. Tiokasin and Debra will discuss her article,“‘Living with fire’ may lead to less destructive wildfires, say Indigenous land stewards,” published in the Arizona Republic on August 24, 2020. https://bit.ly/33yFazL

“First Voices Radio” Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) talks with StrongHearts Native Helpline Director Lori Jump (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians). October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. https://www.strongheartshelpline.org/

To close out this week’s show, Tiokasin talks with multi-award nominated and award-winning hip-hop/electronic artist Cody Coyote about his new music video for his award-winning song, “Manidoo Dewe’igan.” The song hit #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown in January 2020. Cody is of Ojibwe and Irish descent with ancestry from Matachewan First Nation in Ontario. Look for “Manidoo Dewe’igan”on all platforms including YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, TikTok and more. Cody can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. His website is https://www.codycoyotemusic.com/

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Mind Control
Artist: Stephen Marley
CD: Mind Control (2007)
Label: Universal / Tuff Gong
(00:27:25)
Song Title: Manidoo Dewe’igan
Artist: Cody Coyote
CD: Ma’iinganag
Label: Cody Coyote
(00:56:02)

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse begins this week’s broadcast honoring a great friend of “First Voices Radio” — Andre Vltchek.

Andre, who 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 staunch anti-Imperialist investigative journalist. His enormous outpouring of work included 50 books, many documentary films, and hundreds of articles, radio and TV appearances.

Andre was a true friend who carried our stories and struggles out to the world. We will miss him. https://andrevltchek.weebly.com/

Tiokasin talks with John Michelotti, Founder of Catskill Fungi in Big Indian, NY, in the Catskill Mountains. The core of Catskill Fungi is about helping people and improving the planet through its work with mushrooms. Catskill Fungi practices sustainable harvesting, leave-no-trace principles, and compassion for the environment. More information at https://www.catskillfungi.com/

To close out this week’s show, Tiokasin talks with Charley Buckland about his new single, “Murder of Crows.” Charley is a multi-instrumentalist composer and songwriter. He has taught as an adjunct music professor at Webster University in Holland. Find Charley on Facebook. https://charleybuckland.hearnow.com/

Music Selections:

Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
CD: Nanna (2015)
Label: Xavier Rudd
(00:10:42)
Song Title: Murder of Crows
Artist: Charley Buckland
CD: N/A, released as a single 2020-03-17
Label: N/A; YouTube: https://youtu.be/8EhLHkFD4i0
(00:39:20)
Song Title: Sacrireligious feat. John Trudell, Prolific The Rapper
Artist: Trenton Casillas-Bakeberg aka Let It Bee
CD: N/A, released as a single 2020
Label: N/A
(00:51:12)
Song Title: Apache Powder
Artist: Ferrodyne
CD: St. John’s Day (2011)
Label: N/A
(00:55:10)

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 With Wolves"; the entire score for "500 Nations" the 8-hour miniseries for CBS produced by Kevin Costner; and winning an Emmy for his album, "Ojibwe."

As Co-Chair of the NoVo Foundation, Peter helps guide the strategic plan and serves as a member of the NoVo Grants Committee.

In the second half-hour, we feature an interview that was conducted a few days ago with Manuel Rozental and Pablo Millalen.

Manuel is a Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. He has been involved for four decades with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movement. P

ablo Millalen, Mapuche, is a member of the Comunidad de Historia Mapuche, a collective of Indigenous, Mapuche researchers based in Temuco, Chile. He is a doctoral student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

This Week's Guests:

Roberto Rodriguez, Ph.D. — or “Dr. Cintli” — 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 Mother: Nin Tonantzin Non Centeotl” (2014) and “Yolqui: A Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World” (2019) were both published by the University of Arizona Press. The third book of his trilogy — “Smiling Brown: People the color of the Earth” — will be published soon. A collection of his writings, titled “Writing 50 Years Amongst the Gringos,” will be published in 2021 by Aztlan Libre Press. Dr. Cintli currently writes a bi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist.

In the second half-hour, Tiokasin talks with returning guest 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. More about Ofelia’s organization, O’odham Solidarity Project, can be found at http://tiamatpublications.com/.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

Song Title: The Silence of My Friends
Artist: Toronzo Cannon
CD: The Preacher, The Politician or The Pimp (2019)
Label: Alligator Records
(00:26:55)
Song Title: Colors
Artist: Black Pumas
CD: Black Pumas (2019)
Label: ATO Records
(00:54:20)