D.Reger's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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From Moccasin Tracks radio show November 8, 2022 we talk with Irv Lyons Jr and highlight his music. Irv is from the Oneida Nation and picked up the guitar at age 4. Having a military career, it wasn't until he retired from the military when he again picked up the guitar and began to play with the Ripcords. This year he will be playing with the Ripcords at the Native American Music Awards Gala Nov 19. Irv shares personal story about his Great Grandmother and the dark times of racial discrimination and prejudice. He shares his process of creating and composing and has lots of tunes to share with heart and joy.
music credits: refrain from Julian B and Commodity Records, Walk In My Moccasins John Trudell and Bad Dog from Crazier Than Hell CD, From The Heart Irv Lyons Jr we play: Mojo, Before I Lose Control, Fire Without A Flame, Looking For The Light and Save The Planet www.irvlyonsjrmusic.com
Moccasin Tracks is broadcasting Live with Abenaki co-hosts Rick and Carolyn Hunt and Deb Reger at local North Country Community Radio, WZNP-LP, Bethlehem a Pacifica Radio affiliate with air studio in Littleton, New Hampshire, Tuesdays noon-2PM Tune in at 99.9FM locally and www.nococommunityradio.org https://www.orcamedia.net/series/moccasin-tracks www.facebook.com/MoccasinTracks
In this edition of Moccasin Tracks we are honored to talk with a music maker and cultural "ambassador", Daryl Jamieson, who shares his story in this conversation with host Deb Reger. Founder of Eastern Medicine Singers and Black Eagle Productions, Daryl also is council Chief for Pocasset- Wampanoag Tribe of Pokanaket Nation. He is working on a documentary about the Algonquin Nations of the East Coast and gifts us with stories of the beginnings of Eastern Medicine Singers.
He tells of the importance of learning traditional languages from speakers living the culture. The wonderful collaborations the group has experienced is part of the goal of Unity. It inspires him to continue to share music together in Unity and Healing for all. Thank-you Eastern Medicine Singers
Music:
opening song with Black Hawk Singers, Wlidogow8gan from Wiskintow8ganal Wji Alnobac (New Songs for the Abenaki) produced by Bryan Blanchette
Eastern Medicine Singers and Daryl Jamieson
Nanatuck, Daybreak Song
Nasquatta Meskhtu Pumakan, Fire Dance Song
Red Sky, old Traditional
Music and poetry by Barney Bush from Remake Of An American Dream CD
reading of Dawnland by Gali Sanchez, read by Barney Bush
As we all feel grief and want to process in a good way Moccasin Tracks presents this radio tribute to Shawnee/Cayuga Native writer, teacher, educator Barney Bush. In November of 2018 we recorded this interview with co-host Jack Sabon (Athabascan) who joined us at the radio station WJSC FM. It is followed by Barney Bush speaking at an Abenaki gathering where he spaks and reads a poem, Dawnland.
more about Barney here:
https://www.vinyardindiansettlement.com/
Barney Bush, Chairman
Before returning full time to his Ohio River homelands, poet/educator/activist/patriot,
Barney Bush wrote about his homelands and the destruction of water, sky, land, forests, animals, people and became published and translated internationally. He has taught in numerous colleges and universities in the U.S. and has a B.A. in Humanities from Ft. Lewis College, Durango Colorado, a Masters of Arts in English/Fine Arts from the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, and sixty five hours beyond the Masters.
From 1989 through 2005, Bush was on contract with nato Records in Paris, France. One of their early works, Left for Dead: Prisoners of the American Dream, was admitted to the list of the “Greatest Experimental Hits in the History of Music.” Bush is among the first Indigenous poets admitted to the Society of Artists, Composers and Editors of Music (SACEM), Paris, France.
Barney Bush was inspired to react to the losing of his homelands. He was an organizer of several schools throughout Indian country and helped to create some of the first Native American Studies programs for colleges, high schools, and grade schools in the United States in the 1970s.
Mr. Bush believes that Native peoples’ owning and sharing their own businesses and schools is a primary factor in purchasing back native homelands for future generations.
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Rest In Power Barney Bush! We were honored to speak with Barney Bush in November of 2018. In this clip from a longer interview Barney reads us a poem. "A Silver Lining of a Rainy Equinox". Thank-you to Jack Sabon for joining us in this conversation at the WJSC FM radio station at Johnson State College in November of 2018. We will be broadcasting a tribute radio show next week that includes the full interview.
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Guests Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks are historians and have many years of experience researching and publishing books about Pueblo Peoples. and the struggles over land and water. Malcolm is also a lawyer and founded The Center for Land Grant Studies in New Mexico. They give us an overview of Pueblo history, examples from their book"Pueblo Sovereignty Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas" of acting sovereign and the history of land grants.
University of Oklahoma Press www.oupress.com
SWbooks@nnmt.net
Loloma by Ed Kabotie from origins CD
self-published
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In this culture of violence we live in today it becomes the responsibility of all individuals to ask themselves how we each contribute. If we are to be the agents of change we need to "uproot the causes of violence" and inspire change for the greater good. Small steps are happening and in this conversation we talk to 3 women who are committed to change.
Lori Jump, director of Stronghearts Native Helpline tells us that Domestic Violence disproportionately affects millions of Native Peoples every year. There is a strong connection between domestic violence and the missing and murdered indigenous women. She reminds us to look at our individual privilege and that violence had no place in traditional native culture and was dealt with. www.stronheartshelpline.org
Nicole Kuban from stepsvt.org joins in the conversation and talks about the services her organization offers including housing, shelter and support for survivors of domestic violence. www.stepsvt.org
Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence is a state-wide non-profit founded in 1986 with 15 member organizations. Karen Transgard-Scott, director joins us in conversation and offers insights into how change looks like from the service providers point of view.
www.vtnetwork.org
Music Credits:
Sandra Sutter, Love Touch, Cluster Stars CD, sandrasutter.com
Bear Fox, Life's Blanket, Gifts CD, https://bearfoxmusic.com/
Moccasin Tracks is a weekly Live broadcast currently (from June 2019) at Goddard College Community Radio, WGDR. Listen Mondays 10AM (eastern time)and Tuesdays at 4PM at wgdr.org where Moccasin Tracks is archived for 2 weeks. Also on air at wruv.org and 90.1FM, Thursdays 11AM-Noon and archived at wruv.org (University of Vermont)
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https://www.orcamedia.net/series/moccasin-tracks Deb Reger is host, producer and engineer for Moccasin Tracks. In Solidarity with Traditional Original Peoples!! We will continue to prioritize the voices of the original peoples and the many issues confronting original peoples today that includes decolonization of our minds, workplaces and institutions. As Abenaki scholar Marge Bruchac said in an interview, “we are still living in a colonial state, we are not yet in a post-colonial time…” Decolonization is still important to talk about and work for. Contemporary and Traditional music from Native artists, news views and interviews.
In this podcast we talk with Karen Transgard-Scott, Director of Vermont Network to end Domestic and Sexual Violence.
"The Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence is the leading voice on ending domestic and sexual violence in Vermont. The Network is a statewide non-profit 501c3 membership organization which was founded in 1986. Our members are 15 independent non-profit organizations which provide domestic and sexual violence advocacy to survivors of violence in Vermont."
www.vtnetwork.org
In this conversation Moccasin Tracks host Deb Reger meets with Karen Transgard-Scott to talk about the challenges facing the organizations since covid lockdown to continue to provide services needed by the survivors of domestic violence. We talk about rape culture and how we might find solutions for individuals, families and communities. We ask about changing consciousness and what that might look like.
The recent murder/suicide is unfortunately too common and advocates are always looking at factors, behaviors and domestic violence patterns that can protect and heal individuals, families and communities. Karen shares how change is happening and encourages us all to ask ourselves how we each contribute to dominant culture, "to uproot the causes of violence and build a world free of oppression to support all people to thrive."
Look for part 2 of this conversation with Stronghearts Native Helpline Director, Lori Jump and Steps Vermont To End Domestic Violence Director, Nicole Kuban coming soon!and broadcasting week of October 26, 2020.
Moccasin Tracks is a weekly Live broadcast currently (from June 2019) at Goddard College Community Radio, WGDR. Listen Mondays 10AM (eastern time)and Tuesdays at 4PM at wgdr.org where Moccasin Tracks is archived for 2 weeks.
Now broadcasting Thursdays at 11AM-Noon on wruv.org and locally at 90.1FM
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https://www.orcamedia.net/series/moccasin-tracks Deb Reger is host, producer and engineer for Moccasin Tracks. In Solidarity with Traditional Original Peoples!! We will continue to prioritize the voices of the original peoples and the many issues confronting original peoples today that includes decolonization of our minds, workplaces and institutions. As Abenaki scholar Marge Bruchac said in an interview, “we are still living in a colonial state, we are not yet in a post-colonial time…” Decolonization is still important to talk about and work for. Contemporary and Traditional music from Native artists, news views and interviews.
In this conversation with Abena Songbird and Moccasin Tracks host, Deb Reger Abena Songbird gifts us with a poem "Pandemic". She tells us a little about her journey and coming back to the homeland of her ancestors, the Abenaki peoples. Now living in central Vermont Abena is growing heirloom seeds that were grown by her ancestors. She has been a creative writer and after many years she was inspired to write a poem that was heard on radio on the west coast earlier this summer. Abena is keeping her hands busy during these pandemic times and is now making her own style of Dreamcatchers. We are looking forward to more poetry by Abena!!
Find more from Abena Songbird at these sites:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SignatureSongbird?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
https://dawnlandvoiceswebs.wixsite.com/dawnlandvoices/abena-songbird?fbclid=IwAR2QGUbwL4iYb81p_uOCcVWvJTlf4eS7KcVD4ifKafnVhR3a0EQidJsW3Mg
songs/poems on YouTube(Songbird & the Moor) and on Wordpress website: asongbird.com
Signaturesongbird.org
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Farina King was a graduate student on Fellowship at Dartmouth College when Moccasin Tracks first met her as she organized a panel of speakers, all dignitaries from the Navajo Nation. The title was Water River Life Giver, and the spill from the Gold King Mine just dumped waste water into the river that many from the Navajo Nation depended on for irrigating gardens, drinking water for the people and animals. Today there is a crisis on the Navajo Reservation and many warriors are everyday stepping up to be their best selves: delivering groceries, masks, firewood, medicines to the most vulnerable populations that live remotely on their traditional territory. In this podcast we talk to Dr. Farina King about why the Navajo Nation is the highest per capita coronavirus infection in the country. Her personal story reveals a culture, family , community and Nation that against all odds is surviving and we are grateful. It is an honor to gift you with Farina's story, a story of love and respect for "The Ones Who Came Before". Go to www.farinaking.com for more info and take action in any way you can for the greater good, for restoring harmony and balance. Thank-you .
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We are remotely producing radio during the pandemic and the radio station remains closed.
Music Credits:John Trudell, Crazier Than Hell CD, These Memories, Asitis Productions; John Trudell, AKA Grafitti Man, Rich Man's War, Asitis Productions; LakouMizik, HaitaNola CD, Cumbancha, songs: Renwen and La Fanmi
Picture of Ofelia by https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com
http://www.solidarity-project.org/
In this podcast from the radio show Moccasin Tracks, Nov 25, we talk with Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham Nation,who shares a perspective of a Nation that has been protecting land and sacred sites. Some decisions made by the Nation's leaders is bringing a military presence to their traditional territory that has been interrupted by the so-called wall being built by US Govt.
Ofelia talks about what it is like to be a traditional Tohono O'odham woman and the challenges every day her people live with that are not natural.
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This is an interview on the radio broadcast of Moccasin Tracks, Oct 19, 2018 from University of Vermont community and student radio station , WRUV FM Burlington. We included some of the music. Co-Hosted with Deb Reger and damian Costello and Basil BraveHeart who joins us by phone.
Music Credits: Randy Wood, Family (CD) Wings of Love, Canyon Records NAMA winner Best Male Artist also Taku Wakan from the CD Sundance Songs,Red Road Recordings, artists include: Harold White Horse, Elmer Running, Roy Stone, Sam Wounded Head, Lorenzo Eagle Road.
Basil gifts us with stories of his youth and how the English language and the Original language of Lakota are different and how the traditional laguage of his Nation has shaped his understanding of spirituality and the relationship to the sounds of nature to the spirit of all life to the life Basil walks.
co-host Damian Costello also helping with some producing adds these words and posts the links to past interviews with Basil. Thank-you Damian and wopila to Basil Brave Heart.
Part #4: Language and Spirituality
In this October 19, 2018 edition of Moccasin Tracks Lakota Elder Basil Brave Heart joins host Deb Reger and co-host Damian Costello to talk about some important themes from his book and ongoing work: Lakota language and its relationship to spirituality. Included is a new story on the conversations between Brave Heart and his grandmother when he was a residential school student, the inherently spiritual nature of Lakota and Indigenous languages, quantum principles and how they relate to Taku Wakan Skan Skan, healing through ceremony such as the Inipi, and advice for recovering the non-dualistic spirituality of our ancestors. Greater detail can be found in Brave Heart's book, which is available at https://birchbarkbooks.com/all-online-titles/the-spiritual-journey-of-a-brave-heart
If you missed our previous conversations, you can find them in following links:
Part #1: Brave Heart's early Lakota spiritual formation
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/wpcrmoccasintracks/episodes/2018-05-31T08_31_31-07_00
Part #2: The Trauma of Residential School and Korean War Service
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/radiowithdeb7/episodes/2018-08-10T11_32_28-07_00
Part #3: Alcoholism and Sobriety
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/moccasintracks/episodes/2018-09-08T11_42_27-07_00
Basil Brave Heart discusses the possible canonization of Nicholas Black Elk: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/radiowithdeb4/episodes/2018-05-10T05_16_28-07_00
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Music by Robert Tree Cody from Songs For Grandfather from Canyon Records
and from the CD Bembia from Wind Spirit Records, Negwetch and Wabanaki
We talk to Roger Lewis,of the Sipenkne'Katik Band of Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia. He is the Ethnology Curator of the Nova Scotia Museum and his Academic work includes Landscape Archaeology, pre-contact Archaeology. He has a deep appreciation for the land and water and his people. Our conversation may be entitled Mi'kmaq Relationship To Land and Water.
We talk about Cultural Memory and relationship with Nature and the experience of Culture. An honor to explore these concepts with this very special historian and keeper of culture.
Moccasin Tracks is heard weekly on WRUV FM Burlington at 90.1FM and wruv.org with host and producer Deb Reger wruv.moccasintracks@gmail.com radiowithdeb.wordpress.com We are syndicated on Pacifica Radio Network