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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our friend Charles Lyons for a report on the Brazil and the Amazon. Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He recently completed a feature documentary about former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In 2023, Charles received a Conservando Juntos/ Earth Journalism Network grant (supported by USAID), to report on the continuing violence due to illegal gold mining within the Yanomami territory in the Amazon. His resulting article was published in Mongabay. Based in Rio, Charles has produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour and long-form news reports on deforestation and Indigenous rights in the Amazon supported by The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour, with a focus on marginalized communities in tribal lands and favelas. He has written editorials for The New York Times about suicides among the Guarani tribe in the southwest of Brazil and about the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon. More recently, Charles has covered illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Suriname.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Peyote Healing
Artist: Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike
Album: Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy (1998)
Label: Capitol/EMI3. Song Title: For the Earth
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Ettie Luckey (unreleased), 2013
Album: Unreleased
Label: N/A4. Song Title: Whatâs Going On
Artist: Marvin Gaye
Album: Whatâs Going On (1971)
Label: Tamia (Motown subsidiary)5. Song Title: Away From Here
Artist: Smokey D. Palmtree
Album: Peace of Mind (2021)
Label: Gila River RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our dear friend Manuel Rozental for an update and riveting, important conversation. Manuel reports to us from Colombia. 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
Karen Martinez (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)2. Song Title: Who Discovered America
Artist: Ozomatli
Album: Street Signs (2004)
Label: Real World/Concord3. Song Title: Sea Gets Hotter
Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications (feat. Aaron Frazer)
Album: American Love Call (2019)
Label: Dead Oceans4. Song Title: Water is Life
Artist: Luca Bloom
Album: Refuge (2017)
Label: Big SkyAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Marley Shebala back to the show. Marley Shebala, DinĂ© and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger. Marley talks about the continuing, alarming issue of transporting uranium waste across portions of the Navajo Nation, which already started several years ago. Without any notice, the transportation of uranium waste is taking place not only at Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. This affects not only the Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada so communities need to find out where this transportation route goes. If the sovereign Navajo Nation is not being notified about this route itâs unlikely other communities (cities, towns and rural areas) are being notified about the transport of this waste through their communities and its dangers. People need to be aware of how uranium waste could contaminate people, roads, air, water, etc. (virtually everything). For years Marley has been covering the uranium issue on the 25,000 square-mile Navajo Nation. Most of the Navajo Nation has been contaminated by uranium. Many, may Navajo people have been suffering and continue to suffering from different cancers, children were and continue to be born with defects, etc. However, the US federal government thinks that depleted uranium can still be used: for weapons of war and by somehow turning uranium waste into a type of fuel that will be âcleanâ nuclear energy for household uses. This is a huge national, and global issue. There is a small group of DinĂ© people traveling to DC at the end of September. They will be traveling in a bus and telling people along the way what they have gone through and asking others if they have also been poisoned and made sick by depleted uranium, too.
For more background about todayâs discussion, please visit âRequiem for RECA (Radiation Exposure Compensation Act)â by Kathy Helms, who has been covering this issue for years: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/requiem-reca-kathy-helms-ohuvc/. Follow Marley on Facebook, where she will be posting information about the DC trip and the activities that will happen there (as well as covering Navajo Nation activities): https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala. Additional important information about this issue and many others can be found on Marleyâs website: http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/
About Marley: In the DinĂ© way, Marley Shebala is TĂł'aheedlĂinii (Water Flows Together clan), her motherâs clan, and born for Chaâal (Frog clan), which is her fatherâs 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. Her hometowns are Lake Valley and Zuni. âMarley Shebala's Notebookâ 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. Marley 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 DinĂ© Bureau in Window Rock, Arizona, which covers the Navajo Nation. Before working for the Gallup Independent, she worked as the Navajo Times newspaperâsâ 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. Her stories have won numerous awards from state and national organizations over the more than 30 years she has been in journalism.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Blackbird Song
Artist: Lee Dewyze as heard on AMCâs The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 13 âAlongâ
Single
Label: January 2014 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company, exclusively licensed to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.3. Song Title: Raglan
Artist: Bruci Jordan
Single: Raglan (2024)
Label: Bruci Jordan4. Song Title: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Artist: Traffic (Steve Winwood, Producer)
Album: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971)
Label: Island5. Song Title: Ambrosia
Artist: A Reminiscent Drive
Album: A Reminiscent Drive (2001)
Label: ReactAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Marcie R. Rendon (White Earth Ojibwe) about her new book, âAnishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium,â which was recently published by the University of Minnesota Press. Marcie was included on Oprah Winfreyâs 2020 list of 31 Native American authors to read. She has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Cash Blackbear mystery series, the third volume of which, "Sinister Graves," was a 2023 Minnesota Book Award finalist. In 2020, Marcie received Minnesotaâs McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2017, with poet Diego Vazquez, she received the Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women in the county jail system.
Marcie says, âThe ancestors who walk with us sing our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them audible to people today. We still exist. Our ancestors exist. Our songs exist.â
More about Marcie can be found on her website: https://www.marcierendon.com/
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (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)2. Song Title: Everybody Knows
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: Iâm Your Man (1988)
Label: Columbia3. Song Title: Decho Drums
Artist: Dinetah
Album: N/A
Label: N/A4. Song Title: Some of Us are Brave
Artist: Danielle Ponder
Album: Some of Us are Brave (2022)
Label: FUTURE CLASSIC5. Song Title: All Come True
Artist: World Party
Album: Private Revolution (1986)
Label: Chrysalis6. Song Title: Life of a Native
Artist: Okema
Album: Single (2019)
Label: Mixed, Mastered and Directed by Blu BarryAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Dan Taulapapa McMullin â an artist and poet from SÄmoa i Sasa'e (American Samoa) and an expert on the subject of the colonization of Pacific cultures. Keala and Dan spend time talking about American exploitation via tiki bars, a subject that Dan explored in his film, â100 Tikis.â â100 Tikisâ is a 45-minute film/video appropriation art piece, part of an ongoing installation of works on the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty. â100 Tikisâ looks at Hollywood, colonialism, gender, militarism, and activism, through films, cartoons, songs, paintings, photographs, television shows, tourist ads, military propaganda, pornography, tiki bars, activist videos, home movies, and social media.
Danâs artist book âThe Healer's Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesiaâ (2022) was published by Pu'uhonua Society and Tropic Editions of Honolulu for HT22 the Hawai'i Triennial. Their artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Metropolitan Museum, De Young Museum, MusĂ©e du quai Branly, Auckland Art Gallery and Bishop Museum. Their film âSinalelaâ (2001) won the 2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award. â100 Tikisâ was the opening night film selection of the 2016 PrĂ©sence Autochtone in Montreal and was an Official Selection in the Fifo Tahiti Film Festival. Dan's art studio and writing practice is based in Muhheaconneock lands / Hudson, NY, where they live with their partner, and Lenape lands in Hopoghan Hackingh / Hoboken, NJ.
More about Dan and links to his writing, films (including â100 Tikisâ), paintings and sculpture/performance works: https://www.taulapapa.com/.
For copies of âThe Healer's Woundâ (2024 2nd Edition) go to: https://tropiceditions.org/The-Healer-s-Wound-2
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Pe A E Silva
Artist: Pacific Soul
CD: Pacific Soul (2012)
Label: Pacific Dream RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Tiokasin speaks to two guests from Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School in Akwesasne, NY.
Alvera Sargent is Snipe Clan of the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, a mother of two, and grandmother to four amazing grandchildren. Alvera has worked with the Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) since 1997 in various capacities until 2007. At that point, she moved on to manage the Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring a prosperous future for the students of the AFS. She has worked to revitalize our Kanienkeha (Mohawk) language and culture. The Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School staff are currently overseeing a new 15,000 square-foot building for the students and staff of the AFS. The opening is tentatively scheduled for September 2024.
Waylon Cook from Akwesasne, is Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation. He is a graduate of a 2-year Kanienâkeha Mohawk Immersion Language program and has been a lifelong learner of the Mohawk language. Upon graduating, Waylon was able to teach at the Akwesasne Freedom School to continue passing on language and culture to future generations. He currently works with the Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School to help ensure the revitalization of the Mohawk language and culture. His team is currently working towards the completion of a new school building so that Akwesasne Freedom School students have a healthy learning environment for generations to come. Waylon has dedicated his career to culture and language revitalization efforts and continue to work towards reversing the effects of colonialism to the Mohawk culture and language.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (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)2. Song Title: Fallen Angel (feat. Peter Gabriel)
Artist: Robbie Robertson
CD: Robbie Robertson (1987)
Label: Geffen Records3. Song Title: Change on the Rise
Artist: Avi Kaplan
EP: Iâll Get By (2019)
Label: Fantasy Records4. Spoken Word: Jehan - Change of Becoming
Background Music: âMomentumâ with Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Dave Eggars, Charley Buckland and Jujuba
CD: âAkantu - The Origin Seriesâ (2021)
Label: GhosthorseAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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REPEAT SHOW. Tiokasin speaks with Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-MĂ©tis). Paulette is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere. In her research, Paulette argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas. During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago. Paulette has taught Anthropology courses with a focus on Native American and First Nations histories and studies, and decolonization of academia and knowledge production at Binghamton University, Selkirk College Fort Peck Community College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mount Allison University, she is currently an Associate professor in Sociology and Anthropology.
Paulette 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. Steeveâs book âThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americasâ was published in 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Something has to Change
Artist: Rodney Crowell
CD: Triage (2021)
Label: RC1AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Tiokasin is joined by two guests for the full hour. HataaĆiinez 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 HataaĆii â a Navajo term that means âto sing,â a fitting diminutive of his given name â 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 AdooneâĂ©. Serving as the lead developer in the project, Albert has strived to uphold his culture and traditions as a Navajo/DinĂ©. It is his deep-rooted belief that everyone should have access to the resources that preserve and celebrate their Navajo/DinĂ© heritage. Albert finds great joy in tackling Navajo/DinĂ© language and culture preservation in the 21st century. With AdooneâĂ© he aims to contribute to his community and empower others to do the same. Albert says that âTogether, we can foster a world where Navajo/DinĂ© individuals can achieve fluency in the Navajo/DinĂ© language.â Read.
More about HataaĆiinez Wheeler here: https://bit.ly/44LBdUI. (Photo credit: Trevas Yazzie)
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Laugh Out Loud
Artist: HataaĆii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records3. Song Title: Standing Ovation
Artist: HataaĆii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records4.Song Title: Midnight Soldier
Artist: HataaĆii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records5. Song Title: Story of Francisco
Artist: HataaĆii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records6. Song Title: Pain in Popejoyâs Hand
Artist: HataaĆii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records7. Song Title: Fusion (Live) (Internal Flight variation)
Artist: Estas Tonne
Album: Fusion (Internal Flight variation) Live in Zurich, 2022
Label: ETMusicAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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In this special edition of âFirst Voices Radio,â Host Olivia Clementine interviews Tiokasin Ghosthorse for âLove & Liberation with Olivia Clementine,â a podcast about relationship and consciousness: exploring wisdom in relating with ourselves, each other and our greater world. For nearly 20 years, Olivia has been immersed in the exploration of relationships and spiritual nature. She works with individuals, couples and groups to cultivate relational capacities and self-understanding. She also has a background as a four-season farmer and herbalist.
The Love & Liberation Podcast airs in depth conversations in the fields of spirituality, ecology and relationships. Recent guests have been Bayo Akomolafe, Stephen Jenkinson, Helen Norberg-Hodge, Khandro Choying and Lama Tsultrim Allione. Listen here: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)3. American Dream
Artist: J.S. Ondara
Album: Tales of America (The Second Coming) (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast / Universal Music Canada4. Spoken Word: Thereâs Nothing Wrong With Us
Artist: John Trudell
Album: DNA: Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)
Label: Effective RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorseâs guest for the full hour on Sunday is Chief Arvol Looking Horse. Chief Looking Horse was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. His primary responsibility is serving as the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe â a role he was given at the age of twelve making him the youngest pipe keeper in Lakota history. As keeper of the sacred Pipe he also serves as the spiritual leader to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation and advocates for the restoration of the Lakota Nationâs rights to the Black Hillsâas guaranteed by the 1868 Laramie Treaty.
Tiokasin and Chief Arvol Looking Horse talk about the white buffalo calf that was born in Yellowstone on June 4 and the significance of this birth to not only for the Lakota but other people and what it means to the world. âWe knew in our ceremonies that something was going to happen (on June 4) because they say that when you follow the spirit, the spirit will meet you halfway... This is a very powerful time. All my life, I heard this in ceremony but I never thought my whole life that this was going to happen. I feel her (Mother Earth's) spirit is very strong and we need all people all over the world to stand with us and protect her. Thatâs the message â when the white buffalo calf with black nose, eyes and hooves, many white animals will be born all over the world. The elders said we need to protect all the white animals being born. We need to protect the peace leaders because weâre in a very powerful time right now that every person â to find peace within yourself and then peace to the world because what is happening is not good.â â Chief Arvol Looking Horse
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (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)2. Song Title: Kothbiro
Artist: Ayub Oganda
Album: The Constant Gardiner (1993)
Label: Real World Records3. Song Title: Whatâve I Done to Help?
Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Album: Reunions (2020)
Label: Southeastern RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Max Wilbert, who is a frequent guest on "First Voices Radio." Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. 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," published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth. Max's work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere. Tiokasin and Max discuss Max's June 14, 2024 column on Max's Substack, "120 Questions About Offshore Wind Energy." Find Max's column here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-145624811. Check out Max's new website, Protect the Coast PNW: https://www.protectthecoastpnw.org/
"There is so much momentum behind wind turbines and the federal government wants them to be built fast. They're ignoring opposition, they're ignoring concerns from the public, and they're ignoring the fact that the Yurok Tribe, Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw, and the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation have all called for the government to stop offshore wind energy projects. The National Congress of American Indians have called for a stop, a moratorium on them." - Max Wilbert
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: This is not America (Remaster)
Artist: David Bowie and Pat Metheny Group
Album: Best of Bowie (2002)
Label: Virgin Records
3. Song Title: The 1975
Artist: The 1975
Album: Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2023)
Label: Dirty Hit4. Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
CD: Tales of America (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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From the FVR archives: Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with our friend Dr. Manuel Rozental for the entire hour. 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. Their discussion includes: international relationships, âCan Indigenous peoples be both Indigenous and capitalists?â (Answer: âNo, because the same mentality that exploits other people and Mother Earth can only end up destroying everythingâŠâ) and an update on recent events and activities taking place in Abya Yala (South America). Manuel draws discussion points from the book, âAs Weâve Always Doneâ by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist. Finally, Manuel educates listeners about the plight of Abdullah Ăcalan, who has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over 25 years and has been cut off from the outside world. Ăcalanâs writings are inspiring intellectuals, free thinkers, scientists, workers, activists, artists, trade unionists, social movements, politicians and entire societies. Ăcalan left Syria 25 years ago as a Kurdish leader in the wake of an international conspiracy and returned years later as a pioneer of a free, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and grassroots democratic society. For more understanding, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/4b5Wn3A
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Freedom Now
Artist: Nick Mulvey feat. Arruj Aftab and Golshifteh Farahani)
Single from Choose Love Campaign
Label: Conscious Music Group / Kartel Music (2024)3. Song Title: Morning in America
Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications
Album: American Love Call (2019)
Label: Dead Oceans4. Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Childish Gambino - Donald Glover
Album: Feels Like Summer
Label: Wolf+Rothstein, Liberator Music, RCAAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Returning guest and longtime âFirst Voices Radioâ friend Doug George-Kanentiio (Akwesasne Mohawk) was born and raised at the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. Doug 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 (now the Indigenous 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 Smithsonianâs 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
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Ablaze
Artist: Tartie
Album: The Quiver (November 2023)
Producer: David Baron, Sun Mountain Studios, Boiceville, NY3. Song Title: Mercy Mercy Me (the ecology song)
Artist: Marvin Gaye
Album: Whatâs Going On (1971)
Label: Tamia4. Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Album: In the Anthropocene (2019)
Label: Fiction Records5. Song Title: S.O.S. (Mother Nature)
Artist: Will. I. Am.
Album: Songs About Girls (2007)
Label: Interscope Records6. Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Childish Gambino
Album: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator MusicAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Steven Schwartzberg is a former candidate for Congress in the Illinois 5th District, a former director of undergraduate studies for international studies at Yale University, an instructor in political science at DePaul University, and the author of âArguments over Genocide: The War of Words in the Congress and the Supreme Court over Cherokee Removal.â His great-grandparents on his motherâs side were involved in anarchist communes for decades, his motherâs father was an economist and speechwriter for FDR, his mother is a doctor, and his father is a lawyer.
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 EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Psychos
Artist: Jenny Lewis
Album: JoyâAll (2023)
Label: Blue Note Records3. Song Title: Life of a Native
Artist: Okema
Single: Life of a Native (2019)
Label: Okema4. Song Title: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
Album: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition5. Song Title: Enough
Artist: Kingfisha
Album: Kingfisha (2012)
Label: Vitamin Records (2), Mullumbimby, NSW, AustraliaAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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For this repeat show, we revisit Tiokasin's conversation with Rebecca Clarren, author of âThe Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritanceâ (Viking, 2023). Rebecca has been writing about the American West for more than 20 years. She is the winner of the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on âThe Cost of Free Land.â Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and 10 grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as MotherJones, High Country News, The Nation, and Indian Country Today. Her debut novel, âKickdownâ (Sky Horse Press, 2018), was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize.
Learn more about Rebecca at www.rebecca-clarren.com, @RebeccaClarren (Twitter) and @Rclarren (Instagram).
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 EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Love Theme from Spartacus
Artist: Terry Callier
Album: TimePeace (1998)
Label: Verve Records3. Song Title: Come and Get Your Love
Artist: Redbone
Album: Wovoka (1973)
Label: Epic RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Jonathan Gonzales 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.
Kapi'olani A. Laronal, MA, Ed., is a descendant of the Haida (Eagle Clan, Sgwaa Gitanee, People of the Tall Grass), Tsimshian, Native Hawaiian, and Filipino. Kapiâolaniâs experiences working with Native communities on ocean and land restoration projects, cultural preservation, and protocols have significantly shaped her academic and professional life. She is an educator, athlete, life coach and consultant. Kapi'olani brings years of professional experience in secondary and higher education institutions supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and policies centered on college student outreach, recruitment and services for traditionally underserved and low-income communities of color. Her work specializes in Indigenous and First Nations community-centered partnerships.
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 EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Mountains and Miller
Artist: Lanie Gardner
Single: Released in 2024
Label: Bee String Records3. Song Title: Mykonos Sundown Feelings
Artist: Islands of Chill
Album: Islands of Chill: A Smooth Breeze of Relaxing Sounds from the Worldâs Most Famous Beaches (2005)
Label: Manifold Music GmbHAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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REPEAT SHOW. 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." â 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 Harperâs 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
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Rich Man's War
Artist: John Trudell with Jesse Ed Davis
Album: AKA Graffiti Man (1992)
Label: Rykodisc3. Song Title: Prayer
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse with vocals by Lisa Bodnar
Album: Ghosthorse Ksa (2007)
Label: Ghosthorse4. Song Title: Darker Than a Shadow
Artist: Terry Callier
Album: Speak Your Peace (2002)
Label: Mr Bongo5. Artist: Terry Callier
Album: Itâs About Time
Album: The New Folk Sound (1965)
Label: Prestige Records6. Song Title: Waiting on a War
Artist: Foo Fighters
Album: Medicine at Midnight (2021)
Label: Roswell RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Tiokasin talks with Daygot Leeyos (Oneida Nation, Wolf Clan). A multimedia artist, emcee/poet, music producer, performer and gardener, Daygot is halfway through a bachelor's degree in cinematography. She studied music production at Dubspot in Manhattan and audio engineering at The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio. Daygot has traveled around the world as an activist, cultural ambassador and performing artist, including United Nations conventions, Indigenous ceremony and international cultural exchanges. She has been involved in Oneida Language revitalization and preservation throughout her life in both immersion setting learning classes and hybrid style methods. Daygotâs recent studies include research to prove Indigenous language preservation helps prevent suicide.
Her new single for missing and murdered Indigenous peoples is titled: MMIWPS: https://bit.ly/3UWwcHn.
Daygot is working on an album and expanding her artistic endeavors.
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 EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Watersong
Artist: Vince Fontaineâs Indian City
Album: Supernation (2012)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Winnipeg, Manitoba3. Song Title: Silent Running (on Dangerous Ground)
Artist: Mike + the Mechanics
Album: Mike + the Mechanics (1985)
Label: Atlantic / Warner Music Group Corp.4. Song Title: Whatâs Going On (Marvin Gaye)
Artist: Feat. Sara Bareilles, Clarence Milton Bekker & Titi Tsira
Album: Playing for Change 3 / Song Around the World (2014)
Label: Playing for Change RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the hour with Max Wilbert. Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. 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,â published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth.
Maxâs work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Smelling the Rain
Artist: Genevieve Chadwick
Album: Riding the Wind Saving Time (2009)
Label: Cloud Studios3. Song Title: Fly With Us
Artist: Sarita
Album: Earth Anthems (2024)
Label: Same Sky Productions4. Song Title: The City: Grass and Concrete Taxi to Brooklyn
Artist: Mark-Almond
Album: Mark-Almond (2005)
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.5. Song Title: Sunrise Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Album: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: GhosthorseAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with our friend Dr. Manuel Rozental for the entire hour. 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. Their discussion includes: international relationships, âCan Indigenous peoples be both Indigenous and capitalists?â (Answer: âNo, because the same mentality that exploits other people and Mother Earth can only end up destroying everythingâŠâ) and an update on recent events and activities taking place in Abya Yala (South America).
Manuel draws discussion points from the book, âAs We Have Always Doneâ by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist.
Finally, Manuel educates listeners about the plight of Abdullah Ăcalan, who has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over 25 years and has been cut off from the outside world. Ăcalanâs writings are inspiring intellectuals, free thinkers, scientists, workers, activists, artists, trade unionists, social movements, politicians and entire societies. Ăcalan left Syria 25 years ago as a Kurdish leader in the wake of an international conspiracy and returned years later as a pioneer of a free, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and grassroots democratic society.
For more understanding, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/4b5Wn3A
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Freedom Now
Artist: Nick Mulvey feat. Arruj Aftab and Golshifteh Farahani)
Single from Choose Love Campaign
Label: Conscious Music Group / Kartel Music (2024)3. Song Title: Morning in America
Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications
Album: American Love Call (2019)
Label: Dead Oceans4. Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Childish Gambino - Donald Glover
Album: Feels Like Summer
Label: Wolf+Rothstein, Liberator Music, RCAAKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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