First Voices Radio

In the first half-hour, Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly has a lively conversation with award-winning journalist, film producer and community organizer Kevin Abourezk about “Cultural Appropriation in the Era of AI,” which was inspired by Kevin’s March 28, 2024 article in Indian Country Today: “Navajo word for beautiful at center or controversy.” Kevin is currently deputy managing editor of Indian Country Today and was a reporter and editor for the Lincoln Journal Star for 18 years. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, he has spent his career documenting the lives, accomplishments and tragedies of Native American people. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of South Dakota and a master's in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Read Kevin’s article here: https://ictnews.org/news/navajo-word-for-beautiful-at-center-of-controversy. In the second half-hour, Keala speaks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Chief Executive and Attorney at the Association on American Indian Affairs about the new rules for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 22 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. She is a former Chief of Staff to the National Indian Gaming Commission, where she assisted in the development and implementation of national gaming policy, and oversaw the agency’s public affairs, technology, compliance and finance divisions. Shannon has also served Native Country in the private sector as an attorney, leading a large national firm’s Native Nations law practice group that worked to strengthen, maintain and protect sovereignty, self-determination and culture. Shannon was appointed by Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Sally Jewell to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee in 2013, and was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Native American to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee within the State Department in 2015; she was fired by President Trump in 2019. Shannon received a B.A. in American Indian Studies from California State University, Long Beach and joint M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Arizona in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Anne Keala Kelly, 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: Indian in the Child Artist: Sandra Sutter Album: Cluster Stars (2018) Label: Sandra Sutter 3. Song Title: Mountain Song Artist: Sandra Sutter Album: Cluster Stars (2018) Label: Sandra Sutter (Vince Fontaine and Chris Burke-Gaffney, Producers) 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

This week, an hour-long discussion about the terrifying uptick in syphilis infections and congenital syphilis cases in Indian Country. This is a problem throughout the US and it’s hitting Indian Country the hardest. Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) spends the hour with Amanda Singer (Diné), Executive Director of the Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition/Diné Doula Collective in Window Rock, Arizona. Amanda is a Certified Lactation Counselor and Indigenous Doula.The organization’s mission is to improve the health of Navajo families by providing compassionate unbiased, and accessible care to improving all birthing families and Infant health through holistic traditional practices and to promote healing. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Anne Keala Kelly, 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: Little One Artist: Sharon Burch Album: Yazzie Girl (1989) Label: Canyon Records 3. Song Title: Grandmother’s Ways Artist: Sharon Burch Album: Touch the Sweet Earth (1995) Label: Canyon Records 4. Song Title: The Peacemaker is Born Artist: Joanne Shenandoah Album: Peacemaker’s Journey (2000) Label: Silver Wave Records 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

Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Trey Blackhawk in the first half-hour. Trey Blackhawk is first and foremost a husband and a father to three beautiful children. He graduated from the Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Nebraska and is currently attending the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln. A first-generation farmer and college student, Trey sees the need for education and a movement towards being food sovereign. He currently manages the Winnebago Tribe's Farm which specializes in food production. When he isn't farming, you can still find him outdoors enjoying nature around his home with his wife and children. He is an avid outdoorsman who hunts, fishes and forages. Read about Trey’s blanket on Native News Online: https://bit.ly/4aucJ67. In the second half-hour, Indigenous resistance music from Turtle Island and beyond. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Anne Keala Kelly, 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: MMIR Sioux City Powwow 2023 Artist: New Breed - Drum Group Album: N/A Label: N/A (Searchable on YouTube) 3. Song Title: AIM Song (Unity Song) Artist: Ode’min Kwe Singers Album: New Moon Medicine (2004) Label: Ode’min Kwe Singers 4. Song Title: Quechua 101 Land Back Please Artist: Bobby Sanchez Album: Ita (2021) Label: Harawiq Records 5. Song Title: Kaulana Na Pua Artist: Na Waiho'olu'u O Ke Anuenue featuring Sudden Rush Album: Together (1999) Label: Way Out! West Enterprises 6. Song Title: Native Tongue Artist: MOJU, formerly known as MOJO JUJU Album: Native Tongue (2018) Label: ABC Music 7. Song Title: Maranga Ake Ai Artist: NLC Album: Maranga Ake Ai (2020) Label: Waateamusic 8. Song Title: The Urgent Call of Palestine Artist: Zeinab Sha’ath Album: N/A Label: N/A (Song is searchable on YouTube) 9. Song Title: Star People Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City featuring Jim Cuddy Album: Code Red (2021) Label: Rising Star Productions, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada 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

PaulStar is a Cree recording artist and producer from Chisasibi, Quebec. He talks with Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) in the first half-hour about his new album “Bring It All Together” and some of the challenges he has faced and the role of music in his own life. With a blend of influences from his Cree roots and his love of alternative rock, pop and hip-hop, “Bring It All Together” is a testament to PaulStar’s musical evolution. When creating the album, he underwent an introspective journey, propelled by his passion to elevate the voices of Indigenous peoples while taking inspiration from his favorite bands. PaulStar is a graduate of Algonquin College's Music Industry Arts program in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the founder of Meikin Records. PaulStar is well-known in the music industry and has received much critical acclaim for his work as a producer and session player. Visit https://meikinrecords.com/ to find out more about PaulStar and to listen to his music. Paul’s music can also be found on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. In the second half-hour, Keala speaks with Corrina Gould — a lifelong advocate for protecting the sacred, repatriation and acknowledgement of the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples — and the recent success in securing one area of a desecrated shell mound in Berkeley, California. Corrina, who is Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation, was born and raised in the village of Huichin, now known as Oakland, California. She is the Co-Founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run organization and the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led organization within her ancestral territory. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, the Land Trust calls on Native and non-Native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ and https://shellmound.org/. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly, Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, 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: Low Artist: PaulStar Single (2023) Label: Meikin Records 3. Song Title: Rain Artist: PaulStar Album: Bring It All Together (2024) Label: Meikin Records 4. Song Title: Land Back Artist: REBELWISE (feat. Quincy Davis, Cheryl Angel, Ashley Seasunz and Desirae harp) Album: Land Back (Nov. 24, 2022) Label: Seven Vision 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

“Selling Mother Earth: Effort by the NY Stock Exchange to Designate Mother Earth as a New Asset Class.” Tiokasin spends the hour talking with Rebecca Adamson — Indigenous Economist, Cherokee and Founder of First Nations Development and First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist and ground-breaking Indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective about how Indigenous people’s systems thinking and the value system behind Indigenous economies can be used to catalyze change. Rebecca has won many awards: PBS Change Makers, National Women’s History Recipient, Council on Foundations Scrivner Award for Most Innovative Grant-Maker, John Gardner Civic Leadership Award. She is widely known for her asset-based development strategies and co-authored the award-winning book “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide.” Rebecca currently serves as Advisor to the Wharton Business School ESG Initiative, Trustee Women’s Media Center and Trustee Bay and Paul Foundations. For More Information (Resources): Recommended Reading: "Bloom 23: Where Biodiversity Meets the Bottom Line": https://bit.ly/3vppPCm Recommended Reading: "NYSE and Intrinsic Exchange Group Partner to Launch a New Asset Class to Power a Sustainable Future" (Business Wire, September 14, 2021): https://bit.ly/3TZWmIV Recommended Viewing: "Rebecca Adamson: Enoughness, Restoring Balance to the Economy": https://bit.ly/3vtsTxp 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) 2. Song Title: Life of a Native (remix) Artist: Okema Single: 2019 Label: Okema 3. Song Title: The Venus Project Track 13 Artist: The Lost Children of Babylon (feat. Rasul Allah, Cosmic Creator, Atun Sen Get and Emily Clibourn) Album: Zeitgeist: Spirit of the Age (2010) Label: Soul Kid Record 4. Song Title: Be Thankful for What You’ve Got Artist: Orgone Album: Raw and Director (2020) Label: 3 Palm Records 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 catches up with returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker for the full hour. 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 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: Come As You Are (Nirvana) Artist: Playing for Change, Various Artists (with opening lead vocals by Genevieve Chadwick from Ulladulla, Australia) Single: 2021 Website: https://www.playingforchange.com/ 3. Song Title: Ship of Fools Artist: World Party Album: Private Revolution Label: Chrysalis 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

This week we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Curtis Zunigha. Curtis is an enrolled member of the federally-recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians https://delawaretribe.org/ He has more than 35 years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. Curtis is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices. He is Co-Director of Cultural Affairs for The Lenape Center, https://thelenapecenter.com/ based in New York City. The Lenape Center promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people through the arts, environmental advocacy, social justice, and agricultural practices. The Lenape Center’s work represents the return of the original Indigenous people to their original homeland of Lenapehoking (NY, NJ and PA). Curtis is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. 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 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: Exodus (Inspired by the Film “One Love: Bob Marley”) Artist: Skip Marley Album: One Love (2024) Label: Island Records 3. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s Artist: Beautiful People Album: If 60s Were 90s (1992) Label: Essential Records 4. Song Title: Autumn Sky Meditation Artist: Shane Miller / Nature’s Eye Album: N/A Label: Find Nature’s Eye on YouTube 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 spends the hour with Steven Solomon, Sr., a lifelong Lummi fisherman and traditional knowledge holder of the reef net practice. “Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, this technique uses ropes to create an artificial reef that channels fish toward a net stretched between two anchored boats. Fishers observe the water and pull in the net at the right moment, intercepting salmon as they migrate from the Pacific Ocean to the Fraser River near present-day Washington state and British Columbia. Colonialism, government policies, habitat destruction, and declining salmon populations have separated tribes from this tradition. Today, only 12 reef net permits exist, with just one belonging to the Lummi Nation. Many tribal members hope to revive reef net fishing to restore their cultural identity and a sustainable salmon harvest but face difficulties balancing economic realities with preserving what the Lummi consider a sacred heritage.” — Liz Kimbrough, author, “Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery,” Mongabay, Nov. 21, 2023: https://bit.ly/3IlGIk9 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) 2. Song Title: Freedom Now (feat. Golshifteh Farahani & Arooj Aftab) Artist: Nick Mulvey Album: Freedom Now (released Feb. 13, 2024) Producers: The Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again). 3. Song Title: Ambrosia Artist: A Reminiscent Drive Album: Ambrosia (2000) Label: F Communications 4. Song Title: War / No More Trouble (Live at The Pavillon De Paris - 1977) Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers Album: Gold (2005) Label: Island RecordsAKANTU 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

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. 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) 2. Song Title: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Artist: The Dramatics Concert: Wattstax, Watts Summer Festival, Los Angeles Coliseum (1971) Organizer: Stax Records; Distributed by Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures 3. Song Title: Way of the Future Artist: Sneezy Album: 440 Cook (2019) Label: Color Red Music 4. Song Title: Native American Flute Music Artist: Pan Flute Crew Album: Best Spiritual Flute Music Collection (2016) Label: Magic Art Project 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’s guests are Chilean-based Indigenous Mapuche artist Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla and Vassar College Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Montserrat Madariaga-Caro. They will talk about the art exhibition, “Abolengo: An Illustrious History of Looting in Mapuche Lands” featuring Kütral’s work. The exhibition opens Thursday, Feb. 22 and is on view through Feb. 29 at The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Kütral’s work interrogates settler narratives and practices – extractivism and overconsumption – that allow colonial continuity in Mapuche lands (the south of Chile and Argentina). Through parody, pastiche and “modding,” or alterations, Kütral intertwines pop culture and critiques of environmental racism and violence against Indigenous people. Dr. Madariaga-Caro’s research focuses on the intersections of Indigenous poetics, aesthetics, and micropolitics of land, life and justice. Her current book project illuminates how the works of Indigenous Mapuche poets and artists invigorate land relations among humans and other ecological bodies and work against settler-colonialism, racial extractive capitalism, and compulsory cis-hetero socializations. 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) 2. Song Title: Ball and Chain Artist: Xavier Rudd and J-MILLA Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022) Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D) 3. Song Title: Nafas Artist: The Spy from Cairo Single (2010) Label: N/A 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

Do the languages and cosmologies of Native Americans 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 and a discussion of what Anthony Della Flora witnessed, about the intersection of spirituality, modern science and language, inspired by a series of dialogues between Native scholars and elders, western physicists and linguists. 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) 2. Song Title: Avannaani Artist: Uummannaq Børnehjem Album: Uummannarmivaqqat (Music from the Children’s Home Uummannaq, Greenland) (2023) Label: N/A 3. Song Title: Takutissavat Angussallugu Artist: Uummannaq Børnehjem, Heidinnaguaq Jensen Album: Uummannarmivaqqat (Music from the Children’s Home Uummannaq, Greenland) (2023) Label: N/A 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

Danny Desjarlais is Project Manager of Lower Sioux Industrial Hemp Construction at Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota. Danny is a dedicated and experienced Natural Builder with a passion for sustainable construction methods and a commitment to creating eco-friendly structures for Lower Sioux Community members to call home. Danny says, “We are the original caretakers of this land being Indigenous … we’ve gone so far away from taking care of Mother Earth. We hadn’t grown any plants here since before contact. Once contacted they took all our farming and we hadn’t farmed since we started growing hemp. It’s really quite amazing how it’s been a big full circle moment.” 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) 2. Song Title: Change Artist: Kodi Lee Single (2024) Label: N/A 3. Song Title: Osage Oil Boom Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Label: Sony Masterworks 4. Song Title: Raglan Artist: Bruci Jordan Album: Raglan (2019) Label: N/A 5. Song Title: Garden of Love Artist: Winston McAnuff & Fix Album: A New Day (2013) Label: Chapter Two Records 6. Song Title: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Artist: Marvin Gaye Album: What’s Going On (1971) Label: Tamia 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, Tiokasin speaks with Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga and Nez Perce), one of the five Native artists featured in the upcoming exhibition, “Sensing Sasquatch,” which will be on view March 2, 2024 - January 12, 2025 at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. Native peoples of the Plateau have long known about, encountered, depicted and told stories about Sasquatch, and the exhibition will examine the primate-like, reclusive and elusive being in the context of the High Desert region through an Indigenous lens. Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in New York on his mother's Onondaga reservation. He began exhibiting his artwork at 18 years old as a hobby. He began taking his artwork career more seriously when he attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. His artwork has been described as “Bold, Culturally Relevant and Inspiring!” featuring vibrant colors and animal subjects, most commonly buffaloes and his tribe. Frank’s way of creating his artwork is to combine numerous aspects of modern culture with the internet and technology and combine it with Native American ideas. Frank has stated that the intention of his artwork is to highlight the social and political problems today’s society. In addition, issues in today's society and in the lives of Native Americans is what drives him to continue with his career. Frank’s goal for his artwork is to change the way people perceive Native American artwork and abolish any stereotypes that follow Native American artwork. He hopes to teach aspiring Native American artists to make the artwork that they want to make and not worry about their artwork being "Indian enough" or "Native enough.” Frank says, “Indigenous people are now at a point where they have to be dealt with … the popular culture, and the world can no longer ignore what we know and who we are.” More about Frank can be found at https://frankbuffalohyde.com/ In the second half-hour, Tiokasin welcomes back our friend Ed Kabotie with an important update. "The continued contamination of lands occupied by the Indigenous nations of the Colorado Plateau must be recognized for what it is: a continuation of the genocidal philosophies of Manifest Destiny. Many issues that Indigenous people face remain out of sight, out of mind to the general public,” says Ed. Ed Kabotie is an artist and musician from the Hopi village of Shungopavi and the Tewa village of Khap’o Owinge. He considers himself to be an “edu-tainer,” combining visual art, music, and education for his lectures and performances about “Alter-Native History” and issues related to the Indigenous people and lands of the four corner states region. Ed is also an event organizer and, along with his band Tha ‘Yoties and the generous support of nonprofits and committed friends, has held events that feature the Native voices in his homeland. Ed’s solo music incorporates acoustic guitar, Native American flute, harmonica, percussion and voice. His lyrics are sung in English, Hopi and Tewa, and are often written in a storytelling fashion. Ed describes the music as “Nu-Native,” utilizing contemporary instrumentation as a vehicle to share the virtues of his Indigenous heritage, as well as our past and present struggles with colonialism. 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) 2. Song Title: History Repeats Itself Artist: Jane’s Addiction Album: N/A Label: N/A 3. Song Title: Delcho Drums Taken From: Denetah Radio, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada Album: N/A Label: N/A 4. Song Title: Tell Me a Tale Artist: Michael Kiwanuka Album: Home Again (2012) Label: Universal Music Group 5. Song Title: Don’t Worry Be Hopi Artist: Ed Kabotie and Tha ‘Yoties Album: N/A (Can be heard on YouTube) Label: Ed Kabotie 6. Song Title: Funky Yotie Party Artist: Ed Kabotie and Tha ‘Yoties Album: N/A (Can be heard on YouTube) Label: Ed Kabotie 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

Adoptee and journalist Trace Hentz is the author of “ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: A Memoir,” with the history of the Indian Adoption Project and Indian Child Welfare Act; this includes her long journey to find her natural father in Illinois and tribal relatives. Trace, who created the American Indian Adoptees website in 2009, has announced a new project, “THE COUNT 2024.” It coincides with the release of a new history book, “Almost Dead Indians,” Book 5 in the Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects series. The American Indian Adoptees website is in the top 50 adoption websites with over 2.5 million views: http://blog.americanindianadoptees.com. The book series was written for adoptees to know their own history. Trace Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) has received many awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association, formerly the Native American Journalists Association. Her ancestry is a mix of Shawnee and Anishinaabe. More about Trace can be found on her website: www.tracehentz.com 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) 2. Song Title: Life as a Native Artist: Okema Album: Single (2019) Label: Mixed, Mastered and Directed by Blu Barry 3. Song Title: American Dream Artist: Ondara Album: Tales of American (2019) Label: Verve Forecast 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

Marley Shebala, Diné and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an 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. 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. 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 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. Her 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 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) 2. Song Title: Spatial Moon (added commentary by the late John Trudell) Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse Album: Somewhere in There (2016) Label: Ghosthorse 3. Song Title: It Ain’t Over Artist: The Black Keys Album: Dropout Boogie (2022) Label: Nonesuch/Warner Records 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

Good music and words to begin 2024. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Maya), 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: It’s Morning in America Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications Album: American Love Call (2019) Label: Dead Oceans 3. Song Title: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose Artist: Michael Kiwanuka Single: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose (2014) Label: Third Man Records 4. Song Title: Shade of History Artist: Julian Cote feat. Pura Fe Crescioni Album: Shade of History Soundtrack Label: Pine Needle Productions 5. Song Title: I Can’t Give Everything Away Artist: Spoon Album: I Can’t Give Everything Away (2023) Label: Matador Records 6. Song Title: States I’m In Artist: Bruce Cockburn Album: Bone on Bone (2017) Label: True North 7. Song Title: Perspectives Artist: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Album: Stretch Music (2015) Label: Ropeadope Records 8. Song Title: A Cry In The Forest (Live) Artist: Dan Fogelberg Album: Dan Fogelberg Live: Greetings from the West (1991) Label: Epic Records 9. Song Title: Burning Times Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave Album: Burning Times (1993) Label: Earthbeat 10. Song Title: Triste Pena Artist: Gipsy Kings Album: Mosaique (1989) Label: Columbia/Electra 11. Song Title: School Days Artist: Labi Siffre Album: Man of Reason (1991) Label: China Records 12. Song Title: World On Fire Artist: Stick Figure Album: World on Fire (2019) Label: Ruffwood Records 13. Song Title: Lakota Lullaby Artist: Alexia Evellyn Album: N/A Label: N/A 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

Ending the year… a selection of songs from our 2023 shows. All are Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse and listener favorites! Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Maya), 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: Intro (The Sacred Pipe) from Killers of the Flower Moon Soundtrack - Artist: Robbie Robertson 3. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me Artist: Mari Boine 4. Song Title: Imba Artist: Otyken 5. Song Title: Ball and Chain - J-MILLA and Xavier Rudd Artist: J-MILLA and Xavier Rudd 6. Song Title: Mother Earth Artist: SOJA 7. Song Title: Ablaze (feat. Jennifer Kreisberg) Artist: Tartie 8. Song Title: 1492 Artist: Dakota Yazzie 9. Song Title: Brother Warrior Artist: Sharon Burch 10. Artist: Iron Sky Artist: Paolo Nutini 11. Song Title: Your Freedom is the End of Me Artist: Melanie De Biasio 12. Song Title: Mind Control Artist: Stephen Marley 13, Song Title: Imiqtaq Artist: Riit (Rita-Claire Mike-Murphy) & Andrew Morrison 14. Song Title: Time Drift Artist: Smokey D. Palmtree 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 show, we're revisiting a conversation between Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Annamarie Hill. Annamarie is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation located in northwestern Minnesota. It was while she was studying Music and Business at a private women’s college in the southern part of the state that she realized the impact of inhumane treatment put upon her father and family and became determined to somehow help right the wrongs that had devastated American Indian communities. After graduation, Annamarie moved to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Metropolitan area and began a career in the state legislature and government for more than a decade before taking the role of State Government Affairs Director for Red Lake. After lobbying for Red Lake Nation for several years, Annamarie went on to lead the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council as Executive Director for a decade. It was during this time that the highly regarded and award-winning “Why Treaties Matter” exhibit and Dakota Ojibwe Language Revitalization program were developed. Annamarie currently works for the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Duluth Campus as the Strategy and Outreach Director. Annamarie is a part of the Mantyh Lab, a research team led by Neurologist and Dementia Specialist Dr. William Mantyh. The NIH- funded research project is to examine the APOE gene’s relationship with Alzheimer’s disease in the Native population. Annamarie remains active in the lobbying and advocating world for her people and provides professional and executive coaching and mentoring to many. Annamarie has a bachelor’s degree in music and business administration from The College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota, and a master’s degree in Tribal Administration and Governance from the University of Minnesota/Duluth. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Maya), 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: Laugh Out Loud Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) Label: Dangerbird Records (00:29:58) 3. Song Title: (Intro) The Sacred Pipe, Osage Oil Boom Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon Label: Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment (00:47:47) 4. Song Title: Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) Artist: Osage Tribal Singers Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon Label: Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment (00:51:17) 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

Alex White Plume is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people at Wounded Knee. Between 1986-1990, the ride was a Wiping of the Tears ceremony for the Lakota nation. There were 19 riders on the very first ride in 1986 from Bridger, SD to Wounded Knee, SD. The ride was called the Future Generation Ride after 1990, when the Wiping of the Tears ceremony ended. 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) 2. Song Title: Turning Away Artist: Dougie MacLean Album: Indigenous (1991) Label: Dunkeld Records (00:27:08) 3. Song Title: Lakota Dream Song Artist: Earl Bullhead Album: Across Indian Lands (1999) Label: SOAR (00:42:10) 4. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s Artist: Beautiful People Album: If 60s Were 90s (1994) Label: Continuum Records (00:44:48) 5. Song Title: Road to Hell Part 1 Artist: Chris Rea Album: On the Beach (1986) Label: Geffen Records (USA) and Magnet (International) (00:49:52) 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 welcomes back Stephany Seay for the full hour. Stephany has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year’s Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years of service over philosophical differences. Stephany has nearly 20 years of experience standing with the buffalo, is an avid wildlife photographer, backcountry skier, and horsewoman. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance, and co-founder of Roam Free Nation. Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from ourselves from the unsustainable and selfish creation of industrial civilization. Find Roam Free Nation at https://roamfreenation.org/. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Mayan), 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) 2. Song Title: Brother Warrior Artist: Sharon Burch Album: Touch the Sweet Earth (1995) Label: Canyon Records (00:27:28) 3. Song Title: Osage Oil Boom Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Killers of the Flower Moon Soundtrack (2023) Label: Masterworks (00:42:02) 4. Song Title: (Intro) the Sacred Pipe) Artist: Robbie Robertson and the Osage Nation Album: Killers of the Flower Moon Soundtrack Label: Masterworks (00:44:54 ) 5. Song Title: Family Man Artist: Fleetwood Mac Album: Tango in the Night (1987) Label: Warner Records (00:45:30) 6. Song Title: Star People feat. Jim Cuddy Artist: Indian City (composed by Vince Fontaine and Chris Burke-Gaffney) Album: Code Red (2021) Label: Rising Sun Productions, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (00:49:25) 7. Song Title: Iron Sky Artist: Paolo Nutini Album: Caustic Love (2014) Label: Atlantic Records (00:55:20) 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