Sage Against the Machine

Decolonization, Assimilation, Acculturation, Adulteration

Native people. Indigenous. Onkweonwe, the original people of this continent. 

We have a bright future ahead of us, as we clamber out of the rubble of history and into our bright new future. We build that future now, the choices we make today will carry forward, and maybe even determine if our communities in our cultures survive, thrive, or wither way into nothing.

Sage Against the Machine, a podcast dedicated to ideas, philosophy, criticism, conjecture, and discussion towards the future of Akwesasne, of Haudenosaunee, and the larger Indigenous world.

Niche as hell? Absolutely.  However, we share many of the same challenges, in all peoples might be able to glean a nugget of truth, or an ember of an idea that will spread into a flame.

Your hosts, Isaac and Joshua are joined by our second guest today: PJ Herne

Peter J. Herne is an attorney who graduated from SUNY Buffalo Law School, with an undergraduate degree from SUNY Potsdam. He has served as both a prosecutor and defense attorney in Franklin County, New York. Notably, he was the former Chief Judge of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Court in Akwesasne, where he initiated several groundbreaking programs that are still operational. He currently works for Legal Aid.

Today we delve into one the greatest challenges when it comes to housing on our reservation: mortgages. He'll talk a bit about the history of the mortgage industry and how indigenous people across turtle Island have been locked out of this wealth building tool, and some solutions for the future.

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