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Let's Talk Native...with John Kane 6/4/25; The Trust Doctrine in Under Ten Minutes!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 9:51


A quick digestible explanation of this "legal" doctrine and why it isn't legal.

Let's Talk Native... with JohnKane 5/24/25; The Doctrine of Christian Disdcovery

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 8:46


This is the first of the racist, slave era "legal" doctrines that still drive US law and policy regarding Native peoples.

John Kane on The Brian Lehrer Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 8:23


John Kane on The Brian Lehrer Show by John Kane

Cafe Ali on WUSB_4_9_25; A return visit! still promoting the screening of Sugarcane at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington but a new conversation.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 49:14


I join Ahmed Ali for a second day in the run up to our screening of the Oscar nominated film Sugarcane at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington NY. Hoping to fill the house and looking forward to the conversation after the film.

Cafe Ali on WUSB_4_8_25; John Kane goes on air at Stony Brook to promote Sugarcane.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 71:49


This time I'm the guest as I join Ahmed Ali on WUSB Stony Brook

LTN #591 12_31_24; A look back on 2024 and a look forward to 2025!

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2024 49:06


LTN #591 12_31_24; A look back on 2024 and a look forward to 2025! by John Kane

LTN #590 12-17-24; I watched Sugarcane, the film. Now let's talk residential schools!

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 62:00


It cannot possibly be a coincidence that this level of abuse could occur at EVERY Indian Boarding School. "Kill the Indian - Save the Man" was not just a metaphor. Metaphors do not require graves!

LTN #589 12/10/24; Akwesasne Land SELLOUT! What do we do to and about those who signed?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 60:50


Yesterday a group calling themselves a tri-council signed a land claim settlement in direct violation of their own authority and will of the people.

LTN #588 12/3/24; 2024 is almost in the book. Let's close it out with the tough talk you expect.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 50:03


Lots of bad history with December and a year that ends with Trump returning to the White House. How fitting!

LTN #587 10/29/24; Joe Biden's Apology

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 49:52


LTN #587 10/29/24; Joe Biden's Apology by John Kane

My Two-Hour Special for Indigenous Peoples Day

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 116:11


I didn't produce an LTN podcast this week but I did a special two hour broadcast in Washington DC on WPFW for Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday.

LTN#586 10/7/24; Redskins! Redskins! Redskins!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 40:17


Almost ten years after the school's name change, the Lancaster little league football team still has "Redskins" embedded in their program.

Let's Talk Native...with John Kane 9/30/24; It's Orange Shirt Day!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 41:04


These are my words on the subject, the day and what we should be demanding.

LTN #584 9/24/24; Monday, September 30th is Orange Shirt Day! Here are my thoughts!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 48:24


The slogan never should have been "Every Child Matters!" That was like responding to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter." We should have used "Native Children Matter" or "Our Children Matter." But the final report from the Interior Department on Residential Schools suggest our children didn't and still don't matter to government officials. The sad part is, we aren't showing much concern for Deb Haaland's whitewash of this American Genocide either.

LTN #583, 8/7/24; Political Misfits interviews me on the DOI's "Final Report."

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 28:31


Political Misfits call me on Haaland's final report.

haaland final report political misfits
LTN #582 5/4/24; 40th Anniversary of the Jim Thorpe Longest Run with guests Ross John Sr. and Jr.

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 59:09


The Jim Thorpe Longest Run stretched from New York City to Los Angeles and from May 24th to July 19th of 1984. Ross John Sr. joins us to talk about his experience as one of the runners and Ross John Jr. joins to talk about a program this year from May to July to run and commemorate the 40th Anniversary

LTN #581 4/27/24; LIVE From Akwesasne! Exposing A Proposed Land Claim Settlement.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 101:57


Tekarontake joins me for a broadcast from Akwesasne to discuss a land claims settlement proposed by frauds.

Noel Bass Filmmaker of The Bears on Pine Ridge is my guest!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 74:12


Noel Bass joins me again three years after producing a short film on the incredible people tackling the suicide epidemic on the Pine Ridge Reservation with a full length documentary covering the issue.

LTN #579 2/28/24; Challenging Authoritarian Rule

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 23:47


Much of what is deemed "law" in the US is not an actual product of the legislative system. The creation of "legal doctrine" requires no actual law. Courts, the Supreme Court in particular has somehow become vested with a power to legislate from the bench and allow their written opinions to gain the force of law. This program challenges three legal doctrines that have no basis in either rule of law or the US Constitution. They represent pure authoritarian rule.

Interview By Agnes Williams of the Indigenous Women's Initiative

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2024 29:58


I am interviewed by Agnes Williams of the Indigenous Women's Initiative. We cover the Seneca Gaming conflict with NYS and displacement in the gaming market by the State.

Let's Talk Native #578 11/15/23; Culture wars are destroying education! And they are getting help.

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 60:00


Between the attacks on education coming from the right and higher ed themselves marketing college only as a path to financial enrichment, universities and colleges are losing a battle for survival. enrollment is down as the costs continue to rise. But have we lost the true value in pursuing education? It's about enlightenment and fulfillment not just making more money.

Let's Talk Native #577 11/8/23; We have to do more than just mention suicide on Native territories

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2023 57:28


I've seen film and television, even with Native producers, that mention suicide or otherwise include suicides in their content but fail to adequately address the underlying issues leading to them.

Let's Talk Native with John Kane #576 10/25/23; My review of Killers of the Flower Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2023 24:43


See this film but know that it's NOT the true story. Read the book!

North Tonawanda History Museum Presentation 9/19/23

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2023 124:17


I spoke at the North Tonawanda History Museum in September. This was my presentation.

LTN #575 9 13 23; The Seneca/NYS Gaming Compact is set to expire on December 9th

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 59:20


The Gaming Compact will expire before the end of the year and the Seneca Nation is miles away from an agreement with the State and even farther away from an agreement with their own people. The Seneca Nation attempted to stop revenue sharing in 2017 so why are they pushing for revenue sharing now?

LTN#574 7/4/23 Let's Talk Native Hawaiian! Kaiulani Mahuka is my Special Guest.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2023 65:55


So the US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland made a quiet visit to Hawaii and was hosted for an event at the Hawaiian Kingdom's Iolani Palace. She talked about restoring the building but not restoring the Palace to its rightful owners. My long time friend Kaiulani Mahuka joins me for trip to the past and an update to where we are now.

Wanting gaming in the worst way; and getting it! Seneca Gaming!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 56:20


This is another show lifted from my radio shows in New York City and Washington DC. I give a few comments on the ICWA challenge now that some of the dust has cleared after the Supreme Court ruling and then I return to the on-going saga of Seneca gaming and the organized crime syndicate known as New York State.

Let's Talk Native 6/15/23; Well, let's talk ICWA!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 55:32


This podcast is actually from my radio show but the subject is important and the info needs to be shared. The SCOTUS just rejected a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act. I have never been a fan of the law but this challenge had a lot more at stake than ICWA. Let's talk about the law, the challenge and the ruling. And why this flawed law needed to stand.

Interview With Grace And Keith Burich On NYS Thruway 6/7/23

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023 86:15


A small section of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90)crosses through the Seneca Territory of Cattaraugus. The Seneca Nation has been assessing payments due to them from tolls collected by the State and argues the State owes them over $600,000,000. Grace Burich joins me with her father Professor Keith Burich to talk about her research project on the NYS Thruway dispute.

LTN#573 4/12/23; Tekarontake joins LTN to discuss leadership and service to others.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2023 66:52


Paul Delaronde stops by the LTN studio for a conversation.

LTN#572 4/6/23; The Vatican is NOT sorry for what they did, but reject the Doctrin of Discovery.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2023 46:38


Well! The Vatican did it again. They condemn the actions of others but avoid any responsibility for their own.

Let's Talk Native #571 3/21/23; Sorry for the absence but I'm back now.

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 34:38


I had a surgery that went a little sideways on me and has laid me up for the last two months. Here's my ordeal in detail to explain where I have been.

LTN#570 1/8/23; I Am A Warrior

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 12:51


I read my excerpt from The Mohawk Warrior Society.

LTN#569 11/27/22; Valerie Lambert author of "Native Agency" joins John for an RR broadcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2022 57:32


This was recorded for a Resistance Radio broadcast but it is well worth sharing here for the LTN listeners. Coming from two very different perspectives and attitudes towards the Bureau of Indian Affairs, John and Valerie offer a great look at the agency, now almost completely run by Native bureaucrats.

LTN#568 11/12/22 Indian Residential/Boarding Schools

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2022 47:03


I cannot emphasize enough the scope and scale of this atrocity committed against Native children. It is almost the entirety of US history. 200 years of Genocide.

LTN#567 9/7/22; Cayuga Nation: FED WRECKED!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 57:58


The conflict in the Cayuga homelands has raged on for years. At the center of it all is an abuse of authority made possible by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and those who played the Fed Wreck game.

Resistance Radio 9/1/22: Famed Psychologist Philip Zimbardo joins me for my radio show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2022 55:33


Famed Stanford Psychology Professor joins me for Resistance Radio to refute certain claims made about him and his work. We discuss Native mascots, stereotyping and racism.

LTN #566 8/2/22; The Pope Apology Tour

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 61:16


He refused to apologize for the Church or take ANY responsibility. Keep in mind, this guy made Junipero Sera a "Saint" and he was responsible for deaths of thousands of indigenous children at his missions.

LTN #565 6/29/22; Deb, Kathy and Crystal.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 57:20


It's not really breaking a glass ceiling if nothing gets broken! Carrying water for the white male power structure is not change.

#563 - Not All Racists Carry Guns

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2022 56:32


A white supremacist came to Buffalo to kill Black people. But not all racists carry guns.

#563 Haaland's Boarding School Report

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 56:39


This one gets an F! The real info is pretty anemic. Nothing new and no mention of Genocide.

LTN#562 No Cannabis Compact

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 60:45


With nearly 100 cannabis dispensaries on Seneca territory alone, questions about what NYS will do when they enter the business remains.

#561 - Activism: Needed now more than ever!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2022 58:01


I heard it said that we don't need to push our kids to be lawyers and doctors. We need to teach them to be activists.

#560 - The New York State of Racism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 54:07


Governor Kathy Hochul extorted half a billion dollars out of the Seneca Nation this week by freezing all its bank accounts, affecting the livelihoods of every Seneca and every employee, vendor and contractor. She literally strangled the second largest employer in WNY for a ransom payment that she plans to use for the new Buffalo Bills stadium.

#559 - IGRA is Racist and So Is the National Indian Gaming Commission Investigation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 60:54


A law passed that targets a specific group of people by race to assert control and dominance over them is RACIST by definition and starts from a belief of racial superiority. And that racism continues with the enforcement and oversight of the law.

#558 - The Seneca Gaming Mess

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2022 54:28


#558 - The Seneca Gaming Mess by John Kane

#557 - 2022 Will Not Be About Reconciliation Over Residential Schools!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 55:10


We need to document the atrocities but also create the accounting of the losses inflicted on our people through 100 years of "Kill the Indian - Save the Man." Let's not let the Genocide be obscured by the atrocities committed children. Both need to be "reconciled." We need "Restoration of land and autonomy. Not just an apology or payouts.

#556 - Indigenous Land Back and Control In Columbia (Feat. Ervin Liz)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2022 57:02


This week, we shift our focus to South America with our guest Ervin Liz of Native Root Coffee. Ervin is a third-generation Nasa indigenous coffee farmer who founded Native Root Coffee to address and correct the inequalities and exploitation of indigenous farmers and coffee bean producers that he witnessed while growing up on his family's farm in Columbia. →→→→ Like what you hear? Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/letstalknative ←←←←

#555 - The Residential School Cover-up (Feat. Preston McBride)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2021 62:06


Dr. Preston McBride joins John to talk about his research on the genocidal residential school system in the United States. In this episode, we turn our attention away from Canada and focus on the United States with a conversation featuring historian and researcher Preston McBride. Preston is of Comanche and settler colonialism descent. He lives and works on Tongva lands where he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the USC-Mellon Humanities and the University of the Future Program. Closing song is "Savages" by Snotty Nose Rez Kids Feat. Drezus →→→→ Like what you hear? Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/letstalknative ←←←←

#554 - Truth & Restoration, NOT Reconciliation!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 50:50


"Truth and reconciliation" are the current buzz words yet again for government officials tasked with fixing the broken relationships between indigenous people and the colonial governments that occupy their stolen land. In this episode, John address the elephant in the room when it comes to these types of "talks" between Native governments and federal governments. There can be no reconciliation without land restoration! Closing song is "ANISHINABE" by SAMIAN. →→→→ Like what you hear? Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/letstalknative ←←←←

#553 - Not In Our Honor (Feat. Jay Rosenstein)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2021 60:54


Journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker Jay Rosenstein joins the show for a great conversation on the mascot debate and winning the war of appropriation. Jay is a retired professor of journalism and the director of "In Whose Honor?", a 1996 documentary that follows Charlene Teters as she campaigns against Chief Illiniwek, the University of Illinois' offensive team mascot. →→→→ Like what you hear? Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/letstalknative ←←←←

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