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In July, a Cassin's kingbird (Tyrannus vociferans) calls from the edge between grassland and pine in Montana, USA. Three months later, I'm among Cassin's kingbirds again but 2000 miles farther south, in their winter range in Oaxaca, Mexico. Over the past year, my life has traced the path of these migratory Cassin's kingbirds—a journey that, for me, has involved falling in love and spending months far away from the Montana landscape I know and love. This is a story of migration, of the memories that birdsongs carry, and of finding a connection to the earth that spans time and space. Along this journey, we meet many birds and hear their voices. Among the recordings featured in this podcast are Montana sounds of Cassin's kingbird, common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum), Lincoln's sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii), sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis), vesper sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus), and western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) recorded by me, Shane Sater. From Oaxaca, I share recordings of a Bewick's wren (Thryomanes bewickii), lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), lesser goldfinch (Spinus psaltria), loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), western kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis), and white-throated towhee (Melozone albicollis). Many thanks to Manuel Grosselet of Tierra de Aves (https://www.tierradeaves.com/) and Jay McGowan of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for giving me permission to use their Oaxacan recordings of Cassin's kingbirds. I depend on the support of my listeners to continue doing this work. Please share these podcasts, leave a rating, and, if you're able, support me through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wildwithnature. Thank you!!! You can find the written, illustrated version of this story here: https://wildwithnature.com/2024/12/01/cassins-kingbird-migration-connections/
Enjoy all of this month's episodes in our bonus playlist The Curious Elephant's Child- Encore The Old Woman who Lost her Dumpling - E 277 The Kingbird and the Bear-E 278 Why Bananas Belong to Monkeys -Encore (duration - 55 minutes) When you sign up as a Unicorn Patreon Subscriber we will send you this special JWS Teeshirt. To download this month's free coloring sheet, simply subscribe to my Patreon here, it's free! By subscribing, you not only support our mission to ignite imagination through enchanting fairy tales but also receive exclusive benefits like monthly free coloring sheets corresponding to our podcast episodes, and more! Your support means the world to us and enables us to continue creating captivating content for children everywhere. Thank you for joining us on this adventure!
Find out how these fierce little kingbirds teach a rude bear some manners. An episode from Journey with Story, a storytelling podcast for kids ages 4-10. (duration -15 minutes) When you sign up as a Unicorn Patreon Subscriber we will send you this special JWS Teeshirt. To download this month's free coloring sheet, simply subscribe to my Patreon here, it's free! By subscribing, you not only support our mission to ignite imagination through enchanting fairy tales but also receive exclusive benefits like monthly free coloring sheets corresponding to our podcast episodes, and more! Your support means the world to us and enables us to continue creating captivating content for children everywhere. Thank you for joining us on this adventure! Check out our new patreon page patreon.com/journeywithstory We have updated our patreon page and are offering lots of new perks and benefits including special bonus episodes, bonus read-alouds, as well as stickers, coloring sheets, early access to episodes, access to all archived content, and the chance for random shout outs on the podcast. We really appreciate all of our patrons as they help to keep our show ad-free, as well as being able to bring you more quality content each month Don't forget - if you sign up for our Unicorn Patreon Tier before June 5, 2024, we will send you our special JWS teeshirt for your young listener.
If you're new to birding, you might be baffled by names like Couch's Kingbird, Wilson's Warbler, and Townsend's Solitaire. These birds were named in honor of scientists and their friends long ago. But the result is a long list of birds named after white men, many of whom took part in colonizing the Americas or enslaved people. The American Ornithological Society or AOS, which governs official bird names in English, is working to rename all birds named after people in North America.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.
On October 22, 2021, 15-year-old Nevaeh Kingbird, a member of the Red Lake Nation, left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota at around 1 a.m. At 2 a.m. she left another home in a nearby trailer park. She was last seen in the Nymore neighborhood of Bemidji. Andrea Canning talks to Nevaeh's mother, Teddi Wind, her sister, Lakaylee, her uncle Daniel Wind, and Indigenous missing persons advocate Lissa Yellow Bird Chase. Nevaeh was 5'4” and weighed 120 lbs. at the time of her disappearance. She has brown eyes and dark brown hair with blonde highlights. She has two scars: one on her left eyebrow, another on her left thigh. If you have information on Neveah's case call the Bemidji Police tip line at 218-333-9111 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE LOST.This episode was originally published on May 30, 2023.
2/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-New-World-Animals-America-ebook/dp/B09TQ2TMN2 Distinguished author Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Floresdescribes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. 1914 KINGBIRD
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
We're sharing a special preview of the second episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline's Andrea Canning tells the story of Nevaeh Kingbird, a 15-year-old girl who left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota in 2021 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw
On October 22, 2021, 15-year-old Nevaeh Kingbird, a member of the Red Lake Nation, left her family's house in Bemidji, Minnesota at around 1 a.m. At 2 a.m. she left another home in a nearby trailer park. She was last seen in the Nymore neighborhood of Bemidji. Andrea Canning talks to Nevaeh's mother, Teddi Wind, her sister, Lakaylee, her uncle Daniel Wind, and Indigenous missing persons advocate Lissa Yellow Bird Chase. Nevaeh was 5'4” and weighed 120 lbs. at the time of her disappearance. She has brown eyes and dark brown hair with blonde highlights. She has two scars: one on her left eyebrow, another on her left thigh. If you have information on Neveah's case call the Bemidji Police tip line at 218-333-9111 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE LOST.More photos and information can be found at DatelineMissingInAmerica.com
Kingbirds are robin-sized flycatchers that excel at plucking insects from the air. They'll even tackle prey as big as cicadas. Finding naturally-camouflaged cicadas hidden among the leaves is hard work. But two species of kingbirds in Arizona found a shortcut — stealing them from cicada-killer wasps! The female wasps, nearly two inches long, paralyze cicadas and bring them to their burrows for their young to eat. The kingbirds have learned to ambush wasps carrying cicadas on the way back to their burrows.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: · Palestinian pop-up Shababi Chicken teams with Please Bring Chips, the very cool event space and caterer on H Street NE to deliver unforgettable events, small and large. Shababi's executive chef and founder, Marcelle Afram, is in with Kat Dean, director of operations for Please Bring Chips, to mix up some of the cocktails they offer that are wowing their guests; · Tony DiGregorio, now the executive chef at Kingbird at The Watergate Hotel, has launched a menu featuring modern American cuisine with a French twist; · Sara Baroni, brand manager for Venchi Fine Italian Chocolates, tells us why the company's chocolate recipes have made it such a notable category leader; · And last, but hardly least, Colin McClimans, chef/owner of Washington's Nina May and the new Opal joins us with details on the good taste he brings to the menu at Opal in Chevy Chase, D.C.
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: · Palestinian pop-up Shababi Chicken teams with Please Bring Chips, the very cool event space and caterer on H Street NE to deliver unforgettable events, small and large. Shababi's executive chef and founder, Marcelle Afram, is in with Kat Dean, director of operations for Please Bring Chips, to mix up some of the cocktails they offer that are wowing their guests; · Tony DiGregorio, now the executive chef at Kingbird at The Watergate Hotel, has launched a menu featuring modern American cuisine with a French twist; · Sara Baroni, brand manager for Venchi Fine Italian Chocolates, tells us why the company's chocolate recipes have made it such a notable category leader; · And last, but hardly least, Colin McClimans, chef/owner of Washington's Nina May and the new Opal joins us with details on the good taste he brings to the menu at Opal in Chevy Chase, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: · Palestinian pop-up Shababi Chicken teams with Please Bring Chips, the very cool event space and caterer on H Street NE to deliver unforgettable events, small and large. Shababi's executive chef and founder, Marcelle Afram, is in with Kat Dean, director of operations for Please Bring Chips, to mix up some of the cocktails they offer that are wowing their guests; · Tony DiGregorio, now the executive chef at Kingbird at The Watergate Hotel, has launched a menu featuring modern American cuisine with a French twist; · Sara Baroni, brand manager for Venchi Fine Italian Chocolates, tells us why the company's chocolate recipes have made it such a notable category leader; · And last, but hardly least, Colin McClimans, chef/owner of Washington's Nina May and the new Opal joins us with details on the good taste he brings to the menu at Opal in Chevy Chase, D.C.
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: · Palestinian pop-up Shababi Chicken teams with Please Bring Chips, the very cool event space and caterer on H Street NE to deliver unforgettable events, small and large. Shababi's executive chef and founder, Marcelle Afram, is in with Kat Dean, director of operations for Please Bring Chips, to mix up some of the cocktails they offer that are wowing their guests; · Tony DiGregorio, now the executive chef at Kingbird at The Watergate Hotel, has launched a menu featuring modern American cuisine with a French twist; · Sara Baroni, brand manager for Venchi Fine Italian Chocolates, tells us why the company's chocolate recipes have made it such a notable category leader; · And last, but hardly least, Colin McClimans, chef/owner of Washington's Nina May and the new Opal joins us with details on the good taste he brings to the menu at Opal in Chevy Chase, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Summary:A three-minute podcast from the hosts of The Feathered Desert about individual bird species found in the desert Southwest. Show Notes:Song provided by Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recorded by Tom Barnwell. Our New email address, please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions: thefeathereddesert@gmail.com
On this episode of For the Birds, Chip and Anson talk to you about the Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Wood-Pewee and other fly catchers!Eastern KingbirdEastern Wood-Pewee
On this episode of For the Birds, Chip and Anson talk to you about the Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Wood-Pewee and other fly catchers! Eastern KingbirdEastern Wood-Pewee
Nevaeh Kingbird is a 15 year old Indigenous girl from Bemidji, Minnesota. She is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, specifically the Leech Lake Band. Around 2am on October 22nd, 2021, Nevaeh was last seen at a trailer home in the area of Southview Terrace Park in Bemidji. She has not been seen or heard from since.If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Nevaeh Kingbird, please contact the Bemidji Police Department at (218) 333-9111 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.Bring Nevaeh Kingbird Home Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Npr8ooMissing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force Report: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/ojp/Documents/missing-murdered-indigenous-women-task-force-report.pdf_________________________Request a Case: https://forms.gle/FFZTNhqcXpQ6qRGr8Goodpods | Leave a review: https://goodpods.app.link/ij0wxVE8vobPodchaser | Leave a review: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/crime-and-crime-again-1440387Music: "Poisoned Rose" by Aakash Gandhi_________________________Sources:• https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP88394• https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/search-continues-missing-15-year-old-nevaeh-kingbird-bemidji-minnesota-n1289096• https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/new-information-released-in-case-of-missing-15-year-old-nevaeh-kingbird-1• https://www.fox9.com/news/missing-murdered-indigenous-people-minnesota-data-mmir• https://www.startribune.com/first-in-the-nation-state-office-takes-on-epidemic-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-minnesotans/600159690/• https://www.wdio.com/minnesota-news/missing-nevaeh-kingbird-bemidji/6470452/
For nearly a decade, Tiffany Kingbird went from jail to prison to jail, leaving a trail of charges mostly related to drugs and the property crimes she committed to pay for drugs. “Your soul gets tired,” said Kingbird, 37, as she spoke recently of her years fighting addiction, and a resulting string of arrests and incarcerations. “Just that lifestyle, going in and out of jail and just having nothing, always having nothing. Just coming out and picking back up where you left off, because you didn't have nowhere to go.” That downward spiral is deeply rooted in the historical poverty, generational trauma and persistent judicial system bias against Indigenous people in Minnesota. The data around Native women is especially startling. They make up less than 1 percent of Minnesota's overall population but are 20 percent of the state's female prison inmates. While many of the crimes that lead to jail or prison time are relatively small-time offenses — stealing, drug use, failure to show for a court date — the consequences of incarcerating Native women are enormous and cascading: children separated from mothers, metastasizing family poverty, financial and psychological costs that linger for generations. Monika Lawrence for MPR News Natasha Kingbird, right, is the lead coordinator of the Women's Reentry Program at the Northwest Indian Community Development Center in Bemidji and a vocal proponent of helping incarcerated women heal from trauma. In Bemidji, Kingbird and other Native women are part of a growing effort to share their stories and break the cycle. A pilot project intended to help women find their economic footing and reconnect to their families spiritual lives offers hope and shows promise. Safe housing is often the first need, and securing that can light the way. Observers worry permanent change won't come until Native people are no longer disproportionately caught up in the criminal justice system. That fact shows few signs of changing. In Beltrami County, near Minnesota's three most populous reservations, 70 percent of people arrested on an outstanding warrant over the past five years were American Indian. ‘Eventually, I just gave up' Themes surface in the stories of many Native women: youthful mistakes that morph into insurmountable hurdles, poverty that couldn't be overcome, family rifts that wouldn't heal, addiction and violence that fell on them and those they love. Tiffany Kingbird was raised mostly by her grandmother while her parents struggled with addiction. She recalls a “pretty good childhood” growing up on the Red Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, going to school and traveling with family to powwows. Things changed in her late teens when a family member brought her cocaine, opening the door to a persistent drug habit. Her life was upended about 10 years ago, she said, by the death of her grandmother, the person she leaned on most. “When I lost her, everybody lost me,” Kingbird recalled. She survived violent relationships. She was homeless. Her drug addiction deepened. “I was pregnant with my baby. And I couldn't quit, so I did drugs through my pregnancy with my youngest one,” Kingbird said. “And they took her right from the hospital when I had her.” Reconnecting with her daughters, ages 18 and 10, has been a primary motivation for Kingbird to maintain sobriety for the past three years. “The only time my kids ever heard from me is when I was locked up. And I was sick of saying the same shit, promising stuff that I wasn't gonna do,” she said. “So this last time around, I was like, ‘I'm gonna get out. And I'm just going to show them', and I'm still doing it.” Uprooted The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country Report Native American women, girls suffer more violence Billie Mountain's world changed in March 2005 when a teenager shot and killed seven people at the Red Lake High School where she worked. Dan Gunderson | MPR News Billie Mountain is working to rebuild her life after drug and alcohol abuse led to incarceration. “I think it kind of broke me. I don't know, I've never talked about it,” said Mountain, 51, as she choked back tears during an interview. Born in Minneapolis and raised on the Red Lake Reservation, she was “doing what was expected,” raising a family and working. Soon after the school shooting, she left Red Lake and moved to Bemidji, intending to return to college. Looking back, she believes she was just escaping the trauma of the school shooting. After life on the isolated reservation, she wasn't prepared for life in a community where eight in 10 people are white. “It's only 30 miles, but you move to Bemidji and it's like you're in another world,” she said. “Like, ‘Oh, I gotta come to Bemidji and be white now.'” “It's intimidating,” she said. “And then you don't think you are good enough. Or you have to work extra hard to be able to get anywhere.” The stress led to increased alcohol use, she said, and her first arrest was for drunk driving. Then a new relationship brought her into a circle of people using and selling illegal prescription drugs. That led to more encounters with the justice system. “I got my kids taken away from me, I lost my house, I lost my job, I had to go to court, and I ended up in jail,” said Mountain. Mountain shares with other Native women a sense the system is stacked against them, that no one hears them when they ask for help. After getting out of jail, she struggled to get her kids back from foster care, unable to navigate a system she didn't understand. “Depression, anxiety was to the roof,” she said. “And eventually, I just gave up. OK, I'll just go get high, because it's easier,” she said. Mountain now has a job, her kids are back home, and she's sober, thanks to support from a local nonprofit organization. “When I look back on my life, I know where it went wrong was when I was feeling weak, or hopeless, or lost,” she said. ‘We have to take you to jail' American Indians are often excluded from data comparing incarceration rates based on race. There are many reasons, including overlapping jurisdictions, differences between tribal justice systems and federal government policies that make data collection difficult, according to the National Institute of Justice. But available data shows the disproportionate incarceration of American Indians is striking across the justice system. American Indians are just over one percent of Minnesota's population, but American Indian women make up about 20 percent of the inmates at Minnesota's only women's prison in Shakopee, and American Indian men make up about nine percent of the overall prison population in the state, according to DOC data. The racial disparity is evident at an early age. Nearly half of the 62 incarcerated Native women interviewed through a project funded by a federal grant reported being arrested more than 10 times before age 18. The Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center in Bemidji housed juveniles from 38 counties last year, but almost 60 percent came from Beltrami, Cass and Itasca, counties near reservations. American Indian youth were 58 percent of the females and 44 percent of the males housed there, according to the center's annual report. Beltrami County is adjacent to three tribal nations located in northern Minnesota. The most recent census data shows about 22 percent of the county population is American Indian. They are disproportionately represented in the courts and the county jail. From 2017 to 2022, 70 percent of people arrested on an outstanding warrant in Beltrami County were American Indian, according to data collected by the sheriff's office. For the same five-year period, 53 percent of those arrested for non-warrant offenses were American Indian. Dan Gunderson | MPR News A corrections officer books an inmate at the Beltrami County Jail. While there is relatively little research on American Indians in the justice system, a recently published peer reviewed study found there is a financial cost for being Native in the Minnesota judicial system. Researchers analyzed five years of court cases, examining the legal financial obligation imposed by criminal courts. “We found that Native American defendants had the highest debt load per case, compared to any other racial group,” said University of Maryland assistant professor Robert Stewart. Researchers found rural counties, and especially those in Indian Country, were more punitive. “It is when they're in counties that overlap with reservations [or] that are in close proximity to reservations, that they actually receive the highest average fines and fees than any other group,” said Stewart. Researchers wrote that the average outstanding legal debt for Native defendants was “more than 80 percent higher than the next highest racial group and more than four times higher than the average debt for white defendants.” “The counties that really stick out, we're talking about Beltrami, we're talking about Becker, Mahnomen, Mille Lacs County, Cass County,” said Stewart. “These are all counties that have large reservations, or at least are in close proximity to large reservations.” University of Minnesota doctoral student Brieanna Watters was part of the research team, and heard the stories about the economic impact of legal debt when people have no way to pay. “What these cases demonstrate is just how compounding fines and fees are, especially for the marginalized people and the poor. They can be very devastating for people and entire communities,” said Watters. American Indians have the highest poverty rate — 31 percent — of any racial group in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. The researchers argue in their paper that disproportionate legal debt is an extension of previous government programs such as assimilation, relocation and boarding schools that were intended to break up Indigenous families and communities. “There's an evolution from targeting the Native collective as a community, to targeting or subjugating individual Native people,” said Watters. Researchers also interviewed defendants, judges, attorneys and probation officers about the legal, financial disparities they found. “It was common for judges, prosecutors, and probation officers we interviewed to candidly assert that Native American defendants did not experience racialized disadvantage in the criminal legal system in their jurisdiction,” they wrote. 'I've never told anyone' Stories of life in Indian boarding schools A reckoning St. Benedict nuns apologize for Native boarding school Beltrami County Attorney David Hanson said his office doesn't track race data on those charged with crimes, and he rejects the idea the justice system is biased. “I don't see direct evidence of explicit bias,” he said. “I'm going to prosecute each crime. To seek justice. That's what I do.” Hanson said he was not aware of disproportionate rates of incarceration for Native women, but he would not be surprised “given the demographics of the county” where American Indians make up about 22 percent of the population. “However, if it is statistically unproportionate, or if there's some sort of underlying racial component that is driving it, well, then it would be concerning,” he said. He sees reducing drug abuse as the key to reducing incarceration rates. Hanson points to local efforts, including a recently created drug court, but those efforts are limited by lack of resources in one of the poorest counties in Minnesota. “You know, we're going to put every resource we have available at it, but we don't have a lot of the resources, so it becomes a larger societal question,” Hanson said. “What does the state of Minnesota want to do with this? We're all ears when it comes to solutions, we just need help to implement them.” Dan Gunderson | MPR News Beltrami County chief deputy Jarrett Walton stands for a photo in the county jail on March 18. Beltrami County Sheriff's Office chief deputy Jarrett Walton is very aware that American Indians are disproportionately represented in arrests. He compiled the data showing 70 percent of people arrested on an outstanding warrant in the county were American Indian. “A lot of times there's transportation issues, you know, you can't get to your court hearings. Thus, they issue a warrant for your arrest. If you have a warrant, of course, the court says we shall arrest you. So we have to take you to jail,” he said. Many of those arrests happen because of traffic stops for minor violations. A broken tail light, or a burned-out headlight. Poverty is an underlying factor, said Walton, and the county recently started a voucher program to help pay for minor repairs like a broken tail light, with the intent of reducing those traffic stops. Beltrami County recently started a program that has a social worker working in the jail, helping connect inmates with services that can help them be successful when they leave the jail. “This reset program meets them exactly where they're at,” said jail administrator Calandra Allen. “Some days, you know, if you were battling depression for six months, and you got out of bed and put one step in front of the other, that's a success for that person that day,” she said. Walton, who's a candidate this year to succeed retiring Sheriff Ernie Beitel, hopes to expand that program, but funding remains a hurdle. “It comes down to the almighty dollar,” said Walton, who added that the county is looking for creative solutions to add another two or three social workers needed to meet demand in the jail. “Just so we can provide [inmates] what they need on the outside and help them so they don't have to come back here (to jail),” he said. The county is also working to restart cultural programs, shuttered by COVID-19 restrictions, where volunteers provide cultural and spiritual counsel to Native American inmates. County officials are in preliminary discussions about building a new jail, and tribal leaders are part of the steering committee. Walton said those discussions include the need for more space and programming for culturally specific activities. ‘Give them back to the community' Dan Gunderson | MPR News Natasha Kingbird leads the initiative at the Northwest Indian Community Development Center in Bemidji to help women who have been incarcerated rebuild their lives. Natasha Kingbird has been in the place where hope is elusive, and she's using the experience to provide support for Native women trying to overcome the sense that no one cares. She leads the reentry program at the Northwest Indian Community Development Center in Bemidji where Billie Mountain, Tiffany Kingbird and other women come for support, and help navigating the system. The Kingbirds are relatives. “I've dedicated a lot of time to help women to be looked at as equal and not as ‘Oh they're just a criminal, they ain't going to amount to nothing,'” Natasha Kingbird said. The 40-year-old knows about the struggles incarcerated women face. She recalls “a really nice life,” until at age 10 her great grandmother died and her parents split up. She spent time in foster care, and the Northwest Juvenile Detention Center in Bemidji, where a disproportionate number of children in custody are American Indian. “I didn't know what I wanted, and I was lost,” she recalled. “I was a young girl trying to figure out what I wanted, not having any guidance and feeling like nobody cared.” She survived domestic abuse and spent time in jail. Reconnecting with her Anishinaabe culture gave her a new identity, focus and strength. Now she starts every day asking herself what she can do to help other Native women make the same connection. “You know, I've never experienced this sense of pride,” she said. “I can say that I'm really proud to be Anishinaabe and I'm proud to be a woman who has experienced the same stuff as all these other women. You know, we're smart, and we're gifted, and we just have to find it.” She's become a leading advocate for a unique project designed to help incarcerated Native women regain their place in the community. Monika Lawrence for MPR News During the ongoing discussion about the outside space of the Healing House project, some women suggested a garden where sacred plants can grow but where they also can grow and process their own food. This month, a pilot project called the Healing House opened in a three bedroom home in Bemidji, and work is underway to raise funds for a much larger facility. The home is leased by the Minnesota Department of Corrections, but the program will be run by the local community. Bemidji was selected for the pilot project because of its location near the three most populous reservations in the state, and the fact that 40 percent of the Native women incarcerated by the state return to northwestern Minnesota when they are released. In 2017, the Minnesota Department of Corrections received a $900,000 federal grant to help address violence against women. The agency collaborated with the Northwest Indian Community Development Center and other nonprofit groups to focus on examining how to help Native women who are disproportionately incarcerated, and more likely to be victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. As part of the project, 62 women either in the Minnesota women's prison in Shakopee, or who had been incarcerated in the past five years, were interviewed in 2019 and 2020 before COVID-19 restrictions ended the interviews. Nearly nine in 10 of the women said they were dependent on drugs or alcohol. Three-fourths reported mental illness, and 97 percent reported being victims of violence and abuse before they were incarcerated. A long list of recommendations for change came out of the project. They include equal access to spiritual advisors and ceremonies in prison, helping women stay connected with children while they are incarcerated, and improved cultural training for prison staff. But the top issue was safe, supportive housing after release from prison or jail and that's the first challenge to be addressed through the Healing House model, a concept based on Indigenous cultural and spiritual teachings. While many correctional release programs focus on helping inmates find housing and get a job, the priority of this model is to help the women heal from trauma. Monika Lawrence for MPR News Liz Richards with the Minnesota Department of Corrections talks about the Healing House project during a meeting in Bemidji on April 7. “That's the whole focus really, about the Healing House. If you can't address that trauma, then everything else is not going to be successful,” said Liz Richards, the corrections department's director of victim services and restorative justice. “I am confident that it is going to be far and above more successful than previous models.” Richards said this model appears to be the first of its kind in the country. If the program is successful, it might well be because the department is ceding control to the women who have lived the trauma they seek to heal. That reflects a significant shift in thinking, according to Nikki Engel, policy and legal systems program manager with Violence Free Minnesota, a nonprofit that's part of the project. Monika Lawrence for MPR News Nikki Engel with Violence Free Minnesota talked about how gratifying it is to see support for the Healing House during a meeting about the project in Bemidji. “Government can pay for things like this and they don't need to own them,” she said. “Give them back to the community because the community knows best what is needed to break these cycles and to support the people in their community.” The data showing disproportionate incarceration rates for Native women in Minnesota is not new. But the stories those 62 women told have shifted the narrative within the Department of Corrections, said Richards. “Statistics are something that appeals to the head, the stories appeal to the heart. I can give you statistics all day long about disproportionality within the system. We all know those,” she said. “The difference is to hear those stories that really touch people's hearts. I think there are plenty of people who care and who have cared for a long time, but have not known what to do.” The Healing House project is a first small step toward building trust with Indigenous communities, said Richards. Addressing the array of issues that contribute to the disproportionate incarceration rates will require a much broader long-term response. ‘Feel like me again' Monika Lawrence for MPR News No decision about a site for the Healing House has been made yet. Ideally, according to the women who participated in the listening sessions, it will be on tribal land between Bemidji and Red Lake, not in an urban environment but with a lot of trees and walking areas. A group of women recently spent a few days meeting with architects in Bemidji, offering insights on what they would want from the Healing House model. There's currently no funding in place to build the design they came up with, but Gov. Tim Walz has included money in his budget to fund a project manager for three years. That funding still needs legislative approval. Community member Renee Gurneau told assembled local and state officials that just adding a cultural component to programs designed for non-Native people will not be successful. “But what really works for us is having culture based [programs], rather than having a white system with some culture thrown at it,” she said, as women around the room nodded in agreement. “To really be who we were created to be is guaranteed success.” Northwest Indian Community Development Center administrator Martin Jennings urged local officials gathered to learn about the Healing House project to think of the formerly incarcerated women gathered around the table in the center of the room as valued community members. “Think of the women we're trying to support here as our sisters, our aunties, our grandmothers and mothers. We've got to think differently about how we value and see each other in this community,” he said. Jennings is optimistic, he sees a new level of communication and collaboration with local officials in Bemidji and Beltrami County. At a recent Bemidji City Council meeting, council members and the mayor expressed support for the Healing House project. That included Audrey Thayer, the first Native American woman elected to the Bemidji City Council. She's confident the Healing House will help women find a path that leads them away from the justice system's revolving door. She thinks the system continues to punish people long after they are released. Monika Lawrence for MPR News Bemidji City Council member Audrey Thayer speaks during a conversation about the Healing House project in Bemidji on April 7. It's like the path now goes straight uphill,” she said. “You paid for what happened in your life, you served some time, you made a mistake. When do we start looking at reconciliation and redemption of a human being in our society?” Thayer, a long-time community activist and an instructor at the Leech Lake Tribal College, said it's important to acknowledge the generations of trauma in Indian Country that need to be unraveled. “It's easier to explain it as a very serious dysfunction that the U.S. government did, trying to mold us into something we weren't by stripping us of who we were,” said Thayer. “I think we have about three generations of really crazy behavior by the federal government,” she said. “Relocations, assimilation programs, boarding schools, and when you strip somebody of who they are, their values, and you take that all away, you have an empty shell.” To be successful Thayer believes, reentry programs need to restore those cultural values, filling the empty shell with a sense of identity and purpose. Tiffany Kingbird is now working at a chemical dependency treatment facility. She's also trying to rebuild her credit after amassing thousands of dollars in court fees and fines she couldn't pay. She credits traditional ceremony and culture with rebuilding her sense of self after more than a decade spent sliding to the depths of addiction and despair. “I feel complete,” she said. “I don't know how to explain it. I just feel whole, like me again.” Full series North Star Journey What should we cover next? Pass the Mic
Nevaeh Kingbird, 15 years old, is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe - Leech Lake Band. In late October 2021, she went missing in Bemidji Minnesota during a house party. While her family has remained hopeful for Nevaeh's safe return, a new police update almost 6 months after her disappearance is now asking community members in Bemidji to be on the look out.Nevaeh is 5'4” and weighs around 120 lbs. She has hair past her shoulders that Teddi said she dyed jet black on one side and added a blonde streak through it. Nevaeh has a scar above her left eyebrow. She was last seen waring heans and black zip up jacket with nike slidesIf you have any information that can help bring Nevaeh home, please contact the Bemidji Police Department at (218) 333-9111 or submit an anonymous tip at Crime Stoppers of Minnesota.Links to information found for this episode:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1289096Updated information released in case of missing 15-year-old Nevaeh Kingbird - Bemidji Pioneer | News, weather and sports from Bemidji, MinnesotaPolice asking to stop spread of potentially misleading information on missing teen case (valleynewslive.com)Missing Person / NamUs #MP88394 | NamUs (ojp.gov)Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe - WikipediaThe Ojibwe People's Dictionary (umn.edu)Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illnesshttps://247wallst.com/city/crime-in-bemidji-minnesota/
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Mark and Jem sit down with Kyana Kingbird, a Mi'kmaw and Ojibway fancy shawl dancer from Esgenoôpetitj (Burnt Church) First Nation in New Brunswick. She talks about putting her roots down in different areas, the importance of having Indigenous representation in all forms, and making waves at the Toronto Raptors Half Time Show,
Gerald Kingbird from Red Lake joins the program for this episode. He shares how important the game of basketball is to those on the reservation in his area and beyond. We're also approaching the 25th anniversary of one of the most memorable Minnesota state tournament games of all time, where Gerald's Red Lake team took on Wabasso. As a sophomore in that game Gerald helped lead his team all the way back from 19-point 4th quarter deficit to send the game to overtime. They lost in OT 117 - 113,, but put on quite a show and there are still a few records from that game in 1997 that still stand today. We also found out how many points he needed to score in a high school game to get his first kiss from his girlfriend (who is now his wife). Enjoy this conversation in the Bare's Den with Gerald Kingbird.
Marine Mammal Care Center LA has survived struggles and the pandemic as it cares for injured sea life. Now the center has reopened to the public. The Black Phoebe, the Cassin's Kingbird, and Pacific Slope Flycatcher are among the unusual birds found in the San Fernando Valley during the latest annual Christmas Bird Count. Bassist Frederick “Juice” Johnson suffered strokes, cancer, and then homelessness. His life turned around thanks to nonprofits, and now he's giving back to those same organizations.
Today, Evan and Nate sit down with Matt Young, President and Founder of the Finch Research Network (FiRN), to talk finches. They begin by discussing birds they are currently seeing. This week Evan went twitching to find a Gyrfalcon and stumbled across a Great Black Backed Gull in Central Illinois. Nate went looking for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker and Roadrunners in Arkansas, but struck out on both.In our discussion, Matt gives us a brief overview of FiRN, its mission statement, and what the future holds for FiRN. We talk Grosbeaks, Crossbills, Lawrence Goldfinches, and Redpolls. Matt provides great insight on the different types of these birds. Specifically, he explains which types we may be seeing in Illinois. Our last topic involved Common versus Hoary Redpolls. A previous guest, Colin Dobson, recently ran across what he thought was a Hoary Redpoll in East Central Illinois. Matt provides some excellent ID tips, scientific data, and his own experience after looking at "more Redpolls that any human should." Matt's finch knowledge absolutely blew us away and we think you too will have to listen to the episode twice to digest everything he throws at you.Happy listening and Happy Birding! Matt's BiographyMatt has been observing and enjoying nature since a very young age. He’s lived in Central New York the past 22 years and it was during this time when he really started studying everything from birds to orchids, and bogs and fens. Matt received his B.S. in Water Resources with a minor in Meteorology from SUNY-Oneonta and his M.S. in Ornithology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry/Syracuse University in 2003. Matt did his masters research on avian diversity in restored wetlands of central New York at the Great Swamp Conservancy. He was a Regional Editor of the Kingbird for 10 years, the state ornithological journal in New York, was an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at SUNY-Cortland, and currently teaches an Intro to Birding class for Cornell University and is the Board Chair at The Wetland Trust.He worked at the Cornell Lab across 15+ years where he did extensive field work for the Lab’s Cerulean and Golden-winged Warblers atlas projects, and was project lead on the Lab’s first Finch Irruptive Bird Survey for Bird Source in 1999. He was the Collections Management Leader/Audio Engineer at the Macaulay Library ~12 years where he edited sounds for several Merlin packs around the world in addition to being the lead audio engineer on guides, the Songs of the Warblers of North America, Audubon Society Voices of Hawaii’s Birds, and the Cornell Lab’s Guides to Bird Sounds, the North America Master and Essential Sets. He’s been a tour guide leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, written finch species accounts for breeding bird atlases and Birds of the World, has published several papers about the Red Crossbill vocal complex, and is the President and Founder of the Finch Research Network (FiRN)
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Nineteenth-century naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs gives a detailed account of the Hermit Thrush’s song. For him, it is the finest sound in nature; the peace and deep solemn joy only the finest souls may know. Strolling the undomesticated wilderness, greeted by the Wood Pewee and Eastern Kingbird. Documenting the curiosity and confidence of the Ovenbird.
Jean-Louis Palladin, who came to the United States from France in 1979, was one of the most talented and influential chefs of his generation. From his base in Washington, DC, Palladin, who died much too young in 2001 at age 55, helped forge a network of farmers and purveyors along the Eastern Seaboard, brought an unparalleled artistry and innate gift for improvisation to his cooking, wrote one of the first "coffee table" chef cookbooks, and left his mark on a generation of young Americans, inspiring such then-aspiring chefs as Anthony Bourdain and Thomas Keller.During a recent tribute dinner at the Watergate Hotel, Andrew sat down with a number of chefs who knew Palladin well: His contemporary and fellow immigrant French chef Jacques Pépin, three chefs who supported him at Jean-Louis at the Watergate--Larbi Dahrouch, Jimmy Sneed, and Jamie Stachowski--and chef of the Watergate's current showcase restaurant Kingbird, Sébastien Giannini.All of that, plus a bonus conversation with Jacques Pépin about how his hobby of painting parallels his life in the kitchen.***EPISODE GUIDE***0:00 - 7:15 - Intro7:15 - 27:07 Segment 127:08 - 30:42 Mid-Show Break/Housekeeping Notes30:43 - end Segment 2***LINKS***Andrew Talks to Chefs official siteJean-Louis Palladin NY Times obituaryJean-Louis Palladin's book Cooking with the SeasonsJimmy Sneed's blog Product, Passion and SaltKingbird Restaurant at the Watergate
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: • Jeff & Jill Erber of Cheesetique to talk opening new space in Shirlington ; • RAMW's D.C.Cocktail Week is back. We have all the details and Harley Mocker from Karma Modern Indian in to tell what he's cooked up for it; • Reid Shilling of Shilling Canning; • an age-old tradition in French charcuterie, pâté en croûte (or pie-crust), is a meat pie baked in a pastry, usually made of veal and pork. Sound easy? Wrong! Pâté en croûte mastery demands proficiency in both butchery and pastry, relentless attention to detail, and true culinary artistry. When it comes to major pate en croute competitions, most expect the French to dominate. Not this year. American-born Christian Welch, chef de cuisine at Kingbird in the Watergate, is the 2019 North American champion of pâté en croute. Chef Welch is in today with his mentor, Kingbird's executive chef – and frenchman - Sébastien Giannini; • for our drinks segment we have Paul Gonzalez, manager/bartender at Allegory at the Eaton Hotel, Al Thompson, bar director, Hanumanh, and Kapri Robinson, D.C.'s 2017 Queen of Cocktai;s, founder of the Chocolate City's Best cocktail competition and bartender at the Reliable Tavern on Georgia Avenue.
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today’s show: • Jeff & Jill Erber of Cheesetique to talk opening new space in Shirlington ; • RAMW’s D.C.Cocktail Week is back. We have all the details and Harley Mocker from Karma Modern Indian in to tell what he’s cooked up for it; • Reid Shilling of Shilling Canning; • an age-old tradition in French charcuterie, pâté en croûte (or pie-crust), is a meat pie baked in a pastry, usually made of veal and pork. Sound easy? Wrong! Pâté en croûte mastery demands proficiency in both butchery and pastry, relentless attention to detail, and true culinary artistry. When it comes to major pate en croute competitions, most expect the French to dominate. Not this year. American-born Christian Welch, chef de cuisine at Kingbird in the Watergate, is the 2019 North American champion of pâté en croute. Chef Welch is in today with his mentor, Kingbird’s executive chef – and frenchman - Sébastien Giannini; • for our drinks segment we have Paul Gonzalez, manager/bartender at Allegory at the Eaton Hotel, Al Thompson, bar director, Hanumanh, and Kapri Robinson, D.C.'s 2017 Queen of Cocktai;s, founder of the Chocolate City’s Best cocktail competition and bartender at the Reliable Tavern on Georgia Avenue.
Burroughs describes robin's ramshackle nest, the under appreciated socialis, or song sparrow, and his affection for the northern flicker.
This week, we are afloat in world-class potables and awash in equally as inspiring edibles. Guests include top sommelier Brent Kroll, newly minted partner in the newly opened Maxwell Park, a 33-seat gem of a wine bar in the sexy Shaw District. In with Brent are his partners (more somms!) Niki Land and Daniel Runnerstrom.We all scream for ice cream in the summer, but this guy's ice cream makes for screams heard 'round the world! RAMMY award-winning, "Pastry Chef of the Year" pastry chef Fabrice Bendano, he of Steven Starr's Le Diplomate in DC, has launched a summer ice cream cart for guests on the restaurant's sidewalk featuring homemade glaces that are blowing up taste buds (in a good way!). Paris-born Fabrice joins us for tastes and talk of his amazing, sweet treats.DC's storied Watergate Hotel - home of the Watergate break-in that toppled Richard Nixon's presidency - turns 50 this year, and topping the celebration is a one-of-a-kind commemorative dinner at Kingbird, the hotel's signature restaurant. An homage to the late Jean-Louis Palladin, the legendary, James Beard Award-winning chef whose innovations and feats of culinary magic at the hotel started in DC's dining revolution and launched the careers of many of today's current, top chefs. Joining us on the show is the hotel's executive chef, Michael Santoro, and GM, Jeff David, to discuss the anniversary, event and provide deets on the other, famous chefs joining Chef Michael to prepare the $250/plate, five-course dinner: Michael Laiskonis, Paul Liebrandt, Brian McBride and Robert Wiedmaier.District Distilling's Chef Justin Bittner is justifiably known for the crazy-good fried chicken biscuits he created (along with versions thereof). Now all are enshrined in the chef's Backroom Biscuit Happy Hour.Listen in as we discuss and devour tonnage biscuits.And, our new friend, Nick Farrell, bartender at NRG's Iron Gate restaurant, is known for creating some of the craftiest cocktails in DC - He's in with secret recipes and ingredients (not so secret anymore) and lotsa sips for us to try.
This week, we are afloat in world-class potables and awash in equally as inspiring edibles. Guests include top sommelier Brent Kroll, newly minted partner in the newly opened Maxwell Park, a 33-seat gem of a wine bar in the sexy Shaw District. In with Brent are his partners (more somms!) Niki Land and Daniel Runnerstrom.We all scream for ice cream in the summer, but this guy's ice cream makes for screams heard 'round the world! RAMMY award-winning, "Pastry Chef of the Year" pastry chef Fabrice Bendano, he of Steven Starr's Le Diplomate in DC, has launched a summer ice cream cart for guests on the restaurant's sidewalk featuring homemade glaces that are blowing up taste buds (in a good way!). Paris-born Fabrice joins us for tastes and talk of his amazing, sweet treats.DC's storied Watergate Hotel - home of the Watergate break-in that toppled Richard Nixon's presidency - turns 50 this year, and topping the celebration is a one-of-a-kind commemorative dinner at Kingbird, the hotel's signature restaurant. An homage to the late Jean-Louis Palladin, the legendary, James Beard Award-winning chef whose innovations and feats of culinary magic at the hotel started in DC's dining revolution and launched the careers of many of today's current, top chefs. Joining us on the show is the hotel's executive chef, Michael Santoro, and GM, Jeff David, to discuss the anniversary, event and provide deets on the other, famous chefs joining Chef Michael to prepare the $250/plate, five-course dinner: Michael Laiskonis, Paul Liebrandt, Brian McBride and Robert Wiedmaier.District Distilling's Chef Justin Bittner is justifiably known for the crazy-good fried chicken biscuits he created (along with versions thereof). Now all are enshrined in the chef's Backroom Biscuit Happy Hour.Listen in as we discuss and devour tonnage biscuits.And, our new friend, Nick Farrell, bartender at NRG's Iron Gate restaurant, is known for creating some of the craftiest cocktails in DC - He's in with secret recipes and ingredients (not so secret anymore) and lotsa sips for us to try.
[Backup] Neste novo episódio do Rock S.A, Ariane Ferreira e Rogerio Oliveira, analisam um pouco do cenário Rock brasileiro através da coletânea "RF COLLECTION VOLUME I" da webradio Rock Freeday e análise do álbum duplo do duo de rock Anie, dos músicos Junior Carrelli e Fernando Quesada.Assine nosso Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rocksa Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/58761iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-s-a/id1191392820?mt=2Player.FM: https://player.fm/series/rock-saSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HAbL2yJEJJM4ucXXz4dPB?si=VMVUoOfnSLilferrEeZ2rg