Podcasts about Laguna Pueblo

Notes and Links to Deborah Taffa-Jackson's Work          Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the (Quatzahn) Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Named Top 10 Book of the Year by Atlantic Magazine, and Top 10 Nonfiction Book by Time Magazine. Buy Whiskey Tender   Deborah's Website   Book Review for Whiskey Tender from Washington Post   At about 1:30, Deborah reflects on and expands on her experience in being a finalist for The National Book Award  At about 5:30, Pete shares some laudatory feedback for her memoir and Deborah shouts out Birchbark Books, Collected Works, Left Bank Books, as some great places to buy her book  At about 7:30, Deborah shares some wonderful invitations she's received to discuss her book and her art At about 9:05, Deborah explains how she “reverse-engineered” the book with regard to research and personal stories  At about 10:20, Deborah responds to Pete's questions about her early reading and language life and how her formal and informal education was affected by her family's histories  At about 15:45, Deborah gives background on her “autodidactic,” transformative learning, study, reading, and traveling that helped her   At about 19:00, Deborah traces the throughlines of colonization in seemingly-disparate groups At about 22:20, Deborah discusses the significance of her epigraph on “ceremony” At about 26:25, Billy Ray Belcourt is cited as Pete and Deborah talk about the speculative and aspirational writing  At about 27:55, Pete and Deborah reflect on ideas of indigenous invisibility as evidenced in a memorable scene from Whiskey Tender At about 29:40, Deborah cites a “shocking” study n her college textbook that speaks to how many Americans view Native American women, and how it provided fodder and stimulus for her memoir At about 31:25, the two discuss a flashback scene that begins the book and the idea of “mirages” as discussed in the opening scene At about 35:20, Pete asks Deborah to expand upon a resonant line from her book about meaningful childhood experiences  At about 37:35, Deborah talks about historical silences in her family and in others  At about 39:40, Deborah talks about the intensive historical research done in the last year before the book was published At about 40:55, The two discuss similarities regarding generation gaps in indigenous groups and immigrant and traditionally-marginalized groups  At about 42:40, Deborah talks about the lore of Sarah Winnemucca in her family and “her savvi[ness] and revisionist history At about 46:25, Pete and Deborah talk about the “flattening” of American Indian stories and pivotal government treaties and reneging on deals by the American government   At about 48:00, Pete and Deborah reflect on contemporary connections to previous American policies At about 50:20, The two discuss a representative story about “lateral violence” and belonging and ostracism that affected Deborah at a young age At about 53:00, Counternarratives to myths about indigenous peoples and movement are discussed  At about 57:20,  At about 59:40, Pete is highly complimentary of Deborah's writing about her grandmother's genuine and wonderful nature, and Deborah expands on her grandmother's cancer diagnosis and outlook and lasting influence  At about 1:02:30, Pete highlights a wonderful closing scene about time and place and home      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow Pete on IG, where he is @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where he is @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the podcast while you're checking out this episode.       Pete is very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. This week, his conversation with Episode 255 guest Chris Knapp is up on the website. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl      Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting Pete's one-man show, his DIY podcast and his extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!     This month's Patreon bonus episode will feature an exploration of the wonderful poetry of Khalil Gibran. I have added a $1 a month tier for “Well-Wishers” and Cheerleaders of the Show.    This is a passion project of Pete's, a DIY operation, and he'd love for your help in promoting what he's convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.     The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 276 with Donna Minkowitz, a writer of fantasy, memoir, and journalism lauded by Lilith Magazine for her “fierce imagination and compelling prose.” Her first book, Ferocious Romance, won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Book On Religion/Spirituality, and her most recent memoir was Growing Up Golem, a finalist for both a Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. She is also the author of the novel DONNAVILLE, published in 2024.     The episode airs on March 18.  

Episode 63, is a continuation of our talk with filmmaker Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, Laguna Pueblo), who takes us inside the writers room for the AMC series DARK WINDS based on the Leaphorn and Chee detective novels by Tony Hillerman. Billy Luther is story editor, writer and director for DARK WINDS. DARK WINDS is set in Navajo country in the 1970s and features tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten), and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon). Billy talks about the impact of having Native Americans in the room to adapt fiction by a non-Native American author for the series, and the careful balance between cultural representation, historical events, and entertainment.  Dowload episode 61/Part 1 of our conversation with Billy Luther about his first feature film, FRYBREAD FACE AND ME. Time Stamps 0:01 Podcast Intro 2:37 - Billy Luther's journey to DARK WINDS 3:01 - Adapting Tony Hillerman's detective novels 8:26 - Native American Writers, cultural sensitivity, and storytelling 10:17 - Navajo culture and historical context in DARK WINDS 20:25 - Bernadette Manuelito''s story and season 3 in 2025 22:59 - Final thoughts and where to watch DARK WINDS For a Transcript: Go to the webpage for Episode 63 on michonbostongroup.com/bostonsisters —--- SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform LISTEN to past past podcasts and bonus episodes SIGN UP for our mailing list SUPPORT this podcast  SHOP THE PODCAST on our affiliate bookstore Buy us a Coffee! You can support by buying a coffee ☕ here — buymeacoffee.com/historicaldramasisters Thank you for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historicaldramasisters/support

In this podcast The Boston Sisters are talking with filmmaker Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, Laguna Pueblo) about his 2023 feature film FRYBREAD FACE AND ME (available on Netflix). The conversation highlights the film's themes of identity, family, and cultural heritage, and the impact of executive producer Taika Waititi. The conversation also touches on Luther's upcoming TV series adaptation of his 2007 documentary MISS NAVAJO. Set in 1990 FRYBREAD FACE AND ME follows 11-year-old Benny from San Diego, and his precocious cousin Dawn (aka Frybread Face) as they bond during a summer with their Diné-speaking grandmother at her ranch on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. It's a transformative summer for Benny and Dawn who are learning more about their family's past, their culture, and themselves.  0:01 Introduction and Overview of Podcast 2:43 Billy Luther's Filmography and Career Journey 9:52 Inspiration and Development of FRYBREAD FACE AND ME 13:56 Character Development and Themes in FRYBREAD FACE AND ME 29:17 Cultural Significance and Identity in Native American Communities 36:19 Casting and Working with Young Actors (Benny Tallman, Charley Hogan) 44:09 Impact of Executive Producer Taika Waititi 52:33 Adapting MISS NAVAJO for Television 58:14 Final Thoughts and Future Projects ---- STAY ENGAGED with HISTORICAL DRAMA WITH THE BOSTON SISTERS SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform LISTEN to past past podcasts and bonus episodes SIGN UP for our mailing list SUPPORT this podcast on Spotify or SHOP THE PODCAST on our affiliate bookstore Thank you for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historicaldramasisters/support

Canyonlands and Arches park ranger, Karen Henker, joined the podcast to chat about Canyonlands geology, human history and wildlife. Karen has been a park ranger for nearly 20 years and has spent most of her time in Utah at Canyonlands and Arches. Her knowledge and passion for these parks is incredible and so fun to listen to. I had a blast getting to spend time with her. You can watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/ttSeP0-BBkwIn the podcast, we talk about the native peoples who have called this area home since time immemorial, here are those tribes:Hopi Tribe  Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians Navajo Nation  Ohkay Owingeh  Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Pueblo of Acoma  Pueblo of Isleta  Pueblo of Jemez  Pueblo of Laguna  Pueblo of Nambe  Pueblo of Picuris  Pueblo of Pojoaque  Pueblo of San Felipe  Pueblo of San Ildefonso  Pueblo of Sandia  Pueblo of Santa Ana  Pueblo of Santa Clara  Pueblo of Taos  Pueblo of Tesuque  Pueblo of Zia  San Juan Southern Paiute  Santo Domingo Pueblo  Southern Ute Indian Tribe  Ute Indian Tribe  Ute Mountain Ute Tribe  White Mesa Ute  Zuni Tribe Upcoming Podcasts:Canyonlands and Arches National Parks: Search and Rescue with Brian HaysArches National Park: Geology, Park Safety and Environmental Factors with Karen HenkerCanyonlands and Arches National Parks: Physical Science and Park health with Armin Howell___Follow us on social!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/safetravelspodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@safetravelspodYouTube: youtube.com/@safetravelspodSafetravelspod.com  

Global business connections are a way to build economic development. But it's also a way to promote cross-cultural relationships and understanding across borders. The World Indigenous Business Forum aims to strengthen those bonds. The annual forum returns to the U.S. for the first time in nine years with at least 1,000 Indigenous business leaders meeting in Albuquerque to talk about success stories and barriers when it comes to trade across global boundaries. We'll hear about what they hope to accomplish. GUESTS Andrew Carrier (Red River Métis),  vice president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and co-founder of the World Indigenous Business Forum Wayne Garnons-Williams (Plains Cree from Treaty 6, Moosomin First Nation). chair of International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Organization Ron Solimon (Laguna Pueblo), vice chair of Laguna Development Corporation

Global business connections are a way to build economic development. But it's also a way to promote cross-cultural relationships and understanding across borders. The World Indigenous Business Forum aims to strengthen those bonds. The annual forum returns to the U.S. for the first time in nine years with at least 1,000 Indigenous business leaders meeting in Albuquerque to talk about success stories and barriers when it comes to trade across global boundaries. We'll hear about what they hope to accomplish. GUESTS Andrew Carrier (Red River Métis),  vice president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and co-founder of the World Indigenous Business Forum Wayne Garnons-Williams (Plains Cree from Treaty 6, Moosomin First Nation). chair of International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Organization Ron Solimon (Laguna Pueblo), vice chair of Laguna Development Corporation

Send us a textOne of the big summer festivals in Santa Fe which draws people from all over the world is Indian Market. The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts aka SWAIA has been happening for over 100 years now. I took advantage of this year's market to make contact with a few Native Artists whom Ive been hoping to get on this podcast. As, a result, today I get to ArtStorm with Marla Allison— a grounded, articulate, shooting star— from Laguna Pueblo. Here is the delight that is Marla Allison. https://marlaallison.com/Music for ArtStorming the City Different was written and performed by John Cruikshank.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York just announced it's repatriating remains of 124 relatives and almost 100 Native cultural items from its collection. The museum continues to hold onto remains of some 12,000 other individuals from North America and beyond. It's among institutions re-examining practices after new rules enacted this year forces museums to consider tribal views more seriously when it comes to remains and public displays. While some tribes are seeing progress, others are expressing frustration over institutions' lack of compliance with federal law. GUESTS Shannon O'Loughlin (Choctaw), chief executive and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs Beth Wright (Laguna Pueblo), staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund Duane Reid (member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians), NAGPRA and tribal historic preservation officer  

Our lives are filled with dust: on our desks, under our couches, and in the air we breathe. If we're very unlucky—like the residents of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico—it includes uranium blowing off heaps of mining waste. Or the carbon particles carried along by the wood smoke of forest fires. Or microplastics rubbing off car brakes and tires as we screech across the 120 million miles of road in the world. Or a sandy cloud from the Sahara Desert, blowing across the ocean. You get the picture: dust coats the planet, and for the past few centuries, we've been the progenitors of increasing amounts of it. In her book Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles, the London-based writer and researcher Jay Owens argues that we ignore these tiniest byproducts at our own peril, and she demonstrates their consequences in a variety of places: a California lake drained to service LA in the 1930s, the cracked bed of the Aral Sea, icy Greenland, and smog-choked Tudor England.Go beyond the episode:Jay Owens's Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion ParticlesSand is a kind of dust—and we're running out of itJorge Otero-Pailos's series The Ethics of Dust uses the latex sheets that conservationists use to clean grimy stoneworkJohn Evelyn's extraordinary 1661 treatise on air pollution, Fumifugium: or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London dissipated together with some remedies humbly proposed by J.E. esq. to His Sacred Majestie, and to the Parliament now assembledOwens Lake returnsTune in every (other) week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.Subscribe: iTunes/Apple • Amazon • Google • Acast • Pandora • RSS FeedHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A substantial number of Native Americans are affected by Arizona's efforts to solidify a strict ban on abortions. Even after Arizona elected leaders repealed the law affirmed by the state Supreme Court that criminalizes nearly all abortions, the state faces a new landscape with it comes to access to the procedure. Abortion access advocates are taking cues from other states with abortion restrictions on the books — a reality that affects at least 75 federally recognized tribes. We'll get rundown from multiple perspectives on the current trends and realities for abortion access for Native women. GUESTS Charon Asetoyer (Comanche), executive director of the Native American Community board, which is a parent organization to the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Rachael Lorenzo (Mescalero Apache and Laguna Pueblo), executive director of Indigenous Women Rising Wes Nofire (citizen of the Cherokee Nation), Native America liaison for the State of Oklahoma

A substantial number of Native Americans are affected by Arizona's efforts to solidify a strict ban on abortions. Even after Arizona elected leaders repealed the law affirmed by the state Supreme Court that criminalizes nearly all abortions, the state faces a new landscape with it comes to access to the procedure. Abortion access advocates are taking cues from other states with abortion restrictions on the books — a reality that affects at least 75 federally recognized tribes. We'll get rundown from multiple perspectives on the current trends and realities for abortion access for Native women. GUESTS Charon Asetoyer (Comanche), executive director of the Native American Community board, which is a parent organization to the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Rachael Lorenzo (Mescalero Apache and Laguna Pueblo), executive director of Indigenous Women Rising Wes Nofire (citizen of the Cherokee Nation), Native America liaison for the State of Oklahoma

We are in the midst of a new surge of Native writing talent. And their skill for engaging readers with compelling stories is propelling a new, complex and more sophisticated narrative about who Native Americans are. Gone are the Louis L'Amour stereotypes. The new Native characters are miscreants, bored office workers, dysfunctional family members, and reluctant heroes. And they all have a story to tell, with a voice that readers wouldn't hear otherwise. We'll explore the arc of Native literature from two writers who are part of the torrent of creative representation. GUESTS Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo), author of Whiskey Tender, director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and editor-in-chief of “River Styx” literary magazine    Ramona Emerson (Diné), former forensic videographer and photographer, filmmaker, and author of Shutter

Native Americans face a six-fold increased risk of flash floods because of climate change in the next two years. That is one of the predictions in a new study led by the University of Oklahoma. One of the study's authors says “Indigenous communities are grappling with an imminent climate crisis.” And Native groups are both praising and lambasting the Biden Administration's direction on oil leases on federal lands. Depending on where you stand, new policies are either protecting diminishing land, or denying Native people the jobs necessary to feed their families. GUESTS Taylor Patterson (Bishop Paiute), executive director of the Native Voters Alliance Nevada  Nagruk Harcharek (Iñupiaq), president of the Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat  Dr. Farina King (citizen of the Navajo Nation), Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma Dr. Mengye Chen, research scientist at the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma  James LeClair (Laguna Pueblo), Otoe-Missouria Tribe Emergency Manager

It's the time of year when Native nerds, cosplayers, comic geeks, and gamers assemble for the first and biggest convention devoted to them. IndigiPopX is back at the First Americans Museum (FAM) in Oklahoma City for the second year, featuring panel discussions, vendors, musicians, a glowstick ball match, and a whole day devoted to the TV series Reservation Dogs. Amid the festival fun is the message that Native Americans enjoy Mandalorians just like everybody else. We'll hear what's new from the IPX organizers. GUESTS Dr. Lee Francis IV aka Dr. Indiginerd (Laguna Pueblo), CEO and founder of Native Realities Tom Farris (Otoe-Missouria and Cherokee), director of retail operations for FAM Kristin Gentry (Choctaw), director of community engagement and outreach for Native Realities, artist, photographer, writer, and curator Connor Alexander (citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), owner of Coyote & Crow Games Sarah Wilkins (member Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), oil painter and illustrator

In the most compelling way, Whiskey Tender, the memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo), is both an intimate personal story and Native American history lesson. It reveals her own epiphany over what she and her ancestors are pressured to sacrifice in striving for the American Dream. Her account is both poignant and humorous. Best-selling author Tommy Orange calls Taffa's story a “drink you didn't know you were thirsty for.”

In the most compelling way, Whiskey Tender, the memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo), is both an intimate personal story and Native American history lesson. It reveals her own epiphany over what she and her ancestors are pressured to sacrifice in striving for the American Dream. Her account is both poignant and humorous. Best-selling author Tommy Orange calls Taffa's story a “drink you didn't know you were thirsty for.”

Memoirist and director of the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program Deborah Jackson Taffa talks to Jared about her new book, Whiskey Tender. Deborah shares how memoir writing is a form of familial and historical preservation, and offers advice on having difficult conversations with the real people who appear in our creative nonfiction. Plus, she discusses the value of the low-res IAIA program for both indigenous and non-indigenous writers, offers strategies for sustaining creative energy, and describes methods to avoid falling into a common misstep for MFA students: social comparison. A citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, Deborah Jackson Taffa is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the author of the memoir WHISKEY TENDER and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Her writing can be found at PBS, Salon, LARB, Brevity, A Public Space, The Boston Review, The Rumpus, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading. In late 2021, she was named a MacDowell Fellow, Kranzberg Arts Fellow, and Tin House Scholar. In 2022, she won a PEN American Grant for Oral History and was named a Hedgebrook Fellow. Find her at deborahtaffa.com and on social media @deborahtaffa. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. BE PART OF THE SHOW — Donate to the show at Buy Me a Coffee. — Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. — Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. — Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application. STAY CONNECTED Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com

Today's book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Deborah Jackson Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.”  Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Quechan (Yuma) reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe's particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Her childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Deborah Jackson Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance. Our guest is: Deborah Jackson Taffa, who is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, Salon, the Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, The Best Travel Writing, and other outlets.  Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the creator of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore which stories we tell and what happens to those we don't. Listeners may also be interested in this playlist: This discussion of the book A Calm and Normal Heart, with Chelsea T. Hicks The conversation about the book Night of the Living Rez, with Morgan Talty Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today's book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Deborah Jackson Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.”  Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Quechan (Yuma) reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe's particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Her childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Deborah Jackson Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance. Our guest is: Deborah Jackson Taffa, who is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, Salon, the Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, The Best Travel Writing, and other outlets.  Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the creator of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore which stories we tell and what happens to those we don't. Listeners may also be interested in this playlist: This discussion of the book A Calm and Normal Heart, with Chelsea T. Hicks The conversation about the book Night of the Living Rez, with Morgan Talty Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies

Today's book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Deborah Jackson Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.”  Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Quechan (Yuma) reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe's particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Her childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Deborah Jackson Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance. Our guest is: Deborah Jackson Taffa, who is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, Salon, the Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, The Best Travel Writing, and other outlets.  Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the creator of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore which stories we tell and what happens to those we don't. Listeners may also be interested in this playlist: This discussion of the book A Calm and Normal Heart, with Chelsea T. Hicks The conversation about the book Night of the Living Rez, with Morgan Talty Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today's book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Deborah Jackson Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.”  Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Quechan (Yuma) reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe's particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Her childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Deborah Jackson Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance. Our guest is: Deborah Jackson Taffa, who is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, Salon, the Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, The Best Travel Writing, and other outlets.  Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the creator of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore which stories we tell and what happens to those we don't. Listeners may also be interested in this playlist: This discussion of the book A Calm and Normal Heart, with Chelsea T. Hicks The conversation about the book Night of the Living Rez, with Morgan Talty Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Today's book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Deborah Jackson Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.”  Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Quechan (Yuma) reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe's particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Her childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Deborah Jackson Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance. Our guest is: Deborah Jackson Taffa, who is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, Salon, the Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, The Best Travel Writing, and other outlets.  Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the creator of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore which stories we tell and what happens to those we don't. Listeners may also be interested in this playlist: This discussion of the book A Calm and Normal Heart, with Chelsea T. Hicks The conversation about the book Night of the Living Rez, with Morgan Talty Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

Dr. Amanda CheromiahDr. Amanda Cheromiah is from the village of Paguate, located on the homelands of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. She believes one of the greatest gifts she has an educator, mentor, and sister, is the ability to build the confidence of students, especially Indigenous youth, through storytelling, photography, and videography. Amanda cares deeply about giving-back to her Indigenous community and transforming spaces through visual narratives, Indigenous-focused scholarship and methodologies.https://www.tiktok.com/@drcheromiah?_t=8joW7feXflC&_r=1https://www.amandacheromiah.com/Support the show

Dr. Amanda CheromiahDr. Amanda Cheromiah is from the village of Paguate, located on the homelands of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. She believes one of the greatest gifts she has an educator, mentor, and sister, is the ability to build the confidence of students, especially Indigenous youth, through storytelling, photography, and videography. Amanda cares deeply about giving-back to her Indigenous community and transforming spaces through visual narratives, Indigenous-focused scholarship and methodologies.https://www.tiktok.com/@drcheromiah?_t=8joW7feXflC&_r=1https://www.amandacheromiah.com/Support the show

Pueblo officials support the Biden Administration's 20-year ban on new oil and gas leases on land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. The Pueblos see the land as sacred and have long pushed to limit outside intrusion from developers. They are at odds with the official position from the Navajo Nation, whose citizens stand to gain financially from new development leases. In addition the action has spurred an investigation into potential conflicts of interest by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, herself a citizen of Laguna Pueblo. GUESTS Mario Atencio (Diné Nation), vice president of the Torreon Chapter Miya King-Flaherty, organizing representative for the Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter Bill McCabe (Navajo), principal of McCabe and Associates, a consulting business for tribal energy resource development and management President Buu Nygren, Navajo Nation

Pueblo officials support the Biden Administration's 20-year ban on new oil and gas leases on land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. The Pueblos see the land as sacred and have long pushed to limit outside intrusion from developers. They are at odds with the official position from the Navajo Nation, whose citizens stand to gain financially from new development leases. In addition the action has spurred an investigation into potential conflicts of interest by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, herself a citizen of Laguna Pueblo. GUESTS Mario Atencio (Diné Nation), vice president of the Torreon Chapter Miya King-Flaherty, organizing representative for the Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter Bill McCabe (Navajo), principal of McCabe and Associates, a consulting business for tribal energy resource development and management President Buu Nygren, Navajo Nation

This Progress in Research webinar series will showcase research from 11 new and renewed Multiproject Center grantees, funded by SRP in 2022. These awards were made as part of the P42 grant solicitation RFA-ES-20-014. In the four-part series, awardees will highlight their research projects, accomplishments, and next steps. The University of New Mexico SRP Center collaborates with Indigenous partners from Navajo Nation and Laguna Pueblo to reduce the health risks associated with exposure to metal mixtures from abandoned uranium mines. Center scientists use community informed, solution-oriented team science to prevent exposures and protect health through development of partnered environmental and clinical interventions. The Columbia University Northern Plains SRP Center studies hazardous metals in drinking water, which are common contaminants near Superfund sites and abandoned uranium mines that play a role in the high burden of heart disease and diabetes affecting Tribal communities in the U.S. Northern Plains. The center will continue to generate knowledge to understand the underlying mechanisms and possible solutions to exposures to hazardous metal mixtures using systems science, local community knowledge, and novel remediation technology. To learn about and register for the other sessions in this webinar series, please see the SRP website. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/SRPPIR20_050523/

This Progress in Research webinar series will showcase research from 11 new and renewed Multiproject Center grantees, funded by SRP in 2022. These awards were made as part of the P42 grant solicitation RFA-ES-20-014. In the four-part series, awardees will highlight their research projects, accomplishments, and next steps. The University of New Mexico SRP Center collaborates with Indigenous partners from Navajo Nation and Laguna Pueblo to reduce the health risks associated with exposure to metal mixtures from abandoned uranium mines. Center scientists use community informed, solution-oriented team science to prevent exposures and protect health through development of partnered environmental and clinical interventions. The Columbia University Northern Plains SRP Center studies hazardous metals in drinking water, which are common contaminants near Superfund sites and abandoned uranium mines that play a role in the high burden of heart disease and diabetes affecting Tribal communities in the U.S. Northern Plains. The center will continue to generate knowledge to understand the underlying mechanisms and possible solutions to exposures to hazardous metal mixtures using systems science, local community knowledge, and novel remediation technology. To learn about and register for the other sessions in this webinar series, please see the SRP website. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/SRPPIR20_050523/

Lozen (Chiricahua Apache) was known as a fearless warrior, battle strategist, and healer in New Mexico and Arizona. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Northern Cheyenne) fought next to her husband at the Battle of Little Bighorn and was even believed to have delivered the fatal blow to George Armstrong Custer. Today on Native America Calling, as we wrap up National Women's History Month, we learn more about these two Native female warriors and others with Carol Murray ([Blackfeet] Pikuni), retired administrator for the Blackfeet Community College; Eryn Wise (Jicarilla Apache and Laguna Pueblo), land and body sovereignty advocate; and Sgt. First Class Keshon Smith (Ft. McDermitt Paiute and Shosone Indian Reservation), president of Native American Women Warriors (NAWW).

Lozen (Chiricahua Apache) was known as a fearless warrior, battle strategist, and healer in New Mexico and Arizona. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Northern Cheyenne) fought next to her husband at the Battle of Little Bighorn and was even believed to have delivered the fatal blow to George Armstrong Custer. Today on Native America Calling, as we wrap up National Women's History Month, we learn more about these two Native female warriors and others with Carol Murray ([Blackfeet] Pikuni), retired administrator for the Blackfeet Community College; Eryn Wise (Jicarilla Apache and Laguna Pueblo), land and body sovereignty advocate; and Sgt. First Class Keshon Smith (Ft. McDermitt Paiute and Shosone Indian Reservation), president of Native American Women Warriors (NAWW).

This episode is shorter than most. But you will find that since Leslie Curtis lives her life with the Savior in mind that all the short vignettes she shares are powerful. It's amazing how she has remembered the names of so many people who directly influenced her life for the better. Did you know that your actions can be part of someone's life story? Let's hope our actions and words are worth remembering. I love that because Leslie was so diligently searching for her own witness of the truthfulness of the Gospel, that when she received it, she has focused her whole life on that answer. The answer is always Jesus!

There is arguably no art form more widely associated with Native Americans than bead work. It started as ornamental applications with shells, stones, or quills and evolved into intricate and colorful pieces encompassing jewelry, regalia, and fine art. Today on Native America Calling, we speak with Cathy Mattes (Michif), curator, writer, and Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Winnipeg; Sherry Farrell-Racette (Métis, Algonquin, and member of the Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec), scholar, author, curator, and artist; and artists Nico Williams (Anishinaabe and member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation community), Brocade Stops Black Eagle (Crow/Mandan-Hidatsa), Tally Monteau (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate, and Chippewa Cree), and Hollis Chitto (Isleta Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, Mississippi Choctaw).

There is arguably no art form more widely associated with Native Americans than bead work. It started as ornamental applications with shells, stones, or quills and evolved into intricate and colorful pieces encompassing jewelry, regalia, and fine art. Today on Native America Calling, we speak with Cathy Mattes (Michif), curator, writer, and Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Winnipeg; Sherry Farrell-Racette (Métis, Algonquin, and member of the Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec), scholar, author, curator, and artist; and artists Nico Williams (Anishinaabe and member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation community), Brocade Stops Black Eagle (Crow/Mandan-Hidatsa), Tally Monteau (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate, and Chippewa Cree), and Hollis Chitto (Isleta Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, Mississippi Choctaw).

Byron answers the charge that because he is following Jesus he's following the white man's religion. He also shares why he is confident that, when he dies, Heaven will be his home.

When Byron decided to follow Jesus it didn't go over so well with his relatives. He found out that not everyone was happy for him. When he traveled home on vacation to be with his family they encouraged him to drink... and he regretted it. But despite all these things, he pressed on in his new faith.

Byron ended joining the Navy - serving alongside the Marine Corp as a medic. While stationed in the Pacific he found himself close to the DMZ and those who were hostile to American forces.

Byron is from the Pueblo of Laguna where he spent his early years. His family moved to Michigan for a time before returning home. Byron shares openly about the challenges and despair that he encountered during this formative season in his life.

The city of Gallup, NM is marking 100 years of celebrating the region's Indigenous culture with events like a parade and traditional song and dance. The annual celebration Aug. 4-14 has grown to include a rodeo and an arts market and it welcomes representatives from tribes across the globe. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce talks with Melissa Sanchez (Acoma Pueblo and Laguna Pueblo), executive director of the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial; Amber Ballenger (Diné), current Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Queen; Stephen Qacung Blanchet (Yup'ik), founding member of Pamyua; and Kyle Tom (Navajo), Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Association board president, co-coordinator for the rodeo, and an INFR and PRCA rodeo announcer.

The city of Gallup, NM is marking 100 years of celebrating the region's Indigenous culture with events like a parade and traditional song and dance. The annual celebration Aug. 4-14 has grown to include a rodeo and an arts market and it welcomes representatives from tribes across the globe. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce talks with Melissa Sanchez (Acoma Pueblo and Laguna Pueblo), executive director of the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial; Amber Ballenger (Diné), current Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Queen; Stephen Qacung Blanchet (Yup'ik), founding member of Pamyua; and Kyle Tom (Navajo), Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Association board president, co-coordinator for the rodeo, and an INFR and PRCA rodeo announcer.

AMC's new television series "Dark Winds" is a thriller set in the 1970s on the Navajo Nation and the production is filled with Native talent. Showrunner Graham Roland (Chickasaw) and veteran director Chris Eyre (Cheyenne and Arapaho) are getting big name production credentials from Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin. They're also navigating some touchy source material from non-Native author Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee murder mystery novels. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce hears from those involved in the series about what adapting the work was like and their experiences on the set with writers Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo) and Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota and Diné) - and actors Eugene Brave Rock (Blackfeet) and Kiowa Gordon (Hualapai).

AMC's new television series "Dark Winds" is a thriller set in the 1970s on the Navajo Nation and the production is filled with Native talent. Showrunner Graham Roland (Chickasaw) and veteran director Chris Eyre (Cheyenne and Arapaho) are getting big name production credentials from Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin. They're also navigating some touchy source material from non-Native author Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee murder mystery novels. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce hears from those involved in the series about what adapting the work was like and their experiences on the set with writers Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo) and Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota and Diné) - and actors Eugene Brave Rock (Blackfeet) and Kiowa Gordon (Hualapai).

In March of 2021, Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo, became the first Native American Cabinet Secretary in US history. It was was a truly historic first, as Deb Haaland is part of a long history of Indigenous peoples that predates the United States as a nation. And today, we are going to explore the relationship between Indigenous peoples of America and the United States Government. When the United States became an independent nation in 1776, a new era began, one of constant conflict. Native peoples claimed sovereignty over land and resources across the continent, while the US Government often called for the removal of Native peoples from those lands. To help us understand this history, we turned to two expert guests. First, we spoke to Dr. Christina Snyder, a professor of history at Penn State University. Dr. Snyder sets the scenes for us by exploring Native sovereignty in the earliest years of the United States. Dr. Snyder also takes us through the most infamous period of Native removal in US History, the era of Andrew Jackson. To understand how the relationship between Native peoples and the US Government changed in the 20th century, we turned to Dr. William Bauer. Dr. Bauer is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Northern California. Dr. Bauer explains the major changes that took place in US and Indigenous relations at the turn of the 20th Century, and he shares some remarkable stories and insight on struggles for Native sovereignty during the presidencies of Calvin Coolidge, Richard Nixon, and Barack Obama.

During the nomination hearings for Department of Interior Secretary a year ago, Deb Haaland was labeled a “radical” by some of her conservative opponents. At the same time, Indigenous people looked to the Laguna Pueblo citizen as a long overdue symbol of Native representation at the highest levels of federal government. Now that she has […]

During the nomination hearings for Department of Interior Secretary a year ago, Deb Haaland was labeled a “radical” by some of her conservative opponents. At the same time, Indigenous people looked to the Laguna Pueblo citizen as a long overdue symbol of Native representation at the highest levels of federal government. Now that she has […]

The city of Albuquerque has been involved in conversations with Pueblos and Tribes since June, when 215 unmarked graves of unidentified Indigenous youth were discovered at the site of a former Indian Boarding School in British Columbia. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales talks with Dr. Theodore Jojola about this difficult history and the current efforts to acknowledge that history and foster healing. De Haven Solimon Chaffins grew up living with her grandparents on the Laguna Pueblo. The landscape there shaped her view of the world... the natural landscape... and the Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine. That huge open pit mine is a federal Superfund site and is still polluting water and causing cancers. This week, Chaffins sits down with Our Land Correspondent Laura Paskus to explain how her artwork explores the story of the mine and its impacts. You can see some of her work at an exhibit called ‘Radon Daughter,' on display at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center through the end of this month. Plus, we introduce you to the new Director of the Africana Studies Department at UNM. Kirsten Pai Buick is no stranger to the university, but she takes the helm just as the program prepares to evolve into a fully-fledged ethnic studies department. The pair discuss that transition, and Buick's goals and aspirations as she builds a department. Correspondents: Antonia Gonzales Laura Paskus Gene Grant Guests: Dr. Theodore Jojola, director, UNM Indigenous Design & Planning Institute De Haven Solimon Chaffins (Laguna/Zuni), artist For More Information: City moving forward to honor burial site of Native American boarding school students - KRQE City holds community conversations about Albuquerque Indian School burial site – KUNM Indian School Graves Rediscovered Under City Park – The Paper Of Hummingbirds and Hope: Radon Daughter Sooths the Yellow Dragon – Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology – IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine, Laguna Pueblo, EPA Superfund Site --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nmif/message

 The Corporate trail runs from Anaconda Copper through Atlantic Richfield to today's ARCO.  Droppings along the path, tons of toxic wastes, and hundreds of sick people. The company says it's paid its bill for the Jackpile Mine, but Elizabeth Miller of NM in Depth says ARCO got off cheap and the costly consequences have fallen on the Laguna Pueblo and taxpayers across America. Picking up the poop from decades of uranium mining and refining. This bag's for you. 

When the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad extended a line across pueblo land in the Southwest, they promised jobs for pueblo workers. That promise led to the rise of pueblo colonies in urban areas. One of those is a thriving group of Laguna Pueblo citizens in Albuquerque who maintain their tribal connections at a distance. […]

When the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad extended a line across pueblo land in the Southwest, they promised jobs for pueblo workers. That promise led to the rise of pueblo colonies in urban areas. One of those is a thriving group of Laguna Pueblo citizens in Albuquerque who maintain their tribal connections at a distance.

When the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad extended a line across pueblo land in the Southwest, they promised jobs for pueblo workers. That promise led to the rise of pueblo colonies in urban areas. One of those is a thriving group of Laguna Pueblo citizens in Albuquerque who maintain their tribal connections at a distance. […]

“All our Indigenous communities have runners that were messengers and caretakers…runners were the ones that helped communicate important messages about when to uprise..we are Indigenous runners, we are lifelines to our people and communities.” Dr. Amanda Cheromiah (Laguna Pueblo) is an educator, storyteller, photographer, and avid runner. She recently received her PhD in Higher Education from the University of Arizona and is currently the Director of the Native SOAR (Student Outreach, Access & Resilience) Program on campus. Her dissertation, “The Indigenous Revolt in Education: Indigenous Feat – A Scholar's Pace,” uses Indigenous methods of storytelling to highlight the experiences of 11 Indigenous runners, including herself. Her work focuses on the intersection of the higher education, running, land, spirituality, Indigenous cultures, and health–while also showing Native students that they are not alone in their educational journey and that we all ultimately “move at our own pace.” In her free time, Dr. Cheromiah is a photographer and tells us about how being partially blind empowers her art and impacts her running. Join us in conversation as we discuss everything from college access to mental health to our favorite running gear!   In This Episode: “The Indigenous Revolt in Education: Indigenous Feat - A Scholar's Pace,” Dissertation by Dr. Amanda Cheromiah Indigenous Feat – A Scholar's Pace on YouTube Kyle Sumatzkuku & Duane Humeyestewa - Grounded Pod Episode 34 Lewis Tewanima Carlisle Indian School – A Brief History Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Lydia Jennings - Grounded Pod Episode 12 Brooks Ariel '20 Women's Running Shoe The Canary Effect on YouTube “Native UArizona students claim President Robbins made insensitive comments,” KGUN9 Local News - Tucson, November 4, 2019. Reservation Dogs on FX on Hulu Selena: The Series on Netflix “Drinkin' Problems” song by Midland “Is It Any Wonder?” song by Durand Jones & The Indications   Dr. Amanda Cheromiah: Instagram: @drcheromiah Twitter: @drcheromiah TikTok: @drcheromiah   Follow Grounded Pod: Instagram: @groundedpod Twitter: @groundedpod Facebook: facebook.com/groundedpodwithdinee   Subscribe, Listen, & Review on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Soundcloud | Stitcher   Music by Jacob Shije (Santa Clara Pueblo, NM). This podcast was made possible through the Tracksmith Fellowship Program.

Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis Informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del martes 12 de octubre de 2021: - Los pueblos indígenas de los Estados Unidos marcaron el lunes con celebraciones de su herencia, campañas de educación y un impulso para que la administración de Biden cumpla su palabra. El feriado federal creado hace décadas para reconocer el avistamiento de Cristóbal Colón en 1492 de lo que llegó a conocerse como las Américas se ha rebautizado cada vez más como el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas. Más de una docena de manifestantes se tomaron del brazo y se sentaron a lo largo de la valla de la Casa Blanca el lunes para pedir al gobierno de Biden que haga más para combatir el cambio climático y prohibir los combustibles fósiles. Otros vitorearon y corearon en apoyo desde el otro lado de la calle mientras la policía bloqueaba el área con cinta amarilla y arrestaba a los manifestantes sentados. Los grupos indígenas también planearon protestas en Santa Fe y Albuquerque, Nuevo México. En el Maratón de Boston, los organizadores de la carrera honraron al ganador de 1936 y 39, Ellison "Tarzan" Brown, y a la tres veces subcampeona Patti Catalano Dillon, miembro de la tribu Mi'kmaq. La secretaria del Interior, Deb Haaland, miembro de Laguna Pueblo, dijo que se postuló por los indígenas desaparecidos y asesinados y sus familias. Otros se reunieron para oraciones, bailes y otras conmemoraciones en múltiples ciudades de los EE. UU. El presidente Joe Biden emitió la semana pasada la primera proclamación presidencial del Día de los Pueblos Indígenas, el impulso más significativo hasta ahora para los esfuerzos por reenfocar el Columbus Day en reconocimiento al trato brutal del explorador italiano a las personas que ya ocuparon lo que llegó a conocerse como las Américas. Aproximadamente 20 estados celebran el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas por ley, mediante proclamas u otras acciones, junto con ciudades y universidades de todo el país. Localmente, Holyoke adoptó en junio la resolución para declarar esta fecha como el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas luego de haberse mantenido estancada por varios años en el concejo y siendo aprobada con votos en contra de tres concejales de la ciudad: David Bartley, Linda Vacon y Howard Greaney FUENTE: AP, HOLYOKE MEDIA - La farmacéutica Merck pidió a los reguladores estadounidenses el lunes la autorización de uso de emergencia de su píldora contra el COVID-19 en lo que agregaría un arma completamente nueva y fácil de usar al arsenal mundial contra la pandemia. Si la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos lo aprueba, una decisión que podría tomarse en cuestión de semanas, sería la primera píldora demostrada para tratar el COVID-19. Todos los demás tratamientos contra la enfermedad respaldados por la FDA requieren una vía intravenosa o una inyección. Una pastilla antiviral que las personas pudieran tomar en casa para reducir sus síntomas y acelerar la recuperación podría resultar revolucionaria, aliviando la abrumadora carga de casos en los hospitales de EE. UU. y ayudando a frenar los brotes en países más pobres con sistemas de atención médica débiles. También reforzaría el enfoque dual de la pandemia: tratamiento, mediante medicación, y prevención, principalmente mediante vacunas. La FDA examinará los datos de la empresa sobre la seguridad y eficacia del medicamento, molnupiravir, antes de tomar una decisión. Merck y su socio Ridgeback Biotherapeutic dijeron que pidieron específicamente a la agencia que otorgue el uso de emergencia para adultos con COVID-19 leve a moderado que están en riesgo de enfermedad grave u hospitalización. Esa es aproximadamente la forma en que se usan los medicamentos de infusión de COVID-19. Los principales funcionarios de salud de EE. UU. continúan promoviendo las vacunas como la mejor manera de protegerse contra el COVID-19. FUENTE: WBUR

In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Jenni Monet, an investigative journalist, media critic, and founder of the weekly newsletter, "Indigenously: Decolonizing Your Newsfeed." Jenni has been reporting from Indian Country for as long as she's been a journalist, from the coups d'etat on Jicarilla Apache lands in the late '90s to the dramatic demonstrations at Standing Rock a few years ago where she was arrested while on assignment and later acquitted. Jenni got her start as a broadcaster for CBS News affiliates then segue-wayed into public TV and radio, including a stint a tNational Native News. Along the way, Jenni made a few indie docs, returned to school, and moved to the Middle East to cover global affairs for Al Jazeera where she also traveled throughout the Indigenous world. Jenni has been working independently since 2015, where her my award-winning reporting has been published by such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PBS News Hour, to name a few. Her media criticism also appears frequently in the Columbia Journalism Review. At times, Jenni can also be seen and heard discussing Indigenous affairs for a variety of media outlets. Jenni has an MA in international politics from Columbia Journalism School with a concentration in Indigenous human rights policy. She's a founding member of the Indigenous Media Caucus, and resides on her ancestral homelands in the American Southwest where she's Kawaik'a, a tribal citizen of Laguna Pueblo, Big Turkey clan. Jenni and Tiokasin discuss her most recent newsletter story, "Gabby and Us" and several other topics stemming from this piece: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, domestic violence, mainstream news media bias, "Missing White Woman Syndrome," racism, land acknowledgements and more. More information about Jenni can be found at https://www.jennimonet.com/. Sign up to receive her weekly newsletter at https://www.indigenously.org/.Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NYMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersCD: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:44)2. Song Title: KothbiroArtist: Ayub OgadaCD: The Constant Gardener (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Label: Higher Octave Music(00:46:10)3. Song Title: Oh, What a WorldArtist: Kacey MusgravesCD: Golden Hour (2018)Label: MCA Nashville Records(00:52:38)

In 1851, then Secretary of the Interior Alexander H.H. Stuart wrote the following: “What is to become of the aboriginal race? … A temporary system can no longer be pursued. The policy of removal, except under peculiar circumstances, must necessarily be abandoned; and the only alternatives left are, to civilize or exterminate them.” In 2021, Congresswoman Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo woman, was confirmed Secretary of the Interior. Haaland, a single mother who enrolled in college at 28 and would later experience homelessness, is a remarkable person--and politician--whose presence in the Biden Administration marks a profound assertion of Indigenous political power in the United States.   Julia Bernal, Alliance Director at the Pueblo Action Alliance John Leshy, who has dedicated much of his career to America’s public lands and the laws that govern them, served as Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior throughout the Clinton Administration. His political history of public lands in the United States, “Our Common Ground,” will be published in late 2021 by Yale University Press Jenni Monet, a journalist who writes about Indigenous Affairs Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In this episode, we talk to and receive meditation from Jesse Littlebird, a multidisciplinary artist of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, and talk to Kat Lo, founder and president of Eaton Workshop, and Emmelia Talarico, of No Justice No Pride, about the Another World is Possible film festival and the film “No Justice No Pride” produced by Eaton and Current Movements. No Justice No Pride provides housing to the most marginalized members of the community, trans women of color, who face the greatest discrimination when looking for housing in DC. Emmelia says they're the largest trans adult housing provider in the city.

Marie: This is Minnesota Native News, I'm Marie Rock. Coming up...The confirmation of Deb Haaland as U.S. Secretary of Interior is a historic moment. Deb Haaland… Now Secretary Haaland… is the first Native person to hold a cabinet position in U.S. History.Reporter Leah Lemm has reactions to this historic event, from folks in Minnesota. But first, here's Deb Haaland speaking at her confirmation hearing… back in February. **STORY #1: Indian Country in MN Reacts to Deb Haaland's Confirmation as U.S. Secretary of the InteriorUS Sect of INT DEB HAALAND: I spent summers in Mesita, our small village on Laguna Pueblo, the location of my grandparents' traditional home. It was there that I learned about my culture from my grandmother by watching her cook and by participating in traditional feast days and ceremonies. It was in the cornfields with my grandfather, where I learned the importance of water and protecting our resources, where I gained a deep respect for the earth. Reporter: That was NOW U.S. Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland giving her opening statement at her confirmation hearing in February. And on March 15th, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Representative Deb Haaland's historic nomination by a 51 to 40 vote. On social media I noticed many comments and sharing of the news, including a friend who went and danced out in the snow. There's an overwhelming sense that the voices from tribal nations will be heard even more so now that a tribal citizen is at the helm of the US Dept of Interior.Red Lake Nation citizen Cherilyn Spears shares her thoughts…Cherilyn Spears: I am just really, really excited. I am just so, so excited. I just see so much positive changes coming along with the new administration, that we're finally going to have our voices heard and it's been a long, long time coming. I know one other thing I want to add too, is like, trust responsibility - is making the government uphold their trust responsibility towards data of tribes nations. Then again, like I say, you know, there's Zach Ducheneaux moving up into the Farm Service Agency and then Janie Hipp, she's moving into a different position as General Counsel and any other members that Biden recognizes and as do our own senators here in Minnesota. They have been on our side with a lot of projects and they understand they get us, you know, they understand what our needs are and have been for years.And so with that coming on, I'm just really, really excited to see what she's going to be accomplishing in these next four years. And I'll be right there, cheering her on!During her time in Congress… Then… Representative Haaland focused on policies to benefit New Mexico families, climate change, and the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis, and environmental and economic justice. Michael Van Horn, also from Red Lake notes the significance of Haaland understanding the needs of Indian Country….Michael Van Horn: What it does is it allows, you know, with everybody moving and transitioning into these positions, it allows for our voices as Native Americans, to be able to be heard. Everybody that's been promoted and moving onto these positions are fully aware of what Native American needs are - that we haven't had a seat at the table. So this just allows for more of our voices to be, and our needs being shared with other people in order for Funding, for everything involved really in conservation efforts. You know what I mean? That's definitely... you know, natural resources…. That's definitely plays a role in us managing our own lands. Um, you know, and, and having that voice, you know, I mean, too, as well as, you know, allowing us to be able to manage our own lands versus being told how to manage our own lands.Sec Deb Haaland is also an inspiration. Kayla Aubid is from Citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe…Kayla Aubid: Overall, as an individual at that level of government, for her to be able to negotiate and continue to conversate with people who may or may not be like in her same like political spectrum, just for me as a woman and wanting to do something that shadows Deb Haaland - that ability to be a flow and mediator and have the tough conversations, but stand true to yourself. That's kind of like, it was just remarkable to watch and to hear, I guess - breathe this crazy sigh of relief.Furthermore, there's the excitement for what this means for Indian Country and the rest of the country. Kayla Aubid: I've been following this for a while. It's remarkable. She recognizes that this is a historic moment for Indian Country and that, she's also recognizing that in general, the skills and expertise that she's bringing to this position are great for all of us.For MN Native News, I'm Leah Lemm.

Deb Haaland was confirmed as Secretary of the Interior for the Biden administration Monday, making her the first Native American cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo and a 35th-generation resident of New Mexico, will oversee the management of federal land and natural resources, as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Under President Trump, the Department of the Interior rolled back a number of environmental protections and ceded vast amounts of land to commercial exploitation. President Biden has already reversed or paused a number of Trump’s policies and Haaland, who has voiced opposition to fossil fuel drilling and pipelines in the past, says she’ll be “fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land” in her new role. Mina Kim talks about Haaland’s historic confirmation, its cultural significance and the agenda in front of her with Gregory Cajete, professor of Native American Studies and Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies and Joel Clement, senior fellow at the Arctic Initiative.

Die Bilder aus Peking waren eindrücklich: Ein Sandsturm hat die Wolkenkratzer in gelben Nebel eingehüllt. Es war der stärkste Sandsturm seit 10 Jahren und die Behörden warnten vor gefährlichen Luftwerten. Die weiteren Themen: * In den USA erhält erstmals eine Person indigener Abstammung einen Ministerposten in der Bundesregierung. Der Senat ernennt Deb Haaland zur Innenministerin. Haalands Mutter gehört zum Volk der Laguna-Pueblo. * Der Vatikan verweigert homosexuellen Paaren nicht nur die Heirat, sondern auch die Segnung ihres Ehebundes. * Die «Dargebotene Hand» im Grossraum Zürich hat im Corona-Jahr 2020 nicht mehr Gespräche registriert als im Vorjahr. Was nicht heisst, dass die Organisation nichts von Corona gespürt hat. * Die Schweizer Wirtschaft ist im letzten Jahr um fast 3 Prozent eingebrochen. Trotzdem machen auffallend viele Firmen Gewinn. Wie kommt das?

This week, high hopes for Deb Haaland—the congresswoman from New Mexico and citizen of the Laguna Pueblo who could make history as the first Indigenous person to ever serve as Secretary of the Interior for the United States. First things first, though: she still needs to be confirmed by the U-S Senate. Although committee hearings have wrapped up, a vote has yet to be held. But amidst all the excitement over her potential appointment, some have struck a more cautious tone about what it may—or may not—make possible. That includes Nick Martin, a staff writer at The New Republic and author of the recent piece, “Deb Haaland’s Ascent and the Complicated Legacy of Native Representation.” In this episode, Martin joins host/producer Rick Harp and roundtable regular Candis Callison to discuss why he thinks even “[some]one as capable as Haaland [confronts] an unfortunate truth… [that] whenever Native people have occupied positions of great power within [the] colonial machine [they’ve either left] embittered or transition[ed] themselves into an active participant in the grand American tradition of treaty-breaking and excuse-making.” // CREDITS: This episode was edited by Stephanie Wood. Our theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.

Native American tribes have been brutalized, subjugated, cheated and mistreated by the Federal Government of the United States since the very beginning. With the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D - NM), an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, to the office of Secretary of the Interior things could be looking up for tribal peoples of USA, and looking dicey for their latest abuser, Big Oil. We discuss. Then, we explore how it is that agricultural states like Wisconsin used to be reliably Democratic in their voting patterns, but have since found their rural areas turning solidly Republican - and what the Democratic Party has the unique opportunity to do RIGHT NOW to get them back into the fold. Next, we examine new evidence that shows that the DC National Guard was withheld from protecting the Capitol Building on January 6th from the highest levels, DAYS in advance of the event! Finally, we look at the startling under-counting of COVID-19 deaths in America, and show where in America this phenomenon is at its worst. All that and more more on TMI for Friday, January 29, 2021 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

Environmental activist Laiken Jordahl is a borderlands campaigner with the Tuscon, Arizona based Center for Biological Diversity . Jordahl has painfully followed the building of the border wall with Mexico and its attendent ecological damage. This past December, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Deb Haaland , a first-term New Mexico congresswoman and a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). Environmental activists are hopeful that Haaland will be able to reverse former President Donald Trump's many anti-environmental policies, stop the building of the Border Wall and bar public land access to oil and gas developers. Join Associate Producer Christine Gordon as she visits with Jordahl about the negative impacts the border wall’s construction has had on endangered species, the desecration of sacred Native American burial sites, and what we might expect with Haaland's potential nomination. Gordon interviewed Jordahl shortly before Biden's

Center for Biological Diversity Conservation Advocate Randy Serraglio discussed two key Arizona environmental campaigns and sacred indigenous lands that are under even more pressure as the Trump administration comes to an end. At stake are Oak Flat and construction on the border wall. He says that government agencies are bowing to political pressure to expedite controversial actions in favor of mining interests. According to the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, on January 4th, the US Forest Service announced that they would be publishing a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on January 15, 2021, which would trigger a land swap that would trade Oak Flat away to international mining company Rio Tinto for its proposed Resolution Copper to build a large underground copper mine. Randy Serraglio discussed steps that the Biden administration can take with newly appointed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Haaland is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo and a 35th-generation New Mexican. When confirmed, she will become the first Native American to run the Department of the Interior and the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. He also discussed policies that are rooted in racism and white supremacy and how we must dismantle racism and white supremacy in the dominant culture, in our own organizations, and in ourselves. Randy Serraglio, Southwest Conservation Advocate, works on a variety of public-lands and other conservation issues in Arizona and the Southwest. He joined the Center in 2007 and currently leads the Center’s effort to stop proposed copper mines at Rosemont and Oak Flat, advocates for the jaguar and other protected southwestern species, and works to stop the border wall and destructive militarization of the border region. A veteran of many environmental and human rights campaigns, he holds a bachelor’s in Latin American studies from the University of Arizona. This map shows resources that would be lost if the Resolution Copper Mine isbuilt in Arizona. The mine proposal involves the privatization of 2,400 acres(red boundary) from the Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper. It wouldalso nullify an Executive Order that has protected the Oak Flat Campgroundfrom mining for over 50 years (black boundary). The type of mining beingproposed would occur deep underground and create empty voids so largethat the land above caves in on itself. The so-called block caving methodwould result in a crater one mile wide and 1,000 feet deep, noted on the mapas circular subsidence zones. The minethreatens to dewater Ga’an Canyon, which provides permanent water and lushriparian habitat for the area’s wildlife and is considered by Apaches to be aplace where spiritual beings that represent healing live. Image credit: Earthworks.

President-elect Biden has been unveiling his selections for various Cabinet positions. The response has varied, depending on the choice. Biden selected former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack to be the Secretary of Agriculture; Vilsack held that position for all eight years that Biden was vice president. Tom Philpott of "Mother Jones" wrote that this was a chance to bring new energy to an important position, but instead, Biden delivered "stale white bread." On the other hand, Biden's selection of Rep. Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo member from New Mexico, would represent a historic change. Haaland would be the first Indigenous person to serve as a Cabinet secretary. Our guests look ahead: Ronalyn Pollack, executive director of the Native American Cultural Center in Rochester Tom Philpott , journalist with "Mother Jones" Robin Silver , co-founder of the Center for Biological Diversity

Joe Biden has nominated Deb Haaland to be the Secretary of Interior and become the first Native American to serve on the Cabinet of the President of the United States. #MindfulSkeptics #BoyceLittlefield #Biden2020 #GreenNewDeal https://www.vox.com/2020/12/17/22180256/deb-haaland-interior-secretary-biden Join the Discord Server: https://discord.gg/tXx8A9u Mindful Skeptics Podcast Donation Links: https://www.patreon.com/mindfulskeptics Cash App Link: $BoyceLittlefield Venmo Link: @mindfulskeptics PayPal.me/mindfulskeptics https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/14ZUK8NKJV15B?ref_=wl_share  Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district since 2019. The district includes most of Albuquerque, along with most of its suburbs. Haaland is a former chairwoman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. Along with Sharice Davids, she is one of the first two Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress. Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people and a 35th-generation New Mexican. Haaland is a political progressive who supports the movements to abolish ICE and to implement the Green New Deal and Medicare For All. On December 17, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Haaland to serve as United States Secretary of the Interior. If confirmed, she would become the first Native American to run the Department of the Interior, and the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history

El presidente electo de EE. UU., Joe Biden, escogió a la diputada Deb Haaland como secretaria de Interior. Representante de un distrito de Nuevo México, Haaland sería la primera indígena estadounidense en ocuparse de los recursos naturales de EE. UU. Un nuevo símbolo de la diversidad que el mandatario demócrata quiere darle a su futuro gobierno.  Desde que eligió a Kamala Harris como su vicepresidenta, las nominaciones de Biden para su próximo gobierno resaltan por la diversidad. Como el nombramiento de Alejandro Mayorkas, nacido en Cuba, quien será el primer hispano e inmigrante en dirigir el Departamento de Seguridad Interior; o Katherine Tai, la primer mujer  de origen asiático nominada como Representante Comercial de Estados Unidos. Y siguen los ejemplos: el general retirado Lloyd Austin, primer afrodescendiente a la cabeza del Pentágono. En la secretaria del transporte, Peter Buttigieg, el primer homosexual en un gabinete presidencial en la historia del país.   El jueves 17 de diciembre, Biden sumó a su lista de ese gobierno que "rompe barreras", como él mismo lo llama, otra nominación histórica, Deb Haaland, una mujer indígena, la primera en la historia encargada de supervisar los territorios autóctonos, si es confirmada por el Senado. “Biden ganó la elección gracias a los votos de un frente que lo apoyó. Y la composición de género y de etnias de este frente es una colección realmente muy amplia”, dice a RFI el politólogo de la Kean University de New Jersey, Nazih Richani. “Lo que está haciendo ahora el presidente electo Biden es sencillamente pagar las deudas políticas que le permitieron ganar esta elección. Con estos nombramientos, Biden está diciendo: ‘ustedes me apoyaron y ahora estoy cumpliendo en darles a ustedes estos puestos’. Para Biden esa es su base social y política; y a esa base va a responder. Para mí esta fue la elección más interesante en la historia de los Estados Unidos porque vimos que las minorías cuentan y las minorías ganan”. Cuando apenas había sido escogida por Biden para su fórmula presidencial, Kamala Harris fue calificada por la izquierda demócrata como tibia en temas cruciales de la agenda social. Hoy la exprocuradora de origen jamaiquino e indio es la primera vicepresidenta en la historia de EE. UU., un nombramiento celebrado ahora por ese mismo grupo. “El sector que apoyó a Bernie Sanders o a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez está más a la izquierda que la vicepresidenta electa Kamala Harris”, dice Richani . “Representan un grupo importante del Partido Demócrata que apoyó con mucha fuerza la candidatura de Biden a la Casa Blanca. Y ese campo está compuesto por minorías. Entonces lo que vemos hoy es una transacción política. Algo justo y legítimo en política”. El nombramiento de Haaland es un momento "histórico" para Estados Unidos, escribió en Twitter la exsecretaria de Estado y candidata presidencial demócrata de 2016, Hillary Clinton. Haaland, de 60 años, integrante de la comunidad Laguna Pueblo fue elegida en 2018 representante al Congreso por Nuevo México. Esta elección de Biden es vista, sin embargo, como una difícil decisión ya que le haría perder a una demócrata en la Cámara de Representantes en momentos en que la mayoría del partido pende de un hilo. El presidente electo ya ha designado a la mayor parte de su gabinete, incluido Antony Blinken como secretario de Estado y Janet Yellen para encabezar el Tesoro. El puesto de mayor jerarquía que permanece sin ser cubierto es el de fiscal general de Estados Unidos. Con AFP

Today's guest is Nicole Martin (she/they). Nicole is Navajo and Laguna Pueblo. She is the Sex Educator for Indigenous Women Rising, an organization that is working to make sexual health and reproductive justice accessible for Native people. Follow IWR on Instagram @indigenouswomenrising and visit their website iwrising.org to donate and learn more.We take a deep dive into family differences, the importance of honest communication, and being pro-hoe.What to expect: personal family history, abusive relationships, STI's, relationship trauma, sexual trauma.Reference:Yes/No/Maybe Worksheet from Autostraddle

This week Farai Chideya talks with journalists who are changing the world around them. First, veteran journalist Maria Hinojosa on creating a more inclusive newsroom as one of the pioneering Latinas in public radio. Then journalist Wendi Thomas on why she built a newsroom by and for locals in Memphis; and Jenni Monet on decolonizing our news feeds. The New York Times’ Somini Segupta talks about covering the climate crisis. And Lisa Lucas explains how a Twitter hashtag changed her career path, and her goals as a new publisher. Plus, the women behind the Guild of Future Architects join Farai for the second part of their conversation on envisioning our collective future.Episode Rundown1:22 Veteran journalist Maria Hinojosa talks about the ups and the downs of her career in public radio and what she’s learned in the process.5:12 Hinojosa talks about having to defend herself in the newsroom, even as colleagues accused her of having a “Latino agenda.”6:55 Hinojosa talks about creating the newsroom she wished she had as a young journalist, in Futuro Media Group.13:05 Tennessee journalist Wendi Thomas on why she started her media outlet, MLK 50, and how she was able to get the funding to make it all happen.15:40 Thomas recently won an award for her investigative piece about a local hospital suing patients, “whose only mistake was being sick and poor at the same time.”17:05 Thomas talks about why local journalism is so important in creating change.18:30 Our weekly Covid update looks into how the pandemic has wreaked havoc on those who were already experiencing hardships before Covid. 20:39 Investigative reporter Jenni Monet talks about her newsletter, called Indigenously: Decolonizing Your News Feed.24:04 Chideya and Monet reflect on their time at Standing Rock and whether or not people should expect their government to make change.27:42 Somini Sengupta shares what she’s learned covering climate change for The New York TImes, “I've learned that climate change is not a future risk. It is a now risk.”32:03 Lisa Lucas, the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, talks about rising up in the literary world.35:57 Lucas talks about the tweet that landed her a publishing job.34:40 Lucas never imagined herself to be a publisher, but has big goals for the position.38:39 Journalist Sarah Smarsh talks about her piece “Poor Teeth,” which explores the accessibility of dental care in America and how it is an indicator of socioeconomic status.40:39 Smarsh talks about The Poor People’s Campaign and how it is carrying out the legacy of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.42:42 Why Dolly Parton is an important role model for feminist, working class women.44:28 Guild of Future Architects founder Sharon Chang explores the importance of imagination in studying history.46:36 Farai shares a listener voicemail and discusses paths to equitable and accessible care systems with the Guild of Future Architects leaders.

There is a lot of speculation about Rep. Deb Haaland being named Secretary of the Interior. She is Laguna Pueblo and she would make history because a Native American has never served in a presidential cabinet. And she clearly has a shot at history. But that’s only one possibility of many appointments that could benefit Indian Country.

It’s past time for unveiling the truth in historical interpretation and the perfect moment for declaring a change of name for an old holiday.Music "Polonaise in G- Minor" by ChopinKeyboard Amy RosebushChalice Lighting Words Excerpt from Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko, of Laguna Pueblo, Mexican and Anglo-American heritageRead by Amy RosebushIntroit Strings by Stephen Downen, Keyboard by Amy RosebushMessage The Reverend Amy KindredSong "Love Knocks and Waits for Us to Hear" Words and Music by Daniel Charles Damon (From Singing the Journey, Copyright 2005, Unitarian Universalist Association)Keyboard Amy RosebushVoice Stephen DownenLove knocks and waits for us to hear, to open and invite; Love longs to quiet every fear, and seeks to set things right.Love offers life, in spite of foes, who threaten and condemn;embracing enemies, Love goes the second mile with them.Love comes to heal the broken heart, to ease the troubled mind;without a word Love bids us start to ask and seek and find.Love knocks and enters at the sound of welcome from within;Love sings and dances all around, and feels new life within.Closing Words Attributed to Black Elk, Read by Rev. Amy Kindred.Dear Listener,Were you enlightened by what you heard? Go to uuffpspacecoast.org and show us some love by donating online. Signed, Gratitude Always

This week on Our Body Politic, Farai Chideya talks with Congresswoman Deb Haaland of New Mexico about leading with her Laguna Pueblo heritage. Farai digs into politics and the economy in conversations about income taxes and the role of disinformation in our elections. Our weekly Covid update puts President Trump’s diagnosis in context with other impacted Americans. Our Rise segment looks at one woman uplifting families of police-violence victims, and how exotic dancers in Atlanta are getting out the vote. CORRECTION: This episode’s COVID update misstated the likelihood of Black and Hispanic patients dying of Covid as 3 and 4 times more likely than non-Hispanic whites. But they are roughly 2.5 times more likely to die than white patients. Episode Rundown2:20 Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, talks about being a Congresswoman and how she remained hopeful. 6:58 Haaland talks about why it’s imperative for those who can vote, to vote. 8:09 Farai talks to Radhika Balakrishnan about Trump’s income taxes, income inequality, and our tax system. 10:29 Balakrishnan explains the long-term economic impacts of the pandemic. 13:00 One listener calls in to tell us their experience about incorrect voting dates in NYC.14:22 Farai speaks with Mutale Nkonde, UN advisor on Race and AI, about disinformation campaigns that convince voters not to vote, domestically and abroad.18:15 Disinformation: An art and practice developed in the Cold War, and still used to this day. 22:54 How to steer clear from disinformation this election.25:16 Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy talks about Amy Coney Barrett after her piece “If Amy Coney Barrett Was a Muslim”29:12 Eltahawy talks about protests, revolution, and who the Supreme Court benefits. 31:39 Errin Haines and Farai grapple with the first Presidential Debate. 32:48 Erinn and her piece “Toxic Masculinity Takes Center Stage at the First Presidential Debate.” 36:46 COVID-19: Who has it (POTUS and FLOTUS), and who it is disproportionately affecting.40:36 Dr. Nikki Jackson talks about the importance of the flu shot. 42:08 Is it safe to go to the doctors office? Dr. Jackson says yes, go! 43:08 The Good News section - Beyonce, voting in style, and so much more. 43:50 A conversation with Shatonna Nelson about police brutality and the communities it impacts. 46:37 Nelson - “They all know that they need to tell the story,” on how to heal as the family of a victim of police brutality. 

Sights and Sounds is your weekly guide the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. During the pandemic, we're offering suggestions for ways to experience art and culture from home. This week, host Jenee Darden speaks with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. "Tribal Chant" by Carol Lee Sanchez Poet Carol Lee Sanchez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and later studied at San Francisco State University. She taught at her alma mater, along with Mills Colleges and other universities in California. Sanchez is of Laguna Pueblo, Sioux and Lebanese-American heritage. Her poem "Tribal Chant" is about her mixed-race identity. “Good Grease” by Mary TallMountain The late Mary TallMountain was a Native Alaskan writer , but spent much of her life in San Francisco. She founded the Tenderloin Women Writers Workshop. Much of her work centers on her Native American culture. Her beloved poem “Good Grease” reminisces over a family meal. Watch/listen to her read her poem. "The

I had the pleasure of interviewing the contemporary artist Marla Allison today on Art Dealer Diaries. Marla is full of energy, creativity, smart, and was a very interesting guest. We discuss growing up in New Mexico at the historic Laguna Pueblo, and what it's like being Laguna, Hopi, Jemez, and Anglo, and what those cultural elements provide to your art and perspective. Laguna is a small community and she goes from a small pueblo community to being IAIA trained and a School for Advanced Research fellow in Santa Fe, to accepting fellowships in Bahrain, and Bristol, UK, and participating in exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates and residencies in Saudi Arabia. Marla Allison has been a lot of different places and imbues this life experience into her art, with her heritage and sensibilities of historic pueblo pottery designs with a contemporary style. I enjoyed this podcast a great deal and for fans of contemporary art and historic pottery, I can assure you that you will too.

Like many of us, Geoff is trying new recipes, but his quarantine baking has taken on deeper meaning. Geoff Kie is indigenous, from the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. Geoff was first on the show in Season Two to talk about his service as an AmeriCorps VISTA member. Now he’s back to check in about […] The post #51 Smoking trout, raising chickens and taking down colonialism appeared first on Do Good, Be Good.

Dr. Lee Francis from Laguna Pueblo, the CEO and founder of Native Realities, talks about indigenous futurisms and the importance of creating new worlds. His current projects include running Red Planet Comics and organizing global events like Indigenous Comicon and Indigipop X. As the "Head Indiginerd", Lee is dedicated to changing the perceptions and representations of indigenous people in and through popular culture. Listen to the podcast. Then find out more by visiting: www.nativerealities.com www.indigenouspopx.com

Dr. Lee Francis from Laguna Pueblo, the CEO and founder of Native Realities, talks about indigenous futurisms and the importance of creating new worlds. His current projects include running Red Planet Comics and organizing global events like Indigenous Comicon and Indigipop X. As the "Head Indiginerd", Lee is dedicated to changing the perceptions and representations of indigenous people in and through popular culture. Listen to the podcast. Then find out more by visiting: www.nativerealities.com www.indigenouspopx.com

Dr. Lee Francis from Laguna Pueblo, the CEO and founder of Native Realities, talks about indigenous futurisms and the importance of creating new worlds. His current projects include running Red Planet Comics and organizing global events like Indigenous Comicon and Indigipop X. As the "Head Indiginerd", Lee is dedicated to changing the perceptions and representations of indigenous people in and through popular culture. Listen to the podcast. Then find out more by visiting: www.nativerealities.com www.indigenouspopx.com

Dr. Lee Francis from Laguna Pueblo, the CEO and founder of Native Realities, talks about indigenous futurisms and the importance of creating new worlds. His current projects include running Red Planet Comics and organizing global events like Indigenous Comicon and Indigipop X. As the "Head Indiginerd", Lee is dedicated to changing the perceptions and representations of indigenous people in and through popular culture. Listen to the podcast. Then find out more by visiting: www.nativerealities.com www.indigenouspopx.com

Jana chats with Jicarilla Apache and Laguna Pueblo organizer and digital storyteller Eryn Wise. The two kick of Native American Heritage Month by diving into their own Indigenous identities, the concepts of home and sovereignty, and how they're working toward being softer when the work makes them hardened. Follow Eryn's work at @seedingsovereignty as well as her personal journey @_samakuu. Check out womanofisize.com for links and extended show notes.

Congresswoman Deb Haaland has some ideas about what it means when President Trump tells newly-elected congresswomen to go back where they came from. Haaland is, herself, a newly-elected member of Congress from New Mexico, where her long history of activism includes stints as chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party and a bid for statewide office. A lawyer with great organizing skills, she has hit the ground running in the House, as a key member of the Armed Services and Natural Resources committees. She's the co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus, and on March 7, 2019, during a debate on voting rights, she became the first Native American woman to preside over the United States House of Representatives. That's right. It took 230 years before a pair of Native American women - Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas - were elected to the people's house. For Haaland's part, she's an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo people. Archeologists tell us that the Laguna Pueblo people have lived in western New Mexico since around 6500 BC. So when right-wingers talk about sending congresswomen who disagree with the president back, Haaland reminds them that her roots run a lot deeper than their's do. SHOW NOTES Meet Deb Haaland, Democrat for Congress (https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-deb-haaland-democrat-congress/) The Nation Joshua Holland ‘They’re Gonna Rock It’: The First Day Native Woman Served on Capitol Hill (https://www.thenation.com/article/haaland-davids-congress-joy-native-representation/) The Nation Julian Brave NoiseCat Go back where? Trump’s racist tweets hits panel that included Deb Haaland (https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/go-back-where-trump-s-racist-tweets-hits-panel-that-included-deb-haaland-sIBKoIFV3k-rmTBQA5kz8g/) Indian Country Today How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice (https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-how-to-indigenize-the-green-new-deal-and-environmental-justice) High Country News Dina Gilio-Whitaker Trump Wants Immigrants to ‘Go Back.’ Native Americans Don’t. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/opinion/trump-immigration-native-americans.html) New York Times Deb Haaland It’s Been 70 years since court ruled Native Americans could vote in New Mexico (https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/it-s-been-years-since-court-ruled-native-americans-could/article_d0544a48-ef37-56ef-958f-eb81dcf01344.html) Santa Fe New Mexican Andrew Oxford

Two Native American women, Sharice Davids, Ho Chunk, and Debra Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, were sworn into the new Congress. They will join current Representatives Markwayne Mullin, Cherokee, and Tom Cole, Chickasaw, in that office. There are now four members from tribal nations in the Congress. And this week Peggy Flanagan, White Earth Nation, takes office as Lt. Governor of Minnesota. This is the highest ranking Native woman.

Duane Maktima shares his stories of growing up in two worlds one of the Hopi and the other at Laguna Pueblo and the difficulties of trying to fit into separate cultures. Maktima long journey from, Hopi carver to painter to a world-class silversmith and the issues he encounters along the way. His family history including Hopi relatives being sent to San Quentin Prison for not sending their children to Indian school.

Ron Solimon, a member of the Laguna Pueblo and former Executive Director for the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Women across the country are coming together as candidates and as voters in an unprecedented way. Native women, too. There are now two Native women, Davids and Deb. Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, as their party nominees for the November election. And another, Amanda Douglas in Oklahoma, has a primary at the end of this month. #NativeVote18

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Stephanie Sellers. Dr. Stephanie A. Sellers is a poet, a homesteader in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and a Native American Studies scholar who is dedicated to the healing of women and Mother Earth. She has just co-edited a book with the artist-scholar, Menoukha Case, about the Laguna Pueblo writer Paula Gunn Allen called Weaving the Legacy.  Stephanie is currently researching the hidden phenomenon of Family Aggression against daughters in patriarchal cultures. She created the organization, Sedna’s Daughters, to raise awareness and offer support for daughters who have been shunned by or are estranged from their biological families. Stephanie's website is www.sednasdaughters.com  and you can find her on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SednasD/ this episode Q&A includes: • the act of being alive creates toxins- liver and kidney function, persistent organic chemicals- supporting your liver, why it is dangerous to detox.. • diabetes- what not to eat, what to eat and when- possible to keep from progressing.. • giving up nighttime feedings with breastfed toddler to protect the teeth.. • 'Breast Cancer? Breast Health!' what's better than juicing? Macrobiotic, Mediterranean diet, herbal infusions, mushrooms... • drinking water and distilled water takes down your electrolytes and compromises the immune system.. • sore mouth cancer and using sage..

Is a new era for Native American media in the United States opening up? Three Native American journalists talk about challenging stereotypes and bringing a nuanced voice to indigenous issues. They belong to a generation that believes in making things happen, despite all the odds, and not waiting for mainstream media to catch on. Native Americans once owned the land in the United States, it was theirs before the white settlers arrived. They are the First People, whom archaeologists believe have been on the North American continent for some 50,000 years. Today they represent less than one percent of the United States’ total population. An estimated 2.7 million tribal citizens associated with 567 federally recognised tribes. Tribal issues hardly make it into the US mainstream media. When people outside the US read, listen or watch news about the country, it is as if America’s First Nation have become a ghost nation. Levi Rickert, the Michigan-based founder, editor and publisher of multimedia news platform Native News Online, says that is primarily due to the size of the Native American population. Kevin Abourezk, who is based in Nebraska where he is the managing editor of Indianz.com, a Native American online news site run by the Winnebago Tribe, believes it is because there are so few Native Americans in mainstream media. Jenni Monet (www.jennimonet.com) is an award winning Native American independent journalist from the Laguna Pueblo tribe. She has been working as a journalist for 19 years, most of it spent covering indigenous issues across the world. Under-reported narrative “There is a serious need for the indigenous narrative. [It] is the most chronically under-reported narrative in mainstream today, not only in the US but around the world,” she says. She points out that out of the hundreds of tribes living in the United States, only a tiny fraction of them attracts the attention of the media: the Lakotas, the Navaho Nation or the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. “It is not a mistake that these tribes are among the most popular in the mainstream because the mainstream goes towards the familiar. They like the poverty out of the Lakotas because it is so blatant. The cyclical nature of it is so raw. They like the Navaho Nation because it is so mystical with medicine-man and the south-west desert… They like the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma because who doesn’t firmly believe they have some ounce of Cherokee ancestry in their family lineage? These sorts of narratives as told by outsiders themselves have just been perpetuated for decades.” For Kevin Abourezk, who is from the Rosebud Lakota tribe, it is often difficult for Native journalists to get editors of non-native media to accept their story ideas. “Editors are acutely aware of who their readers are and [what] they want to read,” he explains. According to Abourezk, in areas where there are a significant number of Native Americans like Gallup, New Mexico or Rapid City, South Dakota, tribal issues will get more coverage. He says it is reflected in publications like the New York Times or smaller ones like the Sioux City Journal. Standing Rock, a reckoning One story that made it to mainstream media around the world was the long protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Thousands of Native Americans, joined by non-Natives, gathered in North Dakota to support the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes in their fight against the pipeline, a 3.8-billion-dollar investment. They say it desecrates sacred grounds and threatens the water quality of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The pipeline carries crude oil beneath their only source of drinking water. Across the globe, videos circulated, showing the violent repression of the protesters by private security guards, riot police and national guards. In their arsenal to deal with demonstrations, they used, among other things, sound cannons, rubber bullets and dog attacks. Jenni Monet covered the story for six consecutive months and was embedded at the Standing Rock reservation for four months, until the end of March 2017. She was arrested and, along with seven other journalists, is still facing charges for criminal trespass and rioting brought by the local Morton County. Why did it take such a violent crackdown for news about Standing Rock to make the headlines? “People were maimed,” remembers Jenni Monet. “People were sent into hypothermic shock after being doused with water on a sub-freezing night in November to the point where legacy media could not simply ignore it anymore. They reported on that story 48 hours later. It takes for brown people to die before it becomes unfortunately headline news.” Monnet says that when the Dakota Access Pipeline protests were happening the story was competing with “one thing and one thing only, Donald Trump”. Based on her own experience, Monet describes the newsrooms obsession with “clickbait”, stories need to pull “the most shares, the most tweets, drive comments from viewers”. “If Standing Rock proved anything, it’s that [tribal] issues aren’t complicated at all. You just need a lot of people to talk about them. Standing Rock is going to continue to be a case study for us when we look at the power of indigenous media. And, for me and my fellow native journalists, we cannot forget those strides and those gains that were made from Standing Rock.” Native American journalism Journalism for Native Americans by Native Americans goes back to the 19th century with the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper founded in 1828. It was written in both English and the Cherokee alphabet created by Sequoyah. “That newspaper was democracy at work … sovereignty at work. It was the tribe itself having a voice and shaping a narrative that otherwise was completely removed from any sort of publication back then,” declares Jenni Monet. The newspaper emerged at a time when the Cherokee Nation was debating what action to take while facing forced relocation from their ancestral land in south-eastern United States. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Cherokee people were rounded up and forced to relocate to an area west of the Mississippi River designated as Indian Territory. The journey became known as the “trail of tears”. Tribal newspapers are still very popular, according to Kevin Abourezk, and probably the most popular among the various native news platforms. Most tribes of a certain size have a newspaper that they publish and distribute to their members on the reservations. But such media do not cover national issues pertaining to the Indian Country. “Just a handful of websites” will cover, for example, a hearing in Washington related to some law dealing with Indian Trust Land. And that’s a problem for Kevin Abourezk. For Jenni Monet, indigenous media shouldn’t only be for the tribal communities, nor should it only look at “outsiders” as an audience. It should be “somewhere in between”. “What we saw at Standing Rock was this widespread embrace of concepts that editors themselves have often couched as topics too weighty for their listenership to endure. It was amazing to see on CNN, Sara Sidner quote Lakota prophecy. And a segment about treaty rights. These topics are not too complicated. What they are is sorely underreported.” Making their voice heard “It’s our time to tell our stories,” declares Levi Rickert, who is from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. He deplores the way in which Native Americans are portrayed in the US media. And that’s one of the reasons he decided to set up Native News Online in 2011. “We are perceived as being conquested people, losers… [associated with] alcoholism, poverty... I try to identify stories that really show the progress and achievements of American Indians and Alaska Natives.” For Rickert, this is a more a calling than a job. “It is almost like a trusteeship given to me by the Creator to really do my part,” he say, “We serve many tribal nations from around the United States. I try to purposefully find writers from around the country that can write about their region, their tribal nation. The non-native media will not always write about our stories, we can certainly do it.” As for Jenni Monet, she opted for the precarious position of being an independent journalist rather than being attached to a particular news organisation in order to have a greater chance of getting her stories about indigenous peoples and their rights movements published. “I’ve worked for some of the biggest brands in the industry and I understand how newsrooms operate. [Being] independent, I can choose many of these decision makers and pitch and pitch and pitch,” declares Jenni Monet, host of the podcast, Still here: Modern stories of resilience, indigenously told. “People are starting to wake up a little and realise that there is a whole vast Indian country out there,” adds Monet. A generation of journalists, whom she describes as front-runners, took the lead in creating a nuanced narrative and paved the way for her generation. “I’m so grateful for writers like Tim Giago, Mark Trahant, Suzan Shown Harjo, Bunty Anquoe and the list can go on.” Kevin Abourezk recently decided to start working full time for the Native news website, Indianz.com. Most of his 18 years as a journalist were spent working for the Lincoln Journal Star, a non-Native daily. “I’ve always wanted to work for native media but I’ve also for a long time felt it was important to reach out to non-Native Americans and trying to educate them about issues facing Native Americans.” Abourezk says that his former editors were great and welcomed his stories. However, they had a preference for a certain type of stories. One of them is White Clay, a small town of 14 people in Nebraska with four liquor stores selling four million cans of beer a year to the Pine Ridge reservation, which has a population of 40,000 people. In September this year Indian Country Today, a prominent newspaper and website, put a stop to its activities after 25 years in business, citing financial constraints. This brought some big changes in the world of Native journalism in America, explained Abourezk, and it was one of the reasons why he decided to move to Indianz.com. “When Indian Country Today decided to shut down … that left a huge vacuum in the world of Native journalism. I felt it was important for Native journalists to step up and fill the vacuum the best we can.” It took two years of incubation before Levi Rickert’s launched Native News Online. A sustainable business model providing independent reporting appears to be a difficult goal to achieve. Rickert says that he is constantly trying to figure out how to make it work on the small Native media scene “It is a struggle. We have to fight for advertising, sponsorships, many times we are marginalized. You just have to get pass the ‘Nos’ and get people to say ‘Yes’. You have to have the tenacity to keep going even when it looks dismal out there.” The words that really encapsulate what the Native American journalists we spoke to are trying to achieve probably come from one Native News Online viewer: “You write how we Indians want to be written about.” Follow Jenni Monet on Twitter @jennimonet Follow Kevin Abourezk on Twitter @Kevin_Abourezk Follow Levi Rickert on Twitter @Native_NewsNet Follow Zeenat Hansrod on Twitter @zxnt Sound editor: Alain Bleu Music by Raye Zaragoza (In the river) and Camp Pueblo Singers (Water is life)

Listen to our interview with Melissa Sanchez with Rock Your Mocs.  November is Native American Heritage Month. 2016 is the 6th year of Rock Your Mocs which is a worldwide Native American & Indigenous Peoples movement held annually during November which is also National Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. A.. It’s easy to participate by wearing moccasins to school, to work or wherever your day takes you. Or if a person doesn’t own mocs, can’t wear mocs, or perhaps their Tribe didn’t wear mocs, they may wear a Turquoise Awareness Ribbon instead. Even easier, the event takes place where you are, where you’re going and where you live. Rock Your Mocs if a fun way to unify Native American, Aboriginal, First Nations, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Peoples globally through internet social media, participants post their photos for everyone to enjoy, sharing their stories and creating an “online photo album” by using any one or all of the following hastags: #RYM2016 #ROCKYOURMOCS. It’s like a great big fun moccasin party that everyone gets to see pictures of! RYM was founded by Jessica “Jaylyn” Atsye of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico U.S.A. and she has partnered with Emergence Productions, a Native American owned Event Production Company, who together are working hard to expand this cultural empowerment initiative worldwide! Around the world, people have taken the initiative to organize - Moccasin making workshops - Round dances - Community “Fun” walk/run’s - Group photos - Native American and Indigenous cultural awareness events - Connecting youth and elder events - Museums have created moccasin or Rock Your Mocs exhibitions Founder Jessica “Jaylyn” Atsye hopes RYM Day “will continue to reach even further worldwide and inspire cultural pride for Native Americans wherever they may be, as well as anyone who would just like to participate in a fun way of celebrating Indigenous & Native American Peoples and U.S.A.‘s National Native American Heritage Month.” ________________________________________ Dates: During November Why a week? The dates have increased to a week, only because this creates more opportunity days. We are trying to accommodate schools, people who work Monday – Friday, and for people organizing events. (November 15th, the original date, tends to fall on a weekend) Do we "have" to wear our Mocs the whole week? Nope, choose a day or days or the whole week if you like. Is there a main day? The original day will always be November 15th Where is RYM: Where ever you may be! Wherever your day take you! Why: We, as Indigenous people, wear our moccasins, standing together worldwide, while recognizing our Tribal individuality. Honoring our ancestors & indigenous peoples worldwide and celebrate National Native American Heritage Month. How to join in: Wear your moccasins or a Turquoise Awareness Ribbon or organize an event Internet: Using Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram etc.) post your photos, group photos, stories on the Rock Your Mocs Facebook page Use one or all the hashtags: #RYM2015 #ROCKYOURMOCS #ROCKURMOCS #NationalNativeAmericanHeritageDay #Moccasins #TurquoiseRibbon Have fun and be creative TRY: A rap, a hand drum song, dance out on your rez, dance, sing, juggle in a creative or unique place. Walk in your mocs in the city, ride a horse, family photo, sibling photo, pets who wear mocs, group photo. Video idea: tell the story behind you moccasin: did you make them, were they given to you?   www.powwows.com/powwowlife18

In Episode 13, we proceed along Route 66 from Oklahoma to New Mexico where I meet up with two wonderful friends, Deb Haaland and Juan Sanchez. Listen as Deb and Juan share their heritage and culture along with fascinating historical facts about their beloved Land of Enchantment. Deb is a member of the Laguna Pueblo with ancestors going back thousands of years. Juan's family first came to New Mexico on a Land Grant from the King of Spain in the early 1700's. It's a fascinating exploration of rich family histories makes for an unforgettable podcast episode. Deb & Juan provide a passionate look at New Mexico's history and culture interwoven with their impressive personal narratives.  Our conversation spans the spectrum to cover everything from Native American and Spanish relations to current immigration policies along the state's southern border. We cover topics ranging from New Mexico's cuisine and specialty foods to the remnants of Route 66 remaining along Albuquerque's Central Avenue.   

Native American artist and musician Greg Analla (Isleta and Laguna Pueblo) gives a workshop for families on making rattles with traditional Pueblo. His presentation includes personal knowledge and family stories on Pueblo communities, language, history, and music. A talented musician, Gregg also performs several traditional Pueblo songs during the workshop, which concludes with the participants joining in with their rattles in a Pueblo rain song.

Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day. 

Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day. [26:38]

Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day. [26:38]

Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day. [26:38]

In this episode, we experience the beginning of the Tour of the Nations At the Isleta Pueblo and the road to Laguna Pueblo. A memorable day full of great new people, wonderful cultural experiences, and a connection to Mother Earth by the way of a group of wonderfully talented Isleta children, who Shared their traditional music and dances with us. Isleta is a great place to visit and bicycle friendly. Visit Isleta Pueblo Home page: http://www.isletapueblo.com/ Laguna Pueblo commitment with the development of the mind has led the community to develop a wonderful education system and other achievements. Visit this informative page: http://www.indianpueblo.org/ipcc/lagunapage.htm Listen to some audio clips we recorded during our stay! In the picture: Isleta's Butterfly Dance