Podcasts about Native Americans

Photo: Albuquerque Indian Health Center. (cmh2315fl / Flickr) A new congressional resolution is confronting a painful chapter in federal health care for Native women. Lawmakers are formally condemning the non-consensual sterilization of thousands of Native women by the Indian Health Service in the 1970s. as Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) reports. Sterilization abuse against Native women is at the center of a congressional resolution introduced this week. U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk Nation), D-Kansas, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pennsylvania, introduced a resolution officially condemning the non-consensual sterilization of Native American women by IHS during the 1970s. According to Davids' office, a federal investigation found that between 1973 and 1976, IHS performed sterilization procedures on more than 3,400 Native women in four service areas without fully complying with informed consent requirements. The Government Accountability Office, then known as the General Accounting Office, found problems including inadequate consent forms, improper waiting periods, and procedures performed on women under the age of 21. The resolution acknowledges the lasting harm caused by the practice and calls for greater awareness of the federal government's role in the abuse. Davids says the history is personal for Native communities and that acknowledging what happened is necessary to rebuild trust. The resolution also calls for continued efforts to protect informed consent and reproductive autonomy for Native people receiving health care. Davids is one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress. (Courtesy National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation / Facebook) Across the country, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week. As Dan Karpenchuk reports, September 30, also known as Orange Shirt Day, has become an important day of survivors of Canada's notorious residential school system. It is also known as Orange Shirt Day and was declared by the Canadian government following the discovery of more than 200 unmarked gaves at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children attened the schools between the mid 1800's to the late 1900's. Many of them never returned to their homes and families. The children were taken from their families and communites and sent the residential schools which were run by churches and financed by the government. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke in Edmonton about the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconcialiation. He said the day is about the children – those who survived and those who did not. “And this is not a distant chapter in Canada's past, but a truth that endures. And truth is the foundation of justice. We shouldn't choose, as we used to here, in Fort Edmonton, which parts of our history to remember. We shouldn't admire the bead work, and foreget the children that were forced into uniforms. We shoudn't honour the drum and ignore the years that it was made to fall silent. And we should not hear the truth of residential schools and fail to act on it.” Across Canada, survivors of the schools told their stories of abuse and loss of culture. In Ottawa, Governor General Louise Arbour said it is important for all Canadians to face their unsettling past. She said truth does not change the past; it is a reminder that memory carries responsibility, to recognize the injustices to learn from them, and to ensure that they are never repeated. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Friday, October 2, 2026 — Indigenous design as visual sovereignty

Photo: Revillagigedo Island in Alaska where the old-growth forest plan is facing objections from KIC. (Anita Gould / Flickr) Ketchikan Indian Community and two conservation groups are asking a federal court to halt an old-growth timber sale in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The Shelter Cove sale offers about 4 million board feet of timber as part of the larger South Revilla project near Ketchikan. The groups argue logging would harm subsistence resources, wildlife. and remaining old-growth forest. KIC President Gloria Burns says Indigenous knowledge cannot be treated as an afterthought in decisions about Tribal homelands. The groups are seeking an injunction while the court considers their broader lawsuit challenging the South Revilla project. Bids for the timber sale are scheduled to open October 20. Tesuque Casino in Santa Fe, N.M. (Courtesy Tesuque Casino) Prediction markets are becoming an issue for Native American tribes who argue they are threatening their gaming revenues and thus their ability to fund vital services. As KUNM's Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) reports, New Mexico tribes and state lawmakers are looking at taxing them. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are online platforms where people wager bets on an outcome around future real-world events, like sports or elections, but because of the way they are regulated they do not usually pay taxes to states. Tribal gaming in New Mexico, however, contributed over $151 million to the state's general fund in the last fiscal year. Tribes fear that prediction markets will lead people away from gambling in tribal casinos to online markets, which people can access on their phones while on tribal lands. and tribal officials say that is a violation of the gaming rights they negotiated with the state as sovereign governments. Tribes also use those revenues for things like early education programs, housing, and healthcare. During a meeting of the Indian Affairs Interim Committee last week, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton describes how prediction markets are also targeting minors to bet. Right now, with prediction markets, we know that a 10-year-old standing next to the sheep camp, they can go onto a website and they can wager a bet. Prediction market websites are classified as federal financial exchanges rather than traditional gambling platforms, which allows them to market to people 18 and older. With weak age verification on social media, minors have been reported making wagers. Prediction markets currently exist in a legal gray area and gaming officials want the state to tax them, but lawmakers raised concerns. Those include whether taxes would affect current gaming compacts, how online activity would be tracked on tribal lands, and who would collect revenue. The Mescalero Apache, along with Isleta, Pojoaque, and Sandia pueblos are suing Kalshi. The New Mexico Attorney General also filed suit in June. They are among a number of lawsuits across the country against the platforms. In response, the federal government is suing New Mexico to block the state from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction markets. (Courtesy Native Voters Alliance Nevada) Voting disparities have deep roots for people of color and new research shows New Mexico’s Native voters are likely to face numerous roadblocks at the November ballot box. Roz Brown has more. Native voters in New Mexico face many barriers to voting, including disproportionately high rejections for voter registration and mail-in ballots. The new Native American Rights Fund and Blockwell Consulting report, “Obstacles Persist”, analyzes data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from the 2020, 2022, and 2024 general elections. The report found rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200% in counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population. Senior staff attorney Allison Neswood says the report confirms what Native communities have long known to be true. “Their registration is getting denied, their ballots [are] getting rejected, and all of this really adds up to the systemic disenfranchisement of our people in our own homelands.” The report also outlines how disruptions at the U.S. Postal Service had a significant impact on Native voters. Even as overall mail-in voting numbers declined between 2020 and 2024, the rejection rate of ballots in areas with larger Native populations increased by 134%. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump's executive order, calling on the Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots, a move plaintiffs successfully argued would have severely restricted voting by mail. The report's recommendations include expanding automatic and same-day registration to areas with larger Native populations, and paying poll workers comparable wages. Neswood says more investment is needed for voting infrastructure in Indian Country. “Making sure that our Native communities have polling locations in a reasonable distance from where they live, making sure they have registration opportunities, making sure that they can participate in mail voting.” The study focused on counties with high Native populations, including Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan counties in New Mexico along with Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona. Research by the Brennan Center in 2024 found voters of color are more likely to turn out when they live in jurisdictions where their ethnic group is the majority. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. 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Wisconsin Native Vote hosting an event in Crandon, Vilas County committee advances one year moratorium on data centers, state health officials encourage vaccines to prevent respiratory illnesses

On this week's episode, Jeremy has become a grandpa, and Scotty has a hilarious customer at work. The NFL kicks off week 3, and the Green Bay Packers should start to panic. Is proposing at someone else's wedding overrated or underrated, and what sports opinion do you have that you are willing to die on? What are the best weapons of all time, and could you go up to a Native American and do the tomahawk chop? Enjoy another hilarious episode and keep on laughing!

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What if there are places where the line between this world and something else becomes thinner—and whatever exists there knows when investigators arrive?Near Sedona, Arizona, Bradshaw Ranch has become known for reports of UFOs, Bigfoot, strange entities, missing time, magnetic anomalies and possible portals. The ranch has often been compared to Skinwalker Ranch, but the investigators featured in this episode took a different approach: instead of “poking the bear,” they invited contact.My guests are Ronald C. Meyer and Mark Reeder, co-authors of The High Strangeness of Bradshaw Ranch.Ron is a filmmaker, author, paranormal investigator and paleontology researcher. Through Centre Communications, he has produced documentaries covering Bigfoot, UFOs, near-death experiences, serial killers and unexplained phenomena. His work includes The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed, Alien Contact in the Rockies, The Mysteries of Bradshaw Ranch and You Are Immortal: The Truth from Near-Death Experiences. He is also a fifth-degree black belt in Aikido and leads practices exploring contact, consciousness and the flow state.Mark is a historian, researcher, writer and producer who originally approached the paranormal as a skeptic. After reviewing witness interviews and working with Ron on their books, he began reconsidering how unexplained experiences affect individuals and their understanding of reality.In this conversation, Ron describes his investigations at Bradshaw Ranch, including a missing-time experience, a translucent triangular formation surrounded by hundreds of unusual objects, an apparent Bigfoot known as “Big Gal,” unexplained figures detected by SLS equipment and activity that appeared to demonstrate intelligence and situational awareness.We also discuss the government's ownership of the property, possible underground tunnels, Native American petroglyphs, Sedona's vortexes and whether UFOs, Bigfoot, portals and other paranormal phenomena could be different manifestations of the same presence.Ron also discusses the CE-6 Contact Protocol and his Contact and Flow Retreats. These experiences combine meditation, shared intention, the AEIOU chant, flow practices, remote viewing, nature immersion and equipment such as thermal cameras, magnetometers, structured-light scanners and audio recorders. The purpose is to explore possible interaction with what Ron calls “the Presence” and what may happen when participants enter a shared state of awareness.Could Bradshaw Ranch be a place where the boundary between worlds becomes thinner—and something on the other side is aware of everyone who enters?Follow Ronald C. Meyer and Mark Reeder:The Bigfoot Chronicles Trilogy on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Bigfoot-Chronicles-Trilogy/100063547892577/Their books, including The High Strangeness of Bradshaw Ranch, are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Their documentaries can be found on YouTube, Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms.Follow, subscribe, review and share Wake Up with Miya for more conversations exploring the unexplained.BUY A COFFEE LINK Support the Show & Stay Connected:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sensiblehippieJoin My Patreon for ad-free episodes & exclusive content: https://Patreon.com/WakeupwithMiyaIf you're joining Waiola – The Plus Side, please subscribe through a web browser (Safari or Chrome) instead of the Patreon app — it directly supports the show. Mahalo nui loa for supporting independent work and helping keep this platform growing.Shop my Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/profile/amzn1.account.AGYOPCXXGH6MN5RVAKGQWVZUZLEA/list/26B87RB4FZ9W2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_6BWRT43TH4MY2NM2XD6XWant to be on the show or suggest a guest? I'm looking for guests who can speak on human trafficking, the paranormal, occult symbolism, hidden history, spiritual warfare, ancient mysteries, and specific military stories involving covert operations, secret programs, psychological warfare, unexplained events, and firsthand accounts. Email me at: Miya@wakeupwithmiya.comExclusive Discount!Shop at LVNTA: https://lvnta.com/lv_IcTq5EmoFKaZfJhTiSUse code OHANA for 20% off!Listen on Your Favorite Platform: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere podcasts are available!RATE & REVIEW: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wake-up-with-miya/id1627169850 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UYrXCgma1lJYzf8glnAxyMusic Credits:  Beginning: "Echoes in the Shadows" - DKEnd Music: “Crazy” - EkoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wake-up-with-miya--6339129/support.

Today we are sitting down with Cara Jade Myers — the Native American actress who spent ten years grinding through background work, PA gigs, and craft services before booking one of the most coveted roles in recent Hollywood history: Anna in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. Cara takes us through the entire extraordinary journey — from auditioning for casting director Rene Haynes for years before getting noticed, to a nine-month process that ended in a Zoom call with Scorsese where she could only see his iconic eyebrows on screen. She shares what it was like working alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the improvised flask moment that Scorsese immediately greenlit, and why the film's premiere on Hollywood Boulevard — during the strike — became one of the most bittersweet moments of her career. Plus — why writing, producing, and building her own creative projects out of sheer frustration has become the most powerful move she's ever made. These are the unforgettable stories that landed Cara Jade Myers right here. Credits: Killers of the Flower Moon This Is Us Icefall Day of Reckoning How We Stand Guest Links: IMDB: Cara Jade Myers, actress THAT ONE AUDITION'S LINKS: For exclusive content surrounding this and all podcast episodes, sign up for our amazing newsletter at AlyshiaOchse.com. And don't forget to snap and post a photo while listening to the show and tag me: @alyshiaochse & @thatoneaudition SLAYTEMBER CLASS: Starting September 24th THE BRIDGE FOR ACTORS: Become a WORKING ACTOR (50% off special) THE PRACTICE TRACK: Membership to Practice Weekly CONSULTING: Get 1-on-1 advice for your acting career from Alyshia Ochse COACHING: Get personalized coaching from Alyshia on your next audition or role INSTAGRAM: @alyshiaochse INSTAGRAM: @thatoneaudition WEBSITE: AlyshiaOchse.com APPLE PODCASTS: Subscribe to That One Audition on Apple Podcasts SPOTIFY: Subscribe to That One Audition on Spotify STITCHER: Subscribe to That One Audition on Stitcher EPISODE CREDITS: HOST/PRODUCER: Alyshia Ochse WRITER: Maddie McCormick WEBSITE & GRAPHICS: Chase Jennings SOCIAL: Alara Cerikcioglu

https://roompricegenie.com/ Checkout code for 25% off: WISH26   This Week's Guest: Heidi Zimmer — Founder, Wild Rice Retreat Connect with Heidi: https://heidi-zimmer.com/ Explore Wild Rice Retreats: https://wildriceretreat.com/   Your Host: Zach Busekrus — Journey LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbusekrus/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behindthestays/ Ben Wolff — Founder of Onera & Oasi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-wolff/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iambenwolff/   Heidi Zimmer closed on her construction financing the day before the country shut down in March of 2020. Then lumber tripled. She had to cut an entire building from the plan. And the business she'd underwritten, roughly seventy-five percent group retreats and twenty-five percent leisure, opened in 2021 and flipped almost exactly upside down. Heidi has spent more than thirty years in real estate development, much of it building artist housing and creative spaces around the country. Wild Rice Retreat sits on a hundred and fourteen acres of dense forest on a seventy-foot sandstone cliff above Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin, about as far north as you can go in this country. The land was once home to a James Beard-nominated restaurant designed by the architect David Salmela. Heidi took one look at it and knew it needed to become a place for healing. She brought Salmela back and built a thirty-one-room retreat that blends Scandinavian and Native American traditions. What makes Wild Rice so interesting is what Heidi refuses to do. Everyone tells her she needs a pickleball court, Pilates reformers and the latest gadget. She tunes all of it out. There's no menu: food is simply out from ten to noon and five to seven, because guests, especially moms, arrive with so much decision fatigue that not having to choose is the wellness. And every day includes a creativity class, because, as Heidi puts it, in the Native American tradition there's no word for artist. To be human is to be an artist. In this episode, recorded live at the Independent Hotel Show in Miami with my co-host Ben, we get into her three pillars of nourishment, expression and movement. We get into the twenty-five million dollar expansion that adds seventeen owned homes to the rental pool, and the Nordic spa she's building with a glass-front sauna facing Lake Superior. We talk about why same-week bookings are way up, and why she thinks trees are the most underrated wellness modality there is. Her father used to say there's no problem a good long walk in the woods can't solve. Heidi built a business on it.

Photo: The Alaska Federation of Natives educates young people in Indigenous villages about the importance of voting in every election. (Michelle Sparck / AFN) Alaska Native leaders are working to bring back the power of the state’s Indigenous voters. In a state where one in four voters is Native, Tribal leaders say that inaccessible geography and information gaps have combined to reduce the potency of Indigenous voices. What was once a powerful voting bloc has weakened over the years as younger generations have become less politically active, as Mark Moran reports. As recently as 1982, Indigenous people wielded substantial power at the polls – some villages even had voter turnout as high as 80%. That number has fallen drastically, now hovering at closer to 30%. Michelle Sparck, director of Get Out Native Vote for Alaska Federation of Natives, says Indigenous leaders are encouraging Native villagers to carry on the tradition of democracy established by their elders. “How difficult is it to convince a dozen of your friends and neighbors in a small community to invest in making informed decisions, and testimony, and willingness to serve? And that’s what we’re asking our people to do, is reflect on our history.” Sparck says Alaska’s Indigenous population prefers to cast its vote in person rather than by mail, which can often be difficult due to geography, health issues or a lack of polling places. But even if voting by mail, postal service can often be interrupted by severe weather. There is also limited access to Alaskan communities that can only be reached by boat or plane. The Alaska Federation of Natives has worked in schools to teach young people about civics and government. The organization also travels to villages to encourage young people to re-awaken the power of voting. “We have so much political power. We have an ability to shape Alaska’s government in our own image, and we just need to own that power again, just like our elders did.” Indigenous villages are also facing a shortage of poll workers, especially in the most remote regions of the state, or physical polling places that were never open at all in recent elections – including in Shaktoolik, Diomede, and Kobuk in northwest and western Alaska. Federal officials are also working to build practices to best communicate with Indigenous villagers, and help them exercise their right to vote. Organizations like the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center in south Minneapolis offer supportive housing that helps urban Native Americans access culturally responsive healthcare, social, and recreational services as they overcome obstacles in their lives. (Courtesy MIWRC) Ending longstanding disparities for Native Americans is not just limited to reservations. A lack of access to affordable, stable housing is an issue felt across Minnesota. Support organizations working with Indigenous populations in Minneapolis say they are working through a maze of complications, as Mike Moen reports. Minneapolis is home to one of the largest concentrations of urban Native Americans in the United States with a key cultural corridor on the city’s south side. The American Indian Community Development Corporation offers programs addressing housing and homelessness in the area. Executive Director Travis Earth-Werner says the support system has had a lot to contend with recently. “The opioid epidemic, the pandemic, all these events that have occurred throughout, you know, the last ten years [have] escalated homelessness, poverty. There’s a lot of first-time homeless individuals.” His nonprofit has about 500 units available for Native Americans overcoming substance use disorders and other challenges so they can maintain their housing, but Earth-Werner says resources are stretched thin, with added concerns about possible federal cuts on the horizon. And he says there are still gaps to fill for needs like sober housing options. In communities all over, Earth-Werner says everybody wants to add affordable housing development to meet demand, but he says to stay in those units, people need good paying jobs that do not always require a long list of education credentials. And for areas with unique needs, he says groups on the ground need all the outside support they can get so that staff members can stay mission focused. “It takes people with a lot of hard work to work with individuals and progress them forward when often there’s a lot of hopelessness involved.” Ruth Buffalo, president of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, echoes thoughts about having strong supportive services to go alongside any new housing development. In this part of South Minneapolis, she says public safety feels like an afterthought, with drug dealing and other criminal activity making it hard for American Indians to go about their daily lives. “Our most vulnerable are really trying hard to make a new path forward, but they can just go right outside and there’s predators lurking.” The Women’s Resource Center recently opened its 24-unit supportive housing building called Oshki-Gakeyaa, or New Way. The city contributed funding to that effort, but on a larger scale, Buffalo says policymakers need to listen to what residents want in crafting solutions, like housing they can afford. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode

CJ Humboldt flatlined in Barcelona, grew up homeless in Humboldt County, and still chose authenticity over everything. Here is what it cost him.CJ Humboldt built his name in the legacy cannabis world of Northern California before anyone was handing out licenses. He grew up in Eureka surrounded by four Native American reservations, navigated homelessness as a kid, broke into houses to eat, and was done with school by 5th grade. By the time the legal market existed, he had already been through most of what it could throw at a person.This episode goes deep into the philosophy behind his content, his 8-year run as a creator since getting out of prison in 2018, and the specific moment he chose authenticity over consistency, and what that choice actually cost him. CJ walks through how he went from six figures a year in sponsorships to nearly losing everything, and why he would do it the same way all over again. He also breaks down the state of the cannabis industry in 2026 with the kind of clarity you only get from someone who has skin in the game: the good (ever-changing menus forcing real connoisseurs to the top, old genetics coming back), the bad (impossible taxation and rising competition from Michigan and Maine), and the ugly (the wrong people at the top and a culture being colonized by permanent negativity).And then there is the Barcelona story. A butane tank cut went septic on the flight over. By the time CJ landed, his arm looked like Hellboy. His friend Germ gave him CPR in an Airbnb while the crew finished a blunt. CJ came back to life looking for his phone. He survived, paid $110 at a Barcelona hospital covered as a tourist, drove south to Valencia, and watched the most theatrical bullfight of his life.This is Good PizzZa doing what it does: real people, real stories, nothing cleaned up for anyone.Chapters below.Connect with CJ Humboldt:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackmarketvikingsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cjhumboldtInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cj_humboldthttps://www.instagram.com/blackmarketvikings_backupFollow Good PizzZa:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263#goodpizzza #legacycannabis #blackmarketvikingsCHAPTERS00:00 CJ Humboldt Is Back: What This Episode Is Really About01:43 Tortas, Gorditas, and Setting the Tone05:07 Why Carbonation and Seed Oils Are Making Americans Sick08:10 Deer Antler Spray, Peptides, and the Over-40 Men's Health Stack19:28 New Jack City Was a Bay Area Story: History Nobody Tells32:29 Consistent or Authentic: The Choice That Cost CJ Everything38:35 Permanently Negative Canna Bros and Why CJ Is Done With Them50:20 South Africa, Vallejo, Connecticut: Where CJ Comes From51:52 Homeless at 11, Out of School by 5th Grade, 2 DUIs at 1457:15 Flatlined in Barcelona: Sepsis, CPR, and a $110 Hospital Bill1:18:50 Good, Bad, and Ugly: The Cannabis Market in 20261:32:36 Stop Calling Yourself a Trapper: Advice From a Legacy OperatorCJ Humboldt is back.The Eureka-bred legacy operator and Black Market Vikings creator sat back down with JP for the second time, and this one goes places the first one did not.The authenticity-versus-consistency breakdown that every creator needs to hear. 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In Episode 36 of the “Arizona Highways” podcast, host Steve Goldstein and editor Robert Stieve talk with longtime contributor Annette McGivney, whose new book, “Plastic Shaman,” investigates the deaths of three people at a phony Native American sweat lodge in Central Arizona.

Friday October 2, 2026 (Gate opens at noon) 5 - 6:30 p.m. - 2 Ring Circus7 - 10 p.m. - Holy Smokes DuoSaturday October 3, 2026 (Gate opens at 7 a.m.)8 a.m. - 1st Ride Goes Out9 a.m. - 2nd Ride Goes Out 10 a.m. - 3rd Ride Goes Out Noonish - Lunch 1 p.m. - Live Auction Begins (Mexican Horse Dance to Follow) 3 p.m. - Afternoon Ride4:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Reese Horton7 - 10 p.m. - Tyler Cocker & the Night Shift Welcome to HEARD IT ON THE SHARK with your show host Melinda Marsalis and show sponsor, Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area. HEARD IT ON THE SHARK is a weekly interview show that airs every Tuesday at 11 am on the shark 102.3 FM radio station based in Ripley, MS and then is released as a podcast on all the major podcast platforms. You'll hear interviews with the movers and shakers in north Mississippi who are making things happen. Melinda talks with entrepreneurs, leaders of business, medicine, education, and the people behind all the amazing things happening in north Mississippi. When people ask you how did you know about that, you'll say, “I HEARD IT ON THE SHARK!” HEARD IT ON THE SHARK is brought to you by the Mississippi Hills National Heritage area. We want you to get out and discover the historic, cultural, natural, scenic and recreational treasures of the Mississippi Hills right in your backyard. And of course we want you to take the shark 102.3 FM along for the ride. Bounded by I-55 to the west and Highway 14 to the south, the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, created by the United States Congress in 2009 represents a distinctive cultural landscape shaped by the dynamic intersection of Appalachian and Delta cultures, an intersection which has produced a powerful concentration of national cultural icons from the King of Rock'n'Roll Elvis Presley, First Lady of Country Music Tammy Wynette, blues legend Howlin' Wolf, Civil Rights icons Ida B. Wells-Barnett and James Meredith, America's favorite playwright Tennessee Williams, and Nobel-Laureate William Faulkner. The stories of the Mississippi Hills are many and powerful, from music and literature, to Native American and African American heritage, to the Civil War. The Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area supports the local institutions that preserve and share North Mississippi's rich history. Begin your discovery of the historic, cultural, natural, scenic, and recreational treasures of the Mississippi Hills by visiting the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area online at mississippihills.org. Musical Credit to: Garry Burnside - Guitar; Buddy Grisham - Guitar; Mike King - Drums/Percussion All content is copyright 2021 Sun Bear Studio Ripley MS LLC all rights reserved. No portion of this podcast may be rebroadcast or used for any other purpose without express written consent of Sun Bear Studio Ripley MS LLC

Send us a text and chime in!The 28th annual Prescott Indian Art Market (PIAM) wrapped up a highly successful two-day run at Sharlot Hall Museum on September 19 and 20, welcoming an enthusiastic turnout of collectors, families, and art lovers. The juried art show celebrated the work of Native American artists across seven categories, culminating in the announcement of this year's award winners. Raymond Chee, Sr. earned the event's top honor, Best of Show, for his large and detailed carving depicting a WWII Navajo Code Talker. The weekend brought steady crowds to the museum grounds, where visitors browsed booths, met artists, and purchased original works spanning...   For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/prescott-indian-art-market-announces-2026-winners/ Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

In honor of my father's birthday 9/26 I wanted to reshare this episode. We discuss fatherhood, love, growth, what it is like once you lose your parents, and much more. This is an episode I will always come back to and I think anyone can gain something from sitting down with someone they care about and having a REAL conversation.Tyler Davis is a Comanche, Caddo, husband, and my father who has always been well respected and I'm blessed to have him in my life. "This episode is near and dear to my heart. I am able to have a deep conversation with my father about growing up, what it was like becoming a dad, hardships, how to deal with loss, but most importantly LOVE!I share a very personal recording of my Grandfather, play the Native American flute, burn sage, and getting to learn more of my dad's thoughts and stories was POWERFUL."Hope you all enjoy... KEEPGOING!Follow me:IG- https://www.instagram.com/zdsellsokc/FB- https://www.facebook.com/ZDsellsOKC/Website: ⁠https://keepgoingpodcast.carrd.co/⁠  ⁠Click here to be a guest on Keep Going Podcast⁠: ⁠https://form.jotform.com/252251121299149⁠

The Daily Quiz - Sports and Leisure Today's Questions: Question 1: Which Formula One champion returned to racing six weeks after a crash that nearly killed him? Question 2: What sport, played with sticks with pouches at the end, was called 'Baggataway' by Native Americans? Question 3: Which team won the first UEFA Champions League in 1992? Question 4: Who is Mega Man's sister? Question 5: What is the term for when the puck is dropped in ice hockey? Question 6: Which Grade Follows A Yellow Belt In Judo Question 7: What is the nickname of the English football team Bristol City? Question 8: Which Country Hosted The 2004 Summer Olympics? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Daily Quiz - Sports and Leisure Today's Questions: Question 1: Which Formula One champion returned to racing six weeks after a crash that nearly killed him? Question 2: What sport, played with sticks with pouches at the end, was called 'Baggataway' by Native Americans? Question 3: Which team won the first UEFA Champions League in 1992? Question 4: Who is Mega Man's sister? Question 5: What is the term for when the puck is dropped in ice hockey? Question 6: Which Grade Follows A Yellow Belt In Judo Question 7: What is the nickname of the English football team Bristol City? Question 8: Which Country Hosted The 2004 Summer Olympics? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As You Wish Talk Radio with James Gilliland Fourteen Years of Sasquatch Contact, Telepathic Gifting Rituals, and Ancient Anunnaki Warnings with Mike Paterson Broadcasting as a cyclone approaches his Hawaii farm, James Gilliland welcomes Sasquatch Ontario's Mike Paterson to share fourteen years of documented contact with one Sasquatch family, including telepathic gifting rituals, apported marbles, and a rare close-up photograph of a being named Neph. Introducing Sasquatch Ontario's Mike Paterson James Gilliland opens the broadcast noting how often listeners request more Bigfoot coverage, but he explains his hesitance, saying encounters with these beings become deeply personal and he does not want them disturbed or exploited for fame. He introduces Mike Paterson of Sasquatch Ontario, saying he has followed Paterson's recordings and interactions and recognizes the same deep respect and lack of ego that Gilliland believes is essential to real contact. He contrasts this with typical television Bigfoot programs, describing crews with expensive gear, night-vision cameras, and loud searches that come up empty because, he says, the beings choose who sees them rather than the reverse. Paterson agrees, saying he grew tired of formulaic television shows built for ratings rather than truth, and that understanding Sasquatch requires engaging their metaphysical, telepathic nature rather than treating them as ordinary wildlife to be tracked and filmed. Fourteen Years With One Sasquatch Family Paterson describes documenting encounters with a single Sasquatch family on one property owner's land since 2012, an ongoing relationship of hundreds of interactions both indoors and outdoors. He explains the family communicates telepathically and shows advanced understanding of consciousness, and that he built trust over years despite early mistakes he later corrected. He names Neph as the family's elder ambassador and Ninyan as a rambunctious teenage member, saying the beings have shown him written communication indoors, confirming they consider themselves among the first peoples and that they have different races, calling their own people Mushtaba. Paterson says he records audio every visit, later discovering vocalizations timed precisely to human movements he never noticed in the moment. Even after fourteen years, he says, the family's full size and membership remain unknown, and he still awaits a clear, close visual sighting despite abundant vocal, written, and physical evidence of their ongoing presence. Gilliland's Own Encounters At ECETI Gilliland shares his own decades of Sasquatch activity at the ECETI Ranch in Washington, describing a juvenile named Doloki who shakes visitors' cars and leaves footprints, including one witnessed by a radio host he believes was Clyde Lewis during a morning coffee visit. He recounts watching a Sasquatch phase through tangled orchard branches without disturbing a single limb, and seeing one turn into a light sphere before reappearing. He describes walking within fifty feet of a distraught mother separated from her daughter, who told him "thanks, but no thanks" before moving on, an encounter later confirmed in uncanny detail by remote viewer Tom Dongo, who had received no information beforehand. Gilliland also recalls twin brothers so overwhelmed by an emotional exchange with a visiting Sasquatch that they could not speak about it for weeks, and Native American elders who leave and receive gifts during ranch visits, reinforcing his belief that mutual respect governs every genuine interaction. Beer, Tobacco, and Spelling Names With Beans Paterson describes years of gifting rituals that evolved through trial and error, starting when beer bottles began disappearing from the property owner's kitchen, prompting him to start leaving beer directly for Neph, who eventually indicated a preference for a particular brand. Cigarettes followed after he asked aloud whether the family smoked and a marble dropped onto the table beside him, and he later learned Ninyan enjoys magic mushrooms and dark chocolate. Fresh vegetables from his garden became part of the routine too, including one occasion when a single green bean disappeared and he later found the remaining beans arranged to spell "Mike," followed by "Neph" and "Nin" on subsequent visits. He describes hundreds of witnessed marble apports over the years, along with a premium bottle of beer vanishing the instant the property owner glimpsed a translucent, roughly eight-foot Neph beside the counter, evidence he says shows the family's ability to move objects between dimensions instantly and without disturbance. A Clear Photo of Neph and the Backlash Paterson recounts photographing Neph's face in December 2019 after the property owner heard a giggle outside and captured two clear images of the being leaning on a fence, grinning. He says he asked the family's permission before sharing the pictures, was initially told "not yet," and waited three and a half years before receiving the go-ahead. Once posted, he says, doubters eventually commissioned a physical mask built from an AI-generated model in an attempt to discredit the photographs, though he found the fabricated mask nothing like the original images. Both Paterson and Gilliland describe intense jealousy and competition inside the UFO and Bigfoot communities, arguing that people who cannot achieve real contact themselves often attack those who can, despite presenting themselves as spiritually enlightened. Gilliland calls much of the field a controlled narrative full of "posers and shills," while Paterson says his consistency and refusal to fabricate details have made it impossible for critics to catch him in a lie. Weaponized Weather, Ancient Texts, and Closing Advice The conversation turns to Gilliland's belief that ancient Anunnaki tablets describe seven weapons capable of producing earthquakes, floods, and plagues, which he compares directly to modern weather manipulation and depopulation efforts that Paterson says the Sasquatch family has independently confirmed through written answers, including a drawing labeling vaccine injections as harmful. Gilliland describes unexplained protection shielding both the ECETI ranch and his cyclone-threatened coffee farm on Hawaii's Big Island, where falling trees repeatedly miss structures. Paterson recounts being physically touched, hugged, and having his foot grabbed during visits, framing these as playful, trusting gestures from a family he has followed since 2008. Both agree the beings are quietly revealing themselves on their own terms rather than being "discovered." Paterson closes by directing listeners to his Sasquatch Ontario channel and urging genuine, spoken intention in the woods, while Gilliland thanks him, promises to air his recordings, and signs off wishing listeners an open mind and loving heart.

Storytelling is one of humanity's oldest technologies, and Grandpa Bill is using it to make one case: the lessons that helped tribes, elders, and communities survive are still relevant for our health, memory, and mindset today.If you care about aging well, staying mentally sharp, or understanding why oral traditions still matter in a podcast and video world, this episode lays out the bigger mission behind the show and where it's headed next.Grandpa Bill frames his long-running daily audio work as a mix of goodwill ambassadorship, intergenerational wellness, and living history. He connects 72 years of personal health, a decades-deep podcasting journey, and a storyteller's worldview into one through line: information only matters if it helps people live better.You'll hear how stories function across cultures as tools for preserving tribal history, explaining natural phenomena, and passing on social norms. Grandpa Bill highlights examples from Aboriginal Australian memory maps, Native American oral traditions, African griots, Polynesian hula, Chinese puppetry, and European folktales to show how narrative survives, adapts, and shapes collective memory.We break down why oral traditions were never just entertainment - they were education, record keeping, moral instruction, and cultural glue. He also connects those ancient practices to modern forms like spoken word, podcasts, and radio, showing why the medium may have changed but the human need hasn't.This episode matters because the same storytelling patterns that preserved knowledge for thousands of years still influence how we learn, remember, and connect. If you're interested in longevity, wellness, memory, culture, or the strange power of stories to outlive empires, this is a thoughtful preview of the journey ahead.Perfect for listeners who enjoy reflective solo episodes, elder wisdom, cultural history, and practical conversations about staying active, healthy, and mentally engaged for the long haul.#Storytelling, #OralTradition, #CulturalHeritage, #HealthAndWellness, #HealthyAging, #IntergenerationalWisdom, #memory, #HumanHistory, #Podcast,

In her inspirational new memoir, Working Class to Breaking Glass: One Woman's Fight to Belong and to Lead, Wanda J. Herndon chronicles her journey from humble beginnings to executive leadership and influence at Starbucks. Throughout her memoir, Herndon interweaves personal storytelling with reflections on identity, mentorship, resilience, and purpose. She explores how systemic barriers shape opportunity and how determination, preparation, and community support can positively change lives. Whether she's navigating corporate culture or confronting moments of personal loss and reinvention, her story demonstrates that leadership is not a destination but an evolving journey. Herndon's story begins in Flint, Michigan. Her father, who dropped out of school in the eighth grade to help financially support his family in the Jim Crow South, took a life-changing bus ride North in search of freedom and a living wage. He found both at General Motors, but his dream for Herndon was different: "You should get an office job," he insisted. Herndon took that directive to avoid the assembly line and became one of the first in her family to graduate from college. Navigating racial barriers, economic limitations, and self-doubt, she confronted the realities faced by many Black students in America during the 1960s and 1970s. At Michigan State University, Herndon pursued journalism and entered the workforce in the mid-1970s. With each new opportunity, she refined her leadership voice and reinforced her commitment to inclusion. A turning point came when she joined Starbucks during a period of rapid transformation and expansion. At the company's Seattle headquarters, Herndon rose through the ranks, earning a seat at decision-making tables where demographic representation had historically been absent. Her leadership extended beyond business operations-she became a cultural advocate and bridge-builder, committed to increasing opportunities for all people. In sharing her journey, Herndon honors the sacrifices of her ancestors and parents while encouraging future generations to claim their own place at the table. Wanda J. Herndon, president and CEO of W Communications, LLC, is an award-winning corporate communications trailblazer, author, speaker, mentor, entrepreneur, Broadway producer, and the first senior vice president of global communications for Starbucks Coffee Company, from 1995 to 2006. Howard Schultz, Starbucks founder and CEO, asked her to return to the role in 2008 for a one-year engagement to help execute the company's turnaround strategy. Raised in Flint, Michigan in a working-class family shaped by the Great Migration, she became one of the first in her family to attend college, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism as well as an honorary doctor of Humanities degree from Michigan State University. She built a groundbreaking career at Dow Chemical, DuPont, and Starbucks. Her memoir, Working Class to Breaking Glass, chronicles her journey  from Flint to corporate leadership, exploring race, gender, class, family legacy, belonging, and the courage to lead without compromising one's true self while opening doors for others. Angela Poe Russell is a veteran journalist and storyteller whose work has earned her a Gracie Award and a Northwest Emmy Award. During her 25-year career, she has taken her craft across multiple platforms including television, radio, and film – covering news in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Seattle; writing for Lifetime Movie Network; and interviewing figures ranging from President Barack Obama to cultural icons like Halle Berry and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Most recently, Angela brought her storytelling instincts to the theatrical stage with the sold-out debut of the musical Aviatrix at Seattle Public Theater, which added extra performances to meet demand during its four-week run. As the book writer and co-lyricist, Angela shined a light on the story of Bessie Coleman, the first Black and Native American woman to earn an international pilot's license. Angela is a contributor on KIRO Newsradio and is grateful to be sharing life with her husband Victor and their blended family of two sons and two daughters.

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Last week, Hightower had the absolute pleasure of appearing on Tavis Smiley's live radio talk show—a lot of great laughs, and a lot of good ground covered! From the Texas races, to America at 250, to the idea that fundamental fairness is a sense all humans share, Tavis and Hightower went deep. Tavis and his team have given us permission to share it with you here, and we're so grateful—he's also just started his own Substack newsletter, and we encourage you to subscribe to one of the greats of American media at tavissmiley.substack.com. You can also listen live on KBLA 1580 daily, and subscribe to his podcast. —dzTranscriptEdited lightly for clarityPart 1Tavis Smiley: Tavis Smiley, glad you're with us in the second hour of our program here today.Yesterday, we stepped into what I call the Elders' Skybox to talk to Dr. Johnette Cole. She was absolutely amazing yesterday. If you missed that conversation with Johnnetta Cole yesterday, I encourage you to check out the podcast, now posted. She, of course, is the legendary, the iconic, first African American woman to be president of Spelman. But she's covered so much ground in her amazing career, and she joined us yesterday on the show. And Johnnetta Cole still got it. I mean, she was just blazing yesterday. So if you missed the conversation with Johnnetta Cole yesterday, I encourage you, you will not be disappointed. Check out the podcast, now up, of our dialogue with Dr. Cole yesterday.So we stepped into the Elders Skybox again today to talk to our friend and brother Jim Hightower, the legendary talk show host down in Texas. I quote him oftentimes. When you hear me say that the only thing you find in the middle of the road is a dead armadillo, that was Jim Hightower years ago, and I've never forgotten that line from all those years ago. You can't be middle of the road. We were just talking about that in our hour with Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead about Hakeem Jeffries and some of these Democrats who, on a number of issues, still want to occupy the center, the middle of the road. That is not where one needs to be, especially right about now. Pick a side. Pick a side is my point. And that was Jim Hightower's advice many, many years ago. I never forgot when he said it, and I've held on to it all these years.I invited him on today to talk about this hot Texas Senate race, but more broadly to get his take, as a longtime progressive, on the march that we are witnessing in real time by these progressives after decades of being in the wilderness. With all that said, I'm honored to welcome Jim Hightower to this program. Jim, how are you, sir?Jim Hightower: I'm doing great, Tavis, and all the greater because I get to visit with you.Tavis Smiley: It's my honor to have you on this program. Thank you for those kind words. I meant what I said earlier about having listened to you. I'm at that age now. I just turned 62 a couple of days ago, and I've been at this, what, 35 years. My mom teases me about it, but people come on the show all the time: “Mr. Smiley, I grew up listening to you, I grew up watching you.” So I'm at that age now where I'm getting that. And this is funny, because I can say that to Jim Hightower now. I grew up listening to him and watching him, and so I'm thrilled to have him on this program.Let me just start with this, broadly speaking. I've asked this question of other guests. I've got two minutes now, we've got the rest of the hour when we come forward, but in these first two minutes, I'm asking you the same question I've asked of others. We are inside that eight-week sprint from Labor Day to Election Day. How are you feeling?Jim Hightower: I am feeling more upbeat than I have been in years about Texas politics. Our party has finally come alive down here, as you just indicated. We've had too many corporate centrists trying to dominate our party, thinking we can fool the people if we just tiptoe around our progressivism, rather than recognizing that people themselves are progressive. And if we talk to them in that kind of language, they might respond to us in a more favorable way than they have in the past, or respond at all.I would point out, first of all, Tavis, that Texas is not a right-wing state. It is not a Republican state. It is a non-voting state. And it has not been voting because the Democratic Party, my party, has been over in the ditch somewhere, trying not to be discovered, rather than recognizing that most people are quite progressive. I think of it in terms of my own father, who kept up with politics, but he was not political, particularly. He didn't know he had a political philosophy, but he did, and it was expressed to me many times in these words. He said, “Jim, everybody does better when everybody does better.” And that is what the Democratic Party is supposed to represent.And so that spirit is coming back within the Democratic Party. We have it with James Talarico running for Senate, Gina Hinojosa running for governor, but also let us not forget those down-ballot candidates, who can make such a difference in a campaign. I've been one of those myself, so I can attest to it. And we have a terrific lineup this year, including Clayton Tucker running for agriculture commissioner, a position that most people wouldn't pay a whole lot of attention to until you realize, wait a minute, if you eat, you are involved in agriculture. And we need to make that political as well as edible.Tavis Smiley: Love it. He's already on a roll. That is the Jim Hightower that I grew up listening to. He's wise, he drops these one-liners; as we say these days, he's dropping bars. I love his father's edict that everybody does better when everybody does better. It's so simple. But I want to give him some time to unpack this. I want to interrogate this notion that people themselves are progressive. People themselves are progressive. That line resonated with me; I suspect it did with you as well. I'll let him unpack that and a great deal more. I'm glad to have Jim Hightower for the hour on Tavis Smiley.Tavis Smiley, and longtime progressive activist, legendary talk show host, bestselling author Jim Hightower. So we've stepped into the Elders Skybox to tap into his wisdom in this hour as we are hurtling inexorably toward Election Day on Tuesday, November 3rd. Wanted to check in with him on some national issues, but certainly everybody's watching this Senate race in Texas. I talk to my friends down there all the time, and they are so excited about turning Texas blue. You heard Jim Hightower say a moment ago that Texas is not a Republican state, it's not a red state, it's a non-voting state. I'll let him unpack that as we move through this hour.But just some quick updates here. So you saw the Republican convention, that two-day farce they had down in Texas not long ago. Since that convention, a new poll has come out about the race in Texas. Interestingly, the survey happened on September 13th. That was Sunday, my birthday. And it's good news for James Talarico. The latest poll, this is the SoCal Strategies poll, shows Talarico leading Paxton 50 percent to 45 percent. It's a five-point margin. There had been a two-point lead by Paxton over Talarico. It's fascinating. So before the convention, Paxton was leading Talarico by two points in Texas. Post the convention, it flips. Talarico is now leading Paxton by five points. Not sure what Ken Paxton did or said at that convention that made these numbers flip. Obviously it's very, very tight, and these polls are snapshots in time. We still have weeks to go before Election Day. We'll let Jim Hightower unpack a bit more about the tightness of this race in Texas in this hour.But I want to start right now, Jim, where we left off moments ago, and that is with your suggestion that people are themselves a great deal more progressive than we acknowledge or give them credit for. We've got time. Unpack that for me.Jim Hightower: Well, just go back to your childhood. The very first political expression of a child, maybe at two years old, is “That's not fair.” That is a powerful political sentiment, and it's within all of us. And that's what we're seeing today. The unfairness of the billionaires with their data centers invading our communities. The unfairness of the destruction of voting rights, period. Not just the Voting Rights Act, but voting rights. The unfairness of economic plutocracy, really, and just a general unfairness that pervades our society, including the election itself.The idea that money can control. That happened to Texas, just as it did nationally, in the 1980s, when Tony Coelho, a member of Congress from California, decided that the Democrats didn't need to have all this grassroots stuff. We could just get money from rich people and throw it at television ads, and then we could compete with the Republicans. And the powers that be in the Democratic Party here in Texas agreed with that. So they began to shift away from what Ann Richards and myself and Jim Mattox and Garry Mauro and other good, solid Democrats were winning elections with: a focus on the grassroots people of our state. That got abandoned. Instead they turned to money.And when you turn to money, I can tell you, if you get a corporate check, written on the back of it is the corporate agenda. And they're going to cash that check, not you. That is what happened to Texas. The Democrats quit being Democrats because, well, we don't want to upset those money people, so we'll just tone down our message. And by toning down the message, we tone down our public support, our people's support. If we weren't standing for them, why would they stand for us? And so that's what happened. Our solid Democratic constituencies, which were farmers, working-class folks, teachers, environmentalists, didn't hear themselves in the Democratic message. So they quit voting. It's not that they turned Republican.We consistently had among the top one or two worst voting records in the country in the state of Texas. We have the lowest turnout in our country. Ken Paxton, you just mentioned, is now running for the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket. Paxton got 68 percent of the Republican primary election that made him their nominee. Sixty-eight percent, boy, that sounds good. He must be very popular, until you realize that is 3.4 percent of the voters of Texas. That's who nominated him. That's his basic support: 3.4 percent. Can we not get 3.5 percent? Well, maybe if we began to organize and mobilize and strategize and do something a little stronger than we had been doing.And that's the good news in Texas. That's what has changed this election cycle over previous ones: our Democratic Party, with a new party chair, and a dynamic bunch of candidates running for statewide office and local office as well. We used to have 50 counties in our state that had no Democratic Party chair, much less a Democratic committee. We had state legislative district after district that had no Democratic contender in it. So we weren't even running. But this year we do. We have candidates, good candidates, in all of those districts. We have vibrant party building in every county in the state. You have to have the infrastructure. It's not just handsome candidates like myself, or smart and sassy people, that make the difference. It is grassroots, fundamentally. And if you abandon the grassroots, then there's no one to appeal to.Part 2Tavis Smiley: Let me ask you this. You said a few things, and I want to go back to them right quick. You're on a roll, and that's what he does every day, and I love it. I just have to keep up with him. Let me start with the money. No naiveté here, but my sense is, even though we've seen efforts, I think of McCain-Feingold, other efforts we've seen over the years, my sense is that at this point that horse has left the barn, and I can't imagine how we get money out of our politics. Citizens United, I can do this all day long, as you could, Jim Hightower. But that trade-off that Democrats made to get access to that money, there's no 180 on this. I mean, the Democratic Party is so broke now, as you know. The national Democratic Party is so broke, they've been borrowing money. So even though your indictment about the money in our politics is spot on, can you imagine any way to get money out of our politics at this point?Jim Hightower: Yes, I can, which is to go to the people with it. It is the most popular polling issue in America and has been for some time: getting corporate money out of politics. It's up at the 90 percent level, including something like 75 percent of Republicans who want to get this corporate money out of our system. So we have the base of support, but we have to have a politics that goes out there and collects that base. And that means running on it again. Our party nationally has quit running on that issue. So we've abandoned one of the very best issues we have, an issue of abject plutocracy over democracy, money over people.And that is what's beginning to change. That's why Talarico is up there, running as our Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. He has raised a ton of money, outraised Paxton himself, because he's getting small-dollar donations from people who are mad as hell about money in politics and how government serves money, not people. And again, Clayton Tucker, running for agriculture commissioner, has a theme that says to beat money power, you have to have people power. You have to organize people against organized money. That is a winning topic, and candidate after candidate around the country this time are beginning to grasp that and make hay with it.Tavis Smiley: Let me ask you this. The other thing you said, I want to come back to it. You're saying so much that's just jumping out at me. I want to come back to this notion of fundamental fairness. I find myself time and time again over the course of my career, Jim, on any number of issues, making the point that it's ultimately about fundamental fairness. Pick the issue, and my moral stance on so many of these issues is that it's ultimately about what I term fundamental fairness.And I loved your suggestion that one of the first things that comes out of our mouths as kids... I don't know where we get this, but when you said it, I smiled. I'm sure every parent listening to this program right now smiled. We've all heard kids say, “That's not fair. That's not fair.” I don't even know where that comes from, but we've all heard babies say that line. So I'm glad you used that.I'm wondering whether or not, in this moment, you believe that everyday people in this country care about fundamental fairness. And before you answer, here's my point. I think that we've become more nativist for a lot of reasons. People are turning inward, they're lashing outward. I'm not sure that we actually believe in meritocracy anymore. We see Donald Trump and the big grift. We see him not playing the game by any set of rules that speaks to any kind of fairness. We see the Supreme Court putting its thumb on the scale in favor of Donald Trump too often. We see a Congress that's doing nothing; they're letting Donald Trump run roughshod. In the legislative branch, the executive branch, or the judicial branch, I don't see any semblance of fairness. Tell me whether or not you believe that everyday people in this nation still believe in the notion. Never mind what we say as a two-year-old: as adults, do we believe in fundamental fairness?Jim Hightower: Yes, we do. And in every case that you mentioned there, Trump being a sleaze, Congress not taking any action, the Supreme Court being a corporate subsidiary, et cetera, their popularity has declined in direct proportion to their abandonment of those values of fairness. That still is within the people. We don't appeal to it. For the most part, we've not had a politics nationwide that appeals to that fairness issue. But again, I think it is so fundamental that it is the core of reestablishing a people's democracy in our country: just to focus on that fundamental issue of fairness.You know, again, back to my upbringing in the little town of Denison, Texas. My parents taught egalitarianism. They didn't know what that word was. Probably couldn't spell it, you know. But they understood it. What they said to me was, “Nobody is better than you, and you're not any better than anybody else.” Again, those are powerful moral sentiments that are deeply imbued, I think, in the human experience.And you see it as people rebel against the privatization of our schools, as people rebel against the monopolization of our food economy, our energy economy, any basic economy you want to talk about, controlled by a handful of billionaires. You see it in the public disgust with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos and these sorts of billionaires who seem to think that because they've got money, they've got brains, and they can just run things. But you can't run over the American people. You know, Lincoln said it: you can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. And I think those people are on the move.And again, if we have a politics that appeals to “we're going to be a unified country that believes in egalitarianism, that believes in fairness, that believes in economic justice, social justice,” then people will respond. They won't respond to those words, but they will respond to the reality that you put forward. Here's what we mean by that.Part 3Tavis Smiley: I hear it, I hear it. Jim Hightower, still on fire all these decades later. As I said earlier, in case you've just tuned in, people tell me all the time, “I grew up listening to you, I grew up watching you,” and I can say that about Jim Hightower, and now you see where I got it from. So much of the way I approach these issues I learned from Jim Hightower. He just speaks plain. I call it KISS MIP: keep it simple, make it plain. KISS MIP, keep it simple, make it plain. I love his parents' edict that everybody does better when everybody does better. There's a reason why he is the legendary Jim Hightower. You see why I want him on this program. I hope when I achieve his age, my mind is still as sharp as his and still on point the way his is. I am honored to have another half hour with Jim Hightower when we come forward on Tavis Smiley.I just saw the numbers. People are signing up by the hundreds to join us on Saturday, October 3rd. I'm inviting you once again, right now: mark your calendar. This is history in the making, the California Voices Town Hall and Ballot Forum, live from L.A., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All the candidates are showing up, and you should too. The event is free, but you must register. Go to KBLA1580.com right now and get your seat. California Voices, Saturday, October 3rd. Come be a part of history, brought to you by KBLA Talk 1580 and the Community Voter Education Project.And this is what I call wisdom speaking. Wisdom speaking. I am honored to be in conversation with the legendary, the iconic talk show host Jim Hightower, New York Times bestselling author, syndicated columnist, who has his own Substack called the Hightower Lowdown that I encourage you to sign up for: the Hightower Lowdown on Substack, by Jim Hightower. He's still dropping bars as often as he can. And again, I'm just thrilled to have him on this program for the hour. In case you missed the first half hour, you missed a good one. I love this homespun wisdom that he's sharing with us. There are thankfully a few more minutes to go in this dialogue, but check out the podcast of the entire conversation, posted later this evening, if you missed any of the brilliance of Jim Hightower in this first half hour.I want to play a clip for you. Jim and I were talking a little bit ago about the Republican convention, the midterm convention, the first time in 50-plus years that somebody did one of these in the midterms. And it was in Texas, of course, in Dallas. James Talarico is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat against Ken Paxton. He didn't go to the convention, but post the convention, Talarico got a bump. Typically the guy featured at the convention gets a bump. Didn't work that way. Paxton did not get a bump. Post the convention, the poll indicates that Talarico is now leading Paxton in Texas by five points.If you were listening earlier, you heard Jim Hightower say that Texas is not a red state, not a Republican state, it's a non-voting state. And when you break down the numbers, as he did so brilliantly earlier, you'll see that Texas really is a non-voting state. I was thinking, when Jim was making that point, that if we did the data on every state, we may find out that most of these 50 states are not blue or red. They're all non-voting states. It ain't just Texas. I think Jim is on to something. We should stop this red and blue nonsense, even the purple nonsense, and just call them non-voting states. Jim Hightower once again is giving us something to think about.But Talarico gets a bump out of their convention. He goes up. He's up by five points right now. So all of my friends in Texas are excited about the chance for Texas to turn blue this time around. We will see if Talarico can pull that off.But back to that convention. I want you to listen very carefully. I'm just setting this up now. There was a heckler at this convention when Ted Cruz was speaking. And maybe heckler is the wrong word, because in the Black church we say you've got your amen corner. So I'm not sure he's a heckler as much as he is an amen corner for Ted Cruz, who did nothing to chin-check this guy, to stop this guy from what he was saying repeatedly while Ted Cruz was speaking. Cruz heard it loud and clear. You can hear it on the tape. And at no point did Ted Cruz stop to correct him. But listen to Ted Cruz, and just listen very carefully. You're going to hear it two or three times; see if you can't pick it out for yourself. Give it to me, Miles.Ted Cruz (audio clip): When Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production, he means it. When Abdul El-Sayed says he has a quote “obligation to comply with Sharia law,” he means it. And when James Talarico says he wants to dismantle capitalism, he means it.Tavis Smiley: Have Miles play it one more time. I want you to hear it now. I'll tell you exactly what you should have heard. Every time he calls out the name of Mamdani, then Abdul El-Sayed, then James Talarico, there's a guy standing not too far from Ted Cruz who yells out, “He should be shot.” Mamdani: “He should be shot.” Abdul El-Sayed: “He should be shot.” James Talarico: “He should be shot.” Now listen again; see if you hear it.Ted Cruz (audio clip, replayed): When Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production, he means it. When Abdul El-Sayed says he has a quote “obligation to comply with Sharia law,” he means it. And when James Talarico says he wants to dismantle capitalism, he means it.Tavis Smiley: Going back, Jim Hightower, to all of the pronouncements made after the death, the murder, of Charlie Kirk, and now on national television, at a Republican convention, you have someone yelling three times, no less, “He should be shot, he should be shot, he should be shot,” and ain't nobody said nothing about it, Jim Hightower.Jim Hightower: Yes, the silence is the evil. And that's all about Trump. You know, almost no Republican will stand up and say Trump is just full of it. He is espousing hatred, he is espousing misogyny, he is espousing racism, he's espousing xenophobia. He's espousing everything that America is against. Everything America stands for is being rejected by Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton and Donald Trump, et cetera. You know, I heard on TV recently, Tavis, some Republican saying about Ted Cruz, “Well, you know, sometimes Ted is his own worst enemy.” And I said, “Not while I'm alive, he's not.”We have to take on these people. We progressives can't just say, “Well, they're just talking.” No, they're not. They're spewing a doctrine of hatred and of violence, really, as you just portrayed in that amazing work of audio technology that you pulled off. It's very, very telling. And again, you know, I keep coming back to the positive side of it. That is not America. That's what gets portrayed most, but that is not who we are.Part 4Tavis Smiley: Not who we are. You see why I love Jim Hightower. I mean, he said Ted's his own worst enemy? Not as long as I'm living. I love, love, love Jim Hightower. All right, and that's why I invited him on this program for an hour. Let me circle back, Jim, to something else you said earlier, and actually I opined on it myself. I thought about what you said during the break. Based on your analysis and based on your framing, Texas ain't the only non-voting state. So why are we stuck on this red, blue, sometimes purple narrative when the truth is that all of these states are non-voting states?Jim Hightower: Yes. Well, the media, the political consultants, they're the ones who drew this red-blue color map on us. And it is not true. It has never been true. I've got a great story from my campaigning days of going into an area with people who are supposedly right-wing, and being able to talk to them. And we have candidates today doing that. Talarico is doing it, Clayton Tucker is doing it, Gina Hinojosa is doing it: going into areas where people have been told, “You're right-wing,” and they're saying, “Wait a minute, we like what this person is saying. Can't we talk about that?” And so we just have to keep saying it. But that requires, Tavis, that we go back to grassroots people politics again, to where we're talking to the people, not talking through consultants and PR people.You know, I'll tell you, today I'm sitting in my kitchen in Austin, Texas. But I live on the south side of Austin, and we're a little more irreverent over here. We're just a little more spunky. In fact, our slogan over here is “We're all here because we're not all there.”Tavis Smiley: I love Austin, and I'm glad to know that you are in that part of town. As a matter of fact, Austin's my favorite city in Texas. I didn't realize that until 25, 30 years ago, when I started going to the Texas Book Festival, one of the best book festivals in the country. I've been honored to be invited to speak there a number of times over the course of the 24 or 25 books I've written. I've been going to the Texas Book Festival for years. It's in Austin, the state capital. And I remember the first time I went there, I wanted to know where Barbara Jordan sat. That's what I wanted to know. In what seat did Barbara Jordan sit, before she went to Congress, of course? I wanted to find that out. But I've been to Austin a number of times over the years, and I like Austin. It's my favorite city in Texas. I didn't know that's where Jim was today, but I'm glad to know he's there.When we come forward... We've been talking about Texas, and of course a lot of national issues, and I don't want to color this any more than this. I want to give Jim all the canvas he needs to paint. I am curious, given all the years he's been out here espousing these progressive POVs, these progressive points of view, what he makes of the march that progressives are on right now across the country. Call them progressives, call them DSA. What does Jim Hightower think of this march by progressives right about now? And I'm also curious to get his take more broadly on how he sees America at 250. He's been on the front lines as a progressive fighter for a long time, but here we are, 250 years in. What does Jim Hightower make of this moment in this republic? You're listening to Tavis Smiley.Tavis Smiley, with Jim Hightower. Jim Hightower, you've been out here a long time on the front lines of this fight as an unapologetic progressive. What's your read of, as I would term it, this progressive march literally all across the country?Jim Hightower: Well, it is the most encouraging thing I've seen in a long, long time. And it is happening for real reasons, because the powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that ought to be. And people are catching on to that. So they're beginning to rebel, and not just liberals, and not just progressives or populists like me, but everyday working people are saying, as we started our conversation, Tavis, “That's not fair. This ain't right. This is not America.”And so we've been battling for years. We win fights. Again, you know, I was elected in the 1980s, two terms as Texas agriculture commissioner, elected with Ann Richards running for treasurer, Mattox running for attorney general, Garry Mauro running for land commissioner. We ran a unified campaign, because we could then go to people and say, “It's not just about electing poor old Hightower here. It's about electing a government. We can make change.” And that is what's missing in our politics: people believing that change can actually happen. Because, as you indicated so rightly early on, Congress doesn't do anything, the Supreme Court just follows the corporate agenda, and the White House, of course, is the mess that it's in.So we have to have results coming from our work. And that means a long-term view of politics. You know, I ran for office the first time and I lost. I came very close, but I lost. But I was able to turn it around, because even a losing campaign creates energy. It creates new people. It creates talent. And you can apply that to the next campaign, not just for one individual, but for many, many others. As Willie Nelson put it to me once, he said, “Hightower, the early bird might get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.”Tavis Smiley: You can't fade Jim Hightower. You cannot fade Jim Hightower, coming with wisdom of his own, wisdom from his parents, wisdom from Willie Nelson. Love me some Jim Hightower. We'll close this conversation when we come forward with his thoughts on America at 250. You're listening to Tavis Smiley.I've got three minutes left in this hour, which I have enjoyed immensely, stepping into the Elders Skybox. Again, yesterday Johnnetta Cole was here, former president of Spelman. Check out the podcast if you missed that brilliant conversation. And if you missed any of this dialogue with Jim Hightower, there's so much richness in this thing, man. You'll want to hear it again if you heard it once. And if you didn't hear it, check out the podcast, posted tonight. You will not be disappointed in this conversation with Jim Hightower. As they say in Washington, I want to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Texas. I've got three minutes left. It's all yours, Jim Hightower. Three minutes. Talk to me about America at 250 as you see it, my friend.Jim Hightower: I think America is healthy in a fundamental way. It's very active right now. You know, there are all kinds of great groups out there making fundamental changes, groups that are progressive and inclusive. And all the bad words we're not supposed to say, again: diversity and equity. I mean, what's wrong with diversity? What's wrong with equity? What are they talking about? And I think more and more people are asking that. And we need to have a constant politics that asks that question. Why should we be afraid of diversity? Unless you're a Native American, you are an immigrant. Stop pretending.And I'm talking to our people now, our progressive people. Stop thinking that it's dangerous to say this stuff. It's not dangerous. People want to hear it, and they will be better for hearing it. You'll get called an agitator. Our wonderful friend and mentor Jesse Jackson spoke brilliantly about being an agitator. You know, after all, it was agitators that built America: Thomas Paine, Shays' Rebellion, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, the populists, right on through. And Jesse put it like this. He said the agitator is the center post in the washing machine that gets the dirt out. We need a lot more of that. We need a lot more of that. And people are ready for it.And I would add just another Jesse Jackson moment, which, again, he did brilliantly. He said, “We might not all have come over on the same boat, but we're in the same boat now.” And that is a powerful political reality. So he was able to rally farmers, and I was with him at some of those events in his presidential campaign, and in his Rainbow Coalition and the other coalitions related to the Rainbow Coalition. They all built together. Jesse Jackson had an intentional program to create a little-d democratic, diverse populist movement based on equality for all. Those are old-time American themes. And we have fought for them, and we have won again and again. Let us not forget that we have won this battle before. It's in front of us, but we've got to do it again.Tavis Smiley: There you go, Jim. We say around here all the time, when we fight, we win. When we fight, we win, and you can't win it if you ain't in it. America needs more of Jim Hightower. I declare it. I knew I hadn't talked to Jim in a long time. I knew it'd be a great hour. I didn't know how great it would actually be, but he still got it. And I am pleased that he put me on his schedule for a full hour today. How blessed are we to have heard the insights of this longtime, unapologetic progressive, Jim Hightower, who's feeling himself these days, and I ain't mad at him, about this march that progressives are on. And I close with what his parents said to him many, many years ago: everybody does better when everybody does better. Jim Hightower, thank you, thank you, thank you, my friend.Jim Hightower: Thank you, Tavis.Tavis Smiley: Good to have you on. More of Tavis Smiley when we come forward.Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimhightower.substack.com/subscribe

Foggy Seattle mornings are this author's favorite writing companions. I love curling up with a notebook and pen on the couch, cat beside me, dog at my feet, to jot down traces of a dream or a story outline or ideas for the podcast. This mini-episode was born in that cozy space. As I was researching Mount Shasta, giving the place a fresh deep dive for the new book, I remembered something, Shasta Lake. As we drove past this lake from I-5 I'd watch houseboats peeking out the window like a soldier in a foxhole, wondering how ANYONE could float on that creepy body of water. In one instance, Dad pulled over where there was a boat launch because someone needed a restroom. A family wearing matching red striped tee shirts loaded supplies onto a boat, and their joy was obvious. To me, it felt like the opening shot of a horror movie, Spielberg-esque, a glimpse of a picture perfect family, set up to lull the viewer into a feeling of safety before it all goes to hell in a hand basket.Well, I'm not the only one that feels uneasy at the site of Shasta Lake. And recently, someone found a prosthetic leg in the waters. Oh, and if this place doesn't give YOU nightmares, it might after you hear a creepypasta from YouTube about a fisherman that goes missing and claw marks on the side of his abandoned boat.Let's get into it!Shasta Lake 101Located in Northern California not far from Redding, it is the state's largest reservoir. A manmade creation between 1935-45 in tandem with the construction of Shasta Dam that spans the Sacramento River, it covers 30,000 acres of what was once a valley.When Shasta Lake is completely full it can reach depths of 500 feet.Shasta Lake is known as the 'houseboat capital of the world' and is a water sport playground. Besides fishing, skiing, swimming, and wakeboarding, visitors love exploring the Shasta Lake Caverns and seeing the massive Shasta Dam from the water.Shasta Lake, a massive manmade reservoir - but what was the valley before it was drowned?Links to episode sources. Please give these amazing journalists and creators some love!Underground Good, Jessica Foster, taking care of the disinterred and her son, too, Shasta ScoutA Long History Shadows Fight Over California's Shasta Dam, The State of Science spotlight, Science Friday (originally published by The Spiritual Edge at KALW Public Radio, Judy Silber, lead reporter for "The Spiritual Edge" from KALW in San Francisco, CaliforniaDam drowned a railroad town, but also many villages and 26 cemeteriesAfter a century of displacement, Shasta Indian Nation sees hope in dam removal, OPB(a true fisherman's tale) Fisherman Vanishes on Lake Shasta Under Strange Circumstances, UNK Files, YouTubeSend us Fan MailIf you are searching for a fresh, binge-able podcast, this might be the one for you!Support the showSupport Curious Cat, an independent, human-made podcast!***Curious Cat Podcast on Substack!***Buy Curious Cat Podcast a Coffee!

“God's Perfect Rest – The Sabbath.” What does it mean to remember (Exodus 20:8) and observe (Deuteronomy 5:12) the Sabbath? It's more than a day off from work. It's a day to remember your Creator and God's word reveals what it means to rest.Frothy Thoughts with the Truth BaristaVisit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth BaristaCheck out the Frothy Thoughts Blog!Check out The Truth Barista Books!Check out The Truth Barista YouTube Channel!

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His eighth choice is The War of 1812, which was first released in January 2013. Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed the conflict between America and the British Empire sometimes referred to as the second American War of Independence. In June 1812, President James Madison declared war on Britain, angered by the restrictions Britain had imposed on American trade, the Royal Navy's capture of American sailors and British support for Native Americans. After three years of largely inconclusive fighting, the conflict finally came to an end with the Treaty of Ghent which, among other things, helped to hasten the abolition of the global slave trade. Although the War of 1812 is often overlooked, historians say it had a profound effect on the USA and Canada's sense of national identity, confirming the USA as an independent country. America's national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner began life as a poem written after its author, Francis Scott Key, witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore. The war also led to Native Americans losing hundreds of thousands of acres of land in a programme of forced removal. With: Kathleen Burk Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London Lawrence Goldman Fellow in Modern History at St Peter's College, University of Oxford Frank Cogliano Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh Producer: Victoria BrignellReading list:Carl Benn, The War of 1812 (Osprey, 2002)George Robert Gleig, A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army: at Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans by an officer (John Murray, 1821)Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (University of Illinois Press, 1989)Reginald Horsman, The Causes of the War of 1812 (Various publishers, 1962)Reginald Horsman, The Diplomacy of the New Republic, 1776-1815 (Harlan Davidson, 1985)Lawrence Kaplan, Entangling Alliances with None: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson (Kent State University Press, 1987)Andrew Lambert, The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 (Faber and Faber, 2012)Jon Latimer, 1812: War with America (Harvard University Press, 2007)Bradford Perkins, The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 1993)Leonard Sadosky, Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America (University of Virginia Press, 2009)J. C. A. Stagg, The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent (Cambridge University Press, 2012)Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels and Indian Allies (Knopf, 2010)In Our Time is a BBC Studios productionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

Today, we're speaking with Ryan Dixon. Ryan is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe from Pine Ridge in South Dakota and has spent over two decades immersed in the Lower Sioux community in southern Minnesota. He trained under First Language Dakota speakers, and he now teaches Dakota. An educator and Indigenous language activist, he co-founded a Dakota Immersion Head Start programming and works to keep the language alive for future generations. Ryan grew up in Georgia, far away from the Lakota homelands, but he had access to a first language speaker in his grandmother. When he moved to the Lower Sioux community in Southern Minnesota, he was recognized as someone who knew a little language. That led to people asking him to translate and, later, to an unbelievable apprenticeship that paid him to learn and teach Dakota. He didn't speak fluently until he was 31 and believes anyone can gain fluency in two years. But he says there's one key ingredient that can't be missing if a language learner wants to succeed. He also shares how he connects to the spirit of the Dakota language and what it means to become its friend.-----Hosts / Producers: Leah Lemm, Cole Premo Editor: Britt Aamodt Editorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood -----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/instagram.com/mnnativenews/ Never miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

For this week's story we're throwing caution to the wind, preparing for societal collapse, and offering you a different kind of folk nightmare.Written by Martin, Chocorua follows the main story beats of one of New Hampshire's most famous legends, only with the titular Native American chief replaced by a radicalized white nationalist struggling through the Covid-19 pandemic.It might not make for comforting listening, but if you're up for a nightmarish, paranoid, tech-savvy survivalist thriller then this one is for you - and if you're not, well, we hope you'll give it a try anyway, as we're pretty sure you won't have heard anything quite like it before.Drawing on Lydia Maria Child's fictional tale "Chocorua's Curse" as published in The Token magazine in 1830, and long years attempting to understand the mindset of America's radical Libertarians, it a offers a look over the edge and into the abyss where hopefully, despite everything, something sympathetic looks back...About Three Ravens

Tonight, Joanna Gagis looks back at some of the stories and interviews that have stayed with her over the years at NJ Spotlight News, beginning with a Native American community in Ringwood besieged by toxic pollution. Plus, concerns over a suspected cancer cluster in Colonia, raised after residents started asking why so many were dying from rare brain cancers. Also, director Kevin Smith on his love for making movies right here in the Garden State. And, a female hockey player inspiring young girls to pick up a stick and skates.

Route 66: The Mother Road at 100Route 66 turns 100, and there's no better place to experience this legendary highway than Arizona. In this episode, GoNOMAD travel writer Susmita Sengupta takes us on a memorable road trip along the longest preserved stretch of America's most famous highway, from Holbrook to Kingman.The journey begins at Petrified Forest National Park, where 200-million-year-old fossilized trees and the colorful landscapes of the Painted Desert reveal some of Arizona's most striking scenery. From there, the road leads to historic Winslow, home to Native American artifacts, railroad history, and the beautifully restored La Posada Hotel.Along the way, Susmita visits the spectacular Meteor Crater, explores the astronomy heritage of Flagstaff, and takes a detour to the red rock landscapes of Sedona. The trip continues through Williams, gateway to the Grand Canyon, before reaching the famous towns of Seligman and Kingman, where Route 66 nostalgia comes alive through vintage cars, roadside attractions, museums, and the remarkable story of Route 66 champion Angel Delgadillo.If you've ever dreamed of driving the Mother Road, this episode offers a perfect introduction to the history, landscapes, characters, and classic Americana that make Route 66 one of the world's great road trips.In This EpisodeExploring Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted DesertVisiting historic Winslow and La Posada HotelStanding on the rim of Meteor CraterA side trip to the red rocks of SedonaDiscovering Williams and the Grand Canyon RailwayMeeting the spirit of Route 66 in SeligmanTouring the Arizona Route 66 Museum in KingmanThe enduring legacy of Angel Delgadillo and the preservation of Historic Route 66 Enjoying the GoNOMAD Travel Podcast? Please subscribe, rate, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Your reviews help more travelers discover the show and support independent travel storytelling.You can also explore hundreds of immersive audio travel experiences from around the world at Voyascape.com, home to travel podcasts that bring destinations to life through sound and storytelling.Max Hartshorne is the founder of GoNOMAD Travel, one of the web's longest-running independent travel websites, featuring stories from writers around the world who seek authentic experiences and meaningful adventures.For more travel stories, destination guides, and inspiration, visit GoNOMAD.com.Discover more immersive travel podcasts and audio journeys at Voyascape.com.

Oklahoma State Senator Shane David Jett joins Peter to talk about his Cherokee heritage, Christian upbringing, and path into public service. He describes growing up in Tecumseh, the books and preachers that shaped him, his time as the first Republican elected to his House seat (2004–2010), and later service in the Navy as an intelligence officer. Shane discusses Oklahoma's mix of tribal, state, and local politics, gaming revenue, and how tribal governments interact with the legislature. He explains how COVID-era restrictions sharpened his focus on constitutional limits and emergency powers, and how that led him to chair the Oklahoma Freedom Caucus. The conversation also covers his view that Christianity underpins Western religious and political freedom, his relationships with local Muslims, and why he sees political Islam and violent applications of Sharia as incompatible with those freedoms. Sen. Shane Jett was first elected to the state Senate in 2020 after serving in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2004-2010. He represents Senate District 17, which includes parts of Oklahoma and Pottawatomie counties. The Shawnee Republican grew up in Tecumseh working in his father's auto-repair shop and later earned a degree from Oklahoma Baptist University in International Business. Shane is a former lieutenant in the U. S. Navy and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. In addition to serving as a state Senator, he is the former CEO of a financial institution that makes commercial loans for Native American businesses focusing on economic development and job creation in the state.   Shane and his wife, Ana, have three children. Connect with Shane... X                                              @SenShaneJettOK  https://x.com/SenShaneJettOK                                                 @shanejett  https://x.com/shanejett FACEBOOK                             https://www.facebook.com/SenatorShaneJett/ WEBSITE                                 https://oksenate.gov/senators/shane-jett   Connect with Hearts of Oak...

How did you become an atheist? Do you feel like you had any choice in the matter? Or was it something you ultimately couldn't ignore? This week Frank and Dan discuss the road to atheism and the surprising paths people take on their way to accepting the nonexistence of the god. Also some wacky religious news from the week: abortion pills in the water, a pastor clashes with Native American traditions, religious holiday displays in Dearborn, a Texas city denies a Pride event, Jehovah's Witnesses loosen their blood transfusion rules, and a megachurch takes surveillance to a whole new level.

Mindy Tautfest is the Founder and CEO of the modern International UFO Bureau, carrying forward the legacy of the pioneering organization established in 1957. A seasoned investigator, educator, author, and former ICU nurse and disaster-relief responder, Tautfest brings an emphasis on professionalism and investigative standards to UFO research. She has developed training for investigators, authored Dying to Meet Them, and appeared on programs including Ancient Aliens and The Proof Is Out There. In 2023, she spearheaded the recovery of the historic Hayden C. Hewes archives, preserving decades of primary-source UFO records. Today, she leads the International UFO Bureau's efforts in scientific research, investigative systems, historical preservation, and public education.Michele Meiners is a Native American investigator, entrepreneur, and cultural advisor of Navajo, Chippewa, and Pawnee heritage whose work explores the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and unexplained phenomena. Following years of fieldwork in Utah's Uinta Basin, she developed a research partnership with Dr. Jim Segala involving the Multi-Sensor Automated System (MUPAS), designed to collect environmental data associated with reports of anomalous activity. Meiners serves as Vice-Chairman of the International UFO Bureau and is a lead investigator with the Paranormal Rangers alongside former Navajo Rangers Jonathan Dover and Stanley Milford Jr. Her television appearances include Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, Uncharted Adventures, and Beyond Belief. Across her research and media work, Meiners seeks to bring Indigenous perspectives into the wider investigation of UFOs, UAP, and high-strangeness phenomena.Spaced Out Radio is your nightly source for alternative information, starting at 9pm Pacific, 12am Eastern.  We broadcast LIVE every night. #UFO #UAP #AlienDisclosure #UFOSightings #UFOCoverUp #Aliens #SpacedOutRadio #Paranormal #UFOCommunity #disclosure -------------------------------------------------------You can now join the Space Traveler's Club;Join us at  https://www.patreon.com/sor_space_travelers_club  --------------------------------------------------------Grab Our Latest Spaced Out Radio Gear At:http://spacedoutradio.com/shop  It's a great way to support our show!--------------------------------------------------------OUR LINKS:TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/spacedoutradio   FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/spacedoutradioshow  SPACED OUT RADIO - INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/spacedoutradioshow  DAVE SCOTT - INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/davescottsor   TWITCH: https://www.twitch.com/spacedoutradioshow  WEBSITE: http://www.spacedoutradio.comGUEST IDEAS OR QUESTIONS FOR SOR?Contact Klaus at bookings@spacedoutradio.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spaced-out-radio--1657874/support.

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This week, a new military museum honors tribal veterans with a flag ceremony, and the state's tribes continue to expand their cannabis initiatives.-----Executive Producer: Travis ZimmermanProducers: Chandra Colvin and Dan NinhamAnchor: Marie RockEditorial support: Victor Palomino and Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood----- For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/instagram.com/mnnativenews/ Never miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund 

On today's newscast: U.S. House OK's funds for northern AZ water projects, woman gets prison in fraud scheme targeting Native Americans, Amazon starts spending effort to conserve Colorado River water.

What if feeling lost, overwhelmed, or deeply dissatisfied with your life isn't a sign that something's gone wrong — but that you've outgrown who you used to be? In this fascinating conversation with world-renowned psychic medium and full-body channel for Yeshua Carissa Schumacher shares the extraordinary journey that took her from studying neuroscience at Brown University to helping tens of thousands of people connect more deeply with their intuition and Spirit. You'll learn how to recognize when you've outgrown a chapter of your life, why fear can keep you trapped in "servitude through suffering," and the four practices Carissa teaches to create more balance, clarity, and peace: simplicity, stability, surrender, and stillness. Carissa Schumacher is a renowned psychic medium, empathic intuitive, sacred ceremony facilitator, and full-body channel for Yeshua of Nazareth. Her abilities and work have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, and numerous prominent podcasts, publications, and books. Through her Transmissions of Yeshua, one-on-one sessions, and Sacred Spirit Illumination Journeys, Carissa has helped tens of thousands of people worldwide find deeper balance, peace, and connection to Spirit. She also devotes much of her time to pro bono service supporting people and families impacted by sudden loss, hardship, and grief, as well as animal and wildlife rescues and Native American nonprofits. WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: 01:18 - Carissa's first psychic memory: Seeing "golden spirits" dancing in the rain 08:07 - "Let it all die" — Why losing everything became Carissa's path to freedom 21:17 - Who is Yeshua? Carissa explains the surprising truth about "Jesus" 35:38 - Why money can't make you feel safe — and what real stability actually feels like 39:46 - The 4 "Sacred Heart" practices for more peace, clarity & alignment 44:14 - Your job is NOT your purpose — this distinction could change your life 54:42 - How Carissa built a thriving career without social media 1:05:14 - Why healing your money problems won't fix the scarcity underneath them 1:07:36 - Friday, Saturday, Sunday: The 3 stages of transformation we all go through1:24:31 - "Grow up and get over yourself" — Why the world needs a new kind of leader 1:26:36 - The "Temple of the Loud Bell" — How fear, urgency & noise hijack your nervous system 1:38:16 - Did you choose to be alive RIGHT NOW? Carissa's message for "Divine Warriors" Thanks for listening! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified.

Joining guest host David Cournoyer, Michelle Fredericks DuBray is the co-founder of Buffalo First, a Native American nonprofit organization that advocates for the inherent rights of Buffalo. Also joining the conversation is Elsie DuBray, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe who holds two degrees from Stanford University, including a master's in community health…

In this episode, Jerry Allhands talks about Suicide Prevention and the Suicide Prevention Hotline 988. Jerry will soon be hiking to raise awareness for Suicide Prevention particularly with Military Veterans. Welcome to HEARD IT ON THE SHARK with your show host Melinda Marsalis and show sponsor, Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area. HEARD IT ON THE SHARK is a weekly interview show that airs every Tuesday at 11 am on the shark 102.3 FM radio station based in Ripley, MS and then is released as a podcast on all the major podcast platforms. You'll hear interviews with the movers and shakers in north Mississippi who are making things happen. Melinda talks with entrepreneurs, leaders of business, medicine, education, and the people behind all the amazing things happening in north Mississippi. When people ask you how did you know about that, you'll say, “I HEARD IT ON THE SHARK!” HEARD IT ON THE SHARK is brought to you by the Mississippi Hills National Heritage area. We want you to get out and discover the historic, cultural, natural, scenic and recreational treasures of the Mississippi Hills right in your backyard. And of course we want you to take the shark 102.3 FM along for the ride. Bounded by I-55 to the west and Highway 14 to the south, the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, created by the United States Congress in 2009 represents a distinctive cultural landscape shaped by the dynamic intersection of Appalachian and Delta cultures, an intersection which has produced a powerful concentration of national cultural icons from the King of Rock'n'Roll Elvis Presley, First Lady of Country Music Tammy Wynette, blues legend Howlin' Wolf, Civil Rights icons Ida B. Wells-Barnett and James Meredith, America's favorite playwright Tennessee Williams, and Nobel-Laureate William Faulkner. The stories of the Mississippi Hills are many and powerful, from music and literature, to Native American and African American heritage, to the Civil War. The Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area supports the local institutions that preserve and share North Mississippi's rich history. Begin your discovery of the historic, cultural, natural, scenic, and recreational treasures of the Mississippi Hills by visiting the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area online at mississippihills.org. Musical Credit to: Garry Burnside - Guitar; Buddy Grisham - Guitar; Mike King - Drums/Percussion All content is copyright 2021 Sun Bear Studio Ripley MS LLC all rights reserved. No portion of this podcast may be rebroadcast or used for any other purpose without express written consent of Sun Bear Studio Ripley MS LLC

1900 MEXICO CITYPostwar Reconstruction And Contntal Expansion ConflictsAlan Taylor, Part Two: In Canada, gregarious politician John A. Macdonald teamed with Thomas D'Arcy McGee and engineered Queen Victoria's selection of Ottawa as the capital to resolve regional rivalry. Following the American Civil War's destruction, President Benito Juárez's Mexican forces, backed by covert United States munitions, successfully ousted Emperor Maximilian's French-backed regime. In the United States, President Andrew Johnson issued thousands of pardons to former Confederates, allowed Southern states to enact restrictive Black Codes, and narrowly avoided removal following impeachment. Grant's administration demobilized federal troops, leaving freed Black citizens vulnerable to violence. Out West, the United States military brutally forced Native Americans onto reservations and into boarding schools to eradicate indigenous culture. Simultaneously, three hundred thousand Chinese railroad workers faced intense racial hostility and were explicitly denied American citizenship despite their labor contributions. (2)

Episode 155: Young County Museum of History and Culture, Graham, Texas Ken Wise records live at the Young County Museum of History and Culture in Graham, Texas, during its first-anniversary celebration. Curator and board president Tony Widner and founder Shannon Potts explain how they turned a 1937 Piggly Wiggly into a museum, why Young County holds so much Texas history, and the stories behind their most prized artifacts, from a Marlow brothers pistol to a James Monroe peace medal from the Elm Creek Raid. In This Episode • [00:47] Meet Shannon Potts and Tony Widner • [01:11] How the Warren Wagon Train Raid site and a retired police chief started a museum • [03:31] Building a museum with no museum experience • [05:04] The building's history: Piggly Wiggly, Goodyear and church storage • [07:02] Choosing which Young County stories to tell • [09:43] Why Young County is a center of Texas frontier history • [11:16] The first artifacts: a cavalry spur from Cox Mountain and a Marlow brothers pistol • [12:23] The Marlow brothers story, from horse-theft arrest to the U.S. Supreme Court • [16:14] The 1817 James Monroe peace medal from the 1864 Elm Creek Raid • [18:34] Oil and gas history and Shannon's father's petroleum collection • [18:58] The oak tree where cattle raisers organized in 1877 • [20:53] Oral histories and Hispanic, Native American and immigrant stories • [22:45] Becoming a hub for North Texas history museums • [23:55] The research library of more than 2,000 books • [25:30] The Satanta portrait and the museum's murals • [28:14] Charles Goodnight and the chuck wagon in Young County • [30:11] Artifacts the museum is seeking, and Young County's Apollo 11 connection • [31:23] Location, hours and group tours Guests • Tony Widner, curator and board president, Young County Museum of History and Culture; retired Graham chief of police • Shannon Potts, founder, Young County Museum of History and Culture Mentioned in This Episode • Fort Belknap and historian Jim Hammond • Warren Wagon Train Raid (1871), Satanta and Satank • Marlow brothers and Sheriff Marion Wallace • Elm Creek Raid (1864) and Little Buffalo • Cox Mountain • Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association • Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving and Cynthia Ann Parker • Wildcatter Ranch • Frontier Texas! in Abilene and museums in Wichita Falls and Fort Worth • Hexcel and the Apollo 11 lunar module Visit the Museum Young County Museum of History and Culture, 609 4th Street, Graham, TX 76450. Open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call ahead for group tours. Enjoy the show? Subscribe to Wise About Texas and leave a rating or review so more Texas history fans can find it.

We kick off the episode celebrating World Mini Golf Day, which immediately triggers Erin's hatred for whimsical windmills and the inherent frustration of putt-putt. We then dive into a passionate rant about the podcasting industry's reliance on Instagram metrics, leading us to issue a final ultimatum: if we don't hit 7,000 followers by the end of September 2026, we are shutting the podcast down. Erin also gives a raw update on her mental health and her struggles to "lock in" to healthy habits like sleep and hydration, sharing a new time free Notes app productivity hack that helps her transition between daily tasks without getting overwhelmed. This leads into a recap of her solo trip with the kids to Mauch Chunk Lake, where she enjoyed the clear water, nice campsites, and stumbled upon a beautiful Native American festival. She also provides a serious health update on her recent melanoma diagnosis, expressing frustration over the agonizing wait for surgical consultations and genetic testing, while urging all listeners to prioritize their skin checks. On the sports front, we are officially fantasy football managers of the "Pepto Pugskins" in our new subscriber league. We're already brainstorming brutal punishments for the league loser (only if it's us) like writing out the 1,458 word Declaration of Independence. We also review a shockingly gross college football moment where a Michigan State lineman vomited mid-play but still held his block for a two-point conversion. Shifting to the NFL, we discuss the allegations that Eagles security head "Big Dom" helped cover up a former player's car accident, and we examine the wildly different time-zone strategies the Rams and 49ers used for their game in Melbourne, Australia, which left coach Kyle Shanahan completely disoriented. We also highlight the incredible World Nomad Games, where 3,000 athletes from 100 countries compete in intense traditional sports like Kok-Boru (horseback rugby with a goat carcass). Finally, in "No Bad, No Sad," we spotlight the lead singer of the Philly indie punk rock band "Mid-Sentence," who creatively promoted his music by setting up a speaker in his apartment window to provide live color commentary and stadium-style walk-up songs for the rec kickball league playing across the street.

Supreme Court Cases Series. Episode #3 of 4. In 1830, afraid that white missionaries were aiding the Cherokee in their effort to resist giving up their lands, the Georgia state government made it illegal for white people to live within Cherokee Nation  territory without a license from the government.  Samuel Austin Worcester - raised in Vermont and trained as a Congregationalist minister - had lived for years with the Cherokee and became close with the Cherokee leadership. In March 1831, the Georgia Guard arrested Worcester and fellow missionaries under the new residency law. Most of the arrested missionaries agreed to leave the state in exchange for having their charges dropped - but not Samuel Worcester. With the Cherokee leadership, Worcester instead decided to use the charges against him as an opportunity to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The resulting case, Worcester v. Georgia, was a critical win for the Cherokee Nation, and to this day, remains one of the most important cases in establishing our modern understanding of tribal sovereignty. And yet, despite the legal win, the actual aftermath of the case was the theft of Cherokee land and the forcible removal of the Cherokee from Georgia, resulting in the death of thousands of people. Find transcripts and show notes at www.digpodcast.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Time to break off your search for the Great Carbuncle and adventure through New Hampshire, the "Granite State!"We start with the story of Oceanborn Mary and then discuss New Hampshire's rugged terrain and the centuries-long struggles to define its borders. From the "Presidential Range" and the now collapsed iconic 'Great Stone Face' to the state's 18-mile sea coast and northern forests, it's a pretty wild ride.Speaking of wild rides, we also debunk some of the mythology surrounding Paul Revere, explore how some of New Hampshire's most famous 'Native American' legends are not Native American at all, and do discover some New Hampshire originals, alongside some reheated stories that originated on our side of the Atlantic...We include extracts from Saturday's Local Legends interview with the wonderful Roxie Zwicker of New England Curiosities and Wicked Curious Radio, and quarry our way inside tales including The Deerfield Booms, the dubious mystique of "America's Stonehenge" and a whole tonne of cryptids, from the Devil Monkey of Danville to "Winnie" - another localized variation on the Loch Ness Monster!From the grim history of The Witch of Hampton to Odzihózo, "the giant who created himself", to The Wood Devils of Coös County and New Hampshire's intriguing interpretations of Libertarian philosophy, it's a folkloric banquet - and that's not even mentioning this week's maple syrup-infused State Dinner!About Three Ravens

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 17, 2026 is: watershed • WAW-ter-shed • noun Watershed, used figuratively, refers to a crucial dividing point, line, or factor. Used literally, the word may refer to a ridge from which rivers drain on either side, or to the area of land that includes a particular river or lake and all the rivers, streams, etc. that flow into it. : a crucial dividing point, line, or factor // The protests marked a watershed in the nation's history. // The Continental Divide is the most well known watershed in the United States. See the entry > Examples: “For thousands of years, elk would have accounted for the second largest amount of meat in the diets of many eastern peoples, after the ubiquitous whitetail deer. Not only were the animals present in the East; for thousands of years they sustained human life and were integral to Indigenous material and spiritual culture. Although they were great and skilled hunters, Native Americans in the East rarely killed all of the elk or all of the deer in an entire watershed.” — Andrew Moore, Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness, 2026 Did you know? Opinion on the literal geographic meaning of watershed is divided. On one side of the debate are those who think the word can only refer to a ridge of land separating rivers and streams flowing in one direction from those flowing in the opposite direction. That's the term's original meaning, one probably borrowed in the translation of the German Wasserscheide. On the other side of the argument are those who think watershed can also apply to the area through which such divided water flows. The latter sense is now far more common in America, but most speakers have apparently decided to leave the quarrel to hydrologists and geographers, choosing to limit their use of watershed to its figurative “turning point” sense.

Photo: Flooding in Chinle on the Navajo Nation prompted evacuations this week. (Courtesy Shawna Ann Claw / Facebook) Three people are dead after they were washed away in a flood on the Navajo Nation just after midnight on Wednesday. As KNAU's Chris Clements reports, several communities are dealing with damage from the recent rainfall. Navajo police responded to reports that two adults and a juvenile were swept away by floodwaters near the Newcomb, New Mexico area shortly after midnight. Search and rescue crews found the three dead after searching the area into the early morning hours. Investigators say they drowned. Several Navajo communities are dealing with flooding, including Chinle and Many Farms. Officials have not released details about any damage or injuries. They urge residents along Highway 191 between mileposts 451 to 454 and other low terrain flood zones to evacuate. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed an emergency declaration in response to the flooding. He said tribal members should use extreme caution around flooded roads and washes, adding that conditions can change quickly. NANA Regional Corporation headquarters in Anchroage, Alaska, where a AFN listening session on subsistence management took place. (Photo: Wonderlane / Flickr) The Alaska Federation of Natives is holding a series of listening sessions focused on the priorities, concerns, and values Alaska Native people want reflected in subsistence management. A session was held Wednesday at the NANA Regional Corporation office building in Anchorage, following earlier meetings in Bethel, Fairbanks, and Nome. Additional sessions are scheduled September 21 in Juneau, September 28 in Ketchikan, and October 1 in Copper Center. AFN says the sessions are intended to hear directly from communities about the challenges facing subsistence users and the principles and values that should guide future changes. People can also submit feedback to AFN online. (Courtesy American Indian College Fund) A new Brookings report says federal cuts and meager philanthropic support are widening long-standing funding gaps across Nebraska and Indian Country, threatening education, health care, infrastructure, and economic development, as Mark Richardson reports. The analysis calls for stable federal funding and sustained investment in Native-led institutions, including Tribal Colleges and Universities. Comments came from Little Priest Tribal College president Manoj Patil from Winnebago, Nebraska, American Indian College Fund president and CEO Cheryl Crazy Bull, and Rob Maxim, the report’s author and a fellow at The Brookings Institution. The pressure is especially sharp in higher education. The Brookings Institution and the American Indian College Fund released the analysis. Patil says pandemic-era investments brought temporary gains to Native colleges, but recent federal actions have reversed much of that momentum. “This constant threat of funding cuts impedes our growth because we are not sure whether to be aggressive in offering new programs or to be careful. That’s the biggest issue we face.” Patil adds there are only 34 TCUs in the U-S and Little Priest is one of only two such institutions in Nebraska. He says every $1.00 invested in TCUs returns $1.60 in tax revenue, benefiting both Native and non-Native communities. American Indian College Fund President Cheryl Crazy Bull says the report provides significant evidence of chronic underfunding by the federal government, despite trust and treaty obligations to Native Americans. “You can’t really have this self-determination in the Native community without being a culturally grounded, well-educated person.” Maxim osays high-profile figures like Amazon co-founder MacKenzie Scott will occasionally step up with notable contributions to Indian Country, but he says it is rare. “It is really hard for Tribal leaders themselves, for Native-serving institutions to make decisions based on the lack of data that’s out there.” Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Thursday, September 17, 2026 — After decades of work, tribes overcome language revitalization barriers

Relatives, we made it to 75 episodes.For our 75th episode, we're looking back at the relationships, voices, laughter, hard conversations, and unexpected turns that have shaped All My Relations from the very beginning. We move between the present and the archive, returning to moments with our co-hosts and collaborators and remembering what each of them brought to this space—and what they taught us about making something in relationship.This episode is less a highlight reel than a reflection on the journey: how the podcast has changed, how we have changed, and how a project rooted in kinship has been carried by many hands. There has been joy, grief, friendship, transition, humor, mistakes, growth, and a whole lot of love along the way.Seventy-five episodes later, we're still asking the questions that started it all: What does it mean to be a good relative? What becomes possible when Indigenous people get to tell our own stories, in our own voices? And where do we go from here?Thank you for listening, for growing with us, and for being one of our relations.Text us your thoughts!Support the showFollow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

Thirty-six years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Mesa Verde National Park is returning more than 4,000 objects and remains of family members to their rightful Native American communities. So, what took so long? Westword Editor Emeritus Patty Calhoun joins host Bree Davies to talk about these repatriation moves and what it means in the bigger picture of how Colorado honors its Native history. Plus, they discuss Alterra's move to the old Denver Post building, the brawl that got the Nativ Hotel and Gatsby's Social shut down, and how much they wish the old Hard Rock Cafe would become a local music venue.  Bree talked about Sam Tabachnik's reporting for the Denver Post on the looted relics from southeast Asia once in the Denver Art Museum's possession. She also mentioned a story she wrote about 16th Street back in 2014 for Westword and our podcast episode on the now-closed North American Indian Cultures Hall at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Patty has written extensively about the Sand Creek Massacre and History Colorado's ongoing work to get the story straight.  For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on Reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member! What do you think about Mesa Verde's repatriation of Native objects? Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418 Learn more about the sponsors of this September 15th episode: Arvada Center Denver Health Denver Botanic Garden Clyfford Still Museum Cozy Earth - Use code COZYDENVER for up to 20% off Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise

CAPTIION 1885 FIRST TERMGrover Cleveland Restrains Congress Through VetoesTroy Senik, author of A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland, Part One: Senik discusses Grover Cleveland taking office in 1885 as the 22nd President, establishing an executive style focused on restraining legislative excess through 414 first-term vetoes. Raised by a minister father, Cleveland brought strict moral righteousness to federal governance, pushing for reduced tariff rates to combat corporate collusion and upholding civil service reform despite pushback from Democratic partisans. He aggressively vetoed fraudulent Civil War pensions to preserve the integrity of actual veterans' sacrifices. Senik outlines Cleveland's background, including his self-taught legal career in Buffalo, service as Erie County sheriff and hangman, and reformist tenure as mayor. His first administration managed complex national issues, including the Dawes Act regarding Native American lands, Chinese exclusion laws to limit violence, and monetary debates over bimetallism. Cleveland's presidency was also reshaped by his marriage to Frances Folsom. (1)

In this episode of Criminology, Mike and Morf explore the mysterious Bennington Triangle in southern Vermont, examining a series of disappearances and deaths dating back to the 1940s. The cases include hunters Carl Herrick and Middie Rivers, college student Paula Jean Welden, World War I veteran James Tedford, eight-year-old Paul Jepson, hiker Frieda Langer, and the disappearance of Martha Jeannette Jones, who was eventually found alive.Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the Bennington Triangle. Explanations range from accidents and getting lost in the rugged wilderness to abduction and foul play. Also examined is the area's eerie reputation, the legendary Bennington Monster, and Native American stories of cursed land. You can help support the show through Patreon.We'd love to connect with listeners on social media. We are available on the following platforms:Facebook - Facebook Discussion group - Instagram - Threads - X Formerly Twitter - Blue Sky - Twitch - Tik Tok Criminology is an Emash Digital production hosted by Mike Ferguson and Mike Morford. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We revisit our September 11, 2001 audio, Lindsay Clancy jurors break their silence, North West's live shows, hypocrite Billie Eilish, Uganda snubs Prince Harry, and an Ole Miss fan spawns a boner army. Jason Benetti sure does love a good rain delay. Chicks on the Lindsay Clancy jury are extremely disappointed with the guy who wouldn't vote to acquit. Her husband, Patrick, might take legal action since being blistered online. Turns out Constance Fisher was a bad mother too. Drew continues to go down the 9/11 rabbit hole as he consumes 9/11: One Day in America on Hulu. We roll through the audio as it happened on September 11th, 2001. The 9/11 surfer lives on in our minds. North West sucks at music. People, mainly adults, need to stop going to her concerts. Wheel of Fortune's announcer Jim Thornton is finished in the business. Sara Smith is really hot and was filmed during an Ole Miss game. Horny suitors are sliding into her DMs. New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart and his hot girlfriend are making cringy TikToks and he better stop to focus on contributing to BranDon's fantasy team. Dannielynn Birkhead has entered her goth era. We miss Anna Nicole Smith. Billie Eilish hates billionaires. Billie won't cave to those pesky Native Americans. She is selling stinky perfume for big bucks. Billy Baldwin absolutely hates Sharon Stone. Uganda has bailed on the Invictus Games. King Charles is not walking on Megshells or missing around anymore.  Turns out this murderer Karmelo Anthony guy isn't such a good person. Chris Rock has no plans on showing up to the Oscars again. Will Smith has yet to recover professionally. Michigan is getting a bit of crap for storming the field after that wacky win over Western Michigan. Lane Kiffin is causing a ruckus in college football. We wrap with a little more from the infamous day in 2001. Merch is available if you want to rep the show. You'd look amazing too. If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley, BranDon, and Roberto).