Podcasts about oglala lakota nation

ROUTE TO RESILIENCE: Recognizing and Supporting Stress Injuries A LIVE Sharp End Podcast Event with Responder Alliance Founder Laura McGladrey Wed, May 28, doors at 6pm 7pm - 9:30pm MDT eTOWN in Boulder, Colorado $15 tickets Beer * Wine * Raffle Get tickets! https://events.humanitix.com/the-sharp-end-podcast?fbclid=IwY2xjawKElu9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFQUUVadnh0emIyMnhTU3dVAR7sR3ueIkQTx_YXN2Bq-EYLtcN-VjDFnxoPOIzvdXN0kdGzM3Cecqs1WWC_Fw_aem_BI6oOK2hsioGWrfB2OaT7w This live event is in support of the nonprofit, the Responder Alliance Foundation With every eTown ticket purchase, you're supporting the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. eTown donates $1 per ticket to Conscious Alliance, aiding hunger relief, youth programs and sustainable solutions for the Oglala Lakota Nation.

House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 9:00 AM Location: Capitol Complex, 2008 RHOB, Washington, DC, 20515, USA Cecilia Fire Thunder Chairwoman Oglala Lakota Nation Education Coalition More on Indianz.Com: https://indianz.com/News/2025/02/24/video-american-indian-and-alaska-native-public-witness-hearing-day-3/

House Committee on Natural Resources Leaving Indian Children Behind: Reviewing the State of BIE Schools Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 2:00 PM On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1334 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Leaving Indian Children Behind: Reviewing the State of BIE Schools.” Witnesses Panel One Ms. Kathleen Sedney Assistant Inspector General for Audits, Inspections, and Evaluations, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior Ms. Melissa Emery-Arras Director for Education, Workforce, and Income Security Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office Panel Two Mr. Kasey Velasquez Chairman, White Mountain Apache Tribe Ms. Cecilia Fire Thunder President, Oglala Lakota Nation Education Coalition Mr. Jason Dropik Executive Director, National Indian Education Association Ms. Shawna Becenti Head of School, Navajo Preparatory School

It's a tremendous honor for me to share my podcast with Olympic legend and humanitarian, Billy Mills.  Billy Mills was born in 1938 and grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota Nation. Billy had a very difficult childhood, losing his mother, sister, and father by the age of 12. He turned to running as both an escape and a source of discipline. After his father's passing, Billy attended the Haskell Institute, a U.S. government run boarding school for Native American children. Schools like Haskell were controversial for their forced assimilation, physical and emotional abuse, and systematically trying to erase their students Indigenous identities. Billy, though, had a positive experience at Haskell, where he met his coach Tony Coffin, who became somewhat of a father figure to him. Coffin recognized Billy's talent and helped nurture his running abilities, providing him with the foundation that would later lead to his collegiate and Olympic success. Also, during his time at Haskell, Billy spent one of his summers as a counselor at Camp Greylock in Beckett, Massachusetts, which is the summer camp that I went to many years later and is a very important part of my life. So it's very special for me to share this link with Billy. At Haskell, Billy won multiple state championships in track and cross country, earning him a scholarship to the University of Kansas, where Billy would be coached by Bill Easton. Easton was a highly respected track and field coach who led Kansas to multiple NCAA championships, and at Kansas, Billy was one of the best distance runners in the country. He was a three time All American, won multiple Big Eight titles, and was runner up in the 1960 cross country championships. Through all of this, however, Billy faced numerous challenges, including discrimination at every level, including from Easton, hypoglycemia, and struggles with self doubt. At times, Billy even contemplated suicide, and in his senior year, he walked off the track and quit the team completely. Fortunately for Billy, the University of Kansas is also where he met and began dating a young woman named Patricia Pat Collins. Pat played a crucial role in Billy's journey, supporting him through the challenges he faced as an athlete and as a Native American navigating the world of elite sports. After graduating Kansas, Billy married Pat, joined the U. S. Marine Corps, and resumed training with the goal of not just making the U. S. Olympic team and not just winning a medal, but winning the gold medal in the 10K. Which he did. In 1964, Billy qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the 10, 000 meter race, where he stunned the world with a historic, come from behind victory, becoming the first and still the only American, or even the only person from the Western Hemisphere, to win the gold medal in the event. He also remains the only Native American, other than Jim Thorpe, to win a gold medal in the Olympics. His triumph is considered one of the greatest Olympic upsets and victories of all time. Since Billy's victory in the 1964 Tokyo Games, Billy and Pat have dedicated their lives to giving back, co founding Running Strong for American Indian Youth, an organization that empowers Indigenous communities through health, education, and self sufficiency programs. Their journey is one of perseverance, cultural pride, and spreading a message of unity through diversity. All values that are very much at the heart of the Charity Miles community. Which naturally, is why we want to also thank our partners at Brooks Running who are very much champions for these values as well. For over a century, Brooks has been propelled by a never-ending curiosity with how humans move. It drives their every decision and every innovation. Because they believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. And we're all moving towards something. It could be the top of a mountain, a first-ever 5K,  peace of mind after a stressful day, or an Olympic gold medal.  It could be a cure for Parkinson's, a cleaner planet, fair play, or the strength that comes from our diversity. So… let's run there. With gear and experiences specifically designed to take you to that place. Whether it's a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line. Let's run there. Head to BrooksRunning.com to learn more. Chapters: 00:00 - The Historic 1964 Olympic 10K Final 02:14 - Introducing Billy Mills: A Story of Resilience 06:12 - Billy's Early Life on Pine Ridge Reservation 13:06 - The Impact of Haskell Indian School 24:16 - Overcoming Struggles in College and the Marines 32:24 - The Journey to the Tokyo Olympics 35:55 - The Epic 10,000-Meter Race 42:54 - Winning Gold: A Dream Fulfilled 50:26 - Giving Back: Running Strong for American Indian Youth 1:03:01 - The Secret to a 63-Year Marriage

Send us a textThis Thanksgiving season, Malcolm and Candace welcome Queen Yonasda—an activist, hip-hop artist, and spiritual leader whose story is a testament to resilience and the power of community. As the granddaughter of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, and the late Wauneta Lone Wolf-Cox, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Queen's heritage bridges Black and Indigenous legacies of strength and activism. Her father, Theadius McCall, brought the vibrancy of Brooklyn, NY, into her dynamic upbringing.Queen shares her deeply personal journey of being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer during the pandemic, a life-altering experience that redefined her priorities. She also sheds light on her pivotal role in the Standing Rock protests, where tribes united to protect sacred treaty lands and water from the Dakota Access Pipeline. From children running hundreds of miles to Washington, D.C., to enduring tear gas and water cannons, Queen paints a vivid picture of courage, unity, and sacrifice.As we gather for Thanksgiving, Malcolm and Candace explore themes of gratitude, healing, and advocacy through Queen's extraordinary story. Let this episode inspire you to reflect on the power of community and the ongoing fight for justice.Tune in to Giving Native Thanks!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Not All Hood (NAH) podcast takes a look at the lived experiences and identities of Black people in America. Infused with pop culture, music, and headlining news, the show addresses the evolution, exhilaration, and triumphs of being rooted in a myriad of versions of Black America. Hosted by Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Candace O.Kelley, and WeusiBaraka Executive Produced by Layne Fontes Produced by Kelly Brett Associate Producer Troy W. Harris, Jr.

A group of teens cuts cardboard with X-ACTO Knives. They will soon shape this cardboard into architectural models of their bedrooms. Behind them in a classroom at the Dunwoody College of Technology, large windows frame the Minneapolis cityscape — a sampling of building types through the ages, from the early 20th-century Basilica of St. Mary to the IDS skyscraper built in 1973.“It's my first time doing something in architectural-related study,” says Dominic Stewart of Burnsville.“I'm excited to get that hands-on experience,” says Carsyn Johnson of Elk River.They are here for the weeklong Indigenous Design Camp, the first camp of its kind in the U.S. The goal is to teach Indigenous teens about career options in architecture and design, a field where Native Americans are underrepresented.Indigenous architects Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about 30 Indigenous architects total in the U.S.Laverdure is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and a partner at DSGW Architects as well as the president of First American Design Studio. Olbekson is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and founded the firm Full Circle Indigenous Planning and Design. They are the only two practicing Native architects in Minnesota.  Renovated Minneapolis American Indian Center reflects urban Indigenous identity“The need for creating a space for kids to become designers, Indigenous designers, is great,” says Laverdure, who has wanted to start this camp for years. “Representation matters for these kids to see us as architects and designers. A lot of us who grew up in reservations or urban Indigenous communities only see a few career types.”“This is the first time anyone has ever done this in the U.S.,” Olbekson adds. “It's the right time for Indigenous communities, tribal communities, nonprofits, to really take a self-initiated approach to design, to hire architects to understand the value and the importance of designing and operating a project from an Indigenous lens.”The campersThe campers are Indigenous teens ages 14-18 from the metro area. They will be constructing architectural models all week. Campers will also tour the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and local architecture firms.They will also visit the American Indian Cultural Corridor on Franklin Avenue, where both Laverdure and Olbekson have designed buildings, as well as another Olbekson project, the recently completed expansion of the Red Lake Nation College downtown.Olbekson says, “to actually go and see [the buildings] and see the impact that they're having on the community, not only as individual buildings, but how they're forming an identity for the American Indian Cultural Corridor and how these projects are supporting education, economic development, community building, cultural development, and youth and elder spaces, I think is going to be a great way for them to understand the impact of what design, urban design, interiors, landscape, can have on creating a healthy, Indigenous urban community.”The camp began Monday morning with a welcome from Laverdure, Olbekson and University of Minnesota assistant architecture professor Jessica Garcia Fritz, a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Fritz also helped start the camp.“If you think about your home reservations, or your urban communities, you think about all the buildings that are there,” Laverdure told the class, “Ninety-nine percent of all the buildings built that Indigenous people sit in are not designed by indigenous designers. They're designed by other people who don't have a stake in the game, who don't really have a connection to that community.”Laverdure continued, “When you have Indigenous designers be a part of that process, what happens is that those buildings have a special kind of connection to the communities and that makes those buildings extra special.”Indigenous architecture, past and presentNext came a presentation on Indigenous architecture, past and present, by Tammy Eagle Bull, who did a video call from her home in Arizona. Eagle Bull is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. In 1994, she became the first Native woman in the U.S. to become a licensed architect. Camper Carsyn Johnson says this fact caught her by surprise.“I was surprised about it, though, a little disappointed, because I feel like as a society, we should move further ahead a little bit,” Johnson says.For the remainder of the first day of camp, Jessica Garcia Fritz guided campers in a design exercise to create their sleep space or bedroom. First, they taped 10 by 10-foot squares on the classroom floor to help them visualize the scale. Then they sketched blueprints of their bedrooms. Finally, they cut and scored cardboard to build shoebox-size models. As the week progresses, the campers will join their models to create collective spaces as well as design larger communal spaces as a group.“One of the things Tammy Eagle Bull had said this morning was, ‘I wish that a camp like this had existed when I was young.' I think that's the sentiment among many of us,” Garcia Fritz says.”Part of the motivation behind this is to be able to show Indigenous high school students what those pathways are, to bring them into the environments so that we can have more representation. I think that many of us can maybe speak to the fact that we may have been the only Indigenous people in our classes at the time. Our instructors probably didn't know how to work within what we may have wanted to do. I think that's changing.”Garcia Fritz, Laverdure and Olbekson hope this camp is the first of many. One of the goals is to expand the camp to greater Minnesota.“Right now, it's in the Twin Cities, but there are so many Indigenous communities regionally, up north and even in other states that could really benefit from this,” Olbekson says. “Long term, we want to create a space where five to 10 years from now, we've got 10, 15, 20, Native designers that are out there and being a force for change,” Laverdure says.The camp ends Friday when campers present their final architectural models.

This week we are rejoined by friend of the show JB Beverley to discuss the 1970s American Indian Movement which erupted in violent struggle with two FBI Agents in Oglala Lakota Nation in 1975, resulting in a massive multi-country manhunt and FBI frame up job of Leonard Pelletier who is still in jail today. This episode was sponsored by Magic Mind. For 48% off a first subscription or 20% off one time purchase visit www.magicmind.com/historyh and use code HISTORYH20 at checkout Don't forget to join our Telegram channel at T.me/historyhomos and to join our group chat at T.me/historyhomoschat The video version of the show is available on Youtube, bitchute, odysee. For weekly premium episodes or to contribute to the show subscribe to our channel at www.rokfin.com/historyhomos Any questions comments concerns or T-shirt/sticker requests can be leveled at historyhomos@gmail.com Later homos --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyhomos/support

Amanda Henderson and Steven Newcomb discuss the Doctrine of Discovery and the ways in which religion has impacted the social and political frameworks amongst Native nations and the United States government.  In this conversation, Amanda Henderson and Steven Newcomb dive deeper into how the founding documents of the US contain a claim of a God-ordained right for Christians to take land from non-Christians, which continues to be used as legal precedent in today's world. Together, they advocate for a more inclusive and holistic approach to social and political change, one that acknowledges and respects Indigenous perspectives and sovereignty. Steven Newcomb invites us to step into the view "from the shore" as conquerors landed on waters of the Americas and claimed dominion, or domination over all they could see and take. For more information: https://religionnews.com/complexified Guest: Steven Newcomb is a Shawnee-Lenape scholar and author. He has been studying and writing about U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s, particularly the application of international law to Indigenous nations and peoples. Mr. Newcomb is the Director of the Indigenous Law Institute, which he co-founded with Birgil Kills Straight, a Traditional Headman and Elder of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Together they have carried on a global campaign challenging imperial Vatican documents from the fifteenth century. Those documents resulted in the decimation of Original Nations and Peoples of Mother Earth and thereby deprived the planet of life-ways, sustainable ecosystems, and Sacred Teachings. Newcomb's book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008) relies upon recent findings in cognitive theory and a semantic analysis of the Latin and English versions of 15th century Vatican documents. He has identified the little noticed patterns found in those documents and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which claimed a right of a “Christian prince or people” to discover and exert a right of domination (dominorum Christianorum) over the lands of “heathens and infidels.” For more episodes and info visit Complexified at RNS

House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Public Witness Hearing - American Indian & Alaska Native: Day 2, Morning Session Date: Wed, 05/08/2024 - 9:00 AM Location: Capitol Complex, RHOB, Washington, DC, 20515 Witnesses Robert Miguel Chairman, Ak-Chin Indian Community Sherry J. Parker Chairwoman, Hualapai Tribe Stephen Roe Lewis Governor, Gila River Indian Community Ervin Chavez Executive Board President, Diné Bi Olta School Board Association (DBOSBA) Derrick Leslie Tribal Education Department Director, White Mountain Apache Tribe Buu Nygren President, Navajo Nation Tesia Zientek Board President, National Indian Education Association Anhiwake Rose Vice-President of Congressional and Federal Relations, American Indian Higher Education Consortium Shawna Allison Becenti Head of School, Navajo Preparatory School Gjermundson Jake Board President, Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. (RNSB) Cecilia Fire Thunder President, Oglala Lakota Nation Education Coalition Troy Lunderman Human Resources Director, St. Francis Indian School Ryan Wilson President, Oglala Lakota/National Alliance to Save Native Languages Lloyd Miller Counsel Dr. Valerie J. Grussing, PHD Executive Director, National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) Nicholas Lovesee Director of Policy, Native American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA) Aurene Martin Treasurer, Board of Directors for the National Indian Child Welfare Association William F. Smith Chairman and Alaska Area Representative, National Indian Health Board Todd Wilson Executive Director, National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) Jon Brady President, Native American Church Of North America Verlon Jose Chairman, Tohono O'odham Nation Lawrence Mirabal Vice President of Operations, The Institute of American Indian Arts Lionel Haskie Director of Operations, Navajo Agricultural Products Industry Committee Notice: https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/public-witness-hearing-american-indian-alaska-native-day-2-morning-session

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Episode 117 features a conversation with Valerie Clack aka, The Lakota BCBA.  Valerie is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. The Oglala Lakota Nation is one of the seven bands of the Titowan (Lakota) division of the Great Sioux Nation.  Valerie is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Hawai'i Licensed Behavior Analyst (LBA). She is currently the Director of Quality Assurance and Compliance at the Winward Synergy Center in Kailua, Hawai'i.  Continuing Education Units (CEUs): https://cbiconsultants.com/shop BACB: 1.5 Learning  IBAO: 1.5 Cultural QABA: 1.5 DEI   Contact: Valerie Clack https://www.valeriejclackbcba.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriejclackbcba/   Behaviour Speak Episodes Referenced: Episode 111 Mark Standing Eagle Baez https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-111-the-sweetgrass-method-a-culturally-responsive-approach-among-american-indianalaska-native-peoples-with-dr-mark-standing-eagle-baez/ Episode 106 Mari Cerda https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-106-ancient-wisdom-meets-modern-insights-dr-mari-cerda-s-journey-as-an-indigenous-mestiza-autistic-behavior-analyst/ Episode 98 Evan Auguste https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-98-black-liberation-psychology-a-conversation-with-dr-evan-auguste/ Episode 64 Naomi Tachera https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-64-culture-based-education-with-naomi-k-tachera-ma-bcba-lba/ Episode 37 Grant Bruno https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-37-the-realities-of-autism-in-first-nations-communities-in-canada-with-grant-bruno-phd-candidate/       Links: Black Elk Speaks https://www.amazon.com/Black-Elk-Speaks-Oglala-Premier/dp/1438425406 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee https://www.amazon.ca/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846 Steven Paul Judd https://www.thentvs.com/steven-paul-judd

Today, Leah and Cole chat with Adrienne Zimiga-January, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation who has been creating and performing in the Twin Cities theater community for over a decade.   This fall, she's making her Guthrie debut on stage in “For The People.” It's billed as a “world premiere comedy by Native voices” with a story set in the Minneapolis Native community.  In addition to her insights on the play, Adrienne talks about her passion for theater, bringing more Native stories to the stage, and making theater a place that's welcoming for all.  Adrienne is also a member of the Guthrie Theater's Native Advisory Council, which works to help decolonize spaces and open doors for Indigenous performers and creators. Plus, she's the designer of “You Are On Native Land” artwork, available in the Guthrie's Store.   “For the People” runs from Oct. 7 through Nov. 12. 

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Artist Nathaniel Ruleaux talks about a life exploring identity, influenced by his indigenous Oglala Lakota Nation artistic heritage, rural western Nebraska life, and a love for theater, which he pursued academically and professionally across the country. Ruleaux also shares his personal awakening to indigenous rights and lore, which he explores in a fusion of contemporary and traditional visual arts.Nathaniel Ruleaux is an award-winning artist and culture worker currently located on unceded land of the Umónhon & Očhéthi Šakówiŋ in Nebraska. A partner, father, and member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, his work combines modern art with traditional indigenous imagery. He is a founding member of Unceded Artist Collective. Recently, he created work for Opera Omaha's 2023-2024 season and the national 2022 Indigenous Futures Survey. In addition to creating visual art, he is a classically-trained actor and educator. He received his MFA in Theatre from the University of Houston's School of Theatre and Dance after receiving a BA in Theatre Performance at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Julia Cunningham – Director of Rural Engagement, US Department of Education.Most recently, Julia was the Deputy Director for State Engagement for The Hunt Institute. In this role, she primarily focused on overseeing relationship building, strategy, and program development in support of The Institute's expansion into new states through the state legislators' retreat model. Prior to joining The Hunt Institute, Julia was a fifth – eighth-grade Writing teacher at American Horse School in the Oglala Lakota Nation in southwestern South Dakota. After teaching, she earned her Master's in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2018, where she co-founded the Harvard Ed School Rural Educators Alliance. Julia earned her bachelor's degree in English from Fordham University in 2013.

Helene Gaddie is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Generations Indigenous Ways (GIW). This community based Native nonprofit organization is dedicated to empowering American Indian youth with the knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education enhanced by Oglala Lakota values and way of life using Indigenous Sciences, operating in the Pine Ridge Reservation area. They host camps in all seasons, which consist of hands on learning that integrates traditional Lakota values and Indigenous Science with Western science, touching on everything from geology, astronomy, ecosystem health, learning modern technologies such as GIS or learning about physics through archery, with bows they construct themselves. Helene's story and messages provides great insight for anyone already leading a community-guided organization, anyone who sees a need in their community but doesn't know where to start to take action, anyone working in the spaces of youth outreach, education, science, and for anyone in the Oglala Lakota Nation or beyond, who want to hear about some inspiring and impactful work.   This conversation with Helene took place at the Strengthening the Circle gathering, hosted by Hopa Mountain in Bozeman in April 2023. This gathering aims to build the capacities of experienced and emerging Native-led nonprofit organizations that are working to improve economic development, education, and social services on or near reservations. LINKS: Generations Indigenous Ways Native Science Field Center National Science Foundation Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Hopa Mountain Strengthening the Circle, gathering This episode is part of the Life in the Land project, which is a series of films and podcasts produced by Stories for Action, which hears from folks that interact with the complexities of Montana's landscapes, speaking to the value of locally-led work and the holistic approaches needed for the health of communities and the ecosystems they're a part of. Find out more about the project and watch the films at LifeintheLand.org Stories for Action holds a mission to use the power of storytelling to create human connection and advance a thriving planet for all. Learn more at StoriesforAction.org  Instagram and Facebook: @StoriesforAction   #Lakota #Oglala #Indigenousleadership #indigenousnonprofit #traditionalecologicalknowledge #tek #indigenousscience #sciencefoundation #nativescience #southdakota #montana #youth #STEM  

Poet Layli Long Soldier joins Mira to talk about her transformation during pregnancy, learning to open up to the possibilities of the world, and how she makes a space for ease in order to make a space for creativity. MENTIONED: The Indigenous Language Institute The Real Housewives S.J. Res 14 (111th Congress) Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. She was awarded a Whiting Writer's Award in 2016. Long Soldier is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to subscribe and to leave a review of the show on your favorite podcast platform! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Sungmanitou Tanka to discuss the 50th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Occupation in 1973!  We talk about the causes, the events themselves, and the legacy with 50 years of hindsight, a very important discussion on all of these fronts.   Sungmanitou is of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is one of the hosts of Bands of Turtle Island, and has recently also taken over the Marx Madness Podcast.  Listen to the season of People's History they are putting together that goes much more into depth on the events of the Wounded Knee Occupation.  Also be sure to follow the Chunka Luta Network (@ChunkaLuta1973) and Sungmanitou (@BandsIsland) on twitter!   Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

Adrianne is excited to welcome Whitney Fear, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who lives and works in Fargo, North Dakota. You may recognize her from Shift Nursing's documentary Who Cares? A Nurse's Fight for Equity, a powerful film that follows her as she works to provide care on the Pine Ridge reservation where she grew up. Pine Ridge is one of the poorest areas in the United States with some of the lowest life expectancy rates. Whitney is a woman of the Oglala Lakota Nation and works at a federally qualified health center that takes a holistic and trauma-informed approach to treating behavioral health and substance use disorders. She highlights that healthcare is far more than appointments, prescriptions, and forced compliance to care plans. Her methods are the focus of this conversation. Whitney and Adrianne discuss a range of topics in this hour including:Imposter syndrome and how it holds us back; her personal experiences and lessonsChallenges of being a 1st generation college student from a non-traditional backgroundWhy diversity among healthcare providers is so essential for providing quality careAdvice for creating safe spaces for conversation in the mental health care settingLGBTQ+ care, discrimination, colonialism, and their intersectionsWhat does and does not make an excellent provider in Whitney's eyesDon't miss out on this engaging, unrestricted conversation, and be sure not to miss the SHIFT nursing documentary which you can find at shiftnursing.com/whocares or on SHIFT's YouTube channel where it has over 389K views here. Here's the link if you need to cut and paste:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so1G2QuGsWQYou can also find Whitney on TikTok @hwa_mathoThank you to Whitney for taking the time to share such personal experiences and insights for the sake of others' growth and education. She is one badass nurse.

Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands: that is the aim of the Landback movement. In Gillam, Manitoba, treaty promises clash with hydro development. As the people of Fox Lake Cree Nation continue to push for land from the government, leaders like Conway Arthurson try to find middle ground with an industry that has historically tried to push them out. In the 1960s, Manitoba Hydro moved into this area - building dams and flooding the land that once held the people of Fox Lake. Arthurson has acted as a negotiator in the community's decades-long fight for a place to call home - a fight that gets more complicated with every dam Manitoba Hydro builds. And right now they're building the biggest one of all. In South Dakota, there is no place more sacred than He Sapa, or the Black Hills, to the Lakota. Also known as Mount Rushmore, the site is famous for its massive carvings of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. On July 3, 2020, Nick Tilsen was arrested there as part of a protest against former President Trump's fireworks rally on what is traditionally and legally Lakota land. Tilsen is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and the founder of NDN Collective. The group recently created Landback Magazine, as a means to connect and exchange knowledge with other Indigenous nations. In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Mauna Kea is revered by the people. So much so that their Kapuna - or elders - put their bodies on the line to protect this sacred mountain from a thirty meter telescope or TMT. Since the 1960s, the University of Hawaii has built 13 giant telescopes on the summit, each time promising it would be the last. For decades, Hawaiians have pushed back to protect Mauna Kea from any future developments. Noe Noe Wong-Wilson was born and raised on the island of Oʻahu. She is one of the first board members of the newly established Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. Pua Case was born and raised on the Island of Hawai'i. She's the program director of Mauna Kea Education and Awareness.

This week, Casie takes to South Dakota, to the Pine Ridge Reservation which is home to the Oglala Lakota Nation. She tells us some statistics and facts about the reservation and shares several MMIW cases from this reservation.    November is Indigenous People's Month Resource sites: https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/MMIW-NIWRC-Blog-2022 https://ncjtc.fvtc.edu/resources/RS01183335/2022-missing-and-murdered-native-women-and-girls-d Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: https://mmiwusa.org/ Safe Women, Safe Nations: https://indianlaw.org/safewomen https://www.re-member.org/pine-ridge-reservation   Research sites: https://www.re-member.org/pine-ridge-reservation https://www.newscenter1.tv/oglala-sioux-tribe-leadership-says-drugs-mental-health-surround-mmiw-crisis/ https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/months-after-her-death-long-soldiers-family-looking-for-answers/  https://www.newscenter1.tv/the-search-for-andre-starr-one-oglala-familys-desperate-hunt-for-their-missing-loved-one/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/3283098548674432 https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/mmip-stories-pine-ridge-mother-loses-three-children/   **Products Mentioned**   https://www.shesbirdie.com/?rfsn=6771039.9b0430 Promo Code: DARKHEARTS15   **Patreon** https://patreon.com/Heartland_Darkland   **Find Us at these links**   * https://www.hldlpodcast.com/ * https://www.facebook.com/heartlanddarklandpodcast/ * https://www.instagram.com/heartland.darklandpodcast/ * https://twitter.com/hl_dlpodcast * https://www.tiktok.com/@heartlanddarklandpodcast

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

The Land Back movement to return ancestral lands back to Indigenous tribes has gained momentum lately.  However, the efforts of tribal native reclamation are not new.  For decades, Indigenous peoples and allies have been working to restore land to Indigenous tribes through the courts, through protest, and through policy. Some tribes, such as the Kaw Nation in 2002, have even purchased parts of their ancestral lands back.   First, we hear from Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of NDN Collective and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, about the origins of the Land Back movement and what it means to different Indigenous communities. Then, We speak with James Pepper Henry, Kaw Nation vice chairman and executive director of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who was instrumental in the Kaw Nation purchasing 160 acres of their ancestral homeland in Kansas back in 2002.

Friday, September 16, 2022 - “Who Cares: A Nurse's Fight for Equity” features Whitney Fear, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where she, her family and other members of the Oglala Lakota Nation struggled to survive. It was filmed in Fargo and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Whitney joins us to discuss the issues raised in the film. ~~~ Dave Thompson is here for our weekly news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews the new Pinocchio movie.

My guest this episode is Will Peters, a professional musician, high school teacher, community activist, and advocate for Native American youth.  Will, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, teaches and lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.  Will shares his stories of the struggles and triumphs of life on the reservation and shares passionately about his work with the young people, who are struggling with generational trauma, and efforts to combat the suicide epidemic affecting the native youth on Pine Ridge.  I first met will about 10 years ago while volunteering with the organization Re-Member.  Re-Member is an independent, non-profit organization working with the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota https://www.re-member.org/Will speaks from the heart and his stories are powerful, challenging, and full of hope.  

In the first half-hour Tiokasin welcomes film Director Jesse Short Bull. Jesse wrote and produced the 2013 short Istinma, set in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Jesse received a 2016 Sundance Institute Native American and Indigenous Program Development Grant and also attended the Creative Producing Summit at Sundance. In 2014 he was part of the effort to change the name of Shannon County to Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota. Currently employed by the Oglala Lakota tribal government, Jesse is a member of the board of the Black Hills Film Festival. With the First Peoples Fund, Jesse leads youth filmmaking workshops in the Oglala Lakota Nation. Lakota Nation vs. United States - directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli - had its world premier on June 11, 2022 at the Tribeca Film Festival. View the trailer here: https://youtu.be/HtK5JPZx_XMIn the second half, returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school. Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerMalcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NYTiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio EditorMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersAlbum: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:22)2. Song Title: Feels Like SummerArtist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)Album: Summer Pack (2018)Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music(00:28:25)AKANTU INSTITUTEVisit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

The Land Back movement to return ancestral lands back to Indigenous tribes has gained momentum lately.  However, the efforts of tribal native reclamation are not new.  For decades, Indigenous peoples and allies have been working to restore land to Indigenous tribes through the courts, through protest, and through policy. Some tribes, such as the Kaw Nation in 2002, have even purchased parts of their ancestral lands back.   First, we hear from Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of NDN Collective and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, about the origins of the Land Back movement and what it means to different Indigenous communities. Then, We speak with James Pepper Henry, Kaw Nation vice chairman and executive director of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who was instrumental in the Kaw Nation purchasing 160 acres of their ancestral homeland in Kansas back in 2002.

The Land Back movement to return ancestral lands back to Indigenous tribes has gained momentum lately.  However, the efforts of tribal native reclamation are not new.  For decades, Indigenous peoples and allies have been working to restore land to Indigenous tribes through the courts, through protest, and through policy. Some tribes, such as the Kaw Nation in 2002, have even purchased parts of their ancestral lands back.   First, we hear from Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of NDN Collective and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, about the origins of the Land Back movement and what it means to different Indigenous communities. Then, We speak with James Pepper Henry, Kaw Nation vice chairman and executive director of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who was instrumental in the Kaw Nation purchasing 160 acres of their ancestral homeland in Kansas back in 2002.

Today, we are talking about Indigenous ways of eating and entrepreneurship! How do our values inform food, work ethic, and investment? Kim Tilsen-Brave Heart is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reserve in South Dakota. She is an entrepreneur, a chef, and she embraces both her Indigenous and Jewish heritage. Links: https://www.chefbraveheart.com https://www.paintedskyemanagement.com Episode Page: https://www.wisdomcontinuum.com/kimberly-tilsenbrave-heart Find Us Online - Website: Wisdom Continuum - Twitter: Wisdom Continuum - IG: Wisdom Continuum Credits - Host: Leah and Daniel Lemm - Contributing Producer: Multitude: multitude.productions About Us A podcast celebrating Native knowledge for a thoughtful, healthier, more just future. Daniel (Lower Sioux Dakota Oyate) and Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) bring you conversations from awesome Native folks to celebrate Native wisdom for a healthier, thoughtful, more just future.  Hyped, Humorous, and Hopeful. 

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Native Americans of Mixed Heritage Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three dynamic leaders: Marc Chavez a Mexican-American Indian and founder/director of Native Like Water and Intertribal Youth; Yonasda Lonewolf an Afro Native American woman, enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, organizer/activist, author, and media personality; and Jerome Gross an Afro Native American man and owner of Effulgence Mind Body Fitness and Wellness and instructor of Enlighted Ways of Being Energy Healing and Meditation training program. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Native Americans of mixed heritage, leaders, and allies can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Sewage has proven to be a valuable source of real-time SARS-CoV-2 data during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving public officials insights into the health of their community without relying on individuals getting tested. But as wastewater monitoring expands, local officials and their research partners are increasingly interested in how wastewater testing might also advance or hinder equity. On this episode of On the Evidence, guests Dr. Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Dr. Otakuye Conroy-Ben, and Aparna Keshaviah discuss the challenges of and opportunities for ensuring an equitable approach to wastewater monitoring and the importance of representation from historic Black neighborhoods, Indigenous communities, and rural communities. Jelks, Conroy-Ben, and Keshaviah are involved with the Wastewater Action Group, a national initiative founded and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention Institute that seeks to transform wastewater data into public health action. The group includes five grantees that serve tribal nations and four cities: Atlanta, Houston, Louisville, and Tulsa. • Jelks, an assistant professor in environmental and health sciences at Spelman College, is an expert on health equity and community-engaged research approaches for environmental justice in southwest and northwest Atlanta's African-American neighborhoods. • Conroy-Ben is an assistant professor of environmental engineering at Arizona State University, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, and the principal investigator for research and community outreach projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to support tribal nations in combatting coronavirus and improving local resources. • Keshaviah is an applied biostatistician and principal researcher at Mathematica who is a nationally recognized expert in translational wastewater research, has led wastewater-based research in Montana and North Carolina, and is collaborating with the Rockefeller Foundation to develop robust analytics and tools that boost the capacity of public health personnel to use wastewater data. Find a full transcript of the episode here: https://www.mathematica.org/blogs/ensuring-equity-as-wastewater-testing-matures-in-the-united-states To learn more about the Wastewater Action Group and the Rockefeller Foundation's broader wastewater activities, contact Megan Diamond, who leads its international wastewater initiatives: mdiamond@rockfound.org Learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's efforts to deliver an equitable and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic while helping to guard against future pandemics: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/covid-19-response/ Learn more about Mathematica's work harnessing evidence on wastewater testing, vaccines, rapid antigen tests, and contact tracing to guide the COVID-19 pandemic response: https://mathematica.org/focus-areas/health/covid-19

This episode was recorded at ASBN's annual conference and features Nick Tilsen (NDN Collective) interviewed by ASBN Co-Founder & President, David Levine.Nick Tilsen is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Tilsen has over 18 years of experience building place-based innovations that have the ability to inform systems change solutions around climate resiliency, sustainable housing and equitable community development. He founded NDN Collective to scale these place-based solutions while building needed philanthropic, social impact investment, capacity and advocacy infrastructure geared towards building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples. Tilsen has received numerous fellowships and awards from Ashoka, Rockefeller Foundation, Bush Foundation and the Social Impact Award from Claremont-Lincoln University. He has an honorary doctorate degree from Sinte Gleska University.

Vandee Crane is the author of My Body, My Soul: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Both, as well as Founder and Director of Rise In Love Foundation, a grassroots nonprofit, whose mission is to support individuals, families, communities and companies in understanding and healing the individual and collective Mother Wound by bringing Women of all Nations together to heal through connection, culture and conversation. A process known in Indigenous Cultures around the World as ReMatriation. Vandee, formerly Pavandeep Kaur Khalsa initially came to learn about KY/3HO in 2009 through a series of serendipitous spiritual experiences, after an early life of child trafficking and addiction. She's here today to offer her unique perspective and share her own experiences in the community as an Indigenous Woman, a Survivor Leader, and Professional Disruptor. Vandee lives in Northern New Mexico, on Ancestral Apache and Pueblo Territory. She herself is of Wazhazhe, Tsalagi, and European American descent. Her partner John SwiftBird and their Daughter TatankaSkaWin "Tata" SwiftBird are enrolled members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She and her Family are passionate about Cultural Preservation and keeping their Traditional Values alive through their grassroots nonprofit work. Vandee and their Daughter are also featured in the up and coming documentary Women of the White Buffalo, to be released in 7 languages internationally this coming month. Vandee's professional and academic background include addictions counseling, trauma informed care, and Integrative studies. She is also an outspoken CSET (child trafficking Survivor Leader) who has brought a lot of awareness and impactful change to the communities and cases she has been involved with. You can donate to her profound work at www.riseinlovefoundation.org   Music Credit: Lyla June - Mamwlad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGLDwfrvb8 Link to purchase her book: (It's also on Amazon where reviews are awesome...I just really don't like raising money for Jeff Bezos to play space cowboy ) https://www.target.com/p/my-body-my-soul-one-woman-s-journey-to-reclaim-both-by-vandee-crane-paperback/-/A-83270172 Donations for mutual aid and other grassroots work can be made at: PayPal vandee@riseinlovefoundation.org Cash App https://cash.app/$riseinlovenow Or made out to Rise in Love Foundation & mailed to: PO Box 425 Tesuque, NM 87574 You can DONATE to this broadcast at: http://www.gurunischan.com/uncomfortableconversations Uncomfortable Conversations Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2lEfcoaDgbCCmztPZ4XIuN?si=vH-cH7HzRs-qFxzEuogOqg  

Journey into the not-too-distant future in which members of the Oglala Lakota Nation are celebrating a liberated new economy for their Nation that brings back cherished elements of their economic past. Reimagining the education of Lakota youth is a key part of this future. In this episode, we listen in on a national press conference at the opening day of a new Lakota school, at the foot of a mountain once called Mt. Rushmore. And we hear from a member of the Lakota organization Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation what her everyday life would feel like in this liberated economic future.

In the second episode of Season 2 of the Demystifying Diversity Podcast, host Daralyse Lyons continues her exploration of Indigenous Resilience - specifically the importance of Culture, Land and the Seven Generations Principle and how these factors have allowed Indigenous groups to withstand over 500 years of colonization and systemic oppression in North America. In this episode, you will learn about: The importance of Indigenous lands, and the role they play in forming part of an Indigenous group's shared identity. The Seven Generations Principle, and how the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land engender a communal responsibility in taking care of the environment. How whiteness and white concepts of ownership threaten the environment and humanity's future on this earth. What it means to “lightly” or wrongfully claim Indigenous ancestry, and how that is harmful towards Indigenous well-being. How art is, and will continue to be one of the most important mediums for Indigenous expression, identity, and presence in North American culture. An extensive, 16-point list of how you can be an ally or accomplice in eradicating discriminatory practices against Indigenous peoples and groups. The resources referenced in this episode include: Charlene Teters' Way of Sorrows (Video, 2020) Exhibit Simon Moya-Smith's 100 Ways to Support - Not Appropriate From - Indigenous People 16 Ways to Be an Ally & Accomplice in Eliminating Indigenous Discrimminiation Our guests in this episode include: Morgan Ridgeway: Morgan is a PhD candidate with graduate minors in queer and Indigenous studies whose research focuses on multitribal communities, decolonization strategies, and queer indigenous theory. They are also an artist who utilizes poetry, creative nonfiction, dance, and mixed media in order to disrupt linear, non-inclusive modalities of history-telling and to inspire themselves and others to reimagine what's possible. Simon Moya-Smith: Simon is a contributing writer to NBC News and CNN, and is a registered member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. He works to bring light and awareness to issues that directly impact Indigenous communities. Fern Anuenue Holland: Since receiving her Bachelor of Science with triple majors in Wildlife Management, Environmental Science and Marine Biology, Fern has worked as an environmental scientist and ecological consultant. She was instrumental in the development and passing of Bill 2491, a bill which regulates the agrochemical industry. You've likely seen her if you watched the well-known documentary "Poisoning Paradise." Tessa McLean: Tessa is a Community Planner with a multidisciplinary background. An expert in sustainable energy practices and environmental justice, she brings indigenous knowledge, subject matter expertise, technical skills, and industry experience to community planning initiatives. She is also deeply committed to raising awareness about the plight of missing, murdered, and trafficked indigenous women. Jaclyn Roessel: Jaclyn is the president of GrownUp Navajo, the co-founder of Native Women Lead, a writer, a curator, a coach and a cultural equity and justice consultant. She was the inaugural recipient of the Arizona Humanities Rising Star Award and has been named one of Phoenix's 100 Creatives You Should Know. Charlene Teters: Charlene is a Spokane Tribal Member and is an educator, artist and lecturer whose paintings and installations have been featured in numerous collections and exhibitions. As the former Dean of the Institute of American Indian Arts, she spent much of her academic career working to ensure the education of future tribal leaders, innovators and artists. Click here for the episode transcript.

Ashley Phelps-Garcia teaches us about the importance and joy of living in ceremony and community. During the boarding school era, many of our relatives were made to feel ashamed of who they were as Native people. Indigenous practices and ways of knowing were banned. Today, we are proud to be Indigenous. Our ceremonies allow us to heal and grow individually and collectively, for the seven generations ahead. Ashley reminds us of the importance of learning from our Elders, and of holding good thoughts for things to fall into place.Ashley Phelps-Garcia is an enrolled Member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Residing in the Badlands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota along with her husband Bino Garcia and their 5 beautiful children; Nevaeh, Maymangwa, Joaquin, Miksuya and Wasose. Ashley's Lakota name is “Wíyukčaŋ Ománi Wiŋ”. A name that belonged to Chief Red Cloud's Wife, passed down six generations. Ashley is currently the Director of Communications and Program Manager for a 501c3 nonprofit organization called First Families Now. Working alongside her family, FFN is committed to providing high-quality culturally and community-focused services towards the vital needs of children and families of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Some of the services provided include but are not limited to donation drives, cultural integration, community service projects, healthy food access, and life skills. Ashley is known in the community for her dedication to the preservation and revitalization of traditional Lakota women roles, responsibilities, and ceremonies. Ashley's father Ted Phelps is the lead singer of the Eagle Mountain Drum group. Her mother Alice is a long time women's jingle dress dancer so it is only right that Ashley has grown a love and passion for the powwow arena. She has been dancing the jingle dress style since she could walk. Her gift of dance has taken her across the U.S. and Canada competing against some of the best. First Families Now: https://www.1stfamiliesnow.org/ Follow Ashley and First Families Now on Instagram: @phelps_15 , @1stfamiliesnow---Indigenae theme song: “Nothing Can Kill My Love For You” by Semiah Instagram: @semiah.smithFind her on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music. 

In the first episode of Season 2 of the Demystifying Diversity Podcast, host Daralyse Lyons explores Indigenous Resilience, and just some of the far-reaching implications that systemic racism have had over 500 years of colonization and systemic oppression. In this episode, you will learn: How racism against Indigenous groups extends beyond human-to-human interactions to include issues that shape the justice system, the environment, and basic quality of life for many Indigenous people today. How education systems censor and negate Indigenous identities and experiences in favor of narratives that promote heroic images of colonization and invasion. How the proliferation and impact of crime against Indigenous people, particularly women and girls, is a major problem in and around lands that are supposed to be protected. How the systemic erasure of Indigenous languages creates separation and isolation of those groups, weakening cultural and ancestral bonds. The importance of art in articulating Indigenous perspectives, especially in instances where Indigenous individuals have been disenfranchised from their “seat at the table.” The long-term consequences of participating in holidays that promote inaccurate narratives surrounding the Indigenous experience in the Americas. The experiences, perspectives and challenges shared in this episode come from those who have witnessed, experienced and endured the struggles of systemic racism against Indigenous peoples, and are actively doing work to educate and remedy its far-reaching effects. Our guests include: Morgan Ridgeway: Morgan is a PhD candidate with graduate minors in queer and Indigenous studies whose research focuses on multitribal communities, decolonization strategies, and queer indigenous theory. They are also an artist who utilizes poetry, creative nonfiction, dance, and mixed media in order to disrupt linear, non-inclusive modalities of history-telling and to inspire themselves and others to reimagine what's possible. Simon Moya-Smith: Simon is a contributing writer to NBC News and CNN, and is a registered member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. He works to bring light and awareness to issues that directly impact Indigenous communities. Fern Anuenue Holland: Since receiving her Bachelor of Science with triple majors in Wildlife Management, Environmental Science and Marine Biology, Fern has worked as an environmental scientist and ecological consultant. She was instrumental in the development and passing of Bill 2491, a bill which regulates the agrochemical industry. You've likely seen her if you watched the well-known documentary "Poisoning Paradise." Tessa McLean: Tessa is a Community Planner with a multidisciplinary background. An expert in sustainable energy practices and environmental justice, she brings indigenous knowledge, subject matter expertise, technical skills, and industry experience to community planning initiatives. She is also deeply committed to raising awareness about the plight of missing, murdered, and trafficked indigenous women. Jaclyn Roessel: Jaclyn is the president of GrownUp Navajo, the co-founder of Native Women Lead, a writer, a curator, a coach and a cultural equity and justice consultant. She was the inaugural recipient of the Arizona Humanities Rising Star Award and has been named one of Phoenix's 100 Creatives You Should Know. Charlene Teters: Charlene is a Spokane Tribal Member and is an educator, artist and lecturer whose paintings and installations have been featured in numerous collections and exhibitions. As the former Dean of the Institute of American Indian Arts, she spent much of her academic career working to ensure the education of future tribal leaders, innovators and artists. Click here for the full transcript of this episode.

Alicia Garza is joined by Nick Tilsen, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, and the President and CEO of the NDN Collective, an indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Tilsen talks about movement building in Indigenous communities, the struggle to reclaim stolen land, and who we look to for guidance and wisdom when victory feels too far out of reach. Plus, Garza brings all of the real with her weekly roundup of all that's good and awful from the past week.Nick Tilsen on TwitterThe NDN Collective on Twitter and InstagramFollow The People's Advocacy InstituteDonate to the Haitian Bridge AllianceLady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & FacebookAlicia Garza on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & Facebook This pod is supported by the Black Futures LabProduction by Phil SurkisTheme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by Latyrx Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women's activism. Alicia was recently named to TIME's Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don't start movements. People do. 

Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland address a meeting on Native voting rights on July 27, 2021. The meeting took place in the Office of the Vice President at the White House. A group of Native leaders shared how their people have long faced challenges to exercise their fundamental right to vote--from the long distance voters must travel to reach their polling places to anti-voter laws that directly impact Tribal communities. The leaders also shared how they are engaging voters--and in particular young voters--in their communities, by connecting the issues they care about to their vote. Participants included: President Kevin Killer, Oglala Lakota Nation, South Dakota Allie Young, Navajo Nation, Arizona Chairwoman Shelly Fyant, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Montana President Julie Kitka, Alaska Federation of Natives, Alaska Prairie Rose Seminole, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, North Dakota

Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland address a meeting on Native voting rights on July 27, 2021. The meeting took place in the Office of the Vice President at the White House. A group of Native leaders shared how their people have long faced challenges to exercise their fundamental right to vote--from the long distance voters must travel to reach their polling places to anti-voter laws that directly impact Tribal communities. The leaders also shared how they are engaging voters--and in particular young voters--in their communities, by connecting the issues they care about to their vote. Participants included: President Kevin Killer, Oglala Lakota Nation, South Dakota Allie Young, Navajo Nation, Arizona Chairwoman Shelly Fyant, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Montana President Julie Kitka, Alaska Federation of Natives, Alaska Prairie Rose Seminole, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, North Dakota

Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring.Layli Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS, a winner of multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies ." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired March 30, 2017.

Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring.Layli Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS, a winner of multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired March 30, 2017.

Today on Sojourner Truth is Biden in trouble over his immigration policies? His administration is being criticized from both the right and the left. What's going on? In particular we take a look at the plight and treatment of Black immigrants with Nana Gyamfi Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. And activists prepare for a kickoff rally for the THRIVE Act. What is it and what is the connection with the Green New Deal. What is in the THRIVE Act, what is left out? Why are Indigenous Nations supporting the Act? We speak with Ashley Nicole with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Oglala Lakota Nation. Also as Jeff Bezos turns down Senator Bernie Sanders invitation to the Senate to discuss income inequality, we take a look at how Amazon policies are crushing labor unions and how workers are fighting back. Our guest is Mike Elk senior reporter at Payday Report.

Activists prepare for a kickoff rally for the THRIVE Act. What is it and what is the connection with the Green New Deal. What is in the THRIVE Act, what is left out? Why are Indigenous Nations supporting the Act? We speak with Ashley Nicole with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Oglala Lakota Nation.

Today on Sojourner Truth is Biden in trouble over his immigration policies? His administration is being criticized from both the right and the left. What’s going on? In particular we take a look at the plight and treatment of Black immigrants with Nana Gyamfi Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. And activists prepare for a kickoff rally for the THRIVE Act. What is it and what is the connection with the Green New Deal. What is in the THRIVE Act, what is left out? Why are Indigenous Nations supporting the Act? We speak with Ashley Nicole with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Oglala Lakota Nation. Also as Jeff Bezos turns down Senator Bernie Sanders invitation to the Senate to discuss income inequality, we take a look at how Amazon policies are crushing labor unions and how workers are fighting back. Our guest is Mike Elk senior reporter at Payday Report.

Activists prepare for a kickoff rally for the THRIVE Act. What is it and what is the connection with the Green New Deal. What is in the THRIVE Act, what is left out? Why are Indigenous Nations supporting the Act? We speak with Ashley Nicole with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Oglala Lakota Nation.

I've been looking forward to this episode for a while. My guest this week is Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart, a sixth-generation entrepreneur and enrolled citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. As the Executive Chef and Co-owner of Etiquette Catering Company, Kimberly and her husband Brandon leverage food sovereignty to highlight the cuisine of our region. I am beyond excited to share this conversation with all of you! We cover a lot of ground, including: cooking as a creative outlet, a prayer, and an expression of love her massive 2020 pivot (and how it paid off) the leadership struggles she has confronted recognizing (and shedding) those big, looming fears the pressure to succeed, especially as a member of a marginalized group ...and a WHOLE lot more. "There is a certain way I have to carry myself because I represent 17 thousand members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I don't take that lightly. I recognize there there are lots of rooms and lots of meetings and lots of tables that I am probably one of the only Native people to have ever been in. When I'm in a room, I make sure it's not just my story that people are hearing. Multiple stories, multiple needs are being met." Kimberly, thank you again for coming onto the show! If you want to learn more about Etiquette Catering Company, I encourage you to visit www.etiquettecateringco.com ...But fair warning: the photos WILL leave you craving a gorgeous charcuterie display. As always, you can find me over at lisakuzman.com and book a call if you're feeling talkative. And if you're in search of community, you're officially invited to join my trauma-sensitive Facebook group for coaches and leaders: https://www.facebook.com/groups/764082764458292/

Recently, writer and art historian, Jonathan Orozco sat down with artist, organizer, and member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Nathaniel Ruleaux to unpack some of the complications raised by land acknowledgements within cultural institutions and their ability (or lack thereof) to affect change outside the sphere of performative activism. Listen here or on Amplify's website: https://www.amplifyarts.org/alternate-currents.

Paisley Sierra grew up in a community where clean water is scarce. Her family's water sources are threatened by contamination from uranium mining and oil pipelines. Sierra lives in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge reservation. As a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Sierra believes that "water is life." But, the Lakota must fight for this basic resource. On this episode of AMDG, guest host MegAnne Liebsch talks to Paisley Sierra about her community's battle for land and water rights. We also hear from key Jesuit partners on the frontlines of this fight, including President of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Rodney Bordeaux, Fr. Peter Bisson, SJ, and Sr. Priscilla Solomon, CSJ and Ojibway First Nations. Interested in how the Jesuits are working for environmental justice across the world? Join the Global Ignatian Prayer Vigil for the Season of Creation on September 25 at 8pm ET. Go to www.breathingtogether.jesuits.global to learn more. This episode was produced and edited by MegAnne Liebsch.

Self-Determination Self-determination empowers those who are most affected to be in the driver’s seat of policy-making decisions. For example, if an oil company wants to run a pipeline through Indigenous land, Indigenous communities themselves would decide based on their values and the impact on their families, water, air, and land. NDN collective works to restore self-determination through three pillars: defense, development, and decolonization. Decolonization European colonization was a system of white supremacy that annihilated complex Indigenous populations, cultures, languages, beliefs, land, and governing systems. The work of decolonization includes dismantling white supremacist systems of economic extraction and governance; education about the totality of colonial history; and the revitalization of Native languages and ways of being. Reclaiming Indigenous heritage is also an act of healing past traumas from colonization. Land Back A key tenet of self-determination and decolonization is the “land back” movement. Theft of Indigenous lands was one of the fundamental ways Europeans colonized America. Stealing land and extracting its resources decimated both the land and the people who lived on it. The land back movement aims to right this wrong by returning public lands, like National Parks and National Forests, to the care of Indigenous People. Land back does not mean removing Americans from their homes. Instead, it means returning the land to Native stewardship focusing on preservation and rejuvenation. Find out more: Nick Tilsen is the President & CEO of NDN Collective, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Tilsen has over 18 years of experience building place-based innovations that have the ability to inform systems change solutions around climate resiliency, sustainable housing, and equitable community development. He founded NDN Collective to scale these place-based solutions while building needed philanthropic, social impact investment, capacity and advocacy infrastructure geared towards building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples. Tilsen has received numerous fellowships and awards from Ashoka, Rockefeller Foundation, Bush Foundation and the Social Impact Award from Claremont-Lincoln University. He has an honorary doctorate degree from Sinte Gleska University. You can follow him on Twitter @NickTilsen And you can follow NDN Collective on Twitter @ndncollective

From the beginning of this pandemic we heard reports about COVID-19 being particularly dangerous to people with pre-existing health conditions. So what do you do if you live in a community where that puts a large percentage of the population is at risk? That’s the case on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and for the more than 19 thousand members of the Oglala Lakota Tribe who live there. The Pine Ridge Reservation has the lowest life expectancy in the country.  That’s the case pre-COVID, and it illustrates why keeping the virus out of their community, and helping those who are most vulnerable, is a top priority. In this episode, Brian Lucas continues his conversation with Helene Gaddie, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a resident of Pine Ridge.   Since the outbreak, Helene has been part of an Indigenous Response effort, reaching out to people across the reservation to offer education and support.

Federal courts recently handed down major decisions against big pipelines that would transmit oil and gas around the country. And other big pipelines are facing legal challenges that may put them out of business. What do these decisions mean for America's continued oil and gas buildout and the Trump administration's campaign for energy dominance? Our first guest is Ellen Gilmer, who tracks environmental policy & courtroom drama for Bloomberg News.  Then, to talk about what the Dakota Access decision means for the rights of America's indigenous people, we hear from Nick Tilsen. He's CEO of NDN Collective, a Native American rights and social justice organization based in South Dakota. Nick is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation.   

Part 1: NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen was among 20 Land Defenders arrested while protesting Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3rd, 2020. Over 200 land defenders successfully mobilized to the defend the Ȟe Sápa and the Treaty of Fort Laramie by preventing ticket holders along Highway 244 from taking the Keystone entrance to the Independence Day fireworks celebration speech at Mount Rushmore with President Donald Trump. Subsequently, the American president, Donald Trump, was upstaged by the success of the land defenders ultimately preventing a larger than anticipated turnout for Donald Trump's speech, garnishing media attention over Trump's speech, and raising the critical consciousness and awareness of the sacredness of Ȟe Sápa, The Treaty of Fort Laramie, and fostering greater solidarity for a just transition. Over 20 people were arrested and charged on July 3rd, including Nick Tilsen who was charged with two felony accounts and three misdemeanors which if convicted on all charges could result in up to 15 years in prison. After being detained for three days, Nick Tilsen was released and he joins us to discuss the successes of the July 3rd, 2020 action, upstaging Donald Trump, his jail prison experience, the structural racism of the prison industrial complex system in South Dakota, the implications of being convicted for all felony and misdemeanor charges, honoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851/1868, Donald Trump's violations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the establishment of the Black Hill Legal Fund for providing legal counsel for the July 3rd arrestees, the continuing work of the NDN Collective, plus a whole lot more. Guest: Nick Tilsen, (Oglala Lakota Nation), President and CEO of the NDN Collective, a Rapid City, S.D. non-profit organization dedicated to Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grant making, capacity-building and narrative change. Part 2: This past Thursday on July 9th, 2020, the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted on a new charter policy, LAUSD Policies and Procedures for Charter Schools, which threaten and possibly leads to the termination of charters schools such as the Anahuacalmecac International University, the only and oldest international Indigenous school located in Los Angeles County, California. Our guest provides detailed and insightful implications of the LAUSD recent actions, the Indigenous Education Now coalition's submission of a formal complaint to the United States Department of Education against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and the Indigenous Education Now coalition demands that the LAUSD immediately address the Native student COVID-19 crises, and conduct Indigenous/tribal consultation with local Indigenous nations and organizations, plus a lot more. Guest: Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head of the School at Anahuacalmecac International University

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is home to more than 19,000 members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. It is one of the poorest communities in the United States and has the lowest life expectancy in the country. The Tribe prides itself on its resilience. For generations, the members have fought through poverty, oppression, discrimination and a long history of broken treaties and aggression from the United States government. Now they are being faced with another potentially devastating invader: COVID-19. Thanks to quick action by tribal leadership, the Reservation went on lockdown early.  At the time of this recording the Reservation had seen around 100 cases of the virus.  Still, the residents know that even a small outbreak in their community could have grave consequences.In this episode, Brian Lucas interviews Helene Gaddie, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a resident of Pine Ridge. Helene and her husband run a non-profit called, Generation Indigenous Ways, which runs camps for American Indian Youth focusing on integrating science curriculum with traditional Native values and practices. Since the outbreak, Helene has been part of an Indigenous Response effort, reaching out to people across the reservation to offer education and support.Because of the many issues related to the pandemic and life on the Pine Ridge Reservation, we are breaking this interview into two episodes.  In this episode, Helen talks about the lockdown of the reservation and how the pandemic may be an opportunity for the Lakota Nation to reconnect with its roots. 

In The Moment … June 11, 2020 Show 836 Hour 1 A new podcast is sharing and preserving the unique stories of Native elders and indigenous history. Just two weeks into its existence, Lakota Link has already featured Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Lakota Link is the creation of nationally known artist Sandy Swallow and she joins us this morning to talk about her vision of linking original Lakota values. Find us on: Apple , Spotify , and Google Play

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories presents Ben Sherman from Pine Ridge, SD, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Ben survived boarding school and became a licensed engineer working for large corporations and traveling worldwide with humble beginnings and traditional values instilled by his great-grandmother and mother. Inspired by a commitment to his mother to finish his education, Ben completed his MSc in Management and returned to what grounds him the most, working with Native and Indigenous people. In this conversation with Ben, you will hear what has inspired him through the years, which led to his passion for bridge-building relationships and understanding the power of silence. Ben Sherman is a source of much wisdom and inspiration. #RealNativeRoots:UntoldStories #SustainableIndigenousTourism

We meet the people involved in grassroots movements to culturally and economically empower the Oglala Lakota Nation living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, one of the most impoverished and neglected regions in the country.

Breaking World Records (0:00:00) Did you know that the record for most frisbee catches in one minute, most bowling balls juggled, longest time balancing a lawnmower on the chin, and over 100 more all belong to the same person? David Rush, an MIT engineering grad and motivational speaker, has put forth so much effort into accomplishing his goals that he holds the world record for the most world records. But his work ethic goes far beyond simply breaking these for the fun of it – he is certain that we can all accomplish great things in our lives. He is joining us to talk about his record-breaking and insights on his “growth mindset”.  Movie Etiquette (0:15:19) You know that feeling when the lights in the movie theatre start to go down, and you're so excited to see this movie you've been waiting so long to see? Whether you're on a date to see the newest Star Wars or you're taking your kids to see an animated flick about talking vegetables, nothing kills the magic faster than the person in front of you taking a phone call, opening the world's loudest bag of chips, or blatantly telling their friend all about how the movie ends. Here to help us avoid these faux pas is etiquette expert Diane Gottsman. Holidays on a Budget (0:34:45) Are you worried about staying on budget this holiday season? We've invited Jen Smith, who runs the website Modern Frugality, to share her tips on how to stay on budget. Native American Heritage Month (0:50:35) What do you think about when you think about the first Thanksgiving? I usually think about the story they tell us when we're kids about the pilgrims and the Native Americans gathered around a large table. While the story is nice, as we get older and begin to understand more about the nature of our history and this country, it becomes clear that story might not be totally accurate. This month we've all got Thanksgiving on our minds—but it's also Native American Heritage Month--so with more knowledge and understanding we realize that the conversations we have surrounding the month of November need to change. Here to share with us more thoughts on the subject is Simon Moya-Smith—writer, journalist and citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation.  Avoid Post-Nuptial Remorse (1:05:47) Everything was just like you dreamt it would be – you found the perfect person, fell in love, decided you wanted to spend the rest of your life with them, and you got married. Easy. But now that the honeymoon is over, you have regrets. . . So, what do you do if you have post-nuptial remorse? “Right after I said ‘I do' I personally realized my marriage was a mistake,” says Contessa, author of the new book Innamorata (In Love). As someone who's written about this and experienced it herself, we thought Contessa would be the perfect person to talk to about this overlooked topic. Mini Book Club (1:19:50) Rachel Wadham, of BYU Radio's World's Awaiting, talks with Lisa about books everyone should try. Holiday Mail and Deliveries (1:27:31) During the holidays, we put so much thought and effort into finding the perfect gifts for our loved ones, that the thought of them being stolen off our front porch just as they arrive can cause a lot of worry. Unfortunately, porch pirating, or the act of stealing packages, is a serious issue. While we want to protect ourselves from these kinds of thieves year-round, the holidays are an especially good time to know what precautions to take. Jared Bingham has been a U.S. Postal Inspector for 16 years. He's with us to tell us how we can ensure that our deliveries reach us. 

Invisibility and harmful stereotypes are two of the biggest challenges facing Indigenous people today. According to research conducted by The Reclaiming Native Truth Project, nearly 80% of Americans know little to nothing about contemporary Native peoples, which leads to systemic bias, racism, and neglect of Indigenous communities. In this episode, Lindsay Smalling talks with Crystal Echo Hawk and Nick Tilsen, two Indigenous leaders who head organizations working to change the narrative and the status quo in order to help Indigenous communities thrive. They discuss their efforts to bring about widespread narrative change, concrete examples of why it is such an exciting time to make big investments and big impact in Indian Country, and where their movements are headed in the future.  Echo Hawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation, is Founder and CEO of IllumiNative. Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is Founder, President, and CEO of NDN Collective.

“4-Week State of Emergency in the Oglala Lakota Nation & Highlights from the Poor Peoples Campaign in Pacoima, CA Public Hearing on Homelessness & Poverty” Parts 1:___________________________________ Helene Gaddie (Oglala Lakota Nation) is a community member, long time activist, and continues to work tirelessly, along with other Indigenous community members to provide basic human services to Pine Ridge citizens of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For the past four weeks, the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, SD has been enduring a four-week state of emergency resulting from two massive cyclones with blizzard conditions, freezing temperatures; snow, sleet, rain and flooding causing over 1,500 Oglala Lakota citizens to be displaced from their, scores of community member without drinkable water and adequate shelter and heat and/or skyrocketing electricity bills, plus community members in need of basic human necessities and services. Tune in to hear about the severity of issues and equally important what people can do help, plus more. To date, the Oglala Lakota Nation has not received any state and federal (FEMA) assistance. Sign the petition demanding the United States federal government send and provide emergency services and supplies. Emergency Contact Information: http://www.oglalalakotanation.info, https://www.oglalaoyankerelief.org, or call OST Emergency Management at 605-867-5011. https://www.lakotalaw.org/our-actions/empowering-the-people-of-the-oglala-sioux-tribe?ms=web-home Part 2: ___________________________________ Highlights from the 4/9/2019 Poor Peoples Campaign Public Hearing on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA. An estimated one out of every five Telfair Elementary School students are homeless and others living in extreme poverty – too many of those children and their parent are Indigenous. In addition, according to the 2018 United Nations “Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America” it is underestimated that: “The 2016 poverty rate among American Indian and Alaska Native peoples was 26.2 per cent, the highest among all ethnic groups” and Indigenous peoples also have the highest unemployment rate of any ethnic group; 12% compared to the national average of 5.8 per cent; for more info: (https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1629536/files/A_HRC_38_33_Add-1-EN.pdf). Parts 3:___________________________________ Trini Rodriguez, poet, co-founder of the TiaChucha Cultural Center and Bookstore, and a principal organizer for the forthcoming Poor Peoples Campaign Public Hearing on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA on Tuesday, 4/9/2019. With an estimated one out of every five Telfair Elementary School students homeless and others living in extreme poverty, Trini joins us for the final segment of the program to discuss the significance of the Public Hearing, how numerous Indigenous children in public school are denied basic living necessities and in need of humanitarian assistance, and what will transpire at Poor People's Campaign on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA; plus more. Information for the Public Hearing is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/275964423343334/ American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

Until you're a member of a minority group, you likely cannot understand the visceral, day-in and day-out experience of life as a minority. From the passive, underhand comments and assumptions about your background or abilities to the blatant exclusion or derision of your presence, being a minority is challenging enough. Now imagine seeing the same people wielding the upper hand in the socio-economic lottery picking through your group's longstanding history and cultural practices for something they can leverage as their own. In this episode, Tammy Eagle Bull, FAIA, explains in clear terms why cultural appropriation is wrong, how it perpetuates in the architecture and design community, and her own experiences with preconceptions in her everyday life. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Eagle Bull is a co-founder and the president of Encompass Architects, based in Lincoln, Neb. She is also the first Native American woman in the United States to become a licensed architect, and the recipient of the AIA 2018 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award.

Layli Long Soldier is the author of our book for June 2019, Whereas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award, and finalist for the National Book Award. She is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Whereas in response to an "apology" to Native Americans which was buried in a department of defense appropriations bill during the Obama administration. It is a stunning use of language to build and re-build America, the land of the Plains Indians as others before the colonizers.  The book is at turns devastating, celebratory, adept, clever, playful and always unique.  Apologies for our terrible attempts at Lakota, while we tried to find proper pronunciation we failed. Our failure is another record of the violence perpetrated in our name again our Native brothers and sisters.  David Sloane and Deborah Natoli join host Aubrey Hicks in discussion of this work by Layli Long Soldier, Lakota and American.   

Conversation with NDN Collective President and CEO, Nick Tilsen, citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, on a lawsuit that NDN Collective, ACLU, and others, just filed on March 28, 2019, to challenge a recent set of South Dakota laws that function to violate our free speech rights while at the same time, functioning to protect construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. 

The Oglala Lakota poet. “I wanted as much as possible to avoid this nostalgic portraiture of a Native life.” The reward and joy of patience. The difference between guilt, shame, and freedom from denial. When apologies are done well. Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring. Layli Long Soldier is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a winner of the multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

The Oglala Lakota poet. “I wanted as much as possible to avoid this nostalgic portraiture of a Native life.” The reward and joy of patience. The difference between guilt, shame, and freedom from denial. When apologies are done well. Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring. Layli Long Soldier is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a winner of the multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai discusses the Deep State in Massachusetts - how the Republicrats - both Republican Establishment politicians and Democrat Establishment politicians run the state. Dr. Shiva talks about the hypocrisy of all career politicians and how ..

Shereen and Gene continue our conversation on President Barack Obama's racial legacy. Where did the president fall short — or fail — people of color? We hear opinions about Obama's actions as they affected Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans. Janet Murguia is president of the National Council of La Raza. Simon Moya-Smith is editor of Indian Country Today and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Carla Shedd teaches sociology and African American studies at Columbia University; she wrote the book "Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice."

Health is more than health care. It’s also a product of several social factors, including education, income, race or ethnicity, and neighborhood environment—which means that attaining health equity will require addressing many larger social and economic issues. How can we accomplish this goal? That’s the topic of this panel from our Frontiers of Social Innovation conference, featuring Faith Mitchell, president and CEO of Grantmakers In Health, Dr. Robert Ross, president and CEO of The California Endowment, and Nick Tilsen, the founding executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, an grassroots organization of the Oglala Lakota Nation. They discuss how they are applying a health equity perspective to their work, what they have accomplished, and what it will take to achieve an inclusive—and healthy—society.   https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/how_can_we_advance_health_equity

Topics covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Chinese Man Becomes First To Sue Government Over Severe Smog" A man in a smog-ridden northern city has become the first person in China to sue the government for failing to curb air pollution. A resident of a northern China Province submitted his complaint to a district court asking the city's Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau to "perform its duty to control air pollution according to the law". He is also seeking compensation from the agency for residents for the choking pollution that has much of northern China, this winter. It was unclear whether the court would accept the lawsuit. "Native American Tribe Adopts Its Own Bitcoin Clone" Payu Harris, a Bitcoin developer and activist at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, made a promise last year to continue his tribe's struggle against the United States. "My family fought and died on this soil,” Harris said in a recent interview, surveying the land of his tribe, the Oglala Lakota Nation. “Suddenly the story of Custer’s Last Stand wasn’t just words on a page but something deeply personal. I looked at how things were for the tribe now and suddenly had an idea about how we might fix it." That fix is a Bitcoin clone called MazaCoin, which Harris hopes his people can use to sidestep the federal government, and lift themselves out of poverty. Although exactly how that might happen is unclear. Harris convinced chiefs to accept it as the official national currency; it's the first time native people have launched their own crypto-currency. Find out by visiting the article links and listening to this episode! Support Mind Set Central Subscribe or donate