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I was at a professional meeting recently and I heard an inspiring and insightful and forward-looking talk by journalist and author Roger Thurow. Roger was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for 30 years, 20 of them as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. Roger has written a number of books including one on world hunger and another what I thought was a particularly important book entitled The First 1000 Days, A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children and the World. Now comes a new book on farmers around the world and how they are coping with the unprecedented changes they face. It was hearing about his book that inspired me to invite Mr. Thurow to this podcast and thankfully he accepted. His new book is entitled Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe are transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet. Interview Summary I really admire your work and have loved the new book and what I've read before. So, let's talk about something that you speak about: the wisdom of farmers. And you talk about their wisdom in the context of modern agriculture. What do you mean by that? Farmers of the world, particularly the small holder farmers, indigenous farmers, family farmers as we know them in this country, they're really bold and pioneering in what they're doing. And these farmers, kind of around the world as we go on this journey around the world in the book, they've seen their efforts to earn a living and feed nourish their families and communities turn against. So, while conforming to the orthodoxies of modern industrial agriculture practices: the monocropping, the increased use of fertilizers and pesticides and insecticide chemicals, the land expansion, at the expense of savannas, forest wetlands, biodiverse environments. In the face of this, they've really witnessed their lands degrading. Their soils depleting. Their waters dwindling. Their pollinators fleeing. Their biodiversity shrinking and becoming less diverse. Their rains becoming ever more mercurial., Their temperatures ever hotter. And their children and families and their communities becoming ever more hungry and malnourished. So, they've really seen the future of their own impacts on the environment, and then the impacts of changing climates, of more extreme weather conditions. They've really seen this future. They've experienced, lived it, and it's ugly what they see and what they've experienced on their farms. So, that's their wisdom, and they'll really tell us that it doesn't have to be that way if we listen. That such a future isn't inevitable. Because out of their desperation, you know, these farmers have begun farming against the grain. So, there's the title of the book Against the Grain of this modern agriculture orthodoxy to reconcile their roles as both food producers and nourishers of us all, and stewards in the land. They're pushing forward with practices like agroforestry, agroecology, regenerative agriculture, kind of whatever one calls it. Farming with nature instead of bending nature to their will, which is what we too often done and with kind of the larger modern industrial agriculture techniques. So, farming with nature as opposed to against it as they strive to both nourish us all and heal our planet. Give us a sense, if you will, about how important these small farmers are to the world's food supply? So how important are these? They're really important. Extremely vital for the global food chain, certainly for their own families and communities, and their countries. In a lot of places, say in Africa, in many of the countries, on the continent, it's the small holder farmers that are producing the majority of the food. In their communities and in their countries and across the continent. Still not enough. Africa then must become a substantial importer of food. But these small holder farmers are so key and the more success that they have in feeding their communities and families, the more success we all have then in this great goal of ending hunger and malnutrition. Equally important, these farmers are the stewards of the land. And they're on the front lines of these environmental challenges. The threats from the changing climate and more extreme weather conditions. They're the first impacted by it, but they also increasingly see, and that's what stories in the book are about, how they see that their own actions are then impacting their environment and their climates. And this is why they're so important for all of us is that they find themselves at the center of what I think is this great collision of humanities two supreme imperatives. One, nourish the world, so nourish us all. That's the one imperative. And then the other imperative, kind of colliding with that, is to preserve, protect, and heal our planet from the very actions of nourishing us. So, these are these two colliding forces. You know as I think we already know agriculture and land use activities are responsible for about a third of the greenhouse gases impacting our climate and weather patterns. And the greatest impact of this then is felt by the farmers themselves. And they see what's happening to their soils and the depletion of their soils. Their lands being so terribly degraded by their very actions of nourishing their families and then contributing to nourishing us all. I think that's why they're so important for us. I mean, there's certainly kind of the canaries in the coal mine of climate change. Of these environmental challenges that we're all facing. And how they're then able to adjust their farming, as we kind of see in the book and that's this wisdom again. How can we learn from them and what are they seeing in their own situations. They're then having to adjust because they have no other options. They either have to adjust or their farms will continue to degrade and their children and their families increasingly malnourished and hungry. Roger let's talk through this issue of colliding imperatives just a bit. The fact that protecting the planet and nourishing people are colliding in your view, suggests that these two priorities are competing with one another. How is that the case? Some of the techniques of the monocropping, which is basically planting one crop on the same plot of land year after year, after year, season after season, right? And by doing that, these crops that are pulling nutrients out of the soil, many of the crops don't put nutrients back in. Some of them do. They'll restore nitrogen they'll put other nutrients in. But with the mono cropping, it's kind of the same depletion that goes on. And, has been particularly practiced in this country, and the bigger farmers and more commercial farmers, because it's more efficient. You are planting one crop, you have the same technique of kind of the planting and tending for that. And the harvesting, kind of the same equipment for that. You don't need to adjust practices, your equipment for various other crops that you're growing on that land. And so, there's an efficiency for that. You have then the price stability if there is any price stability in farming from that crop. That can be a weakness if the price collapses and you're so dependent on that. And so, the farmers are seeing, yeah, that's where the degrading and the weakening their of their soils comes from. So, what's their response to that when their land's degrading? When their soils become weak, it's like, oh, we need additional land then to farm. So they'll go into the forest, they'll cut down trees. And now there's virgin soil. They do the same practices there. And then after a number of years, well that land starts depleting. They keep looking for more. As you do these things, then with the soils depleting, the land degrading, becoming really hard, well, when the rain comes, it's not soaking in. And it just kind of runs away as the soil becomes almost like concrete. Farmers aren't able to plant much there anymore or get much out of the ground. And then so what happens then if the water isn't soaking into the soil, the underground aquifers and the underground springs they become depleted. All of a sudden, the lakes and the ponds that were fed by those, they disappear. The wildlife, the pollinators that come because of that, they go. The bushes, the plants, the weeds that are also so important for the environment, they start disappearing. And so you see that in their efforts to nourish their families and to nourish all of us, it's having this impact on the environment. And then that drives more impacts, right? As they cut down trees, trees drive the precipitation cycle. Tthen the rains become ever more mercurial and unpredictable. Without the trees and the shade and the cooling and the breezes, temperatures get hotter. And also, as the rains disappear and become more unpredictable. It has all this effect. And so, the farmers in the book, they're seeing all this and they recognize it. That by their very actions of cutting down trees to expand their land or to go to a different crop. Because again, that's what the commercial agriculture is demanding, so maybe its sugar cane is coming to the area. Well, sugar cane doesn't get along with trees. And so, the farmers in this one part of Uganda that I write about, they're cutting down all their trees to plant sugarcane. And then it's like, wow, now that the trees are gone, now we see all these environmental and ecosystem results because of that. And so that's where this collision comes from then of being much more aware, and sensitive in their practices and responding to it. That they are both nourishing their families and then also being even better stewards of their land. And they're not doing any of this intentionally, right? It's not like they're going 'we have to do all this to the land, and you know, what do we care? We're just here for a certain amount of time.' But no, they know that this is their land, it's their wealth, it's their family property. It's for their children and future generations. And they need to both nourish and preserve and protect and heal at the same time. Well, you paint such a rich picture of how a single decision like mono cropping has this cascade of effects through the entire ecosystem of an area. Really interesting to hear about that. Tell me how these farmers are experiencing climate change. You think of climate change as something theoretical. You know, scientists are measuring these mysterious things up there and they talk about temperature changes. But what are these farmers actually experiencing in their day-to-day lives? So along with the monocropping, this whole notion that then has expanded and become kind of an article of faith through industrial and modern agriculture orthodoxies, is to get big or get out, and then to plant from fence post to fence post. And so, the weeds and the flowers and plants that would grow along the edges of fields, they've been taken down to put in more rows of crops. The wetland areas that have either been filled in. So, it was a policy here, the USDA would then fund farmers to fill in their wetlands. And now it's like, oh, that's been counterproductive. Now there's policies to assist farmers to reestablish their wetland. But kind of what we're seeing with climate change, it's almost every month as we go through the year, and then from year after year. Every month is getting hotter than the previous months. And each year then is getting subsequently hotter. As things get hotter, it really impacts the ability of some crops in the climates where they're growing. So, take for instance, coffee. And coffee that's growing, say on Mount Kenya in Africa. The farmers will have to keep going further and further up the mountains, to have the cooler conditions to grow that type of coffee that they grow. The potato farmers in Peru, where potatoes come from. And potatoes are so important to the global food chain because they really are a bulwark against famine. Against hunger crises in a number of countries and ecologies in the world. So many people rely on potatoes. These farmers, they call themselves the guardians of the indigenous of the native potato varieties. Hundreds of various varieties of potatoes. All shapes, sizes, colors. As it gets warmer, they have to keep moving further and further up the Andes. Now they're really farming these potatoes on the roof of Earth. As they move up, they're now starting to then farm in soils that haven't been farmed before. So, what happens? You start digging in those soils and now you're releasing the carbon that's been stored for centuries, for millennia. That carbon is then released from the soils, and that then adds to more greenhouse gases and more impact on the climate and climate change. It kind of all feeds each other. They're seeing that on so many fronts. And then the farmers in India that we write about in the book, they know from history and particularly the older farmers, and just the stories that are told about the rhythm of the monsoon season. And I think it was the summer of the monsoon season of 2022 when I was doing the reporting there for that particular part of the book. The rains came at the beginning, a little bit. They planted and then they disappear. Usually, the monsoons will come, and they'll get some rain for this long, long stretch of time, sometimes particularly heavy. They planted and then the rains went away. And as the crops germinated and came up, well, they needed the water. And where was the water and the precipitation? They knew their yields weren't going to be as big because they could see without the rains, their crops, their millet, their wheat crops were failing. And then all of a sudden, the rains returned. And in such a downpour, it was like, I think 72 hours or three days kind of rains of a biblical proportion. And that was then so much rain in that short of time than added further havoc to their crops and their harvest. And it was just that mercurial nature and failing nature of the monsoons. And they're seeing that kind of glitches and kinks in the monsoon happening more frequently. The reliability, the predictability of the rains of the seasons, that's what they're all finding as kind of the impacts of climate change. You're discussing a very interesting part of the world. Let's talk about something that I found fascinating in your book. You talked about the case of pigweed in Uganda. Tell us about that if you will. Amaranth. So here, we call it pigweed. That's a weed. Yeah, destroy that. Again, fence post to fence post. Nah, so this pig weed that's growing on the side or any kind of weeds. The milkweed, so I'm from northern Illinois, and the milkweed that would kind of grow on the edges of the corn fields and other fields, that's really favored by monarch butterflies, right? And so now it's like, 'Hey, what happened to all the monarch butterflies that we had when we were growing up?' Right? Well, if you take out the milkweed plants, why are the monarch butterfly going to come? So those pollinators disappear. And they come and they're great to look at, and, you know, 'gee, the monarchs are back.' But they also perform a great service to us all and to our environment and to agriculture through their pollinating. And so, the pigweed in Africa - Amaranth, it's like a wonder crop. And one of these 'super crops,' really nutritious. And these farmers in this area of Uganda that I'm writing about, they're harvesting and they're cultivating Amaranth. And they're mixing that in their homemade porridge with a couple of other crops. Corn, some millet, little bit of sugar that they'll put in there. And that then becomes the porridge that they're serving to the moms, particularly during their pregnancies to help with their nutritional status. And then to the babies and the small children, once they started eating complimentary food. Because the malnutrition was so bad and the stunting so high in that area that they figured they needed to do something about that. And the very farmers that this program from Iowa State University that's been working with them for 20 years now, first to improve their farming, but then wow, the malnutrition is so bad in these farming families. What can we do about that? Then it was, oh, here's these more nutritional crops native to the area. Let's incorporate them into farming. This crop is Amaranth. Basically, neglected in other parts of the world. Destroyed in other parts of the world. That is something that's actually cultivated and harvested, and really cared for and prized in those areas. It's a really interesting story. Let's turn our attention to the United States, which you also profile in your book. And there was a particular farmer in Kansas named Brandon that you talk about. And he said he was getting divorced from wheat. Tell us about that. Yes, thank you. That's a really interesting story because he's standing there kind of on the edge of his farm, looking at the wheat crops across the road that his neighbor was planting and he had some himself. And he's saying, yeah, I need to get a divorce from wheat. Because of the impact that that was having on the environment. Again, the planting of the wheat, you know, year after year. It's the wheat belt of our Great Plains, which then is legendarily known as the breadbasket, not only of America, but the breadbasket of the world. This wheat is particularly good and appropriate for the label of Breadbasket because it's really good for breads, baking materials. But he's looking at here's the impact it had on his soil. The organic matter on the soil has been dwindling. In the season that the wheat is underground, and the topsoil is uncovered, then you have the problems with erosion. He's seen the impact over time of the year after year after year of growing the wheat. What's interesting, he says, you know, I need to get a divorce from wheat. Well, it's his relatives, because he's a fifth descendant, of the Mennonite farmers from what is now Ukraine - one of the world's original grain belts, who brought their hard red winter wheat seeds with them when they came to the Great Plains in the 1870s. They're the ones that wed Kansas, the Great Plains, the United States to wheat. So now this farmer, Brandon-I-need-to-get-a-divorce-from-wheat, well, it's your ancestors and your descendants that wed us to that. There's kind of historic irony that's taking place. But along with the wheat seeds that came, then also came the plowing up the prairie lands for the first time. And wheat is an annual crop. It's planted year after year one harvest. With each planting, the soil is disturbed, releasing carbon that had been stored, that had been stored in the soil for millennium when they first started plowing. Carbon along with methane released by agricultural activities is, again, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. And in addition, you know, this annual plowing exposes the soil to erosion. You know, relentless erosion with the wind and the rain in the plains. That's what eventually led to the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Some environmental and conservation agricultural practices come along because of that, but now that continues. And Brandon himself is seeing the impact as he measures the organic matter in the soil. These are the microorganisms in the soils that naturally work with the soils to grow the crops to feed us all. The nutrients in the soil are weakened and depleted, which then results in the need for more and more chemical enhancements and fertilizers, particularly nitrogen and all the rest. And then you see the runoff of the nitrogen into the water system. And so, yeah, he's seen the impact of all of this, and he's like I need to do something else. And so, he's taken a rather radical step than of planting and growing perennial crops, which you plant one season and then they'll grow for three or four years, maybe more and longer. He has some cattle, so he is able to graze that on those perennial crops. One in particular called kernza, which is an ancient intermediate wheat grass. Has some of the properties of wheat. And so the Land Institute in Kansas then is also working on perennial crops and how can they then be cultivated and harvested also as crops that we all eat. And so Kernza is very high in protein. There's all sorts of breads and pasta, pastries, that you can make with it. Cereals. It's a good ingredient for brewing. There's Kernza beer. And there's promise with that. And then so these perennial crops, then it's like, okay, so we don't have to plow every year. We plant, they grow, they provide a cover crop, but they also provide food for all of us. So perennials, good for our nutrition, good for the soils, good for the environment. You know, we've recorded a series of podcasts with farmers who've been doing regenerative agriculture. And the kind of story that you talk about Brandon, quite similar to what you hear from some of the other farmers. Farming was in their family for many generations. They were accustomed to a particular type of industrial agriculture. They saw it harming the land, thought it bad for the planet, and decided to really retool and do things entirely different. And they're making a go of it, which is really exciting. Roger, I wanted to ask you about Native Americans. As you write about their agriculture, spirituality, kinship, and how all these things come together. Tell us about that. Exactly. Thank you. And so, if you go travel a little bit further in our great plains from Kansas up to South Dakota, and the Sicangu Lakota communities in the southern part of South Dakota close to the Nebraska border. They're trying to reestablish their food sovereignty and the agriculture practices of the Native Americans destroyed, as we tried to destroy them and their communities. By taking of their land, forced relocations, the Trail of Tears, the Trail of Death, in various parts of the country, from various of the Native American communities. And they realize that, as you and the researchers at Duke, know really well, the health impacts that has had on the Native American communities and the high rates of diabetes and obesity, the shortened life expectancies in those communities. And one of the main factors then is their food pathways, and their nutrition being disturbed through all this. So how can they reestablish their food sovereignty? The emphasis on the crops that they used to grow, particularly the three sisters' crops, the maize, the beans, the squash. And then that they would have crops and taste and nutrients that were so vital to their systems traditionally. To recapture that in various growing projects that they have. And then also, with the Sicangu Lakota, they are trying to reestablish the buffalo herd, which was basically decimated from upwards of 30 million or more size of the herd basically down to several hundred with the intentional slaughter of the buffalo in order to really oppress and impact the Native American community. So vital not only to their food sources and nutrition, but basically everything. Clothing, tools - so using every inch of the buffalo. And then spiritually. And as they explain their approach to regenerative agriculture, they would put a picture of a buffalo as the very definition of regenerative agriculture. Just by the way that the buffalo grazes and then moves around. It doesn't graze to the soil it leaves something behind. Then the grasses grow quicker because there's something that's left behind. They leave things behind for other animals. The way that they migrate, and then kind of knead the soil as they go along. That also helps with the soil. So, all these regenerative agriculture, regenerative soil, healthy soil healing practices of it. And then they also say, look the spiritual nature of things that the buffalo represents their kinship. Their kinship of the people to the buffalo, to their land, to the environment. And to them, regenerative agriculture isn't just about food, about soils, about the cultivation and the planting, but also about this kinship. It is a kinship and a spirituality of kind of all of us together. We're all combined on this global food chain. And so that whole kinship element to regenerative agriculture, I think is also really important for us to all understand. Getting back to your original question about the wisdom. This is the wisdom of these farmers, these indigenous farmers, small holder farmers, family farmers. Like Brandon, the small holder farmers of African, India and Latin America are learning so much about their crops that we have so much to learn from.vIt's inspiring to think that some of the remedies that people are coming up with now in the face of all these challenges actually have historic roots that go back thousands of years is pretty inspiring. And it's nice to know that the resurrection of some of these techniques might really make a difference in the modern world. Roger, there are so many questions I'd love to ask you. And I'd urge people to read your book Against the Grain to further explore some of these issues. But I wanted to end with something. Are you hopeful that things will change in a positive direction? I am. I'm also concerned that we need to recognize the need to both nourish and heal. Recognize that this collision is looming, but it's already happening. And I think my hope, and cautious optimism I guess, then comes from the farmers themselves. They're very resilient, and they have to be, right? If you'd asked them the question about where their hope comes from or their optimism or their motivation and inspiration to keep going, it's they don't have any other option. I mean, this is their land. This is what they do. They're farmers, they're nourishing their families. If their families are to be nourished and to end the effects of poor nutrition as we see in this country, which is then common around the world, they need to adjust. So Abebe, a farmer Ethiopia this is kind of where my hope and inspiration comes from. And he begins the book. He's at the outset of the book and in the prologue. His land in Ethiopia was utterly degraded and you couldn't plant there anymore. They had already cut down trees, moved into areas that had been forested. The humble forest in the area had basically disappeared, in kind of the greater area of where Abebe lives. The bigger kind of ecosystem, environmental changes that then come from that, or the disappearance of a forest. And he had been following then the practices and the orthodoxies of modern agriculture. He realized that that was then behind the degradation of his land and the soil. He couldn't plant anymore. And the World Food Program, the Ethiopian government, other kind of NGOs, were then seeing, look these farm communities, these families, we're going to have to be assisting with food assistance forever because their lands are so degraded. They're not able to nourish their families from them unless we do something to restore and heal the land and bring the land back. And so, Abebe and his family and many others in his community, the kind of wider neighborhood and in this area, the humble forest, a lot of them, they stop farming on their land and they're given assistance saved by the World Food Program, kind of food for work. And they set about rehabbing their land. Kind of terracing their land so it'll hold the water. Digging shallow water pans to collect the rain so it then soaks into the soil, into the ground, and then regenerates the underground springs and sources of water. Planting grasses, bushes, letting kind of the land heal and regenerate itself. After a number of years, they see that happening. They move back to the land, and now he has this wide diversity as opposed to planting say corn every year or other mono cropping. Now he has this wide, wild, riotous array of different crops and vegetables and fruit trees. Some of the staple crops that he's grown also in rotation. Working with trees that have then grown up. Springs, a little pond has reformed that he didn't even know was there had come up because of the conservation the water. And he says, you know, my land, which once was dead, he's living again. Right? A profound statement and a realization from this farmer of this is how we can bring it back. So again, as I say, they've seen the future and it's ugly, right? He's seen his land degraded. He couldn't nourish his family anymore. He then does these practices, takes heed of this. I need to heal my land at the same time as farming it. And now his land is living again. So that to me is kind of a wonderful parable. So again, the wisdom of the farmers. It's through the stories and the wisdom of Abebe, that kind of the hope comes forward. Bio Roger Thurow is a journalist and author who writes about the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in our world as well as global agriculture and food policy. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for thirty years, including twenty years as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. In 2003, he and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Thurow is the author of four books: Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty (with Scott Kilman); The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change; The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children – And the World; and, Against the Grain – How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet. He has also been a senior fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, as well as a Scholar-in-Residence at Auburn University's Hunger Solutions Institute.

Send us a textHola love doves, Just a short clarifying reflection on the chapter I shared the other day. Thankful for freedom of religion. Study Nature and flow like water. un amor,lr kerkawwwTRACKLISTVIBIN Sunday 62 | Timestamp 41:00 | Soundcloud Lakota Woman is a memoir by Mary Brave Bird, a Sicangu Lakota who was formerly known as Mary Crow Dog.Support the showTip me in Solana:Address: 9XPHpqH7GawTGtPgZAzfXFU6oPWTpSua1QXwRYAWVh9y Find me on IG: barbarian_noetics Direct Donate on PayPal @barbarian.noetics@proton.me Cash App@ $BarbarianRavenbuymeacoffee.com/noetics.Spread the word and tell a friend. Remember to set the BNP on Auto Download after you subscribe. I appreciate you all. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 allows for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research.

The Donald Trump Administration is using the full force of the federal government to compel colleges and universities to do away with scholarships, recruiting, academic programs and any other initiatives that help Native students succeed. Schools risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding in addition to defending against investigations by the Department of Justice and other agencies. At least 50 schools are facing such investigations for what the U.S. Department of Education calls “race exclusionary” practices. We'll get a look at the sweeping changes the Trump Administration is bringing about and how Native education advocates are responding. GUESTS Cheryl Crazy Bull (Sicangu Lakota), president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund Carrie Billy (Diné), education consultant and former president and CEO of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Zonnie Gorman (Diné), historian and daughter of Dr. Carl Gorman, one of the original Navajo Code Talkers

The Donald Trump Administration is using the full force of the federal government to compel colleges and universities to do away with scholarships, recruiting, academic programs and any other initiatives that help Native students succeed. Schools risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding in addition to defending against investigations by the Department of Justice and other agencies. At least 50 schools are facing such investigations for what the U.S. Department of Education calls “race exclusionary” practices. We'll get a look at the sweeping changes the Trump Administration is bringing about and how Native education advocates are responding. GUESTS Cheryl Crazy Bull (Sicangu Lakota), president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund Carrie Billy (Diné), education consultant and former president and CEO of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Zonnie Gorman (Diné), historian and daughter of Dr. Carl Gorman, one of the original Navajo Code Talkers

A Minneapolis Lakota man is developing an archive of music by Native American artists one record and cassette tape at a time. Justis Brokenrope (Sicangu Lakota), founder of Wathéča Records, music curator, DJ, and educator, has already amassed a sizable collection of mostly folk, rock, blues, and country music by Native musicians. Now he's converting a lot of that music to digital formats to give the music and the artists who created it new recognition. Along the way he's expanding the conversation about the importance of Native languages. In this encore show, we'll hear from Justis Brokenrope about the passion driving his project.

A Minneapolis Lakota man is developing an archive of music by Native American artists one record and cassette tape at a time. Justis Brokenrope (Sicangu Lakota), founder of Wathéča Records, music curator, DJ, and educator, has already amassed a sizable collection of mostly folk, rock, blues, and country music by Native musicians. Now he's converting a lot of that music to digital formats to give the music and the artists who created it new recognition. Along the way he's expanding the conversation about the importance of Native languages. In this encore show, we'll hear from Justis Brokenrope about the passion driving his project.

The Keya Wakpala Woicageyapi Housing Community is a "master-planned development" consisting of single family housing types designed to reflect and celebrate Siċaŋġu Lak̇ota culture. The Siċaŋġu see a world where health and wholeness of body, mind and spirit are connected to the earth, stars and all relations. Keya Wakpala is one example of living this world into being for this and future generations by providing culturally-relevant homes and a place where community and economic opportunities can flourish side by side for the benefit of the Siċaŋġu Lak̇ota people and the world of their inheritance. Keya Wakpala is being designed to foster community and honor the way Siċaŋġu Lak̇ota live, work, play and pray. From its inception, Keya Wakpala has been shaped and guided by community voices expressing their needs, wants and visions to preserve cultural legacy, ensure food sovereignty and security, and promote meaningful livelihoods. This 590+ acre site will eventually incorporate athletic facilities, sports fields, a network of walking, biking and hiking trails, small business incubators, retail, restaurants, as well as many other businesses and amenities. In this episode, join Chance Renville of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation and Amanda Morrisette, of the Sicangu and Oglala Lakota as they share the journey of Indigenous placemaking with Keya Wakpala Woicageyapi and accomplishing the 7Gen Vision. A visionary example of Indigenous sovereignty, Keya Wakpala aims to preserve traditional culture, community and Indigenous lifeways while fulfilling the physical needs and contemporary realities of today. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio LINKS Keya Wakpala Project Site: https://www.sicangu.co/keyawakpala Chance Renville, a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation located in Northeast South Dakota. He is passionate about sustainability and the environment. As a husband and father, he is also an experienced hunter and chef who creates delicious meals for his family utilizing the ingredients he harvests and hunts from the lands. He has been active in construction since 2009 when he started doing renovations & remodeling. Amanda Morrisette, a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota woman, is a mother first and foremost. She has served her country as a veteran, and her experiences have shaped her into a dedicated advocate for her community. Amanda's passion for uplifting her people drives her daily efforts, making her a respected and beloved figure within the Sicangu Lakota community. Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 226 Photo credit: Sicangu.co

A Minneapolis Lakota man is developing an archive of music by Native American artists one record and cassette tape at a time. Justis Brokenrope (Sicangu Lakota), founder of Wathéča Records, music curator, DJ, and educator, has already amassed a sizable collection of mostly folk, rock, blues, and country music by Native musicians. Now he's converting a lot of that music to digital formats to give the music and the artists who created it new recognition. Along the way he's expanding the conversation about the importance of Native languages.

A Minneapolis Lakota man is developing an archive of music by Native American artists one record and cassette tape at a time. Justis Brokenrope (Sicangu Lakota), founder of Wathéča Records, music curator, DJ, and educator, has already amassed a sizable collection of mostly folk, rock, blues, and country music by Native musicians. Now he's converting a lot of that music to digital formats to give the music and the artists who created it new recognition. Along the way he's expanding the conversation about the importance of Native languages.

The River is Our Blood: Mary Brave Bird The focus of “Lives of the Spirit” for March is the Sicangu Lakota writer and organizer. A member of the American Indian Movement, she blended Lakota religious practices with her activism in an effort to protect indigenous sovereignty and the land. How can such a perspective inspire us in both our solidarity work and efforts to address the climate crisis?

Justis Brokenrope has collected vinyl by Native musicians for the past decade. Now he shares that music with the digital world. “You can listen to music nowadays without ever touching a CD, a record, or a tape,” said Brokenrope, who is Sicangu Lakota. “It's just so digital and ubiquitous all the time. But to hold the physical thing and then to see yourself represented in that, and to see your community, your people, your family represented in that, I think that's just so important for us.” A self-described shaggy-haired kid, Justis Brokenrope started collecting vinyl records near his hometown in rural Nebraska. As a young musician, he played in punk and metal bands touring the U.S. and Europe. He was in a record store in Providence, R.I., about ten years ago where he found a compilation record consisting of Indigenous North American music, and inspiration struck. “I've heard a lot of powwow music and ceremonial music. But then to know that there were these artists back then, pre-social media, internet, everything, obviously, just in their really, sometimes small and very isolated communities,” explained Brokenrope.“They got a guitar somewhere or traded something for a guitar, and then their music was documented by something like the [Canadian Broadcast Corporation]. And so those records exist. And then that was just like, mind blowing to me,” said Brokenrope. Now, an entire wall of Brokenrope's Minneapolis apartment is dedicated to his record collection. Some of that music is being heard again for the first time. And he says he's collecting for more than the sake of collecting. He wants to re-introduce the music he's found back to Indigenous communities. “A lot of people obviously don't have the time to go dig through a bunch of thrift stores in the Southwest,” said Brokenrope. When he finds those rare records, he posts them to social media. Curated music sets go to YouTube, and photos of album covers are posted to his Instagram page, Wathéča Records. For him, accessibility is a way to build community around music.  He estimates he has a collection of about 300 records by Indigenous artists from various genres— mostly country, folk, rock from the 1960s through the late 80s. “These records can have life again and reach the people that maybe forgot about them or lost their copy. Or those folks who made them have journeyed on, but their kids are still around and remember their dad or mom playing guitar and singing.” Brokenrope says for him artists like Buddy Red Bow, a Lakota country singer who was recording in the 1970s, is one example of the kind connection a person can make through listening. “As someone who works a lot with language to hear him speak or sing a song in Lakota and English and then to hear his dad on the recording as well singing in Lakota or speaking ... it's just so moving and just a beautiful thing to experience.” Translating Analog to Digital Collecting vinyl brings Brokenrope into conversation with a lot of fellow record collectors. It's an opportunity to build a network of people who share his passion. On a January evening, Brokenrope met with a fellow Indigenous collector, David McCloud, who is Anishinaabe from Minegoziibe First Nation in northern Manitoba. “When somebody asks me, ‘How do you collect Indigenous records?'” said McCloud to Brokenrope. “That's years and years of building relationships.” The two compared notes during their virtual meeting about their shared passion. The conversation included their mutual appreciation for music and much more. Both described years spent digging for vinyl and multiple acts of converting analog music to digital as a method of translation between generations. They also talk about the ways Indigenous musicians have busted through the myths of Indigenous people as the vanishing American and the ways artists have subverted stereotypes and found self-expression. “Our people were supposed to disappear,” said McCloud. “If you look at the history of it, since the possibility of recording began, Indigenous people were there, right up until now.” McCloud motioned to his own collection of recordings and shared a piece of wisdom. “You never finish. You never know it all. You're never gonna have it all,” McCloud said. Click here.https://youtube.com/shorts/pzhye1ZzsnM?si=Qx9suBpTUfoKRCfZDJing in the Dakota language On a Friday evening in early March, Brokenrope plays a set of deep cuts inside a St. Paul record store. DJing has become another way Brokenrope shares his love for vinyl.  Music lovers will recognize Link Wray and His Ray Men covering Dylan's “Girl from The North Country.” Fellow collectors may know Karen Dalton's bluesy “Something On Your Mind.” Lots of people will hum along to popular Redbone refrains. The powwow crowd will sing every single word of Keith Secola's “NDN Kars.” And it's the dollar bin gems — the stuff lots of people may have heard years ago or may have never heard before — where his collection shines. Brokenrope's collection reflects years of digging for rare vinyl recordings. In his set, A. Paul Ortega's powerful singing on “Chicago,” Arliene Nofchissey Williams & Carnes Burson performing the bridge on “Go My Son,” and Morris Belknap's “On That Dusty Road To San Carlos,” give listeners a sense of the themes important to Native musicians over decades.  While connecting the tunes during his DJ sets, Brokenrope adds another act of translation. As an educator, Brokenrope has been a part of a growing language movement to revitalize the Dakota language.  He often DJs his sets in the Dakota language. Sharing music of from his collection in Dakota is an invitation to Indigenous people to be in conversation with one another in a digital world. “To be able to use my tribe's language and be able to create more content in it,” he said. “And have that represented more, just felt really in line with the kind of music we're playing.” 

Can a woman really aspire to become CEO?   For this Women of Color Rise episode, Analiza talks with Cheryl Crazy Bull, Wacinyanpi Win (They Depend on Her), a member of the Sicangu Lakota nation. Cheryl is President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund and is an advocate for self-determination focused on Native voice, philosophy, and traditions as the heart of the people's work in building prosperity for current and future generations. Cheryl shares advice for women to aspire to top roles: Know that women as leaders is not new. If we reach back to our cultures and histories, we'll see that women have always led. Leadership starts at home with family. Among the Lakotas and other tribes, your responsibility is to be a good relative. This includes respect and reciprocity where you give to and receive from others.  Believe in yourself. If we face feelings of impostor syndrome, we can fill ourselves with our belief in our own worthiness. For Cheryl, she told herself, “You can be that good. You can take your vision and apply it.” Be a learner and stay humble. This allows people to get close to you, see you as human and believe you will help them. Power is not bad. Power is about influence and the ability to allocate resources and move towards a vision of serving others. Get full show notes and more information here: https://analizawolf.com/ep-65-aspire-to-be-ceo-with-cheryl-crazy-bull

Estelle Timar-Wilcox: Native and non-Native audiences have been raving about “For the People.”  Colin Cash is a big theater fan and a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. When he saw it, he forgot he was even watching a play. He even offered to pay for people's tickets so they could go, too. Colin Cash: In my eyes, for me, it wasn't just a play, it was an experience, and a look into the urban natives trying to find acceptance, community. There's so many nuances, the writing is just brilliant and there's layers to it. I've been recommending it to a lot of different people, because representation does matter. ETW: “For the People” premiered at the Guthrie in October and ran through November 12th. The show follows April Dakota, a young Native woman with big dreams of opening a wellness center on Franklin Avenue. April means well, but she's a little misguided. Her plans for vegan regalia and new-age Indigenous yoga get some eye-rolls from her elders. She lands in a tangle of neighborhood politics and a partnership with a rich developer that goes very wrong.  The Guthrie commissioned this show from playwrights Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse. FastHorse is a member of the Sicangu Lakota nation; her mom is from Minnesota, and she grew up in South Dakota. Defoe has Ojibwe and Oneida heritage, and grew up on Anishinaabe territory. But they weren't the only voices behind it. FastHorse said they developed the play using story circles – meetings with local Native people to see what they wanted to watch a play about.  Larissa FastHorse: It's really about making sure that we aren't writing what we want to write, we're writing what the community wants us to write, and we're asking the community again and again, ‘hey, whoever wants to tell us what you want a play to be about — come on, let us know.' ETW: The show mentions a lot of local landmarks and history — from the start of the American Indian Movement to Owamni. And the biggest note they got: it has to be funny. The result is a hilarious 90 minutes. The final battle features a yoga competition and a paintball bow-and-arrow. The comedy weaves through some really touching moments, too.  Co-writer Ty Defoe was responsible for writing a lot of the jokes.  Ty Defoe: That kind of comedy allows a type of a healing. When people either see themselves portrayed on stages or are a part of that process, I think there's something that allows the collective soul of Native people to come together in an urban environment that settler colonialism has so affected so that we can have a joy and a type of perseverance working together. ETW: Lindy Sowmick is Saginaw Ojibwe. She grew up in Michigan and moved to Minnesota for college. She called “For the People” the greatest play she's ever seen.  Lindy Sowmick: There's that feeling, deep in your heart, or in your stomach, when you're like, this is healing for my community. That's what art is meant to do, art's meant to tell a story. And you know, Indigenous folks have been storytellers for our entire generations. I think that this is just such a beautiful result of generations of us being storytellers. ETW: The Guthrie advertised the show as the first Native-written play on its main stages. FastHorse said she's glad it reached a wide audience.  LF: That's the beauty of theater. It's a live experience where you go with people that are having completely different experiences, and then you get to talk about it. It makes you have to interrogate things in a different way, which we really love. We're very aware that we're writing for a predominantly white institution, with a dominantly white subscriber base, but there was so much work being put into making sure we had a broader audience coming to this. And we made sure that this play was for the people, right?  There were a lot of things that didn't read to the white people, and we were like, that's okay. That part's not for you, and that's fine. (Laughter).  TD: For! The! People!

As the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally gears up for its closing weekend, a group of bikers is carrying a message on their two-wheeled machines. Along with their black leather jackets, the bikers who make up the Medicine Wheel Ride wear red to raise awareness of the ongoing problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. Many of the riders are Native women who organize events to get the message out. GUESTS Prairie Rose Seminole (Three affiliated Tribes – Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Dakota), co-director of the We Ride For Her documentary and MMIP Advocate Sheela Farmer (Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud Sioux Tribe), retired civil servant with Department of the Interior and a lifelong motorcycle enthusiast Crystaline Bauer (Cheyenne River), receptionist for Indian Motorcycles in Sturgis, S.D. Shawnee Red Bear-Keith, Oglala Sioux tribal veteran service officer, Red Spirit WRMC member, and Marine Corps veteran Lorna Cuny (Oglala Sioux Tribe), founding member of Medicine Wheel Ride

Ogimaa Giniw Ikwe hosts today’s show and starts thing off with our news from Turtle Island. Then we have a special interview with Zoe Allen and former MN State Representative Susan Allen (both Sicangu Lakota and White Earth Anishinaabe).

Host Robert Pilot (Ho-Chunk) welcomes Sicangu Lakota adoptee and author Sandy White Hawk (founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute). PLUS, special updates from Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. TUNE IN!

Three incredible women, Sierra Ornales (Diné ), Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota) and Tazbah Rose Chavez  (Nüümü, Diné and San Carlos Apache tribes) join All My Relations to talk about the comedy scene, sisterhood and above all else— laughter as a way of life. These are the the women that brought us Rutherford Falls, and you may have also seen Jana in Reservation Dogs, but these amazing women have been working in television for years. We feel very lucky to be in conversation with them, and are so grateful for all the work the've done for positive Indigenous representation. ++++Jana Schmieding (@janaunplgd) is a Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota actor, writer, podcaster, beadwork artist, and comedian known for her work on Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs.Tazbah Rose Chavez (@tazbah) is a performance poet turned director and television writer. She is currently a writer on  FX's Reservation Dogs, and previously wrote for NBCUniversal's series "Rutherford Falls”.Sierra Teller Ornelas (@sierraornelas) is Navajo and a showrunner, screenwriter, filmmaker and weaver from Tucson, Arizona. She is one of three co-creators of the scripted NBC comedy series Rutherford Falls, alongside Ed Helms and Mike Schur. This is our last episode in our live series from Santa Monica College! Special thanks to  Emily Silver, and everyone there who made this possible, thank you to the AMR team: Jonathan Stein, Max Levin, Teo Shantz, Lindsay Hightower,  and Charlie Stavish. Major shout out to KP of Blackbelt EagleScout for being our live music for the event and to Ciara Sana for the episode artwork.Support the showFollow us on Instagam @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon. Show notes are published on our website, amrpodcast.com. Matika's book is available for pre-order! T'igwicid and Wado for being on this journey with us.

Artist, army veteran, and Native-American cultural educator Steve Tamayo talks about being raised within a Mexican cultural heritage, deprived of his stolen cultural identity as a native American, and how, as he matured, he not only sought out his native American culture through language and art, but has become a respected culture bearer for his Sicangu Lakota and other native peoples. Tamayo is a traditional Sicangu Lakota artist whose family originates from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Tamayo studied the traditional arts of the Umonhon people under Howard Wolf and earned his BFA from Sínte Gleska University in 2011 where he developed and taught the traditional arts program. After more than 30 years of study and practice as an artist and educator, he began consulting educational institutions and other organizations on the history, culture and traditions of the Plains Indians, including being a regular consultant to the curatorial and conservation staff at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. In 2022 Tamayo received a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation to create a series of traditional buffalo robes, which he explores further in our conversation. He founded Bluebird Cultural Initiative to support his vision of preserving and sharing his cultural heritage. He is a past Nebraska Governor's Heritage Art Award recipient, an honor bestowed for his contributions in the arts and Native American culture.

In the first half-hour, Tiokasin welcomes Sandra White Hawk. Sandra is the author of "A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return,” published in December 2022 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Sandra is a Sicangu Lakota adoptee from the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. She is the Founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute. First Nations Repatriation Institute is the first organization of its kind whose goal it is to create a resource for First Nations people impacted by foster care or adoption to return home, reconnect and reclaim their identity. The Institute also serves as a resource to enhance the knowledge and skills of practitioners who serve First Nations people.Sandra organizes Truth Healing Reconciliation Community Forums that bring together adoptees/fostered individuals and their families and professionals with the goal to identify post adoption issues and to identify strategies that will prevent removal of First Nations children. She has also initiated an ongoing support group for adoptees and birth relatives in the Twin Cities Area. Sandra is the Director of Healing Programs at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is an Indian Child Welfare Consultant and is a Trainer for the Tribal Training Certificate Participation Program, University of Duluth, Minnesota. In the second half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Aymar Accopacatty. Aymar is an intercultural artist and museum textile conservator. Aymar is a lifelong student of his Indigenous Aymara heritage, in honor of his Native community of Qullana Socca, Puno, Perú. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Those Were the Days Artist: The Teskey Brothers Album: Palm Beach (Soundtrack) (2019) Label: Universal Music Australia (00:55:35) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit 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. 

Today on Native America Calling, Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota) joins us for an hour-long conversation about her life and career as part of our feature Native in the Spotlight. Got a question you're dying to ask her? Or maybe you just want to tell her how awesome she is. You can reach her on 1-800-99-NATIVE.

Today on Native America Calling, Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota) joins us for an hour-long conversation about her life and career as part of our feature Native in the Spotlight. Got a question you're dying to ask her? Or maybe you just want to tell her how awesome she is. You can reach her on 1-800-99-NATIVE.

Cheryl Crazy Bull - Wacinyanpi Win (They Depend on Her), a member of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund. As we continue to pay respect to Native American Indian Heritage Month, she joins Tavis for a discussion about the current pressing issues facing the Native community and to unpack her work in increasing the visibility and representation of Native people

Some tribes are already finding economic opportunities with clean energy. Now the Biden Administration is appealing directly to tribes to add wind, solar, and other clean alternatives to help boost their budgets. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce finds out why more tribes are willing to take a chance on these burgeoning technologies with Daniel Wiggins Jr. (Bad River Band citizen), Air Quality Technician with the Bad River Band Natural Resources Department; Liliana Napoleon (Native Hawaiian and a Cherokee descendant), program director for Ho'ahu Energy Cooperative; Robert Blake (tribal citizen of the Red Lake Nation), owner of Solar Bear, executive director for Native Sun Community Power Development, and chief executive officer for Indigenized Energy Initiative; Tanksi Clairmont (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota tribal member and Sicangu Lakota), managing director of the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund; and Dr. Suzanne Singer (Diné), co-founder of Native Renewables.

Some tribes are already finding economic opportunities with clean energy. Now the Biden Administration is appealing directly to tribes to add wind, solar, and other clean alternatives to help boost their budgets. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce finds out why more tribes are willing to take a chance on these burgeoning technologies with Daniel Wiggins Jr. (Bad River Band citizen), Air Quality Technician with the Bad River Band Natural Resources Department; Liliana Napoleon (Native Hawaiian and a Cherokee descendant), program director for Ho'ahu Energy Cooperative; Robert Blake (tribal citizen of the Red Lake Nation), owner of Solar Bear, executive director for Native Sun Community Power Development, and chief executive officer for Indigenized Energy Initiative; Tanksi Clairmont (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota tribal member and Sicangu Lakota), managing director of the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund; and Dr. Suzanne Singer (Diné), co-founder of Native Renewables.

Host Lisa Colon DeLay invites you to explore the wisdom from the late Richard Twiss an American indigenous leader and professor on prayer and community.

Dedicated to the respectful exchange between Indigenous teachings about health and healing and mainstream Western psychology, Richard Katz received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard, where he taught for nearly 20 years. Over the past 50 years, Dr. Katz has spent time working with Indigenous elders and healers in various parts of the world, including the primarily hunting-gathering Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, the Indigenous Fijians of the South Pacific, the Sicangu Lakota of Rosebud Reservation, and the Cree and Saulteaux First Nations people of Saskatchewan. At the request of the Indigenous elders he has worked with, he seeks to bring their teachings into contact with mainstream psychology. The aim is to encourage the mainstream to be more respectful of diversity, more committed to social action, and more appreciative of the spiritual dimension in health and healing. Dr. Katz has written 7 books on culture and healing. He is currently Professor Emeritus at First Nations University of Canada and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.Dr. Katz can be reached at: rkatz@firstnationsuniversity.ca•••I'd love to hear what you think, so please feel free to make a comment if you're listening to this on YouTube, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or send me an email at hello@brianjames.caIf you enjoy this podcast, you might be interested in another one I've recently started called Soul Studies with Brian James, where I share readings from some of my favourite authors in the realm of spirituality and depth psychology. You can find a link to those episodes at my website http://brianjames.ca/soul-studies or search “Soul Studies with Brian James” wherever you get your podcasts.•••Support the Podcast!If you'd like to join the conversation and help support the podcast, please considering becoming a member of the growing Medicine Path tribe at patreon.com/medicinepath. You can also follow me on Instagram @revealingthesoul. I love hearing from listeners, so please feel free to reach out on social media or email me at hello@brianjames.ca•••Links:Donate: http://ko-fi.com/brianjames / http://paypal.me/medicinepathyogaPatreon: http://patreon.com/medicinepath Coaching & Books: http://brianjames.ca Yoga Courses: http://medicinepathyoga.comMusic: Royal Fern by Green House (https://green-house.bandcamp.com)

Professor and author David Heska Wanbli Weiden joins us to discuss his crime novel Winter Counts, following the story of a local Native American enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation. Weiden, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota nation, highlights life on a reservation and dives into the important issue of native identity. Winter Counts is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Publishers Weekly. Our host Ann Bocock sits down with David Heska Wanbli Weiden to talk about the importance of Native American representation in the media and how the native community has responded to his novel. He discusses the broken criminal justice system on reservations and the health issues brought on by food insecurity, healthcare disparities and drug addiction. Weiden also shares his struggles being half Lakota and why it was so important for his main character to cope with the same issues of identity. He explains what exactly is a winter count and tells us how the Rosebud Indian Reservation has been affected by the pandemic. Get all the details on this week's episode of GO Between the Covers! Connect with David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Website: https://davidweiden.com Twitter: @WanbliWeiden COVID-19 Rosebud Relief Fund: https://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/covid-19-disaster-relief-fund And connect with us! https://www.southfloridapbs.org/gobtc/ Facebook: @BetweenTheCoversSouthFloridaPBS Twitter: @WPBT2, @WXELTV

Cette semaine à mâmawi musique, Moe Clark nous présente Frank Waln, un artiste, écrivain et producteur hip-hop de la nation Sicangu Lakota, aux États-Unis. Avec Moon M. O, assistant•e à la recherche.

DAVID HESKA WANBLI WEIDEN chats with Craig Sisterson about WINTER COUNTS, his character Virgil Wounded Horse, the Rosebud Native American Reservation, and why he receives the grand total of $1.29/quarter in rent for his land from cattle farmers.Winter Counts: If you have a problem, if no one else can help, there's one person you can turn to.  Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Native American Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way onto the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism becomes personal. Enlisting the help of his ex-girlfriend, he sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.Following a lead to Denver, they find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity - but being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is the author of the novel Winter Counts, winner of the Anthony, Thriller, Barry, Lefty, Macavity, Spur, and Tillie Olsen Awards. The novel was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Shamus and Dashiell Hammett Prize. Weiden was a MacDowell Fellow, a Tin House Scholar, and was awarded the PEN/America Writing for Justice Fellowship. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and teaches writing for the MFA program at Regis University. He's Professor of Native American Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and lives in Colorado with his family. Learn more at DavidWeiden.com.Recommends:Martin Cruz SmithStephen Graham JonesLouis Owens Marcie RendonTony HillermanProduced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime Time Craig Sisterson is the author of SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand. He founded the Ngaio Marsh Awards in his native New Zealand and is a contributor to several publications and magazines.  

James and Ashley interview David Heska Wanbli Weiden about his multi-award-winning debut novel 'Winter Counts.' In it, they discuss the shocking American laws that let crimes on Native American Reservations go unpunished, the importance of food in cultural reclamation, and the marvel of Carhenge. Learn more about David on his website, and buy a copy of Winter Counts from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else books are sold.  'Winter Counts' is a contemporary thriller about Virgil Wounded Horse, a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Through it, Weiden reveals the profoundly broken criminal justice system on American reservations.  David Heska Wanbli Weiden is an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation and the author of Winter Counts. His debut novel, Winter Counts was the winner of the 2021 Thriller Award for Best First Novel, the Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel, the Barry Award for Best First Novel, the Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, and the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing. He lives in Colorado. Books and authors discussed in this episode:  Jim Thompson, US noir author; Don Becker, Denver comedian; Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby; These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall; They Can't Take Your Name by Robert Justice; The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville; The Shadow House by Anna Downes (our guest from episode 5); The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright; Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk  Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

A new comedy on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock TV, proves border towns can be funny. The setting is a town near the fictional Minishonka reservation. The two main characters, Nathan Rutherford, played by Ed Helms, and Regan Wells played by Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota) are best friends who are trying to get their communities excited about history and culture. Half of the writers are Native, as are the showrunner and main character. Sierra Teller Ornelas (Navajo) is the first Native American to run a TV comedy. We’ll talk with Teller Ornelas, Schmieding and writer/actor Bobby Wilson (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota) about this history-making TV series.

Evans Flammond Sr. is Sicangu Lakota and an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe who lives with his family on the Pine Ridge Reservation.Today Evans' art is highly collected and internationally recognized and can be seen in art galleries, museums and private collections all over the world.Evans is a dear friend of a decade now, and in this episode you'll soon discover why his Native American name is Man With Many Friends.Evans does not currently have a website up, but his art can be seen and purchased through his Instagram account: @evansflammond.

Thanksgiving is a Lie: Indigenous Grief and Celebration with Cali Wolf & Tai SimpsonToday The Broads sit with Tai Simpson and Cali Wolf to talk about indigenous people’s history, lies and misconceptions that are taught in “US History”, land back, Tai and Cali’s personal stories, the violence of cultural appropriation, the truth about Thanksgiving, and much more. **This podcast was recorded on Tongva land CALI WOLF:Cali is Sicangu Lakota. She is an ER nurse, mother, and the coordinating director of an Indigenous womxn led nonprofit called Native Women’s Wilderness!Follow Cali: https://www.instagram.com/caliwolf/Donate to Native Women’s Wilderness here: https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/donateFollow Native Women’s Wilderness: https://www.instagram.com/nativewomenswilderness/Rosebud Sioux Tribe COVID-19 Disaster Relief Fundhttps://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/covid-19-disaster-relief-fundThe “All My Relations” podcast discussed “Thankstaking or Thanksgiving”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thankstaking-or-thanksgiving/id1454424563?i=1000499682949Watch the documentary “Blood Memory” here: https://worldchannel.org/episode/arf-blood-memory/TAI SIMPSON:Tai Simpson is “The Storyteller” in the indigenous language of the Nimiipuu nation (Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho). She is a direct descendant of Chief Redheart of the Nez Perce tribe and a tireless advocate for social justice. Tai’s academic background is in Political Philosophy & Public Law at Boise State University where she served as the vice president and president of the Intertribal Native Council student organization. She speaks on issues afflicting marginalized communities including race, missing & murdered Indigenous women, and the intersections of oppression facing the United States. Her appearances and interviews can be heard or read on Boise State Public Radio, TEDxBoise, and several news outlets.Follow Tai: https://www.instagram.com/taisimpson/Website: https://www.taisimpson.comWatch Tai’s TedxTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RhEStF_bQRead “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States”: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/237686/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-by-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/Check out the “Indigenous Action” podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indigenous-action/id1532103976THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:FUNCTION OF BEAUTY: Go to FunctionofBeauty.com/BROADS to get 20% off your hair care order!HAWTHORNE: Find the perfect gift this holiday season by visiting Hawthorne.CO/GIFTROTHY’S: Check out all the amazing shoes, bags and masks available right now at Rothys.com/CHATTYGRAND HARVET SOLITAIRE: Download Solitaire Grand Harvest for free today in the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Amazon...

In The Moment … November 9, 2020 Show 938 Hour 2 Shortly after finding out she won a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, Larissa FastHorse told Here and Now she didn't get into theater for the money. She does it because she loves it. FastHorse is Sicangu Lakota who grew up in South Dakota. She and her husband are now based in California. Larissa FastHorse joins us to talk about her work, including her satirical "Thanksgiving Play," and her plans for the Genius Grant. Arts, literature, and music reporting on SDPB is supported by the Northern State University School of Fine Arts. More information available at northern.edu Find us on Apple , Spotify , and Google Play . Plus, watch interviews from our show on YouTube .

Matt, Thomas, and Representative Welch pull back the curtain on what coalition building actually looks like in practice - the importance of coalitions in organizing work, how to deal with tensions and disagreements in coalitions, and how to think about coalition building around climate change, specifically. Thomas shares their story organizing in support of the #nodapl movement, how that work led to his involvement with the International Indigenous Youth Council, and the lessons he gleaned about coalition building from that experience. Rep. Welch shares his personal story and how it informs his approach to public life, what it's like to build coalitions with politicians and legislators, and his advice for listeners who want to build relationships with their local politicians. Thomas explores coalitions as a source of learning and intergenerational knowledge for organizers as well as resource allocation. Rep. Welch shares an example of how he helped shepherd immigration legislation to become law through coalition building across the state in partnership with community groups. The group wraps up by exploring coalition building around climate change. Resources Referenced: The Future Coalition Website and Instagram The International Indigenous Youth Council Bios: Thomas Lopez Jr. (they/them) was born and raised in Denver, CO, They are Otomi, Diné, Apache and Sicangu Lakota. Thomas is one of the founding members of the International Indigenous Youth Council and continues to sit on the Council’s Board of Directors. Thomas is a proud Two Spirit person and continues to advocate and defend the Two Spirit community. Thomas is also the Partnerships Coordinator for the Future Coalition’s Youth Climate Strikes. Representative Emanuel “Chris” Welch. Representative Welch has been a State Representative from the 7th District of Illinois since 2013. Welch serves on several key House Committees including Executive, Revenue, Cities and Villages, Counties and Townships, and Higher Education. Welch serves as Chair of the House Executive Committee. He previously served as Chair of the House Higher Education Committee where he lead efforts to pass historic legislation like the four year map grant award and the AIM High Scholarship. He also served as Co-Chair of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Educational Success Transition Committee.

TW: Violence, Rape, DrugsDavid Heska Wanbli Weiden: a name as poetic as his prose and as his book is necessary for us right now. Listen in as we discuss his earth-shattering debut novel, WINTER COUNTS. We talk about Indigenous rights, decolonization, characterization, and how fiction writing has the potential to change policy.+++David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is author of the novel WINTER COUNTS (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020).  WINTER COUNTS is a New York Times Editors' Choice, and has been selected as an Amazon Best Book of August, Best of the Month by Apple Books, a main selection of the Book of the Month Club, and was an Indie Next Great Reads pick.Weiden is also the author of the children's book SPOTTED TAIL (Reycraft, 2019), a biography of the great Lakota leader and winner of the 2020 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America.  He's published in the New York Times, Shenandoah, Yellow Medicine Review, Transmotion, Criminal Class Review, Tribal College Journal, and other magazines.  He's the fiction editor for Anomaly, journal of international literature and arts, and he teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, the MFA program in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University.He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He's an alumnus of VONA, a Tin House Scholar, a MacDowell Fellow, a Ragdale Foundation resident, and received the PEN/America Writing for Justice Fellowship.  He's an active member of the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Western Writers of America, and the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers.  He's Professor of Native American Studies and Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and lives in Colorado with his two sons.His last name, Weiden, is pronounced “Why-den.” Heska Wanbli is pronounced “Heh-ska Wahn-blee.”  His nation, the Sicangu Lakota, is pronounced “See-chon-goo Lah-coat-ah.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramWINTER COUNTS Playlist--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/situationandstory/support Get full access to situation / story at situationstory.substack.com/subscribe

We recently asked Amplify’s 2020 Indigenous American Artist Support Grant recipient, Steve Tamayo, if he would share some of his thoughts about what it means to cultivate creative practices in rural spaces and how those practices connect revitalizing and preserving indigenous cultural knowledge to ecological justice. Steve Tamayo draws upon his family history as a member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe. His fine arts education (BFA from Singe Gleska University), along with his cultural upbringing, have shaped him as an artist, historian, storyteller and dancer. Steve provides activities during his residencies that include art and regalia making, drumming, powwow dance demonstrations and lectures on the history, symbolism and meaning behind the Native customs and traditions. Steve has considerable experience developing curricula and teaching both youth and adults, including work with the Native American Advocacy Program of South Dakota, Omaha Public Schools, Minnesota Humanities Council and Metropolitan Community College of Omaha. He also leads groups of students and teachers on cultural excursions on the Rosebud reservation, introducing them to the rich culture and way of life that is slowly being revived among native communities. He is a past Governor’s Heritage Art Award recipient, an honor bestowed for his contributions in the arts and Native American culture. Tamayo has had work exhibited at The National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, DC, The Kaneko in Omaha, NE, The Great Plains Museum in Lincoln, NE, RNG Gallery in Council Bluffs, IA. His most recent work included painting buffalo robes and set design for Willie Nelson and Neil Young on the occasion of their concert for Bold Nebraska in Neligh, NE.

Tribal nations around the United States are facing their most severe crisis in decades as they grapple simultaneously with some of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks in rural America and the economic devastation caused by the long-term shutdown of nearly 500 tribally owned casinos. The situation has gotten so precarious on the First Nation reservations that Doctors Without Borders, best known for sending medical professionals into international conflict zones in the midst of medical crises, dispatched a team of nine to the hard.hit Navajo Nation in the southwest U.S. because of the crisis unfolding there. Riem Higazi spoke with Jo Overton who is a proud tribal member of the Sicangu Lakota, also known as the Rosebud Sioux people.

Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from this year’s conference. Here’s Day Three!Richard Z. Santos 1:22Santos’ debut novel Trust Me came out on 3/31/20 from Arte Público Press. The main character is an “East Coast political hack” who moves from D.C. to Sante Fe and “stumbles into corruption and danger.” We talked multiple POVs, airport mottos (Sante Fe: Connecting You to the World!), and the similarities between teaching American high school students and working on political campaigns. Having his novel helpfully ‘shredded’ by Tim O’Brien led to a final draft, and after “50 encouraging rejection” letters from agents, Arte Público said a resounding YES. Working with them was a great experience. He has a finished draft of his second novel, and he’ll be planning the Writers, Agents, and Editors Conference for the Writers League of Texas that will hopefully still be happening in June. Follow him on Twitter @richardzsantos.Yodassa Williams 12:26Delightful cannot even begin to describe Yodassa Williams, whose beautiful debut YA fantasy novel, The Goddess Twins, comes out on May 19th. It follows identical sisters who discover they are goddesses when their mother goes missing - “in other words, true life.” As a teen, Williams spent a summer in London with cousins who encouraged her to explore her creative side. Inspired by these black magical girls (“literal black girl magic”), her book is a coming of age run through the Fantasy filter (her dad’s obsession with Dune had to figure in somehow!). In 2014, a revelation at Burning Man resulted in Williams leaving her industry fashion job and writing The Goddess Twins. Her advice for finding a publisher? Look for publishing contests and use contest dates as your deadline. She continues to tell stories through words and clothing. Follow her at @yodawill on Twitter and @yodawill12 on instagram.Alia Volz 27:53We speak with Alia Volz about her fascinating debut memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, And The Stoning Of San Francisco. A hybrid of heavy social issues and personal history, the book comes out, surprise, surprise, on 4/20. Volz’s folks ran the first high volume cannabis edibles business in San Francisco - underground, illegal, and very popular. After AIDS hit SF, the famous brownies “became part of the dawn of medical marijuana” and “the transition from party drug to panacea.” The book started out as an oral history: Volz started recording her mom and other people in the community, and even a SFPD police officer! She shopped that version in 2009 and it did not sell because publishers thought the market was “too niche.” Now, of course, that seems quaint and hilariously short-sighted since cannabis culture is so ubiquitous (and big business). Ultimately Volz became even more interested in the historical context and used the memoiristic voice as a way “into and through” the 70s and 80s in SF. A Macdowell Colony fellow -“transformative” for her - Volz called out fellow authors Bridgett M. Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers) and Tony Dokoupil (The Last Pirate). Follow her @aliavolz.Sonia Hamer 42:00On this special installment of the Blazer, Danial Peña interviews Hamer, a student in the University of Houston Creative Writing program. “A lot of different kinds of nerd,” she talks about wearing orange to scare away viruses (her fave virus are bacteriophages) and how “Bacteriophages” could be a cool D&D character who casts spells.David Laidacker-Luna 45:12Fiesta Youth LGBT is an organization for kids 12-18 years old that meets every Tuesday in San Antonio. Laidacker-Luna connected with the LGBT Writers Caucus who invited Fiesta Youth to AWP. It’s their first conference ever, and both Laidacker-Luna and the kids who were able to attend are bowled over by the welcoming and fun group at AWP. Austin is an established partner and Fiesta Youth has a sister organization in Corpus Christi. Recently, the McAllen AIDS council visited to learn about opening their own facility in South Texas - it’s all about partnerships and how accepting people can be. Follow @Fiesta_Youth on Twitter.Chad Abushanab 55:13Abushanab is the author of the poetry collection The Last Visit, which won the 2018 Donald Justice Prize judged by Jericho Brown and now out from Autumn House Press. The collection began as Abushanab’s dissertation project. He read “Halloween” for us (on page 31!) - a triptych of masculinity, violence, and addiction. He drafted the last poem, a Ghazal, initially as one poem, but he and Jericho Brown simultaneously had the idea to break it up throughout the book. Ghazals appeals to Chad because of his Middleastern heritage and the intrinsic musicality (meter, rhyme) of the form. He was afraid to show his poems to his mom, so he dedicated the book to her. His enviable collection of bylines is the result of both doing the work of creating memorable poems, and being extremely particular about where he submits. He only queries poetry journals he absolutely loves, so that his poems can join a known and beloved poetry community. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @chad_abushanab. Viktoria Valenzuela 1:07:56The Blazer with Daniel Peña speaks with Valenzuela, who’s wearing a 100,000 Poets for Change t-shirt. People around the world wear the shirt on the last Saturday of September to mourn and continue to call out BP for the oil spill. Valenzuela hails from Oswego (near Daniel’s beloved Ithaca) and is wearing a “Prince purple” Mayan design swirl depicting a person breathing a flower into the air (i.e. poetry). Victoria is currently shopping her poetry chapbook about motherhood, In Bed. Her activism is human rights for mothers, including the mothers separated from their children at the borders. Daniel quotes Caroryn Forché: “It is possible that we are not human beings to them.” According to her, Daniel is wearing the wrong Puma. Follow all the things she’s doing for and about mothers @ViktoriaValenz.Tori Cárdenas 1:17:55We met at AWP last year in Portland, which makes us all old friends by now. Newly the Executive Editor of Skull + Wind Press - publisher of Leslie Contreras Schwartz’s new book WHO SPEAKS FOR US HERE - Cárdenas’ goal is to help all the different circles of writers in Albuquerque interact. The dream is to have a brick and mortar and a reading series. Their “sci-fi + green chili” podcast with a friend, Eminent Domain, will be recorded on set in Sante Fe, and they found an actor who sounds exactly like Cárdenas’ real life Grandpa: “I’ve sanded away my northern mountain Taos accent” so hearing it in this context is yet another reminder of how important both representation and language are, and how entwined the two are. David Heska Wanbli Weiden 1:32:05Winter Counts, a literary thriller-cum tale of identity set on the Rosebud Indian reservation, comes out from Echo Harper Collins in August 2020. A member of the Sicangu Lakota nation, David Heska Wanbli Weiden grew up in Denver and on Rosebud. The novel follows Virgil Wounded Horse, a so-called “enforcer,” who’s hired to dole out “justice” on the reservation. A law called the Major Crimes Act forbids native nations from prosecuting felonies that occur on the reservation. Since the FBI almost always declines to prosecute as well, someone like Virgil is hired to beat up the criminal. David’s agent, Michelle Brower of Aevitas, signed him on the spot at AWP 2018’s writer-to-agent program, and overall his journey was relatively smooth. Now he does everything he can to lift up marginalized voices as an AWP mentor. One of eight winners of the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowships, an academic, and a teacher of fiction (he recs the Save the Cat series for plot), Wanbli Weiden enjoys “marrying” different genres of writing. Up next: a nonfiction collection of essays about the mass incarceration of American Indians along with a sequel to Winter Counts. His children’s book Spotted Tail was just nominated for the Colorado Book award for Children's book for 2019. Follow him on Twitter @WanbliWeiden and on Instagram @wanbliweiden. Annie Shepherd 1:40:52The Blazer with Daniel Peña interviews Shepherd, a doctoral student in the UH creative writing PhD program, who writes about small towns in West Texas around Lubbock Buddy Holly’s “the island.” The verdict on Daniel’s fashion? Too monochrome: “Gotta get some contrast.” The friction between elements is essential, in clothes and fiction writing.

Patty Bourdeaux interviews Sicangu Lakota writer Joseph Marshall about his book The Lakota Way and the Oceti Sakowin storytelling tradition. Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

Sicangu Lakota elder writer Lydia Whirlwind Soldiers talks about her first book of poetry Memory Songs, the Lakota language, and writing English.  This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society: https://olws.squarespace.com.  For more bonus episodes like this, support the show on patreon. www.patreon.com/redmediapr

On this episode we tackle a huge topic: the importance and power of our Indigenous languages, and the work that's being done to revitalize and promote Native languages. It was too much to fit in with just one guest, so we collected stories from throughout Indian Country, talking to Thelma Whiskers from Southern Ute, Harry Oosahwee from Cherokee Nation, Henrietta Mann from Cheyenne Nation, Amber Heywood and Archie Cantrell from Puyallup, and Tia Averett Pocknett and Sola Santos from Mashpee Wampanoag. Every one of our nations and communities has suffered language loss due to colonial policies, but despite the statistics and very real threats to our languages, there are also so many incredible stories of hope and resurgence. We hope you'll feel inspired to use your language today and every day, even in small ways. Your ancestors will hear you. UN Declaration of 2019 as "International Year of Indigenous Languages": https://en.iyil2019.org/Thank you to Siobhan (Vonnie) Brown, Sola Santos, Adeline & Wesley Greendeer, Eliana Ruzzo, and Jenn Weston from Mukayuhsak Weekuw and all of the other incredible folks we talked to whose voices didn't make it into the episode, you're amazing.This episode we’re super thrilled to have music by Sicangu Lakota rapper and composer Frank Waln! We’re also as always grateful for all of the team that worked on this episode, editor Teo Shantz, PA Juanita Christine, Production by Brooke Swaney, and episode art by Ciara Sana. We’re also in the process of trying to find funding for season two. If you have any resources, grants, or funding that you think we should look into, please let us know! Remember to like, comment, share, and subscribe on iTunes! We’re on instagram @amrpodcast, and our website is allmyrelationspodcast.com. GvGeyu! Love you! Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast)

Dyani White Hawk joins the podcast to discuss her paintings and mixed media works which explore her Native American heritage through use of Sicangu Lakota art forms and combining them with her love of modernist abstract painting.

Episode 214:  Dyani White Hawk joins the podcast to discuss her paintings and mixed media works which explore her Native American heritage through use of Sicangu Lakota art forms and combining them with her love of modernist abstract painting.  Dyani has an exhibition entitled See Her  on view from April 4th-May 23rd at the John and Geraldine Lilley The post Dyani White Hawk appeared first on Studio Break.

Founder of American Indians in Film and Television and Respected Sicangu Lakota Elder - Sonny Skyhawk appears tonight on Native Trailblazers to share his wisdom and thoughts to include American indians in film and television to his thoughts on White Clay Nebraska. Shé:kon and Thanks for joining Native Trailblazers! The Native Show with over half a million listeners worldwide!  For over six years, our award-winning Native themed online radio show has been delivering the hottest topics in Indian Country to your desktop, mobile or other listening devices! Listen in every Friday night or any time after in archives! HOSTS: Vincent Schilling (Producer, Speaker, Journalist, Author, VP Schilling Media) www.Twitter.com/VinceSchilling  and Delores Schilling (CEO, Schilling Media, Inc.) www.Twitter.com/DelSchilling Join our chat room Here's How   Website www.NativeTrailblazers.com  Mailing List - http://eepurl.com/O7fa1  iTunes Podcasts- http://goo.gl/GkEOJ3

Sandy White Hawk is Sicangu Lakota and a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe who was separated as a child from her family and heritage when she was adopted at 18 months old by a white family. She is also one of five commissioners of Maine’s historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sandy discusses the trauma ...read more » The post Adoption and Return with Sandy White Hawk appeared first on Safe Space Radio.