09/08/24 - Charles Lyons

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Edzi’u, a Tahltan and Tlingit artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Edzi’u is an innovative songwriter and composer who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, elders’ stories, words, and their ethereal voice. Edzi’u is the gentlest balance of hard and soft, a non-binary 2-spirit Indigiqueer femme, their strength of identity resonates in their music to create a fullness of fierce spirit combined with an elegant grace. Their new music is full of thick synths, drums dripping with reverb and a mix of a modern take on 80s and 90s sounds that blends the nostalgic essence of Stevie Nicks, the raw emotional depth of Sharon Van Etten, and the atmospheric electronic textures of DRAMA. The result is a sonic river of pain and beauty that sweetly soars into a singular, healing journey. Tiokasin talks with Edzi’u about their new EP, “Tunnel Vision,” a poignant exploration of the cruelty of heartbreak, the painful truth of mistreatment, and the radiant journey of resurgence. With vulnerability and fortitude, each track lingers with the listener like a cherished memory. Edzi’u invites listeners into an auditory sanctuary where music serves as both refuge and revelation. In this sacred space, reclamation of self stands as the most powerful act of all. Edzi’u and their artistry is a beacon of auntie joy for queer and Indigenous communities and beyond, embodying resilience, grace, and unapologetic authenticity. Find out more about Edzi’ at https://www.edziumusic.com/ Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Raven Clan Welcome Artist: Edzi'u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 3. Song Title: Can You Introduce Yourself in the Language Artist: Edzi’u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 4. Song Title: Not Enough Artist: Edzi’u Album: Tunnel Vision (2024) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 5. Song Title: You Don’t Wanna Know Me Artist: Edzi'u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 6. Song Title: Ego Death Artist: Edzi’u Album: Tunnel Vision (2024) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 7. Song Title: Warrior Song Artist: Edzi’u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 8. Song Title: Fly With Us (feat. Ara Eden) Artist: Sarita Album: Earth Anthems (2024) Label: Ancient Future Productions AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

FROM THE “FIRST VOICES RADIO” ARCHIVE. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talked with Rick Hill Sr., a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. Rick holds a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Museum Director, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM; and Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, SUNY Buffalo. He formerly served as Senior Project Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic Institute, Ohsweken, Ontario. Rick is an interpretive specialist to develop exhibitions for the recently renovated Mohawk Institute, the oldest Indian residential school in Canada. He is the Indigenous Innovation Specialist at Mohawk College in Hamilton and serves as a Cultural Advisor to FNTI in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Tiokasin and Rick talk about the changes the U.S. Constitution and its state at the time and the original intention and lived experience of the Haudenosaunee Confederation. Their conversation, although it took place a number of years ago is still extremely relevant to today. “Right now, this country is in a state of change and what I believe were sacred to the leaders, the founding [colonial] fathers were these ideals and the laws that they did to come up with a partnership with the Native nations, is being ignored by this current generation of Americans. I think that we have to look back at that these were seriously sacred promises, legal promises made, and if you abuse the First People of the land, how do you really expect your great-grandchildren to grow up and be able to celebrate democracy that you herald? It’s really about justice. I always say the Indians are the miners canary of American justice. How America treats the Native people, it’s going to symbolic of what is forthcoming as to how they’re going to treat the rest of the people.” — Rick Hill Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Hoka Hey Artist: N/A Album: N/A Label: N/A 3. Song Title: The Path (feat. Jeremy Koz) Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City Album: Code Red (2021) Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, MB, Canada 4. Song Title: After the Gold Rush Artist: Katie Pruitt Album: Ohio / After the Gold Rush (2020) Label: Rounder Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our friend Charles Lyons for a report on the Brazil and the Amazon. Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He recently completed a feature documentary about former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In 2023, Charles received a Conservando Juntos/ Earth Journalism Network grant (supported by USAID), to report on the continuing violence due to illegal gold mining within the Yanomami territory in the Amazon. His resulting article was published in Mongabay. Based in Rio, Charles has produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour and long-form news reports on deforestation and Indigenous rights in the Amazon supported by The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour, with a focus on marginalized communities in tribal lands and favelas. He has written editorials for The New York Times about suicides among the Guarani tribe in the southwest of Brazil and about the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon. More recently, Charles has covered illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Suriname. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Peyote Healing Artist: Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike Album: Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy (1998) Label: Capitol/EMI 3. Song Title: For the Earth Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Ettie Luckey (unreleased), 2013 Album: Unreleased Label: N/A 4. Song Title: What’s Going On Artist: Marvin Gaye Album: What’s Going On (1971) Label: Tamia (Motown subsidiary) 5. Song Title: Away From Here Artist: Smokey D. Palmtree Album: Peace of Mind (2021) Label: Gila River Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our dear friend Manuel Rozental for an update and riveting, important conversation. Manuel reports to us from Colombia. Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel has been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He is part of an initiative: Pueblos en Camino, Peoples on the Path, with a mandate to weave autonomies and resistance between peoples. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Who Discovered America Artist: Ozomatli Album: Street Signs (2004) Label: Real World/Concord 3. Song Title: Sea Gets Hotter Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications (feat. Aaron Frazer) Album: American Love Call (2019) Label: Dead Oceans 4. Song Title: Water is Life Artist: Luca Bloom Album: Refuge (2017) Label: Big Sky AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Marley Shebala back to the show. Marley Shebala, Diné and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger. Marley talks about the continuing, alarming issue of transporting uranium waste across portions of the Navajo Nation, which already started several years ago. Without any notice, the transportation of uranium waste is taking place not only at Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. This affects not only the Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada so communities need to find out where this transportation route goes. If the sovereign Navajo Nation is not being notified about this route it’s unlikely other communities (cities, towns and rural areas) are being notified about the transport of this waste through their communities and its dangers. People need to be aware of how uranium waste could contaminate people, roads, air, water, etc. (virtually everything). For years Marley has been covering the uranium issue on the 25,000 square-mile Navajo Nation. Most of the Navajo Nation has been contaminated by uranium. Many, may Navajo people have been suffering and continue to suffering from different cancers, children were and continue to be born with defects, etc. However, the US federal government thinks that depleted uranium can still be used: for weapons of war and by somehow turning uranium waste into a type of fuel that will be “clean” nuclear energy for household uses. This is a huge national, and global issue. There is a small group of Diné people traveling to DC at the end of September. They will be traveling in a bus and telling people along the way what they have gone through and asking others if they have also been poisoned and made sick by depleted uranium, too. For more background about today’s discussion, please visit “Requiem for RECA (Radiation Exposure Compensation Act)” by Kathy Helms, who has been covering this issue for years: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/requiem-reca-kathy-helms-ohuvc/. Follow Marley on Facebook, where she will be posting information about the DC trip and the activities that will happen there (as well as covering Navajo Nation activities): https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala. Additional important information about this issue and many others can be found on Marley’s website: http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/ About Marley: In the Diné way, Marley Shebala is Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan), her mother’s clan, and born for Cha’al (Frog clan), which is her father’s clan. Her mom is from Lake Valley, New Mexico, which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation and next to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Her father is from the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. Her hometowns are Lake Valley and Zuni. “Marley Shebala's Notebook” is her website where she provides current news coverage of the Navajo government and Navajo communities on and off the Navajo Nation. She also produces Navajo Nation environmental news and political analysis of the Navajo government and legislative process. Marley hosted "Politics on the Navajo Nation," an internet news show. But due to unreliable WIFI on the Navajo Nation where she resides, the weekly news show was cancelled until she can raise funds to increase WiFi power at her residence. She is available for presentations on the benefits of a free and open press in Indian Country and how to achieve accurate and fair news coverage of the Navajo Nation and Indian Country. Marley works part-time at the Gallup Independent newspaper, which is headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico. She is the only reporter at the Gallup Independent Diné Bureau in Window Rock, Arizona, which covers the Navajo Nation. Before working for the Gallup Independent, she worked as the Navajo Times newspaper’s’ Senior Reporter specializing in investigative reporting on politics, domestic violence, law enforcement, veterans and the environment. She also covered a wide range of general interest stories. Her stories have won numerous awards from state and national organizations over the more than 30 years she has been in journalism. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Blackbird Song Artist: Lee Dewyze as heard on AMC’s The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 13 “Along” Single Label: January 2014 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company, exclusively licensed to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 3. Song Title: Raglan Artist: Bruci Jordan Single: Raglan (2024) Label: Bruci Jordan 4. Song Title: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Artist: Traffic (Steve Winwood, Producer) Album: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971) Label: Island 5. Song Title: Ambrosia Artist: A Reminiscent Drive Album: A Reminiscent Drive (2001) Label: React AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Marcie R. Rendon (White Earth Ojibwe) about her new book, “Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium,” which was recently published by the University of Minnesota Press. Marcie was included on Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 list of 31 Native American authors to read. She has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Cash Blackbear mystery series, the third volume of which, "Sinister Graves," was a 2023 Minnesota Book Award finalist. In 2020, Marcie received Minnesota’s McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2017, with poet Diego Vazquez, she received the Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women in the county jail system. Marcie says, “The ancestors who walk with us sing our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them audible to people today. We still exist. Our ancestors exist. Our songs exist.” More about Marcie can be found on her website: https://www.marcierendon.com/ Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Everybody Knows Artist: Leonard Cohen Album: I’m Your Man (1988) Label: Columbia 3. Song Title: Decho Drums Artist: Dinetah Album: N/A Label: N/A 4. Song Title: Some of Us are Brave Artist: Danielle Ponder Album: Some of Us are Brave (2022) Label: FUTURE CLASSIC 5. Song Title: All Come True Artist: World Party Album: Private Revolution (1986) Label: Chrysalis 6. Song Title: Life of a Native Artist: Okema Album: Single (2019) Label: Mixed, Mastered and Directed by Blu Barry AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Dan Taulapapa McMullin — an artist and poet from Sāmoa i Sasa'e (American Samoa) and an expert on the subject of the colonization of Pacific cultures. Keala and Dan spend time talking about American exploitation via tiki bars, a subject that Dan explored in his film, “100 Tikis.” “100 Tikis” is a 45-minute film/video appropriation art piece, part of an ongoing installation of works on the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty. “100 Tikis” looks at Hollywood, colonialism, gender, militarism, and activism, through films, cartoons, songs, paintings, photographs, television shows, tourist ads, military propaganda, pornography, tiki bars, activist videos, home movies, and social media. Dan’s artist book “The Healer's Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia” (2022) was published by Pu'uhonua Society and Tropic Editions of Honolulu for HT22 the Hawai'i Triennial. Their artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Metropolitan Museum, De Young Museum, Musée du quai Branly, Auckland Art Gallery and Bishop Museum. Their film “Sinalela” (2001) won the 2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award. “100 Tikis” was the opening night film selection of the 2016 Présence Autochtone in Montreal and was an Official Selection in the Fifo Tahiti Film Festival. Dan's art studio and writing practice is based in Muhheaconneock lands / Hudson, NY, where they live with their partner, and Lenape lands in Hopoghan Hackingh / Hoboken, NJ. More about Dan and links to his writing, films (including “100 Tikis”), paintings and sculpture/performance works: https://www.taulapapa.com/. For copies of “The Healer's Wound” (2024 2nd Edition) go to: https://tropiceditions.org/The-Healer-s-Wound-2 Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Pe A E Silva Artist: Pacific Soul CD: Pacific Soul (2012) Label: Pacific Dream Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Tiokasin speaks to two guests from Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School in Akwesasne, NY. Alvera Sargent is Snipe Clan of the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, a mother of two, and grandmother to four amazing grandchildren. Alvera has worked with the Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) since 1997 in various capacities until 2007. At that point, she moved on to manage the Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring a prosperous future for the students of the AFS. She has worked to revitalize our Kanienkeha (Mohawk) language and culture. The Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School staff are currently overseeing a new 15,000 square-foot building for the students and staff of the AFS. The opening is tentatively scheduled for September 2024. Waylon Cook from Akwesasne, is Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation. He is a graduate of a 2-year Kanien’keha Mohawk Immersion Language program and has been a lifelong learner of the Mohawk language. Upon graduating, Waylon was able to teach at the Akwesasne Freedom School to continue passing on language and culture to future generations. He currently works with the Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School to help ensure the revitalization of the Mohawk language and culture. His team is currently working towards the completion of a new school building so that Akwesasne Freedom School students have a healthy learning environment for generations to come. Waylon has dedicated his career to culture and language revitalization efforts and continue to work towards reversing the effects of colonialism to the Mohawk culture and language. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Fallen Angel (feat. Peter Gabriel) Artist: Robbie Robertson CD: Robbie Robertson (1987) Label: Geffen Records 3. Song Title: Change on the Rise Artist: Avi Kaplan EP: I’ll Get By (2019) Label: Fantasy Records 4. Spoken Word: Jehan - Change of Becoming Background Music: “Momentum” with Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Dave Eggars, Charley Buckland and Jujuba CD: “Akantu - The Origin Series” (2021) Label: Ghosthorse AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

REPEAT SHOW. Tiokasin speaks with Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Paulette is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere. In her research, Paulette argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas. During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago. Paulette has taught Anthropology courses with a focus on Native American and First Nations histories and studies, and decolonization of academia and knowledge production at Binghamton University, Selkirk College Fort Peck Community College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mount Allison University, she is currently an Associate professor in Sociology and Anthropology. Paulette has stated that rewriting and un-erasing Indigenous histories becomes a part of healing and reconciliation transforming public consciousness and confronting and challenging racism. Long-standing academic denial of the deep Indigenous fosters racism and discrimination among the general or settler population.Re-writing Indigenous histories, framed through Indigenous knowledge, will create discussions that counter racism and discrimination. Dr. Steeve’s book “The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americas” was published in 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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 CD: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) 2. Song Title: Something has to Change Artist: Rodney Crowell CD: Triage (2021) Label: RC1 AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Tiokasin is joined by two guests for the full hour. Hataałiinez Wheeler is a very modern kind of crooner: a pensive, deep-voiced troubadour whose serene surf-country songs tap into the hope and despondency of a new generation. The music he makes as Hataałii — a Navajo term that means “to sing,” a fitting diminutive of his given name — is at turns witty and world-weary, sunny but endearingly solipsistic. Albert Haskie is a software developer from the Navajo Nation. He is the creator of the app Adoone’é. Serving as the lead developer in the project, Albert has strived to uphold his culture and traditions as a Navajo/Diné. It is his deep-rooted belief that everyone should have access to the resources that preserve and celebrate their Navajo/Diné heritage. Albert finds great joy in tackling Navajo/Diné language and culture preservation in the 21st century. With Adoone’é he aims to contribute to his community and empower others to do the same. Albert says that “Together, we can foster a world where Navajo/Diné individuals can achieve fluency in the Navajo/Diné language.” Read. More about Hataałiinez Wheeler here: https://bit.ly/44LBdUI. (Photo credit: Trevas Yazzie) Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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) 2. Song Title: Laugh Out Loud Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) Label: Dangerbird Records 3. Song Title: Standing Ovation Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) Label: Dangerbird Records 4.Song Title: Midnight Soldier Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) Label: Dangerbird Records 5. Song Title: Story of Francisco Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) Label: Dangerbird Records 6. Song Title: Pain in Popejoy’s Hand Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) Label: Dangerbird Records 7. Song Title: Fusion (Live) (Internal Flight variation) Artist: Estas Tonne Album: Fusion (Internal Flight variation) Live in Zurich, 2022 Label: ETMusic AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse