First Voices Radio

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the hour with Max Wilbert. Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. Max is the author of two books, most recently "Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It,” published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth. Max’s work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere. 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: Smelling the Rain Artist: Genevieve Chadwick Album: Riding the Wind Saving Time (2009) Label: Cloud Studios 3. Song Title: Fly With Us Artist: Sarita Album: Earth Anthems (2024) Label: Same Sky Productions 4. Song Title: The City: Grass and Concrete Taxi to Brooklyn Artist: Mark-Almond Album: Mark-Almond (2005) Label: UMG Recordings, Inc. 5. Song Title: Sunrise Moon Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse Album: Somewhere in There (2016) 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

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with our friend Dr. Manuel Rozental for the entire hour. 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. Their discussion includes: international relationships, “Can Indigenous peoples be both Indigenous and capitalists?” (Answer: “No, because the same mentality that exploits other people and Mother Earth can only end up destroying everything…”) and an update on recent events and activities taking place in Abya Yala (South America). Manuel draws discussion points from the book, “As We Have Always Done” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist. Finally, Manuel educates listeners about the plight of Abdullah Öcalan, who has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over 25 years and has been cut off from the outside world. Öcalan’s writings are inspiring intellectuals, free thinkers, scientists, workers, activists, artists, trade unionists, social movements, politicians and entire societies. Öcalan left Syria 25 years ago as a Kurdish leader in the wake of an international conspiracy and returned years later as a pioneer of a free, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and grassroots democratic society. For more understanding, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/4b5Wn3A 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: Freedom Now Artist: Nick Mulvey feat. Arruj Aftab and Golshifteh Farahani) Single from Choose Love Campaign Label: Conscious Music Group / Kartel Music (2024) 3. Song Title: Morning in America Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications Album: American Love Call (2019) Label: Dead Oceans 4. Song Title: Feels Like Summer Artist: Childish Gambino - Donald Glover Album: Feels Like Summer Label: Wolf+Rothstein, Liberator Music, RCA 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

In the first half-hour, Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly has a lively conversation with award-winning journalist, film producer and community organizer Kevin Abourezk about “Cultural Appropriation in the Era of AI,” which was inspired by Kevin’s March 28, 2024 article in Indian Country Today: “Navajo word for beautiful at center or controversy.” Kevin is currently deputy managing editor of Indian Country Today and was a reporter and editor for the Lincoln Journal Star for 18 years. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, he has spent his career documenting the lives, accomplishments and tragedies of Native American people. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of South Dakota and a master's in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Read Kevin’s article here: https://ictnews.org/news/navajo-word-for-beautiful-at-center-of-controversy. In the second half-hour, Keala speaks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Chief Executive and Attorney at the Association on American Indian Affairs about the new rules for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 22 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. She is a former Chief of Staff to the National Indian Gaming Commission, where she assisted in the development and implementation of national gaming policy, and oversaw the agency’s public affairs, technology, compliance and finance divisions. Shannon has also served Native Country in the private sector as an attorney, leading a large national firm’s Native Nations law practice group that worked to strengthen, maintain and protect sovereignty, self-determination and culture. Shannon was appointed by Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Sally Jewell to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee in 2013, and was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Native American to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee within the State Department in 2015; she was fired by President Trump in 2019. Shannon received a B.A. in American Indian Studies from California State University, Long Beach and joint M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Arizona in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Anne Keala Kelly, 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: Indian in the Child Artist: Sandra Sutter Album: Cluster Stars (2018) Label: Sandra Sutter 3. Song Title: Mountain Song Artist: Sandra Sutter Album: Cluster Stars (2018) Label: Sandra Sutter (Vince Fontaine and Chris Burke-Gaffney, Producers) 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

This week, an hour-long discussion about the terrifying uptick in syphilis infections and congenital syphilis cases in Indian Country. This is a problem throughout the US and it’s hitting Indian Country the hardest. Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) spends the hour with Amanda Singer (Diné), Executive Director of the Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition/Diné Doula Collective in Window Rock, Arizona. Amanda is a Certified Lactation Counselor and Indigenous Doula.The organization’s mission is to improve the health of Navajo families by providing compassionate unbiased, and accessible care to improving all birthing families and Infant health through holistic traditional practices and to promote healing. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Anne Keala Kelly, 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: Little One Artist: Sharon Burch Album: Yazzie Girl (1989) Label: Canyon Records 3. Song Title: Grandmother’s Ways Artist: Sharon Burch Album: Touch the Sweet Earth (1995) Label: Canyon Records 4. Song Title: The Peacemaker is Born Artist: Joanne Shenandoah Album: Peacemaker’s Journey (2000) Label: Silver Wave 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

Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Trey Blackhawk in the first half-hour. Trey Blackhawk is first and foremost a husband and a father to three beautiful children. He graduated from the Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Nebraska and is currently attending the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln. A first-generation farmer and college student, Trey sees the need for education and a movement towards being food sovereign. He currently manages the Winnebago Tribe's Farm which specializes in food production. When he isn't farming, you can still find him outdoors enjoying nature around his home with his wife and children. He is an avid outdoorsman who hunts, fishes and forages. Read about Trey’s blanket on Native News Online: https://bit.ly/4aucJ67. In the second half-hour, Indigenous resistance music from Turtle Island and beyond. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Anne Keala Kelly, 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: MMIR Sioux City Powwow 2023 Artist: New Breed - Drum Group Album: N/A Label: N/A (Searchable on YouTube) 3. Song Title: AIM Song (Unity Song) Artist: Ode’min Kwe Singers Album: New Moon Medicine (2004) Label: Ode’min Kwe Singers 4. Song Title: Quechua 101 Land Back Please Artist: Bobby Sanchez Album: Ita (2021) Label: Harawiq Records 5. Song Title: Kaulana Na Pua Artist: Na Waiho'olu'u O Ke Anuenue featuring Sudden Rush Album: Together (1999) Label: Way Out! West Enterprises 6. Song Title: Native Tongue Artist: MOJU, formerly known as MOJO JUJU Album: Native Tongue (2018) Label: ABC Music 7. Song Title: Maranga Ake Ai Artist: NLC Album: Maranga Ake Ai (2020) Label: Waateamusic 8. Song Title: The Urgent Call of Palestine Artist: Zeinab Sha’ath Album: N/A Label: N/A (Song is searchable on YouTube) 9. Song Title: Star People Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City featuring Jim Cuddy Album: Code Red (2021) Label: Rising Star Productions, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada 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

PaulStar is a Cree recording artist and producer from Chisasibi, Quebec. He talks with Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) in the first half-hour about his new album “Bring It All Together” and some of the challenges he has faced and the role of music in his own life. With a blend of influences from his Cree roots and his love of alternative rock, pop and hip-hop, “Bring It All Together” is a testament to PaulStar’s musical evolution. When creating the album, he underwent an introspective journey, propelled by his passion to elevate the voices of Indigenous peoples while taking inspiration from his favorite bands. PaulStar is a graduate of Algonquin College's Music Industry Arts program in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the founder of Meikin Records. PaulStar is well-known in the music industry and has received much critical acclaim for his work as a producer and session player. Visit https://meikinrecords.com/ to find out more about PaulStar and to listen to his music. Paul’s music can also be found on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. In the second half-hour, Keala speaks with Corrina Gould — a lifelong advocate for protecting the sacred, repatriation and acknowledgement of the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples — and the recent success in securing one area of a desecrated shell mound in Berkeley, California. Corrina, who is Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation, was born and raised in the village of Huichin, now known as Oakland, California. She is the Co-Founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run organization and the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led organization within her ancestral territory. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, the Land Trust calls on Native and non-Native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ and https://shellmound.org/. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly, Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, 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: Low Artist: PaulStar Single (2023) Label: Meikin Records 3. Song Title: Rain Artist: PaulStar Album: Bring It All Together (2024) Label: Meikin Records 4. Song Title: Land Back Artist: REBELWISE (feat. Quincy Davis, Cheryl Angel, Ashley Seasunz and Desirae harp) Album: Land Back (Nov. 24, 2022) Label: Seven Vision 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

“Selling Mother Earth: Effort by the NY Stock Exchange to Designate Mother Earth as a New Asset Class.” Tiokasin spends the hour talking with Rebecca Adamson — Indigenous Economist, Cherokee and Founder of First Nations Development and First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist and ground-breaking Indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective about how Indigenous people’s systems thinking and the value system behind Indigenous economies can be used to catalyze change. Rebecca has won many awards: PBS Change Makers, National Women’s History Recipient, Council on Foundations Scrivner Award for Most Innovative Grant-Maker, John Gardner Civic Leadership Award. She is widely known for her asset-based development strategies and co-authored the award-winning book “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide.” Rebecca currently serves as Advisor to the Wharton Business School ESG Initiative, Trustee Women’s Media Center and Trustee Bay and Paul Foundations. For More Information (Resources): Recommended Reading: "Bloom 23: Where Biodiversity Meets the Bottom Line": https://bit.ly/3vppPCm Recommended Reading: "NYSE and Intrinsic Exchange Group Partner to Launch a New Asset Class to Power a Sustainable Future" (Business Wire, September 14, 2021): https://bit.ly/3TZWmIV Recommended Viewing: "Rebecca Adamson: Enoughness, Restoring Balance to the Economy": https://bit.ly/3vtsTxp Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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: Life of a Native (remix) Artist: Okema Single: 2019 Label: Okema 3. Song Title: The Venus Project Track 13 Artist: The Lost Children of Babylon (feat. Rasul Allah, Cosmic Creator, Atun Sen Get and Emily Clibourn) Album: Zeitgeist: Spirit of the Age (2010) Label: Soul Kid Record 4. Song Title: Be Thankful for What You’ve Got Artist: Orgone Album: Raw and Director (2020) Label: 3 Palm 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 catches up with returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker for the full hour. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school. Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, 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: Come As You Are (Nirvana) Artist: Playing for Change, Various Artists (with opening lead vocals by Genevieve Chadwick from Ulladulla, Australia) Single: 2021 Website: https://www.playingforchange.com/ 3. Song Title: Ship of Fools Artist: World Party Album: Private Revolution Label: Chrysalis 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

This week we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Curtis Zunigha. Curtis is an enrolled member of the federally-recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians https://delawaretribe.org/ He has more than 35 years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. Curtis is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices. He is Co-Director of Cultural Affairs for The Lenape Center, https://thelenapecenter.com/ based in New York City. The Lenape Center promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people through the arts, environmental advocacy, social justice, and agricultural practices. The Lenape Center’s work represents the return of the original Indigenous people to their original homeland of Lenapehoking (NY, NJ and PA). Curtis is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, 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: Exodus (Inspired by the Film “One Love: Bob Marley”) Artist: Skip Marley Album: One Love (2024) Label: Island Records 3. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s Artist: Beautiful People Album: If 60s Were 90s (1992) Label: Essential Records 4. Song Title: Autumn Sky Meditation Artist: Shane Miller / Nature’s Eye Album: N/A Label: Find Nature’s Eye on YouTube 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 spends the hour with Steven Solomon, Sr., a lifelong Lummi fisherman and traditional knowledge holder of the reef net practice. “Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, this technique uses ropes to create an artificial reef that channels fish toward a net stretched between two anchored boats. Fishers observe the water and pull in the net at the right moment, intercepting salmon as they migrate from the Pacific Ocean to the Fraser River near present-day Washington state and British Columbia. Colonialism, government policies, habitat destruction, and declining salmon populations have separated tribes from this tradition. Today, only 12 reef net permits exist, with just one belonging to the Lummi Nation. Many tribal members hope to revive reef net fishing to restore their cultural identity and a sustainable salmon harvest but face difficulties balancing economic realities with preserving what the Lummi consider a sacred heritage.” — Liz Kimbrough, author, “Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery,” Mongabay, Nov. 21, 2023: https://bit.ly/3IlGIk9 Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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: Freedom Now (feat. Golshifteh Farahani & Arooj Aftab) Artist: Nick Mulvey Album: Freedom Now (released Feb. 13, 2024) Producers: The Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again). 3. Song Title: Ambrosia Artist: A Reminiscent Drive Album: Ambrosia (2000) Label: F Communications 4. Song Title: War / No More Trouble (Live at The Pavillon De Paris - 1977) Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers Album: Gold (2005) Label: Island RecordsAKANTU 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