Sunday, Feb 03, 2008

11-13-07 Journalism in Native New England: Interview with Gale Courey Toensing

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Gale Courey Toensing, journalist and correspondent for Indian Country Today, who covers Native American struggles in New England and Long Island. Toensing is a woman of Palestinian and Lebanese descent who is a member of the National Arab American Journalists Association, as well as the Native American Journalists Association. In this program, she draws on some of the parallels between Native American and Palestinian struggles, anti-Indian groups in New England and throughout the US, the problems with mainstream media coverage of indigenous sovereignty struggles in Connecticut, anti-Black racism used against tribal nations, and how the state governments of the region are suppressing indigenous self-determination. Original air-date 11-13-07

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Friday, Feb 01, 2008

11-06-07 Decolonizing Navajo History: Interview with Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Denetdale discusses her new book, Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, in which she seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816-1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (1845-1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Reclaiming Diné History has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values. Original air-date: 11-6-07

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Friday, Feb 01, 2008

10-30-07 Tonya Gonnella Frichner on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui offers a critical exploration of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was recently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The program features an interview with Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan), founder and president of the American Indian Law Alliance, which is an indigenous, non-profit organization that works with Indigenous nations, communities and organizations in the struggle for sovereignty, human rights, and social justice. Topics for discussion will focus on the politics of indigenous self-determination under international law, the distinction between minorities and Indigenous peoples, and the decades-long struggle to draft and pass the Declaration, as well as the opposition by New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States (the only four States that voted against it). Original air-date: 10-30-07

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Friday, Feb 01, 2008

10-23-07 Taino Identity and the Politics of Columbus Day

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui examines the politics of Taino identity. The Tainos are the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean Islands. When Columbus landed at Hispaniola while trying to find an alternative route to India, he named the inhabitants "Indians." Today, many Taino-identified Caribbean people are challenging the official doctrine that has declared the Tainos extinct. Listen to Dr. Marianela Medrano-Marra's lecture, "The Divine Feminine in the Taino Tradition." This program also features an interview with Jorge Estevez, Taino from Aiskeya (also known as the Dominican Republic), and Valerie Nana Ture Varges, Taino from Boriken (also known as Puerto Rico) on the politics of Columbus Day and indigenous identity.
Original air date: 10-23-07

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