Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009

Interview with Philip J. Deloria

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Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Philip J. Deloria (Dakota Heritage) - a professor in the Department of History and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, where he has been instrumental in building a Native American Studies program. Deloria discusses his current book-length project, "Crossing the (Indian) Color Line: A Family Memoir," which documents tensions surrounding a triangle of figures-his grandparents and great-aunt Ella Deloria, a pioneering Indian ethnographer-relating to "racial crossing, the authority of men and women, the preservation and recording of Native cultures, and the possibilities for reconciliation among histories and memories defined by the dispossession of Native North America." Other topics for the interview include: his own personal and professional trajectory as a scholar; the political and intellectual legacy of his late father, Vine Deloria Jr.; the relationship between activism & politics and scholarship & Native American Studies; cultural politics and decolonization; and his utopian political dreams. Philip Deloria is the author of Playing Indian, which was the winner of a Gustavus Myers outstanding book award for the study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, and, Indians in Unexpected Places, the 2006 winner of the John C. Ewers prize of the Western History Association. Among other honors, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1999. Original air-date: 3-24-09

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Monday, Mar 23, 2009

Joy Harjo Winding Through the Milky Way

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Join your host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an interview with Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), a poet, playwright, musician, and singer who will discuss her new CD, Winding Through the Milky Way. The program will include some musical selections from her new music, as well as news about the opening of her one-woman play, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, which opens later this month at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles. The interview will also include a discussion about the relationship between poetry and song in Harjo’s creative work, her journey to becoming a singer and saxophonist, the politics of cultural hybridity and Native music, and her ties to Hawai`i, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Harjo’s seven books of poetry include: She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. She has released three award-winning CDs of original music and performances: Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century, Native Joy for Real, and She Had Some Horses. Her poetry has garnered many awards including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award: the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. A song from her forthcoming CD, Winding Through the Milky Way, just won a New Mexico Music Award. She has received the Eagle Spirit Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009. Original air-date: 3-10-09.

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