Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009

The Court of the Conqueror

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Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode that will examine three recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, in which the opinions of the court ruled against the Native claims pertaining to: the Narragansett Tribal Nation (Carcieri, Governor of Rhode Island, et al v. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al), a question before the court regarding Hawaiian lands (State of Hawa`i v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs, et al), and the Navajo Nation (United States v. Navajo Nation). The program will feature critical analysis of the latter two cases by Rebecca
Tsosie (Yaqui), Professor of Law at Arizona State University, and two presentations on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court vis-à-vis Native Nations: the first by Steven Paul McSloy, Co-chair, Native American Practice Group, Hughes Hubbard & Reed L.L.P., and the other by Professor Robert Odawi Porter (Seneca), Professor of Law, Syracuse University. Tsosie, McSloy, and Porter all presented at a recent event hosted by the Harvard University Law School, "Tribal Justice: The Supreme Court and the Future of Federal Indian Law." The gathering set out to examine the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of American Indians, and to assess a series of recent cases that signal to Native nations a disturbing paradigm shift- that of a judiciary now openly hostile to tribal interests. The conference brought together leading scholars and practitioners for a frank discussion regarding the impact the Roberts Court is having on Indian Country. Original air-date: 4-14-09.

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Sunday, Apr 05, 2009

Interview with Ned Blackhawk

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an interview with Ned Blackhawk, Ph.D. (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone), Associate Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on his book, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Original air date: 3-19-07

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Sunday, Apr 05, 2009

Interview with Brian Baguck Wescott

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an interview with Brian Baguck Wescott, Ph.D. (Koyukon and Yup’ik nations), co-producer, filmmaker, and actor discusses his docudrama, "We Are Still Here," an educational biopic about Cahuilla elder Katherine Siva Saubel from Banning, CA, and a new documentary series in development, tentatively titled "The 20th Century Indian Show," which will be written by novelist Thomas King, and directed by Chris Eyre. Original air date: 4-23-07

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Sunday, Apr 05, 2009

Interview with Randolph Lewis

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Randolph Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oklahoma
University, on his book, Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker. Original air date: 2-19-07

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Sunday, Apr 05, 2009

Interview with Chief Richard Velky

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Richard Velky (Schaghticoke), Chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation on the politics of their struggle for federal recognition and the role of the state of Connecticut in opposing them.
Original air date: 2-12-07

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Sunday, Apr 05, 2009

Interview with David Cornsilk

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Join your host. J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with David Cornsilk (Cherokee Nation), journalist and activist. Cornsilk discusses the recent vote at Cherokee Nation to disenfranchise the Freedman
descendants and the history of Cherokee slave holding, citizenship, and sovereignty issues.
Original air date: 3-12-07

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