Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s Ongoing Legal Battle for Federal Recognition

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews with Richard Velky, Chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, who details the tribe’s appeal of the Bureau of Indian Affair’s unprecedented decision to strip the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of its federal acknowledgment. The tribe recently filed a motion for summary judgment for its claim that the loss of its federal status resulted from unlawful political influence by powerful politicians and a White House-connected lobbyist, who violated federal laws, agency regulations, congressional ethics rules and court orders to have the BIA decision reversed. Despite the fact that the Tribe had painstakingly followed the process and achieved Recognition on their 30,000 page petition’s merits, political opponents launched a PR campaign accusing the Tribe of politically manipulating the process to gain Federal Recognition - then they launched their own secret campaign to politically manipulate the process to reverse that decision. The lobbyist group, Barbour, Griffith & Rogers BGR is named in the tribe’s law suit, where they are charged with harmful and unlawful interference with the tribe’s recognition. BGR’s communications regarding the STN reach to the governor of CT, White House staff, Interior officials, the anti-Indian group One Nation United, and even former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is a resident of Kent, CT. Original air date: 10-16-07

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Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009

Indigenous Oral History and Archeology - Trudie Lamb Richmond

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Trudie Lamb Richmond (Schaghticoke) delivers a talk titled, “Oral Histories at Schaghticoke: Shared Stories- Shared Histories-One People.” Richmond is an esteemed elder of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, and is a renowned a storyteller who has performed at hundreds of festivals. From 1974-1986, she was Assistant Director of American Indians for Development in Meriden, CT, while serving on the Connecticut Indian Affairs Council. In 1987, Connecticut Governor William O’Neill appointed her to a task force on Native American issues. From 1988-1996, she was the Assistant Director for Public Programs, and then the Director of Education, at the Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington, CT. In 2003, she became the Mashantucket Pequot Museum’s Director of Public Programs. Original air-date: 10-02-07

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Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009

American Indian Urban Communities and Transnational Citizenship

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews with Dr. Renya Ramirez (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska), Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who discusses her new book, Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond, which investigates how urban Native Americans negotiate what she argues is a transnational existence. The vast majority of Native Americans in the United States live in cities. Learn about activism in this region and how urban Indians have pressed their tribes, local institutions, and the federal government to expand typical notions of citizenship. Original air-date: 09-25-07

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Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009

Cherokee Nation, Freedman Descendants, and African American Protest

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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Taylor Keen (Cherokee Nation), former Councilor-At-Large on the tribal council of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, who lost his seat in the June 2007 re-election due to his vocal support for the enfranchisement of Freedmen descendants. Listen in and learn more about the complicated political history of this issue and the social and legal implications of the Cherokee vote to disenfranchise the descendants of the Freedman that has recently caught the attention of the Congressional Black Caucus, The NAACP, and the National Congress of Black Women. The program examines the the vote in terms of tribal sovereignty, federal intervention, and cross racial solidarity. Original air-date: 09-18-07

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Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009

Crisis in Peru: State-Back Massacre in Response to Indigenous Resistance

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Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for a special edition that focuses on the recent state-backed police massacre of indigenous peoples in the northern Amazon of Peru. On Friday, June 5th, which happened to be World Environment Day, some 600 riot police and helicopters attacked a peaceful indigenous blockade outside of Bagua a northern Peruvian Amazonian province. According to leader Miguel Palacin, president of Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indigenas (CAOI) or the Andean Coordination of Indigenous Organizations, the police killed at least 250 indigenous Peruvians and injured more than 150. Witnesses attest that the police fired live ammunition and tear gas into the crowd who were engaged in a peaceful blockade to protest oil and mining projects in the region as part of the Peru Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Reports in the U.S. state that over 30,000 indigenous people have been blockading roads, rivers, and railways to demand the repeal of new laws that allow oil, mining and logging companies to enter indigenous territories without seeking their prior consultation or consent. Our guest is Shane Greene who joins the show by telephone from Lima, Peru. Greene is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indian University where he is a Faculty Associate, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT). He is the author of a book just released this year titled, Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru, which examines indigenous activism among the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement. Original air-date: 06-16-09.

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

J. Kehaulani Kauanui

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Host J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), Ph.D. discusses “the Akaka bill,” a flawed and federally driven legislative proposal awaiting a vote in the US Senate for the federal recognition of Native Hawaiians as a domestic dependent governing entity. Original air date: 5-14-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Sarah Deer

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Sarah Deer (Muscogee) attorney, Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist for the Tribal Law & Policy Institute in Saint Paul, Minnesota, discusses a report just released by Amnesty International USA on April 24, 2007, titled, “Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women From Sexual Violence in the USA”. Original air date: 5-7-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Dale Turner

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Dale Turner, Ph.D. (Temagami First Nation in Northern Ontario, Canada), Associate Professor of Government and American Indian Studies at Dartmouth College, discusses his book, This is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy. Original air date: 4-09-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Richard Anguksuar LaFortune

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Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Richard Anguksuar LaFortune (Yup’ik), Director of 2SPR: Two Spirit Press Room, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Native media & cultural literacy project. Original air date: 3-26-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Robert J. Miller

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Robert J. Miller (citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma), Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School. Miller discusses his new book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny. Original air date: 3-5-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

J. Kehaulani Kauanui

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Producer and host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. (Kanaka Maoli) offers an overview of Hawaiian sovereignty politics and the contested terrain of federal recognition and proposed legislation to confine Kanaka Maoli to a domestic dependent nation. Original air date: 2-26-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Interview with Suzan Shown Harjo

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Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee),
President and Executive Director of The Morning Star Institute, discusses the state of Indian Country on Capitol Hill. Original air date: 2-05-07

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Tribal Recognition, Acknowledgment, and Termination: U.S. State and Federal Policy

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for a selection of presentations from the first Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference held May 21 - 23, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which drew more than 600 scholars from 16 countries and dozens of tribal nations to exchange research and professional support. The presentations featured on the program include: "Altered State?: "Recognition", Native Rights, and the Maneuverings of Indian Policy in Connecticut," by Amy Den Ouden and Ruth Garby Torres; and "State Recognition and 'Termination' in Nineteenth-Century New England," by Jean M. O'Brien. O'Brien is an enrolled member, White Earth Reservation, Mississippi Band, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She is an Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota, and author of a book titled, Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. Torres is a Citizen of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, former tribal councilor & treasurer who also served on STN Constitution Revision Committee. Den Ouden is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. For over a decade she worked as a researcher and consultant for the federal acknowledgment projects of the Eastern Pequot Nation and the Golden Hill Paugussett Nation. She is the author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England. Original air-date: 1-09-09.

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