Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond

High Stakes Indian Gaming and Sovereignty

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. for a special episode featuring Jessica Cattelino who will discuss her new book, High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2008). In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, their net income from gaming had exceeded $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created substantial benefits for tribal citizens, including employment, universal health insurance, and social services. In High Stakes, Cattelino documents how this economic strength has also enabled renewed political self-governance that has transformed decades of U.S. federal control. At the same time, this development has brought new dilemmas to reservation communities and triggered outside accusations that Seminoles are sacrificing their culture by embracing capitalism. Cattelino is an associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. Her research and writing center on indigenous sovereignty in Native North America, the social meanings of economic action, environment, and settler colonialism. Her current research project explores citizenship and territoriality in the Florida Everglades, with focus on the Seminole Big Cypress Reservation and the nearby agricultural town of Clewiston. Original air-date: 10-13-09.

Gedakina: Revitalizing A Native Way of Life

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode featuring the community work of a non-profit organization called Gedakina (g' dah keen nah), which means, "Our world, a way of life" in the Abenaki language. Gedakina is a multigenerational endeavor to strengthen and revitalize the cultural knowledge and identity of Native American youth and families that are rural, urban and reservation communities from across northern New England. Our first of two guests on the show will be Rick Pouliot (Megantiquois Abenaki), the Chair and Co-founder of Gedakina. Over the past sixteen years, he has focused on programs and initiatives that positively impact First Nations youth and families. The second guest will be Jesse Bowman Bruchac (St Francis/Sokoki band of the Abenaki), who has worked extensively over the past two decades in projects involving the preservation of the Abenaki language, music, and traditional culture. In 2009 Jesse launched http://WesternAbenaki.com --a website offering a keyword searchable database of the language, lessons and a variety show produced entirely in Abenaki. Original air-date: 09-22-09.

Native Written Literacy and The Recovery of Native Space

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Join your host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode featuring Dr. Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) on the program to discuss her new book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. In The Common Pot, Brooks focuses on the role of writing as a tool of social reconstruction and land reclamation. She documents and analyzes the ways in which Native leaders-including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess-adopted writing as a tool to assert their rights and reclaim land. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in Native American literature, with an emphasis on historical, political, and geographic contexts. She also serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP). She co-authored the collaborative volume, Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008). She serves on the Editorial Board of Studies in American Indian Literatures, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Council, and on the Advisory Board of Gedakina, a non-profit organization focused on indigenous cultural revitalization, educational outreach, and community wellness in northern New England. Original air-date: 9-08-09.

Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong- Paul Chaat Smith

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:38:00 +0000

Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. for a an episode featuring Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) who will discuss his new book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong is a collection of essays written from 1992 to 2008, which chronicles the evolution of his views on the politics of being a Native American, beginning with his involvement as a committed activist within the American Indian Movement to his present employment with the federal government. Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator, Museum of Arts and Design, said of the book, "Paul Chaat Smith pulls no punches and delivers not a few body blows. Smith's clear and at times sardonic voice expresses everything Indians might have wanted to say but up to now didn't feel they could." In 2001 Smith joined the National Museum of the American Indian, where he currently serves as Associate Curator. His projects include the permanent history gallery, performance artist James Luna's Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, and Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian. He is currently organizing Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort, which opens in Washington in October, 2009. Back in the 1970s Smith was the founding editor of the American Indian Movement's Treaty Council News, and in 1996, with Robert Warrior, he co-authored Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. Original air-date: 8-25-09.

The Leonard Pelitier Defense Offense Committee

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode featuring the ongoing struggle to free Leonard Peltier (Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota) from prison. On July 28th the U.S. Parole Commission in Lewisburg, Penn. reviewed the case of American Indian Movement activist who has been held in prison for over three decades. Peltier was convicted in 1977 and sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the murder of Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, killed in a June 26, 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Debate has continued since then over Peltier's guilt and the fairness of his trial; supporters consider him a political prisoner. On the show we will learn about the ongoing work of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, which has 37 branch support groups throughout the United States. Our guest is a man named Wanbli (descendant of Sioux Valley Dakota) who is the National Spokesperson for the Committee who will give us an update on the Peltier case. Original air-date: 8-11-09.

Decolonizing Indigenous Masculinity

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:55:00 +0000

Join your host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode featuring Dr. Ty Kāwika Tengan (Kanaka Maoli), author of: Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i, published by Duke University Press. Native Men Remade is an ethnography of the Hale Mua (men's group) that explores the ways in which Hawaiian warriorhood and masculinity have been re-articulated in the Hawaiian cultural nationalist movement. As a member of the group and an ethnographer, Tengan analyzes their practices in the context of indigenous decolonization, and Polynesian traditions. Tengan is from Maui and attended Kamehameha High School and Dartmouth College. He received his PhD in anthropology at UHM and currently holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in ethnic studies and anthropology. Original air-date: 07-28-09.

Militarization and Indigenous Women

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:24:00 +0000

Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode that will focus on the gendered effects of militarization on indigenous women. The first guest will be Vivian Newdick, co-founder of the Comité pro-Reparaciones de para las Hermanas Gonzalez de Chiapas, which was formed in the Fall of 2008 by former volunteers at the Chiapas Women's Rights Center, a Mexico-based nonprofit. The Comité is organizing to create political pressure on the Mexican government in support of the González sisters. On June 4th, 1994, in the town of Altamirano, Chiapas, three indigenous Tzeltal sisters, one of whom was a minor, were detained by members of the Mexican military, and were tortured and raped by the soldiers. The case was presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 1996, which led to a ruling from the Commission in 2001 that found the Mexican State had violated a range of fundamental human rights contained in the Convention. In March 2009, the OAS human rights commission has weighed in on the case. The Comité is committed to linking the Gonzálezes with US-based organizations that struggle against state violence against indigenous women. The second guest is Margo Taméz, who co-founded the Lipan Apache Women Defense with her mother, Eloisa G. Taméz. The US government has seized their family’s land – held in title from an agreement with Spain in 1767—without consent or consultation for the US/Mexico border wall. The official government estimate for the wall is 7.5 million per mile. This is an 18-foot high cement and steel border scheduled to cross all 1,969 miles of the dividing line between Mexico and the US, 1400 miles of which is claimed by the Apache as traditional homeland. Taméz has been a guest on the show before and returns to give us an update on the case since Obama took office. Taméz is Lipan Apache and Jumano-Apache from two Texas-Mexico border communities. Original air-date: 07-14-09.

For the Seventh Generation: American Indians, Youth and Education

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode that will focus on the politics of education, representations, and youth. The first guests is Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo Tribe), publisher of an Internet blog and resource called American Indians in Children's Literature that is used by parents, librarians, teachers, and college professors in Education, Library Science, and English Literature. Reese will offer critical perspectives of indigenous peoples in children's books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society-at-large. Reese is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses including: Politics of Children's Literature, Introduction to American Indian Studies, and History of American Indian Education. Her current research projects include a book titled, Indians as Artifacts: How Images of Indians are used to Nationalize America's Youth. The second guest is Loren Spears (Narragansett), the Founder and Executive Director of the Nuweetooun School, Rhode Island. Nuweetooun is a Native school open to all children that has a core curriculum of Native culture and history combined with environmental studies. Spears received her Masters in Education from the University of New England in 2002. She spent 12 years teaching under-served youth in Rhode Island public schools. She was a Narragansett Tribunal Judge, and is currently serving her people on Tribal Council. Original air-date: 06-23-09.

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

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:42:00 +0000

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

Indigenous Oral History and Archeology - Trudie Lamb Richmond

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:26:00 +0000

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

American Indian Urban Communities and Transnational Citizenship

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:08:00 +0000

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

Cherokee Nation, Freedman Descendants, and African American Protest

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:36:00 +0000

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

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

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:03:00 +0000

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.

J. Kehaulani Kauanui

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:59:00 +0000

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

Sarah Deer

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:43:00 +0000

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

Dale Turner

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:30:00 +0000

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

Richard Anguksuar LaFortune

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:17:00 +0000

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

Robert J. Miller

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:03:00 +0000

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

J. Kehaulani Kauanui

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:51:00 +0000

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

Interview with Suzan Shown Harjo

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:37:00 +0000

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

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

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:19:00 +0000

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.

Part I - Palestinian Sovereignty and the BDS Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:51:00 +0000

Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for Part I of a two-part series that explores Palestinian self- determination as question of indigenous sovereignty and the politics of Israeli occupation and settler colonialism with a specific focus on the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement. This installment features interviews with Omar Barghouti, a founding member of the Palestinian campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, and Steven Salaita, an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech and author of The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan, along with several other books. Barghouti will tell us about the conditions that compelled him to co-found the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Salaita will address issues of settler colonialism in Palestine and how they compare to the colonization of Native North America. The BDS campaign against Israel is growing around the world. The Palestinian Campaigns have inspired similar campaigns in France, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Australia, South Africa, and the United States among other countries, ranging from boycotts of everything from Israeli produce to Israeli academic institutions. Tune-in to learn about the boycott of Israel - and hear answers to frequently asked questions: why “single out” Israel? Doesn’t an academic boycott create more barriers when we should be “building bridges”? What does the boycott entail? How does this relate to issues of academic freedom? How can we productively critique Israel and Zionism and stand firm against all forms of anti-Semitism? Israeli state violence against the Palestinians is fully supported by the US government through military aid and diplomatic oversight. But many people of conscience believe they have a moral obligation to speak out in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for nationhood and protest Israel’s illegal apartheid regime. As author Naomi Klein writes, “the best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.” Original air-date: 05-12-2009.

Part II - Palestinian Sovereignty and the BDS Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for Part II of a two-part program that explores Palestinian self-determination as question of indigenous sovereignty and the politics of Israeli occupation and settler colonialism with a specific focus on the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement. This second installment features interviews with: Sherna Berger Gluck a founding member of the U.S. Committee for and Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, author of An American Feminist in Palestine: the Intifada Years, and producer and host of "Radio Intifada" (KPFK/Pacifica fm radio, Los Angeles); Katherine Fuchs, National Organizer for the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a national coalition of more than 280 organizations working to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality; and Stanley Heller, Chairperson of the Middle East Crisis Committee and host of "The Struggle," which is a TV news magazine shown weekly on 20 cable stations and on the internet.

Indigenous Language Revitalization: The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode on with special guest jessie little doe baird, co-founder of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project which began in 1993/94. This is an intertribal effort between the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Assonet, Herring Pond, and Chappaquidick Wampanoag. The aim of the project is to reclaim Wôpanâak as a spoken language after there were no speakers of the language for six generations. little doe is a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Women's Medicine Society. She lives in Mashpee, MA. She also teaches Wôpanâak in Aquinnah and Mashpee. little doe received her Master of Science in Linguistics from MIT in 2000. She has completed a lay person's grammar of the language as well as a curriculum for teaching and is currently working toward the completion of a dictionary and expansion of the curriculum. Currently she is also rebuilding the Pequot language and teaching at Mashantucket, CT. Original air-date: 04-28-09.

The Court of the Conqueror

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:19:00 +0000

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.

Interview with Ned Blackhawk

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:29:00 +0000

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

Interview with Brian Baguck Wescott

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:06:00 +0000

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

Interview with Randolph Lewis

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:49:00 +0000

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

Interview with Chief Richard Velky

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:34:00 +0000

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

Interview with David Cornsilk

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:17:00 +0000

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