ALP 2020's Apache Acorns & Pollen Podcast

This podcast is a series in the immediate response and first line of cultural defense in the time of a global pandemic, a few community members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe (W.M.A.T) gathering online in an effort to preserve our Apache language in the time of COVID-19. This project aims to preserve, promote, protect, our Ndee Apache Language through educational content that will mobilize our language from the stage of ‘survival’ to ‘thriving’. [The Apache Language Project 2020 is not affiliated with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, this means we are enrolled members of the WMAT and SCAT communities and work as community members in this grassroots effort.]

This podcast is a series in the immediate response and first line of cultural defense in the time of a global pandemic, a few community members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe (W.M.A.T) gathering online in an effort to preserve our Apache language in the time of COVID-19. This project aims to preserve, promote, protect, our Ndee Apache Language through educational content that will mobilize our language from the stage of ‘survival’ to ‘thriving’. [The Apache Language Project 2020 is not affiliated with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, this means we are enrolled members of the WMAT and SCAT communities and work as community members in this grassroots effort.]

In this episode, ALP's Coordinator Noel Altaha, LMSW and tribal member of the White Mountain Apache tribe, with family from Cibecue and San Carlos Apaches. 

How do we want to treat our relatives in the time of COVID-19? How will we be remembered by the ones we do not include? We 

This podcast is from an interview on July 9, 2020. David or Dave Lucas is a social worker with a background in addiction and mental health treatment. He has worked with folks involved in the criminal justice system in Canada and the U.S. Dave is a long time advocate for harm reduction principles and philosophies.  

In this episode, Dave shares information regarding a Harm Reduction model. What is Harm Reduction? How can it help our community? In what ways can we support our relatives impacted by addiction and what does it mean in the time of COVID? Tribal members of WMAT and SCAT, let us know what future topics you want to hear. 

Follow Dave on Twitter @davidewlucas

The Apache Language Project (ALP) 2020's Apache Acorns and Pollen Podcast is a series of visiting and sharing stories -- it is our community's response to COVID19. In the immediate response and first line of cultural defense in the time of a global pandemic, a few community members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe (W.M.A.T) gathering online in an effort to preserve our Apache language in these current times. 

This podcast is one part of our project as work to preserve, promote, protect, our Ndee Apache Language through educational content that will mobilize our language from the stage of ‘survival’ to ‘thriving’. 

Our first guest is Dr. Gerald Bush, M.D., raised on the Fort Apache Indian reservation in Whiteriver Arizona, Dr. Bush is Diné and White Mountain Apache. He was raised with both cultures and grew up in the Apache community. ALP's caught up with him to discuss the impact in the White Mountains. 

[The Apache Language Project 2020 is not affiliated with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, this means we are enrolled members of the WMAT and SCAT communities and work as community members in this grassroots effort.]