American Indian Airwaves

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On January 2nd, 2021, Indigenous activist, elder, grandmother, Mother Earth protector, Western Shoshone Nation defender and treaty protector moved on to the spirit world. On today’s program, we rebroadcast several segments with Carrie Dann. Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone Nation), was co-founder of the Western Defense Shoshone Project (WSDP) in 1991 and a tireless international Indigenous activist, who stood up to the United States government and Bureau of Land Management state-terrorism actions against her and Mary Dann in the 1990s. Carries Dann also opposed the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in the heart of the Western Shoshone nation and within the treaty territories of the Treaty of Newe Segobia (Ruby Valley) of 1863. Also, throughout her time, she was instrumental in the Barrack Gold Mining Corporations efforts to build one of the largest open gold-pits on Mother Earth and in the Western Shoshone nation lands that threatened the sacred site of Mt. Tenabo. American Indian Airwaves interviews from 2004, 2006, and 2008 demonstrate the veracity, tenaciousness, and the relentless sacrifices of ancestor Carrie Dann.

American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast Thursdays from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Thursdays 5pm-6pm); and WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH.

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News throughout Indian Country

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The rates of various of forms of domestic violence continue escalating during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, more More than 4 in 5 Native Americans have experienced violence in their lifetime; more than 1 in 2 Native women (55.5%) and 1 in 3 Native men (43.2%) have experienced physical violence by intimate partners in their lifetime; For Native victims of physical intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual violence, 2 in 5 Native women (38.2%) and 1 in 6 Native men (16.9%) were unable to get the services they needed; Native women and men are five times as likely to have experienced physical violence by a non-Native intimate partner as compared to non-Natives; Native women and men are: 2 times more likely to experience rape/sexual assault, and 2.5 times more likely to experience violent crimes; homicide is a leading cause of death for Native women; more than 7 out of 10 victim-survivor callers reported experiencing more than one type of abuse, including physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, digital abuse, cultural abuse, and other complex situations; and nearly 40% experiencing violence reported a child being involved in their situation.

Guest:

Lori Jump (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Director of Stronghearts Native Helpline, joins us for the entire program to discuss the rise of domestic violence and its various forms in Native American households and throughout “Indian Country” during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, on December 17th, 2020 StrongHearts Native Helpline (1-844-7NATIVE) announced 10,000 callers have now reached out to the helpline for safe, confidential support and resources for domestic, dating and sexual violence. Tune in to hear more about the rise of domestic violence and the growing work of the Stronghearts Native Helpline and what people can do for assistance and resistance regarding domestic violence in Indigenous households.

December 29th of 2020 marks the 130th year anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890 and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopped Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge in what is now known as South Dakota. The Would Knee Massacre took place near the Wounded Knee Creek during a time when the United States government essentially banned all Native American traditions and ceremonies. Shortly thereafter the initial encounter, a scuffle ensued which resulted in the U.S. 7th Calvary open firing and killing over 300 Indigenous women, children, and men.

The Occupation of Wounded Knee from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973 is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee (Lakota Nation) in response to a call to action from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and treaty rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Indigenous and United States government officials. The Wound Knee Occupation resulted in a 67-day military standoff with U.S. government officials and quickly drew international and domestic support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.

Today’s show on American Indian Airwaves is comprised of sound from two principal sources: The Pacifica Radio archives and the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. The Pacifica Radio Archives include original reports from Pacifica’s-affiliate station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA which covered live the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. In addition, sound from the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 includes reflective testimonies of the Wound Knee Indigenous activist such as Lenny Foster, Bill Means, Madonna Thunderhawk, and narrated by the late Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, plus more.

Tensions mount as Montana ranchers are increasing harassing, killing, and harming buffalo that leave the Yellowstone National Park. Today, James Holt Sr., executive director of the Buffalo Field Campaign, provides an update on the escalated situation and Jame Holt Sr. provides an update on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the Nez Perce Nation.

There have been 859 buffalo killed between 2019-2020; 12,575 buffalo killed since 1985, and there have 540 buffalo captured by the Yellowstone National Park: 540. What is the current management approach for Yellowstone bison? Why is there such intolerance for bison to traverse their lands, feed, reproduce, live, or be provided more suitable public lands? The state manufactured comparative risks of brucellosis transmission to cattle, plus human injury, and property damage have been systemically used as a pretext to strategically kill and slaughter the Yellowstone bison over the years and for years, the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) since 1997 has been at the forefront of protecting the last free roaming heard of bison relatives in the lower forty-eight states and promoting and advocating for the increase of the bison habitat and populations.

Part 2 of today’s segment includes our guest conveying how COVID-19 is impacting the Nez Perce Nation, its citizens, youth, elder, plus more.

Guests:

James Holt Sr. (Nez Perce Nation), Executive Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), joins us for the entire program to discuss the works of the Buffalo Field Campaign, the continuous struggles of protecting the last remaining, genetically original buffalo from “state” and hunters killing these relatives, why the BFC had to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly’s office and why the court ordered release of records the park, plus more

Dr. William Robinson continues his discussion of how the transnational capital class continues profiteering from the COVID-19 pandemic, predatory capitalism, the potential implications of the Biden Administration and the continuation of the Global Police State, homelessness, Indigenous peoples and resistance, the need for cross solidarity movements in order for future generations survivability, plus more.

Dr. William Robinson discusses how the transnational capital class continues profiteering from the COVID-19 pandemic, predatory capitalism, the potential implications of the Biden Administration and the continuation of the Global Police State, homelessness, Indigenous peoples and resistance, the need for cross solidarity movements in order for future generations survivability, plus more.

News from "Indian Country," spoken word, and music.

Song List:

Joy Harjo, “This America”

Black Lodge Singers, “Keeping it Flowing,” Album: My Family

Snotty Nose Rez Kids, “Boujee Natives,” Album: Trapline

John Trudell, “The Earth was the Mother,” Descendant Now Ancestor

Raye Zaragoza, "They Say,” Woman in Color

Alexis Raeana, “Keep My Memory” ft.Charly Lowry (Single)

A Tribe Called Red, “R.E.D.” (Single)

Joanne Shenandoah, “We Will Rise Up,” Album: Joanne Shenandoah

Buffy Saint-Marie, “Carry It On,” Album: Power in the Blood

John Trudell, “Spectator” and “Of Many Realities,” Album: Descendant Now Ancestor

The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps the global capitalist economy afloat in the face of chronic stagnation, plus more.

Guests:

William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the books The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017), the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, plus more.

The Global Police State, World Economy, and Systemic Violence, Part 1”

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The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps the global capitalist economy afloat in the face of chronic stagnation, plus more.

Guests:

William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the books The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017), the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, plus more.

With the National Interagency Fire Center reporting 79 large uncontained fires burning across the Western United States, and California experiencing almost 7,900 fires destroying or damaging a total of 6,200 structures since the beginning of 2020, along with California recently experiencing more than 3.4 million acres burn; what are the impacts, implications, and consequences the California fires are having and will have on California Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and all plant and animal relations? How is cultural sustainability envisioned given the precarious times we are in? What does California Indigenous nations’ cultural fire management practices mean in terms of traditions today and future generations? With the compounded effects of the twenty-year drought; the intergenerational, violent settler colonial forms of violence perpetuated against all relations, how are California Indigenous peoples responding and how does land loss contribute to historical trauma and environment grief?

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Don Hankins (Miwok Nation), Professor of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico State.