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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.

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Guests:

Kathryn Ledebur, Executive Director of the Andean Information Network, joins us for this segment of today’s program to discuss the Jeanine Áñez, Bolivian de facto – coup president’s policies attacking Indigenous peoples, attempts to preempt, democratic elections, and systemic attacks against Indigenous peoples regarding COVID-19, plus more.

Part 2:

On August 22nd, 2020, Mexico’s military attacked Indigenous peoples from Chiapas in response to their opposition of the 948-Mayan Train, which will run through their traditional territories. In early June 2020, Mexico’s President López Obrador officially inaugurated the construction of the $8-billion, 948-mile Mayan Train high-speed railroad, an infrastructure project that will begin in Palenque in Chiapas, travel northeast towards to Cancun in Quintana Roo with two routes encircling the entire Yucatan Peninsula link cities, including Mexico City, and towns in five southeastern states or the entire Yucatan Peninsula for tourism, transportation, and economic purposes. The Mayan Train project commences in the heart of the traditional territories of the Mayan people in Chiapas and the “Project” is opposed by Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

Guests:

Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to provide listeners with update on Mexico’s military attacks against the Indigenous people of Chiapas and discusses how Mayan Indigenous peoples have mobilized, resisted, and responded to the proposed construction of the Mayan Train, the political and environmental devastation the “Project” will cause, the rise of the ECO-Tourism industry perpetuating greater and more romanticizing stereotypes about the Mayan peoples and Chiapas, and the political consequences and successes from resisting construction of the Mayan Train project, plus more.

“Chumash Reclaiming & Renaming: Indio Muerto to Hutash and MMIWG2 Human Rights Emergency in northern California”

Part 1:

What does colonial place-name markers such as Indio Muerto (“Dead Indian”) Street in the City of Santa Barbara, CA mean to the Chumash peoples? The colonial street name origins trace back to the city of Santa Barbara establishment in 1851 when the town council directed Captain Salisbury Haley make a survey and map the “town”. Thereupon the surveyed location of discovering a Chumash ancestor, in an act of violence, Captain Salisbury Haley named the street Indio Muerto.

What is the symbolic meaning behind the street name “Dead Indian” and how does it connect to other colonial spaces that aggravate and perpetuate various manifestations of settler colonialism, racism, and historical trauma? After 28 years of Chumash activists demanding for the offensive street name to be changed, the Advisory Council to the Santana Barbara city council, unanimously voted 10-0 on August 10th, 2020 to change the offense street name to Hutash (Earth Mother). Turn in for this segment of the program to hear from two Chumash activist’s participation in this momentous event, what does this action mean, and what happens next? Plus more.

Guests:

Marcus Lopez (Chumash Nation), Barbareño Chumash Tribal Council, Co-host & Executive Producer of American Indian Airwaves, community organizer and activist.

Fidel Rodriguez (Chumash Nation), long-time activist, community organizer, and host and producer of Divine Forces Radio.

Part 2:

The To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' I Will See You Again in a Good Way Progress Report published in July of 2020 is the first report to cover Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited peoples within the northern California area. With the recent Trump Administration’s establishment of the Operation Lady Justice Task Force office opening in Billings, Montana and the same administration’s failure along with several elected officials to even consider The Reduce, Return and Recover Act - a proposed bill the late US House Rep. John Lewis wanted to see introduced that would be the most comprehensive piece of MMIW legislation going far beyond the Savanna’s Act – MMWIWG2 rates in northern California are alarmingly high.

In fact, according to the report, “SBI has documented 165 MMIWG2 cases in California. This makes California the state with the fifth-highest number nationally, trailing behind Montana (237), Washington (235), New Mexico (188), and Arizona (188). Notably, Northern California outranks many states, and if it were a state, would be in the top 10, with 105 cases.” Turn in for highlights about this newly released and informative report, the egregious human rights abuses chronicled, and a whole lot more.

Guest:

Michaela Madrid (Lower Brule Lakota Sioux Nation), Operations Manager, Sovereign Bodies Institute.

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.

Part 1:

Brief News Highlights around “Indian Country”.

Part 2:

With the amplified rise of American fascism and authoritarianism during the Trump Administration, Trump’s desire to postpone the 2020 presidential elections, the Trump campaign’s strategies to preempt people of color from voting this November, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, compounded afflictions on Mother Earth, increased militarization, the ascension of the global police state, etc. what are the interlinking relations between settler colonialism, race, global capitalism, and the contested American Empire? Turn in for part two of today’s program for an in-depth conversation as our guest attempts addressing these very important questions, 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 forthcoming book: The Global Police State, recently wrote the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, and has published numerous additional books and articles on a variety of issues pertaining to Militarism, Global Capitalism, Repression, etc.

Part 1:

Given the systemic, escalating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout “Indian Country,” the rising COVID-19 rates reported by Indian Health Service and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous media coverage about the “Pandemic”, very few media reports, in fact, are on urban Native American populations. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the larger urban Los Angeles urban Native American population? Why are COVID-19 tracking records and methods so problematic that some estimates suggest that 35% to 50% of Native American COVID-19 cases are misreported and underreported? How much has the COVID-19 situation changed for urban Los Angeles Native Americans area over past several months? What types of resources (e.g. economic assistance, food, hygiene, health, etc.) are available for those Native people in need? Who is providing emergency assistance for the urban Los Angeles Native American peoples and families?

The Los Angeles Native COVID-19 Response Coalition, comprised of various American Indian community development organizations, community members, and members of the Los Angeles Native American City/County Native American Commission have been instrumental, critical, and paramount in organizing and implementing effective methods of community outreach, data tracking, and providing basic emergency, humanitarian services for urban Los Angeles Native American peoples and families despite the plethora of complications, obstacles, and unknown variables in the current COVID-19 crises. Turn in for part one of today’s program for hear from two community members and leaders addressing these critical issues and questions relating to the larger urban Los Angeles Native American community, plus more.

Guests:

Dr. Andrea Garcia, M.D. (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nations) is an appointed commissioner with the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, works with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health/American Indian Counseling Center, and is a board member for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII).

Alexandra Ferguson Valdes (Tlingit & Athabascan Nations), Executive Director for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission.

COVID-19 Resources and Information be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/lanativecovid19/

https://www.facebook.com/AICommission/ or

https://lanaic.lacounty.gov

Part 2:

With the amplified rise of American fascism and authoritarianism during the Trump Administration, Trump’s desire to postpone the 2020 presidential elections, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, compounded afflictions on Mother Earth, increased militarization, the ascension of the global police state, what are the interlinking relations between colonialism, race, global capitalism, and the contested American Empire? Turn in for part two of today’s program for an in-depth two-part conversation as our guest attempts addressing these very important questions, 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 forthcoming book: The Global Police State, recently wrote the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, and has published numerous additional books and articles on a variety of issues pertaining to Militarism, Global Capitalism, Repression, etc.

Thursday, 7/23/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

Listen live at: http://www.kpfk.org or podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio after 8pm (PCT).

“U.S. Fragility in the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination: Fallen Statues, the McGirt v. Oklahoma Case, Solidarity Movements, Race, and More”

Parts 1 and 2:

What are the linkages between the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination to the recent bevy of fallen and removed statues of St. Junipero Serra, founder of the Alta Spanish Mission System that wreaked havoc and genocide onto California Indigenous Peoples? How does the recent McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) United States Supreme Court case that affirms the Muscogee Creeks Treaty rights relate to the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination? How does the recent Indigenous-Black Lives Matter (BLM) solidarity movement relate to conversations about the interlinking topics of race, the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination, and decolonization? Lastly, what does the significances of the announcement Washington D.C. R*skins name change and the contestations and clarifications of the settler colonial framing of the offensive mascot issues as part of the “culture wars”? Tune in for the entire hour to hear Steve Newcomb touch on all these issues, plus more.

Guest:

Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape Nations) is a legal scholar and one of the world’s foremost authorities on the doctrine of Christian discovery. Newcomb is the author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008), co-founded with Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota Nation) the Indigenous Law Institute (1992), studies and writes about the U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s, and along with Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) completed a documentary movie based on Pagans in the Promised Land titled “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015).

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.

Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here on the KPFK website for 60-days only and podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio after 8pm (PCT).

Part 1:

NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen was among 20 Land Defenders arrested while protesting Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3rd, 2020. Over 200 land defenders successfully mobilized to the defend the Ȟe Sápa and the Treaty of Fort Laramie by preventing ticket holders along Highway 244 from taking the Keystone entrance to the Independence Day fireworks celebration speech at Mount Rushmore with President Donald Trump. Subsequently, the American president, Donald Trump, was upstaged by the success of the land defenders ultimately preventing a larger than anticipated turnout for Donald Trump’s speech, garnishing media attention over Trump’s speech, and raising the critical consciousness and awareness of the sacredness of Ȟe Sápa, The Treaty of Fort Laramie, and fostering greater solidarity for a just transition. Over 20 people were arrested and charged on July 3rd, including Nick Tilsen who was charged with two felony accounts and three misdemeanors which if convicted on all charges could result in up to 15 years in prison.

After being detained for three days, Nick Tilsen was released and he joins us to discuss the successes of the July 3rd, 2020 action, upstaging Donald Trump, his jail prison experience, the structural racism of the prison industrial complex system in South Dakota, the implications of being convicted for all felony and misdemeanor charges, honoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851/1868, Donald Trump’s violations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the establishment of the Black Hill Legal Fund for providing legal counsel for the July 3rd arrestees, the continuing work of the NDN Collective, plus a whole lot more.

Guest:

Nick Tilsen, (Oglala Lakota Nation), President and CEO of the NDN Collective, a Rapid City, S.D. non-profit organization dedicated to Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grant making, capacity-building and narrative change.

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This past Thursday on July 9th, 2020, the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted on a new charter policy, LAUSD Policies and Procedures for Charter Schools, which threaten and possibly leads to the termination of charters schools such as the Anahuacalmecac International University, the only and oldest international Indigenous school located in Los Angeles County, California. Our guest provides detailed and insightful implications of the LAUSD recent actions, the Indigenous Education Now coalition’s submission of a formal complaint to the United States Department of Education against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and the Indigenous Education Now coalition demands that the LAUSD immediately address the Native student COVID-19 crises, and conduct Indigenous/tribal consultation with local Indigenous nations and organizations, plus a lot more.

Guest:

Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head of the School at Anahuacalmecac International University

Thursday, 7/9/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org

“Disrupting Settler Colonial Spaces: The Doctrine of Discovery, The Alta Spanish Mission System Impacts on California Indigenous Peoples, the Fallen Statues of Father J. Serra, California’s Public Apology to California Indigenous Peoples: One-year later, & More”

Parts 1 and 2:

First, a short news segment of highlighted events. Second, with the proliferation of fallen statues of Father Junipero Serra in the state of California, what does this mean to California Indigenous peoples? Also, how does the Doctrine of Discovery factor into the recent events of toppling the statues of the perpetrator who created the Alta Spanish Mission System that left a legacy of genocides? During these transitional and eventful moments, what has been the outcome, one-year later, of California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order #1519, a soft public apology “on behalf of California to California Native American Peoples for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history”? What has transpired with the Truth and Healing Council established by the state of California since Executive Order #1519 was issued? And, what role does the Doctrine of Discovery play in all these historical and recent events?

Guest:

Valentin Lopez, (Amah Mutsun Nation), Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. He joins us for the entire program after the news segment.

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); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and streams live on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org and on Apple ITunes.

Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/ (60-days only).

American Indian Airwaves is also available on https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp (up to one-year).

American Indian Airwaves podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn.

Thursday, 7/2/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)- Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org

“Colonial Legacies of Treaty Violations and Failed Trust Responsibilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Chiapas Resistance to the $8 Billion-dollar, 948-mile Mayan Train.

Part 1:

With rising COVID-19 rates across “Indian Country,” in major urban areas with large urban Indigenous populations, and despite passage of The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in which Indian Health Services (HIS) received in April 2020 its last funding installment of $367 million out of $1.032 billion allocated, both Native American health facilities and IHS operations are still critically underfunded. In fact, with the United States (U.S.) government passing the CARES Act, the U.S. is paying closer to .23 cents from approximately .16 cents on the dollar for its treaty obligations.

Guests:

Stacy A. Bohlen (Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Nation), Chief Executive Officer of the National Indian Health Board, joins us for a brief update on how COVID-19 is impacting “Indian Country,” reveals some of the hardest hit Indigenous Nations NOT reported in the media, articulates the massive infrastructure deficit in Indian Health Service operations and Tribal Health facilities resulting from perpetual failures of the U.S. government’s trust responsibilities with federally recognized Native Nations, plus more. Click on The National Indian Health Board COVID-19 tracker for a COVID-19 update.

Francys Crevier (Algonquian First Nation), executive director, National Council of Urban Indian Health, a Washington D.C.-based organization representing 74 urban Indigenous health facilities, joins us for a brief update on how COVID-19 is impacting large urban Native American populations, the systemic lack of proper resources needed for urban Indian organizations, plus more.

Part 2:

In early June 2020, Mexico’s President López Obrador officially inaugurated the construction of the $8-billion, 948-mile Mayan Train high-speed railroad, an infrastructure project that will begin in Palenque in Chiapas, travel northeast towards to Cancun in Quintana Roo with two routes encircling the entire Yucatan Peninsula link cities, including Mexico City, and towns in five southeastern states or the entire Yucatan Peninsula for tourism, transportation, and economic purposes. The Mayan Train project commences in the heart of the traditional territories of the Mayan people in Chiapas and the “Project” is opposed by Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

Guests:

Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to discuss how Mayan Indigenous peoples have been mobilizing and resisting the proposed construction of the Mayan Train, the political and environmental devastation the “Project” will cause, the rise of the ECO-Tourism industry perpetuating greater and more romanticizing stereotypes about the Mayan peoples and Chiapas, and the political consequences and successes from resisting construction of the Mayan Train project, plus more.

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); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and streams live on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org and on Apple ITunes.

Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/ (60-days only).

American Indian Airwaves is also available on https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp (up to one-year).

American Indian Airwaves podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn.

Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.

Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. Our guest address the November 8th, 2019, the University of Hawaii action assuming title over the Mauna Kea lands and the university supporting a new memorandum prohibiting the Kanaka access the Mauna Kea, the thousands of Indigenous Hawaiians and supporters gathered at Mauna Kea, and the scores of arrest since earlier this year which includes those peoples’ daily risking and facing arrest and mass incarceration, plus more.

The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.

American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday 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 (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves podcast on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Turnin, and iTunes. Broadcasted programs on KPFK within the past 60-days can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

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