American Indian Airwaves

Wounded Knee Memorial and Anniversary Special Programming

Thursday, 1/3/2018, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

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“25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”

Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University (https://www.emich.edu/polisci/instructors/sholk.php) joins us for an exclusive one-hour special program on the 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurring on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress created by the EZLN in 1996.

Moreover, issues regarding the adversities and impacts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) replacement of the NAFTA of 1994 challenging Indigenous sovereignty, the AMLO administration’s questionable honoring of the San Andres Accords signed between the EZLN and the Mexican government in 1996, the AMLO’s administration bolstering militarization (i.e. military budget increase and the creation of a new National Guard that will be composed of between 120,000 and 150,000 members by 2021), opposition to the $6 Billion Maya Train Project which will operate through Palenque, Chiapas; the role of the Indigenous peoples providing humanitarian relief to political refugees, plus a lot more will be covered on tonight’s program.

American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, 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.

Missed shows for the past 60 days can be accessed at: http://archive.kpfk.org/

Thursday, 1/17/2018, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

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“Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Urbanity & Part 2: 25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”

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Annita Lucchesi (Southern Cheyenne Nation), researcher for the Urban Indian Health Institute’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States Report (http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf) and doctoral student at the University of Lethbridge, joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss in detail the Report’s findings, colonial state barriers in gathering information, massive underreporting of MMIWG, how systemic the problems are, American mass media culpability in censoring/distorting the issue, updated information since the November 2018 Report publication, plus more. With approximately 71% of Native American population living in urban environments, and over the half the urban populations comprised of Indigenous women and girls, the Report’s findings demonstrate the massive underreporting of urban Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is paramount epidemic.

Report Highlights: there were only 506 cases of identifiable missing or murdered indigenous women and girls since 1943; in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justice’s federal, missing persons database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases. Turn in for more information.

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Jordan Marie Daneil (Lakota Nation), Native Hearts Rising Coalition, organized, along with Cheyenne Phoenix, the January 12th, 2019 “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Panel Discussion: The Epidemic, The Stories, The Solutions” held at the Eastside Café in Los Angeles, CA. Jordan Marie Daneil spoke at the event on a wide array of solutions for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This segment of today’s program is sound from the 1/12/2019 event.

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Dr. Faviana Hirsch, Coyote Radio Correspondent, joins us for the third segment of today’s program as part of our mini-series on “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”. The 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurred on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress.

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.

Missed shows for the past 60 days can be accessed at:

http://archive.kpfk.org/

or

https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

Thursday, 1/31/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

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"Chumash Nation Coastal Territories in Remembrance & Cultural Revitalization, and the Conclusion of: 25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”

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John Ruiz (Chumash Nation), elder, activist, and cultural resources specialist, joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss how the Santa Barbara Oil of 1969, the largest oil spill of coastal lands, devasted traditional Chumash maritime relations and culture, Chumash resistance, cultural revitalization, and the formation of a major Indigenous organizations and institutions within the region and the State of California that continue operating on behalf of Indigenous peoples today.

Before any state or federal laws protecting ocean waters existed, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill occurred six miles off the Santa Barbara coast on January 28th, 1969, lasted over ten days, impacted the Gaviota to Santa Barbara coastlands, was the result of Union Company – now part of the Chevron Company – Platform A blow-out releasing approximately 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil. The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 is the largest oil spill in coastal waters and ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez oil catastrophes. In 2017, there were 1,366 offshore active production wells of 5,435 total offshore wells off the California coastline, which is home to approximately 40 California Indigenous Nations. Considering federal land managers moving forward in March of 2019 with the sale of oil and gas leases that include the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lands nearby the Chaco Culture National Historic Park, and other sacred sites, John Ruiz provides an important, critical, and insightful historical account of what happened, relational harms, historical incidences of racism and marginalization, Indigenous activism and organizations, perseverance, plus more.

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Dr. Faviana Hirsch, Coyote Radio Correspondent, joins us for the third segment of today’s program as part of our mini-series on “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”. The 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurred on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress.

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.

Thursday, 2/7/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

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Exclusive Interview

“In the of Heart of the Apache Nation: Protecting Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (The Oak Flat Area) from the Corporate Pathology of the Resolution Copper Mine & the 5th Annual Save Oak Flat March (2/7/2019-2/10/2019)”

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Wendsler Nosie Sr. (San Carlos Apache Nation), activist, organizer, and former San Carlos Apache Nation tribal councilmember, joins us for this one-hour exclusive interview on the immediate urgency and support to protecting the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (The Oak Flat Area), a sacred site under threat from the Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton joint-venture Resolution Copper Mine (RCM). Unless stopped, the RCM will commence construction and operations in 2020, desecrate and destroy a critically important sacred site to Apache Nations and surrounding Indigenous peoples and having permanent intergenerationally cultural losses, harms, and compounded forms of colonial historical trauma. In addition, Wendsler Nosie Sr. covers the 5th Annual Save Oak Flat March happening from February 7th, 2019 to February 10th, 2019, a gathering for helping defend and protect Mother Earth and the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (Oak Flat Area).

The Resolution Copper Mine, if constructed, will be about 7,000-feet deep (approximately five Empire State buildings), the largest copper mine in the United States; within 50 years, the RCM will leave a crater in Mother Earth two and a half miles wide and 1,000 feet deep, and produce 1.6 billion tons of toxic mining waste.

Moreover, Resolution Copper Mine is receiving 2,422 acres of the Tonto National Forest lands, which includes Oak Flat, for free and is exempted from federal environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act because of former United States President Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act 2015 (NDAA). The NDAA included the rider, “Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act” and the Act was inserted in to the NDAA 2015 without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Apache Nation and its citizens. Wendsler Nosie Sr. provides an informative, profound, and urgent interview about the crucial urgency to protect the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (Oak Flat Area) before RCM receives the land in 2020 and begins construction.

For more information about the walk: http://apache-stronghold.com/

Exclusive Indigenous Musical Premiere: “Black Snake Killaz” by Sallee Free, a new song of her forthcoming solo EP being released on March 20th, 2019.

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 programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

Mauna Kea Update

“In the Heart of the Hawaiian Nation: Protecting Mauna Kea from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project”

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 Martina 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. In October of 2018, The Hawaii Supreme Court approved the Board of Land and Natural Resources’ decision to issue a Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) to the University of Hawaii for constructing the TMT. Liko and Laulani have been traveling throughout the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples of California as part of the Mauna Kea Awareness Action at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) earlier in March.

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 programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

“4-Week State of Emergency in the Oglala Lakota Nation & Highlights from the Poor Peoples Campaign in Pacoima, CA Public Hearing on Homelessness & Poverty”

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Helene Gaddie (Oglala Lakota Nation) is a community member, long time activist, and continues to work tirelessly, along with other Indigenous community members to provide basic human services to Pine Ridge citizens of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For the past four weeks, the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, SD has been enduring a four-week state of emergency resulting from two massive cyclones with blizzard conditions, freezing temperatures; snow, sleet, rain and flooding causing over 1,500 Oglala Lakota citizens to be displaced from their, scores of community member without drinkable water and adequate shelter and heat and/or skyrocketing electricity bills, plus community members in need of basic human necessities and services. Tune in to hear about the severity of issues and equally important what people can do help, plus more.

To date, the Oglala Lakota Nation has not received any state and federal (FEMA) assistance. Sign the petition demanding the United States federal government send and provide emergency services and supplies.

Emergency Contact Information: http://www.oglalalakotanation.info, https://www.oglalaoyankerelief.org, or call OST Emergency Management at 605-867-5011. https://www.lakotalaw.org/our-actions/empowering-the-people-of-the-oglala-sioux-tribe?ms=web-home

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Highlights from the 4/9/2019 Poor Peoples Campaign Public Hearing on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA. An estimated one out of every five Telfair Elementary School students are homeless and others living in extreme poverty – too many of those children and their parent are Indigenous.

In addition, according to the 2018 United Nations “Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America” it is underestimated that: “The 2016 poverty rate among American Indian and Alaska Native peoples was 26.2 per cent, the highest among all ethnic groups” and Indigenous peoples also have the highest unemployment rate of any ethnic group; 12% compared to the national average of 5.8 per cent; for more info: (https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1629536/files/A_HRC_38_33_Add-1-EN.pdf).

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Trini Rodriguez, poet, co-founder of the TiaChucha Cultural Center and Bookstore, and a principal organizer for the forthcoming Poor Peoples Campaign Public Hearing on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA on Tuesday, 4/9/2019. With an estimated one out of every five Telfair Elementary School students homeless and others living in extreme poverty, Trini joins us for the final segment of the program to discuss the significance of the Public Hearing, how numerous Indigenous children in public school are denied basic living necessities and in need of humanitarian assistance, and what will transpire at Poor People’s Campaign on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA; plus more. Information for the Public Hearing is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/275964423343334/

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 programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

“Protecting a Sacred Site: Juristac, California Indigenous Histories, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Historical Trauma & Healing”

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Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for this exclusive interview regarding Amah Mutsun Nation history, culture, traditions, traditional ecological knowledge, California Indian histories, the ongoing work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/) to heal Mother Earth within their traditional territories and protect the sacred site: Juristac (Huris-tak), which lies at the heart of the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun Nation. For thousands of years, our Mutsun ancestors lived and held sacred ceremonies at this location in the southern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, above the confluence of the Pajaro and San Benito rivers.

Juristac, colonially known as the Sargent Ranch, is under threat from the proposed Sargent Quarry that will impact 320 acres of traditional lands. The plan includes a 14-acre processing plant, three 200-foot deep open pit quarry sites, a 1.6-mile long conveyor belt, and a 30-foot wide access road. An estimated 40 million tons of sand and gravel aggregate would be produced over the life of the mine, primarily for use in local road building and general construction.

The cultural landscape encompassing Juristac is known today as the Sargent Ranch. An investor group, Debt Acquisition Company of America (DACA) (https://daca4.com/), based in San Diego, CA purchased the land at a bankruptcy auction and is currently seeking to develop a 320-acre open pit sand and gravel mining operation on the property.

For Protect Juristic, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/

To sign the petition opposing the Sargent Quarry Project, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/petition/

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 programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

American Indian Airwaves Presents:“Incendiary Homelands: Indigenous Peoples of the “Amazon Forest” in Peril and the National Parks Service Potentially Places Indigenous Sacred Sites At-Risk for Future Development”

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Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director, Amazon Watch (https://amazonwatch.org/), joins for the first segment of today’s special program to provide us a recent on update on the Amazon fires – particularly in Brazil, the lack of fire containment in Brazil, the frequency and spreading of the fires, the impact the fires are having on Indigenous peoples and communities immediately and in the future with the realization that some Indigenous traditional homelands destroyed will result in genocide(s). Also, Leila Salazar-Lopez discusses: how Brazil’s President Bolsonaro is advocating for the destruction of Amazon Rainforest and as a former military personal once called for the extermination of Indigenous peoples; how the Amazon fires were started by non-Indigenous peoples for business and corporate interest and as a pretext for the usurpation of Indigenous people lands; who are the transnational corporations benefiting and financing the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest; “Settler Colonialism;” Amazon Watch working with Indigenous organizations in Brazil and the Global Day of Action happening this September 15th, 2019 at Brazilian embassies and consultants, financial backers headquarters such as BlackRock – one of the largest asset managers and financiers of Amazon Rainforest destruction and Indigenous peoples-, Chase, HBSC; and other transnational corporate benefactors. For more information on the Global Day of Action, visit: https://www.amazonwatch.org.

For general background information: https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-complicity-in-destruction-2.pdf and https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-summer-investor-eye-on-the-amazon.pdf.

The Amazon Forest region is home to approximately one million indigenous peoples with over five hundred representative cultures and communities throughout nine Amazon countries. In addition, the Amazon Rainforest has more than half of the world’s relatives and species of plants and animals live in the region. Many unique animals are found nowhere else on Mother Earth.

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Wesley Furlong, Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (NARF) (https://www.narf.org/) joins us for the second part of today’s program to discuss: the recent proposed changes by the United States National Park Service (NPS) to the National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP); how these changes, if implemented, could jeopardize and place at-risk for destruction and development purposes, over 95,000 historically and culturally significant places are listed on the NRHP – including a little under one hundred Indigenous sacred sites; and how the proposed changes will make it more difficult to place historically and culturally significant sites onto the NRHP. NRHP status is one federal protective layer but is not a permanent protective guarantee. The newly proposed changes would make it easier for government agencies to open up certain lands to development.

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 programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/ or https://www.kpfk.org/archives/.