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On June 10th, 2022, a Bolivian court sentenced former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, to 10 years in prison. Áñez assumed power during a violent and illegal coup in November 2019 that ousted the country’s popular Indigenous president, Evo Morales, sending him into exile, and killing over 37 people. During Anez’s short term as the illegal president, her government killed dozens of civilians, persecuted members of the Movimiento al Socialismo – Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos or the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MP-ISP) and confronted the Covid-19 pandemic with incompetence and corruption leading to mass starvation in the country’s poorer regions.

Today on American Indian Airwaves, we speak with the director of the Andean Information Network, a human rights organization based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and writes extensively on drug policy and human rights in the Andes. Katheryn Ledebur joins us to discuss the violent and illegal coup that forcefully ousted the first democratically elected Indigenous president in Bolivia, the United States government’s complicity in directly and indirectly supporting, along with American-based PR firms, the November 2019 coup (Operation Condor 2.0), the role of extractive industries such as the natural gas and lithium industries destabilizing the plurinational nation of Bolivia, plus more, and what it means for the plurinational state of Bolivia and the 24 Indigenous nations and communities within.

Guest:

Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network (http://ain-bolivia.org/), a human rights organization based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and writes extensively on drug policy and human rights in the Andes.

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Thursday, 8/31/2023, on American Indian Airwaves on KPFK, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

“The Living Histories of Lahaina and Self Determination for Hawaiian Nation and Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush”

Part 1:

The living histories of Lahaina are told through the intergenerational means of passing traditional stories, songs, language, and life from one Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) generation to the next. Despite the media, national, and international attention on the recent August 8th, 2023, deadly Lahaina fire, many critical questions and concerns are missing from various media reports about the self-determination of the Hawaiian nation in recovery and healing from the violence stemming from United States militarization, the illegal over through of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States, corporatizing the land and water for tourism, plus more. Through the settler colonial history of what is called Lahaina, the Kanaka Maoli are resilient in survivance and now more than ever are organized in working to ensure that decolonization and healing takes place as part of the recovery from the Lahaina fire.

Tune in today on American Indian Airwaves to hear enriching, important, and real stories from a Kanaka Maoli perspective on the living histories of “Lahaina,” Maui, and the Hawaiian nation, plus more.

Guest:

• Kepā Maly, Cultural Ethnographer - Resource Specialist of Kumu Pono Associates LLC (https://www.kumupono.com/). Kepā was raised on the islands of O’ahu and Lanaʻi. While growing up on Lānaʻi, Kepā was taught the Hawaiian language and cultural practices and values by kūpuna (elders). Kūpuna spoke of, and practiced many aspects of Hawaiian culture, including land and ocean management practices, mele and hula (chants and dances), material culture, traditions, and ethnobotany.

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The long legacy of settler colonial violence against California Indigenous nations, the lands, waters, and more continues in northern California where the informal and formal cannabis industry is harming the Peoples, lands, waters, and more. The Cannabis industry is just one industry out many contributing to systemic forms of colonial violence.

Tune in today on American Indian Airwaves to the author of a new published book titled Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (2023). The book is the first to cover the environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation in California by foregrounding Indigenous voices, experiences, and histories. It’s not intended as an expose of cannabis growers, but rather meant to inform the path toward an alternative future, one that starts with the return of land to Indigenous stewardship and a rejection of the commodification and control of nature for profit.

Guest:

Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida), Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal-Poly, Humboldt and the author of the newly published book: Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (2023).

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On August 8th, 2023, a deadly fire swept through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, destroying nearly everything in its path. The number of lives taken has reached at least 115 as of 8/22/2023, more than 800 people are still missing, and more than 2,000 structures were destroyed. Eight hours before a deadly fire swept through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, a small brush fire broke out on the edge of a residential neighborhood approximately a mile away from the town’s historic waterfront. While the fire was contained, and kept away from nearby homes, it is suspected that hurricane-force gusts helped reignite the fire.

Lahaina, or by its original place name: Malu’ulu o Lele (Ma la ulu o lele) means the “land of the flying breadfruit” became Lahaina when colonists eradicated this traditional food and replaced it with sugar cane plantations. This scared place to the Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, the Naka moli, is rich in cultural traditions and history kept alive through generations. The Lahaina fire destroyed more than the settler colonist homes, business, tourism, but it is the violence of settler colonial, its legacy in Hawaii, and the climate crises that has cause so much additional trauma to people, the land, water, and life throughout the area.

Today on American Indian Airwaves, our guest for the hour is a well-known international photographer, professional writer, an accomplished journalist, and cinematographer. His family lived on the Big Island of Hawaii and one his ancestors is Kaloni o’ Pue ew, a chief of a large portion of Maui precolonization.

Guest:

David Pu’u (https://davidpuu.com), photographer, cinematographer and Writer with broad experience ranging from editorial publication to television and feature film production.

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

One day before International Indigenous Peoples Day, President Joe Biden created on August 8th, 2023, a new national monument in Arizona covering close to a million acres of lands surrounding the Grand Canyon important and sacred to nearby Native American nations. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni (Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument) is the fifth designated monument by Biden in the past 10 months, and the new monument prohibits new uranium mining claims in the region.

The legacy of Nuclear Colonialism, which is includes over a century of uranium mining, and its impacts on Native American nations, peoples, and Mother Earth remains a highly censored in the American mass and digital media. Despite the recent media attention of the film Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan) released on July 21st, 2023, in the United States and August 6th, 2023, marking the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima wherein 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, Native Americans and settler colonial violence are absent from these stories and the American public consciousness.

Guest:

Ian Zabarte (Newe Sogobia [Western Shoshone] Nation), is a long-time Indigenous activist who worked tirelessly to stop the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository in Western Shoshone Treaty lands (also known as the state of Nevada). He is also a board member of the Native Community Action Council (NCAC), works on numerous anti-nuclear colonialism projects, and is featured in 2023 documentary Downwind, the story about Mercury, Nevada in heart of the Western Shoshone nation, becoming the testing site of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992.

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

Today on American Indian Airwaves, a renewed effort towards seeking freedom for international, political Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier, who since 1977 wrongfully continues serving two consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary despite ongoing severe health issues, plus more here on American Indian Airwaves.

Leonard Peltier is from the Anishnaabe and Lakota Nations and was unjustly convicted in 1977 for aiding and abetting in the deaths of two FBI agents in a June 26, 1975. The shootout happened on the Pine Ridge reservation in Oglala County, SD and was between the FBI and members of the American Indian Movement who were defending the Oglala community at their request. Three American Indian Movement activist were charged at the time including Leonard Peltier, yet the two other co-defendants, Robert Robideau and Darrelle “Dino” Butler were acquitted by reason of self-defense.

Peltier was later extradited from Canada under questionable circumstances was tried separately and his trial was replete with prosecutorial misconduct, falsified testimony, fabricated evidence, and even the autopsy presented to the jury was done by an examiner who had never seen the bodies of the two agents, plus more.

Our guests for the hour are Our other guest is Mia Feroleta is the publisher of New Observations Magazine and recently served as the authorized representative of the Oglala Sioux nation is helping negotiate the repatriation of 131 ancestors, cultural patrimony, and sacred items that were stolen from the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.

Guests:

Paullette Dauteuil-Robideau, former Co-chair (2010-2012) of International Leonard Pelteir Defense Committee (ILPDC), was the National Secretary (2012-2014) of the National Jericho movement, is a board member of the ad hoc committee to Free Leonard Peltier Now! campaign, and the former wife/companion of A.I.M. activist Robert Robideau. https://www.freeleonardpeltiernow.org

Mia Feroleto is the publisher of New Observations magazine. Last year, Mia served as the authorized representative of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and negotiated the return of 131 artifacts stolen from the Wounded Knee Massacre site. They had been held in the collection of a small library/museum in Barre, Massachusetts for over 100 years. New Observations published an entire issue on Wounded Knee. New Observations latest issue is dedicated to political prisoners including Leonard Peltier. Mai also serves as a member of the board of Leonard's Ad Hoc Committee.

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

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In the United States, American Indian/Alaskan Native and Native American peoples experience higher rates of violence than any other demographic. In fact, Native American women and girls are disproportionately affected by the violence. For example, a 2016 study by the National Institute of Justice estimated that 84 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. There are 23 locations determined to be “hot spots” for MMIW cases, five of which are identified as being of the highest priority for intervention due to their disproportionately high rates of MMIW cases.

While numerous cases are related to the United States extractive industries, such as gas and oil, and “man camps,” our guest for today shares her family’s experiences regarding the murder of Nicole Smith (Coastal Pomo Nation), horizontal violence against MMIWS2+ peoples within the Coastal Pomo nation, and the complicities of the Mendocino County Sheriff and the United States federal government’s in failure to investigate and bring justice for Nicole Smith, Bernadette Antoinette Smith, the Smith family, and the Coastal Pomo nation located in what is known as Mendocino County, California.

Guest:

Bernadette Antoinette Smith (Coastal Pomo), Culture Resource Specialist of the Coastal Pomo nation), Board Member, Xa Kako Dile (https://www.xakakodile.org/), Indigenous women-led organization; Environmental-Social Justice Activist; Language-Culture Revivalist. Justice for Nicole Smith Hashtag #JusticeforNicole Smith

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In Chiapas, Mexico, Indigenous peoples throughout the region continue experiencing escalated state-military-cartel violence within systemically and vehement capitalized world. Our guests for today provides an update on numerous critically important issues such Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issuing executive orders greenlight major capitalistic megaprojects throughout the region (Maya Train Project, plus more), increased destruction of Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands, the Cartels, and the Mexican states collaborative violence, as well as Mexico’ judicial systems complicities in oppressing Indigenous land defenders, plus more.

Guest:

Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

During the Red Power Movement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as part of its COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program), actively surveilled, infiltrated, and attempted to neutralize Native American activists and the American Indian Movement (AIM). With the establishment of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Indian Movement in Box Canyon, Ventura County, CA back in mid-1970s, the FBI infiltrated the Los Angeles chapter of AIM with agent provocateurs and wrongfully framed mid-level AIM activist Paul Durant Skyhorse (Anishinaabe Nation) and Richard Billings Mohawk (Tuscarora-Mohawk Nations) for the October 10th, 1974, murder of cab-driver George Aird.

Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk were arrested and what became known as the Skyhorse-Mohawk trial lasted 3½ years, cost California taxpayers $1.25 million, and both Native American peoples were incarcerated the entire time before their acquittal by a California jury on May 24th, 1978.

Our guest for today is a long-time activist who was pivotal, instrumental, and critical in defending against various forms of injustice, including his participation in the Skyhorse Mohawk trial. As old state “agents” are starting to publically speak and publish stories about what allegedly happened, today’s guest shares with listeners his lived experiences and participation in the Skyhorse-Mohawk trial and tell us what actually happened during the turbulent times of the state violence in silencing dissent, plus more.

• Guest:

o Moses Mora, long-time activist, organizer, and for past 50 years he has been part of the various grassroots movements including the American Indian Movement, environmental movement, Chicano movement. In addition, Mora was a first-hand participant in the Skyhorse-Mohawk trial.

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

Over the past several months under the Biden Administration, several fossil fuel mega projects or “carbon bombs” have been approved with a mega gold mining project currently under proposal and in opposition by numerous Alaska Native organizations, communities, and nations.

For instance, on March 13th, 2023, the U.S. Interior Department approved the ConocoPhillips $8 billion Willow oil and gas drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, which will produce a peak of 180,000 barrels of oil per day, roughly 40 percent of all current daily production in Alaska. In addition, on April 13th, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy approved the $39 billion Alaska Gasline Development Corp’s (AGDC) project to export Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to countries the United States does not have free trade agreements with, mainly in Asia. Backers of the project expect it to be operational by 2030 if it receives the required permits. Alaska LNG includes a liquefaction facility on the Kenai peninsula in southern Alaska and the proposed 807-mile pipeline will transport gas in northern Alaska across the state.

While the Biden Administration contends these mega projects are a matter of economic and national security, the proposed Donlin gold mine project is along the salmon-bearing tributary of the Kuskokwim River in Alaska and threatens several Alaska Native families, communities, and nations traditional ways of life. The company Donlin Gold, LLC is owned by Barrick Gold and NovaGold corporations and it has proposed an open pit mine, measuring up to 2.2 miles long and 1 mile wide in YK Delta. Donlin Gold’s proposed open mine is projected to have a 27-year life span that will result in mining about 1.5 million ounces of gold per year, destroying land and life throughout the region, storing over 3 billion tons of waste rock mine tailings in an artificial pond behind a large earthen dam (460 feet high and 5,800 feet long).

Our guest for the hour discusses how the recent mega projects will harm Mother Earth, the proposed Donlin Gold Mine Project and its implications for life, the extractive industries in Alaska, and the overall complexities of the Alaska Native Settlement Claims Act of 1971 that shape a very complex and dynamic terrain for Alaska Native peoples, communities, and nations, and more.

• Guest:

o Anaan’arar Sophie Swope is Cup’ik, a community organizer at Native Movement (https://www.nativemovement.org), and the director for the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/MotherKuskokwim/), an organization dedicated to fighting against the Donlin Gold Mine Project and protecting the traditional territories of Alaska Native peoples throughout Materilluk (Bethel, AK) region. No Donlin Gold (https://nodonlingold.org/).

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States.

On today’s program, we here from the panelists who participated in UNPFII side event titled “Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions” on 4/20/2023. The panel focuses on Indigenous Peoples resisting land grabs driven by extractive industries, human rights violations, and Indigenous environmental defenders resisting false solutions known as: carbon markets, cap and trade, emission trading, carbon offsets, environmental and ecological services and the rebranding of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to earth-based solutions. The UNPFII side event was sponsored and organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN).

Guests:

Tom Goldtooth (Dine’/Lakota Nations), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and moderator.

Panelist speakers are (in order):

Tamra Gilbertson, Policy Advisor and Education Coordinator for the IEN;

Shyrlene Oliveira da Silva Huni Kui;

Thomas Joseph (Hoopa Nation), Carbon Policy Educator with IEN, and

Alberto Saldamando (Xicano/Zapoteca), Lawyer Advocate with IEN.

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

”United Nation Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 22nd Session: 17-28 April 2023 Highlights on Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”

Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States.

Here, Indigenous peoples express their grievances at the most well-known international political body (i.e., the United Nations) even though after 100 years of existence between the League of Nations and the United Nations, Indigenous peoples’ rights continue to be ignored, violated, and threatened.

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 by resolution 2000/22, with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.

On today’s program we hear testimonies from Indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island regarding a wide range of struggles and issues. The Indigenous testimonies are from the April 18th and April 19th, 2023, sessions only. Revealing, powerful, and shameful for the nation-states across Mother Earth knowingly, willfully, and complicitly are committing acts of genocides. The voices of Indigenous peoples and organizations, along with the intervention by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are highlighted and can be heard throughout the hour.

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Guests:

• Terry Rambler, Chairman of the San Carlos Apache – Protecting Chi'chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat).

• Sami Youth Representative, Suoma Sámi Nuorat (Finland, Sweden, and Norway) on the Greenwashing the Green Economy and Protecting Mother Earth.

• Francisco Cali Tzay, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Intervention. Report on the Intervention of Protecting Mother Earth. English Translation.

• Representative of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus on Protecting Mother Earth, Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Survivance, more.

• Representative of Society of Threatened Peoples on the Mongolian Genocide committed by the Chinese Government.

• Nathan Phillips (Omaha Nation) on Language, Freedom for Leonard Peltier, Incarceration and Human Rights Violations, Survivance, and Survivance.

• Delegation, Crimean Tartar, from the Crimean Tartar Resource Center on the Crimean Genocide committed by Russia.

• Ryukyuan delegation on the United States militarization of the surrounding southern Japanese prefectures constructing military bases, poisoning lands, illegally removing Indigenous ancestors, and more.

• Rodrigo Eduardo Paillalef (Puma Mapuche Nation) on Protecting Cultures, Intellectual Property Rights, and the 100-year legacy of the League of Nations and the United Nations denying Indigenous peoples and nations their rights.

• Addie Parker, Shoshone-Paiute Shoshone of the Duck Valley Nation (NV), the “Green Gold Rush” and Lithium companies’ expansion, the extractive industries, and Protecting Traditional Homelands.

American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.