First Voices Radio

Tiokasin's guest for the full hour is George Nuku. George is an artist from Aotearoa. He is of Scottish, German and Maori descent and has been a full-time practitioner of arts for 36 years. George's works range from delicate pearl shell, bone and jade amulets to life-size plexiglass sculptures and multi-story high polystyrene depictions of Polynesian demigods and Maori culture heroes.

His decades of art practice has been spent globally, ranging from the world's prestigious art institutions and treasure houses through to communities of all ethnicities and socio-economic status. George has created more than 100 projects to date, including: the British Museum, National Museum of Scotland, Museum of Geneva, Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, United Nations Forum for Indigenous People, Tijibao Cultural Centre in Nouméa, New Caledonia and many more. George carries the thousands' year-old art traditions of his ancestors that promise to both expand life and enhance survival.

George talks about his life's journey ranging from children to the elders to the ancestors - the concepts of time, practicality with Mother Earth, throughout his art carvings to his art carvings to the political aspects of working at the United Nations in the early 2000s.

Tiokasin and George discuss the importance of Indigenous peoples who were largely ignored by the dominant societies; and if it were not for previous generations who didn't need the dominant societies and being noticed by Mother Earth let alone modern day society. The Maori Nation's culture is vibrant, up-to-date and never archaic - the same as many Indigenous peoples thoughts and ways of living with Earth.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Tangihia
Artist: Tama Waipara (Maori) (feat. Hinewehi Mohi)
Album: Fill Up the Silence (2007)
Label: Tama Waipara music
(00:24:50)

3. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Mé
Artist: Marie Boine (Saami)
Album: In the Hand of the Night (2006)
Label: Universal Music Group
(00:52:15)

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Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

Tiokasin's guest for the full hour is Elder Albert Marshall, from the Moose Clan of the Mi'kmaw Nation. He lives in the community of Eskasoni in Unama'ki - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Albert is a fluent speaker of the Mi'kmaw language, a passionate advocate of cross-cultural understandings and healing and of our human responsibilities to care for all creatures and our Earth Mother. He is the spouse of Murdena Marshall, the father of six children, the grandfather or great grandfather for many more, and a friend to thousands.

In 2009, Albert along with his wife Murdena were conferred the degree Doctor of Letters honoris causa by Cape Breton University for their tireless efforts to help promote cross-cultural understandings, reconciliation, and healing.

Albert is a founding member of the Elder's Lodge for the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership hosted by the IISAAK OLOM Foundation, the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, and the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. For more information: conservation-reconciliation.ca

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Things We Do
Artist: Indigenous
Album: Acoustic Sessions (2010)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:23:37)

3. Song Title: Rest of My Days
Artist: Indigenous
Album: Acoustic Sessions (2010)
Label: Vanguard Records
(00:40:00)

4. Song Title: Took The Children Away
Artist: Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter
Album: Ruby (2005)
Label: Mushroom

AKANTU INSTITUTE
Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

Colonization is a political agenda of an ideology quite often associated with forcing non-westernized peoples who suffer from the consequences of colonization, in the appropriation of land use benefiting the colonizer. This is quite often rationalized as the eminent good for all people, including the Original Peoples of a particular region, in this case the Indigenous peoples of the Association of Indigenous Councils in Cauca, Colombia, South America.

Tiokasin catches up with First Voices Radio friend and regular guest Dr. Manuel Rozental with a report on current events in Colombia, including the recent news of the cowardly assassination of 14 year-old Indigenous activist Breiner David Cucuñame of the Nasa people, who was shot dead while on patrol protecting his territory with the unarmed group Indigenous Guard.

Manuel puts this most recent assassination into context for us. He reports that as of January 23, 2022, there have been 10 massacres in Colombia with 96 people being assassinated. In 2021, there were more than 96 massacres, with more than 338 people murdered. Proportionally, given the number of Indigenous peoples in Colombia, the greatest number of people assassinated in these massacres were Indigenous and Afro-Colombian people.

Though the media generates confusion about this and conflicting versions, the way to understand these massacres is to understand who benefits from this. The beneficiaries are people related with the huge drug trade, not gangs but the massive trans-national corporate money-making business in the world that involves the Colombian economy massively.

Ninety-two percent of the cocaine produced in the world comes out of Colombia. Territories are being invaded by the monocultures of coca and marijuana, and these are transformed and are being distributed. Those who profit from this are large corporate interests and elites throughout the planet; and then most of the money, though it's Colombian-based, flows north just like it happens with any corporate interest.

Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel's been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: That Smell
Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
CD: Street Survivors (Deluxe Edition) (1977)
Label: MCA
(00:25:32)

3. Song Title: Spatial Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
CD: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse
(Note: Includes a few closing words from the late John Trudell)
(00:38:00)

4. Song Title: Sundancer (Leonard Peltier's Words)
Artist: Oliver Shanti & Friends
CD: 15 Years of Sattva Music (2001)
Label: Sattva Music
(00:50:37)

THE AKANTU INSTITUTE
Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree and Métis) is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation. Dr. Steeves' research focus is on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere, reclaiming and rewriting Indigenous histories and healing and reconciliation, and she argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. Her first book - which should be in every library - is "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americas," published in July 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press.

Dr. Steeves has said that rewriting and un-erasing Indigenous histories becomes a part of healing and reconciliation, transforming public consciousness, and confronting and challenging racism.

During this podcast, Tiokasin talks with Dr. Steeves about her current work on the "Canadian Residential School and Colonial Institutions Database, 1620 to the Present." This is a comprehensive database of Residential Schools, Indian Hospitals, and Indian Day Schools in Canada. There are now 950 sites in the database. Dr. Steeves says, "The numbers of missing and deceased children who were forced to attend residential schools in Canada may never be known. We must work to find the ones we can, to locate the hundreds of unmarked burials at residential schools, Indian day schools, and Indian hospitals, and to acknowledge the children, and honor their memories." Visit https://www.crscid.com/database for more information. If you notice a school or institution is missing, email the information to Dr. Steeves at [email protected] and the information will be added to the database.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Fallen Angel (feat. Peter Gabriel)
Artist: Robbie Robertson
CD: Robbie Robertson (1987)
Label: Geffen Records
(00:38:37)

3. Audio Selection: Begin Again (Short Film) (2020)
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Synopsis: To celebrate the limited edition vinyl release of "Begin Again," Nick Mulvey together with director Sam Mulvey brings us a short and poignant film reflecting on the meaning of "Begin Again" and how the musical project developed in one of the most unprecedented years in our lifetime.
Film available for viewing on YouTube: Search Nick Mulvey Begin Again
Listen to the song Begin Again: http://nickmulvey.lnk.to/BeginAgainID
(00:42:58)

Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

In the first segment, Tiokasin speaks with Stephanie Witkowski. Stephanie is executive director of 7000 Languages, a nonprofit organization that helps Indigenous people around the world teach, learn and sustain their languages through technology. 7000 Languages creates free online language-learning courses in partnership with Indigenous, minority, and refugee communities so they can keep their languages alive.

Stephanie has more than 10 years of experience in both language revitalization and the non-profit sector. She holds a M.A. in Linguistic from the University at Hawai'i Mānoa with an emphasis in Language Documentation and Conservation and has worked with speakers of multiple under-documented languages, including Native languages of California, the Pacific, and Russia. To find out more about 7000 Languages, visit 7000.org.

In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes Luella Brien. Four Points Media is the dream of Luella, an Apsáalooke journalist with nearly 20 years of experience in the news industry. Luella has over the last decade envisioned a media company that produces the highest quality investigative and public service journalism. Four Points Media, Inc. is the embodiment of that vision.

Luella is the descendant of powerful healers, educators and leaders and, most importantly, storytellers. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Montana, is a 2002 graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, and was a 2004 Chips Quinn Scholar. Luella has three children and lives on the Crow Indian Reservation in Southeastern Montana.

On January 11, First Voices Radio lost a friend, Vince Fontaine (Sagkeeng First Nation). Vince was a celebrated, JUNO Award-winning Ojibwe musician and a major force in the Canadian music industry for more than three decades, Vince was the founder of the bands Eagle & Hawk and Indian City. We remember Vince with his Indian City band's song "Star People" from the band's fourth album "Code Red," released in November 2021.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Intro
Artist: Red Shadow Singers
CD: Ghost Dance Songs (2006)
Label: Arbor Records, Ltd.
(00:29:00)

3. Song Title: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:53:25)

In closing, visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

It is our honor this week to spend the full hour with Robbie Thorpe (Gunai/Mara), one of the most outspoken, well-known and respected Aboriginal rights activists in Australia. He is a former volunteer worker at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the Australian capital of Canberra. Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been a permanent protest occupation site since 1972 and is a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians located.

Robbie is the host of two radio programs at 3CR 855 AM Community Radio - "radical radio, community radio" - in Melbourne, Australia. "Bunji's Fire" is a historically informed, critical analysis of Aboriginal affairs and the ongoing political movement for land rights, treaty, sovereignty and the cessation of genocide, which also features the best of blak music. It's heard Wednesdays in Melbourne, from 11 am to 2 pm. "Blak 'n Deadly" airs Fridays from 11 am to noon in Melbourne. The show informs listeners about the latest news in Indigenous music and theatre with First Nations presenters.

When 3CR Community Radio hit Melbourne's airwaves in 1976, it was Australia's first community-owned and community-run grassroots radio station. Outspoken and independent, the station still gives voice to issues that would otherwise go unheard, and to people striving for political and social justice. Listen to 3CR online at 3cr.org.au. Both of Robbie's shows can be streamed live on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7 pm Eastern Time in the US.

In closing, Tiokasin talked about Akantu Institute, an organization that he recently founded. Akantu Institute "contextualizes original wisdom for troubled times." Visit https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining Tiokasin's Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Audio: We Will Not Let Exam Results Decide Our Fate
Artist: Suli Breaks
Spoken Word Single Release, 2013
(00:22:42)

3. Song Title: Treaty
Artist: Yothu Yindi
CD: Tribal Voice (1991)
Label: Mushroom Records
(00:42:30)

4. Song Title: Society
Artist: Eddie Vedder
CD: Into the Wild (2007)
Label: J
(00:46:05)

5. Song Title: Šunka Waḳan Manunpe Olowan Wan
Artist: Common Man Singers
CD: Spirit of Song (1996)
Label: Makoché Music
(00:56:24)

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Matt Remle (Hunkpapa Lakota). Matt lives in Duwamish Territory - Seattle, Washington - with his family. He is the editor and writer for Last Real Indians and works for the Office of Native Education for the Marysville School District. Matt is the co-founder of the group Mazaska Talks which focuses on global divestment from banks and corporations that negatively impact social welfare and the environment.

He is the author of Seattle's Indigenous Peoples' Day resolution, Seattle's resolution calling on Congress to engage in reconciliation with Tribes over the Boarding School Era policies, Seattle's resolution to oppose the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, and Seattle's ordinance to divest from Wells Fargo. He's currently serving on the City of Seattle's stakeholders committee to establish a public bank and served on Seattle's Green New Deal Steering Committee.

In 2014, Matt was awarded Seattle's Individual Human Rights Leader award. In 2017, he was awarded the National Indian Education Association's Educator of the Year, the Billy Frank Jr. Natural Resource Protection Award, and was named one of Seattle's Most Influential People. In 2020, Matt was named by the Seattle Times as one of the "top ten most influential people to watch for in the next decade."

Matt serves on the Steering Committee of Stop the Money Pipeline, a network of more than 130 organizations and tens of thousands of everyday people who are working to hold the financial sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis: stopthemoneypipeline.com

In the second half of the show, Tiokasin catches up with Max Wilbert. Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He is an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. Max's latest book is "Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It."

In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and Will Falk launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Max appears regularly on First Voices Radio to give updates on what's happening at Thacker Pass and what we can do to support the peoples' efforts. To keep up with the news about Thacker Pass, check out the website at protectthackerpass.org and Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: I Know I'm Not Alone
Artist: Michael Franti & Spearhead
CD: Yell Fire (2005)
Label: ANTI-
(00:30:15)

3. Song Title: Radiate
Artist: Sailing Conductors (feat.Tiokasin Ghosthorse)
CD: Songs for Marianne (2015)
Label: Spinnup
(00:51:20)

During this episode of First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse presents a special hour of music and commentary. He features 11 songs that were listener favorites during 2021.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: What About Those Promises?
Artist: The Thunderbirds Raised Her, feat. Jefferson Sister of Lummi Nation
CD: n/A
Label: n/a
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y7tZDOWhufA
(00:02:52)

3. Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: N/A - released as a single in October 2019
Label: N/A; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE
(00:07:25)

4. Song Title: Freedom
Artist: Mau Power Feat. Archie Roach
CD: The Show Will Go On (2014)
Label: Aylan Styles
(00:13:33)

5. Song Title: In the Blood
Artist: Robbie Robertson
CD: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:19:50)

6. Song Title: Warrior
Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
CD: Nanna
Label: Nettwerk
(00:24:15)

7. Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
CD: Tales of America (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast Records
(00:30:25)

8. Song Title: Ogou (Pran Ka Mwen)
Artist: Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray
CD: Leave The Bones (2021)
Label: Anjunadeep
(00:34:18)

9. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Artist: Marie Boine
CD: Idjagiedas (In the Hand of Night) (2006)
Label: Universal Music Group
(00:41:33)

10. Song Title: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:46:18)

11. Song Title: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy)
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
(00:54:40)

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Munya Andrews. Munya is an Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born to an Aboriginal woman and Scottish father, she is proud of her Aboriginal and Celtic heritage. Her Bardi 'saltwater' people come from the Dampier Peninsula and the off-shore islands north of Broome.

Regarded by Melbourne University as a "leading Australian thinker," Munya is an accomplished author and barrister with degrees in anthropology and law. Educated in Australia and the USA, she is fascinated by comparative religions, languages, mythology and science and intrigued by the way in which they interact and inform each other.

Munya's first book, "The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades," explores world mythology surrounding the Pleiades star cluster and the relationship between science and spirituality.  "Seven Sisters" Dreaming serves to empower Aboriginal women and children and Munya embodies its personification. From an early age, she lived a life of social disadvantage, poverty, sexual abuse and not having spoken until the age of five. This book looks at the common themes and wisdom shared by humanity by these stories.

Her second book, "Journey into Dreamtime," is an easy guide to Aboriginal spirituality that explains Dreamtime concepts in a simple way. Munya's life purpose is to create better understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal people, leaving behind a legacy of Dreamtime wisdom for generations to come.

Her third book, "Practical Reconciliation," which she co-authored with Carla Rogers, is a call to action for all Australians to further the cause of Reconciliation by becoming allies to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Munya's long term vision is to create a fairer, more inclusive Australian society, which recognizes and pays respect to its First Nations people.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:

1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Stars All Seem to Weep
Artist: Beth Orton
CD: Pass in Time: The Definitive Collection (2003)
Label: Deconstruction/Heavenly
(00:27:18)

3. Song Title: Star People
Artist: Indian City
CD: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canad
(00:52:20)

4. Song Title: Sunrise Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Joy Askew
CD: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:56:05)

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dakota Yazzie of Earth Surface People, an Indigenous (Diné) led music collective whose work is based in decolonizing popular music through Indigenous storytelling and history. Earth Surface People was started in 2015 with multi-instrumentalist Dakota Yazzie and jazz saxophonist Jai Ram Rideout. The band's music melds influences from Hip Hop, Neo Soul, Psychedelic, Art Rock and Americana. Earth Surface People is: Cochise Yazzie - Synth, Ken Chavez - Bass, Vocals, Zach Dominguez - Keyboard, Drums , Dakota Lee Yazzie - Guitar, Vocals, Synth, and Jai Ram Rideout - Saxophone.

Follow Earth Surface on Facebook at www.facebook.com/earthsurfacepeople/ and Instagram @earthsurfacepeople. Earth Surface People's "500 Years" EP is available on Bandcamp at earthsurfacepeople.bandcamp.com.

Our second guest is Matthew O'Neill, a musical artist based in the Catskill Mountains. His music seeks to create connection and right relationship with all of our kin. Decolonizing music is a central commitment. Matthew is a lifelong advocate for Indigenous rights and justice for Mother Earth. In 2017, he created the Underwater Panther Coalition record label, with the intention of supporting Native artists and amplifying Indigenous musical ways. Look for Matthew at: www.matthew-oneill.com;; www.underwaterpanthercoalition.com

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Naiche
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:12:15)

3. Song Title: 1492
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:23:40)

4. Song Title: River
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:35:20)

5. Song Title: 500 Years
Artist: Earth Surface People
CD: 500 Years (2021)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:46:00)

5. Song Title: Silver Lining
Artist: First Aid Kit
CD: Stay Gold (2014)
Label: Columbia Records
(00:53:10)