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First Voices Radio episodes

  • 12/5/21 - Nina Wilson

    Tiokasin's guest is Nina Wilson, a founder of the Idle No More Movement. She is a Nakota Dakota Neheyaw woman from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. Nina lives on reserve raising her youngest who is still at home for a few more years. 

    She works in many capacities spiritually and professionally. Nina has a western education as well as traditional knowledge. Nina says, "Mainly, I love advocacy work - it is what drives me. I enjoy life, language, culture, singing and family. Family is very important to me. I am grateful for all who live life protecting the land waters and all living beings. We are here to make sure life is balanced and humble. Being a founder of the Idle No More movement has allowed me to meet many fantastic people who are all like minded. We are a spiritual family."

    Idle No More started in November 2012, among Treaty People in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta protesting the Canadian government's dismantling of environmental protection laws, endangering First Nations peoples who live on the land. Born out of face-to-face organizing and popular education, but fluent in social media and new technologies, Idle No More has connected the most remote reserves to each other, to urbanized Indigenous people, and to the non-Indigenous population. 

    Led by women, and with a call for a re-founded nation-to-nation relations based on mutual respect, Idle No More rapidly grew into an inclusive, continent-wide network of urban and rural Indigenous working hand in hand with non-Indigenous allies to build a movement for Indigenous rights and the protection of land, water and sky.

    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: Easy
    Artist: Hawkfather & The Swiss Enigma
    CD: Kwest (2021)
    Label: Hawkfather
    (00:26:45)

    3. Song Title: 1492
    Artist: Earth Surface People
    CD: 500 Years (2021)
    Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
    (00:53:18)

    1 hr
  • 11/28/21 - Martín Prechtel

    Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach.

    In his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own.

    Martín's books include: "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar"; "Long Life, Honey in the Heart": "The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun"; "Stealing Benefacio's Roses"; "The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic" and "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise." His latest book, "Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel" was published on June 8, 2021.

    More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.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: Vuoi Vuoi Me
    Artist: Marie Boine
    CD: Idjagiedas (In the Hand of Night) (2006)
    Label: Universal Music Group
    (00:18:48)

    2. Song Title: Ukiug
    Artist: The Jerry Cans
    CD: Inuusiq/Life (2016)
    Label: Aakuluk Music
    (00:23:30)

    4. Song Title: Warrior
    Artist: Xavier Rudd and the United Nations
    CD: Nanna (2015)
    Label: Nettwerk
    (00:50:15)

    3. Song Title: Mik Maq Honor Song
    Artist: Red Shadow Singers
    CD:Ghost Dance Songs (2006)
    Label: Arbor Records Ltd.
    (00:54:38)

    1 hr
  • 11/21/21 - Shelley Buck, Remembering the Late John Trudell

    Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first half-hour is Shelley Buck, President of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Indian Community in Minnesota. The Prairie Island Indian Community, a federally recognized Indian Nation, is located in southeastern Minnesota along the banks of the Mississippi River, approximately 30 miles from the Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tiokasin and President Buck discuss a November 13, 2021 article in the New York Times: "Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe's Ancestral Home."

    President Shelley Buck is serving her fifth term on Prairie Island Tribal Council and third term as president. Prior to being elected Tribal Council president, President Buck held other positions within the Prairie Island Indian Community government, including Tribal Council secretary and assistant secretary/treasurer, enrollment clerk in the Prairie Island Enrollment Office and government relations specialist for the Tribe. She has also served on the Pow Wow and Constitution Revision Committees.

    She is currently working on a second masters degree in tribal Indian law from the University of Tulsa. President Buck is vice-chair of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.

    In the second half-hour, First Voices Radio remembers the late John Trudell, who left us in 2015. Although his remarks are from 1980, his observations have stood the test of time and still resonate today.

    The names of U.S. politicians that John mentions have changed over the years but the issues that Indigenous peoples faced then and now remain the same. John Trudell has been identified as a poet, a fighter for Indigenous rights, an agitator, and many other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suited him, he would have refused to be pinned down. John said, "Actually, I don't consider myself to be any of those things. They are things that I do but they are parts of me. They are not the total."

    John Trudell was the complex sum of all that he saw, endured and accomplished in his 69 years, a time in which he experienced more than most people might in several lifetimes. More information about John Trudell can be found at https://www.johntrudell.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 and 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: Caravan of Fools
    Artist: John Prine
    CD: The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
    Label: Oh Boy Records
    (00:17:38)

    3. Song Title: Wildseed
    Artist: John Trudell and Kwest
    CD: Through the Dust (2014)
    Label: Dialect Records
    (00:53:53)

    57 min
  • 11/14/21 - Joe Pitawanakwat

    Joe Pitawanakwat joins Tiokasin Ghosthorse for the full hour of this episode. Joe is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter. 

    He is the Founder and Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now fully online, education based business, focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significance through experiences. Joe's programming is easily adaptable to make appropriate and successfully delivered to a variety of organizations, including more than 100 First Nations communities, 20 Universities, 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada, the United States and beyond. 

    Joe has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blends and reinforces it with an array of western sciences. Follow Joe on Instagram @creators.garden. Subscribe to Creator's Garden on YouTube.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Manuel Blas, 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: Burning Times
    Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave
    CD: Burning Times (1993)
    Label: Earth Beat
    (00:23:53)

    2. Song Title: Chatting Through Steele (feat. David Hidalgo of Los Lobos)
    Artist: Cole Gallagher
    CD: N/A (released as single October 29, 2021)
    Producer: Vance Powell
    (00:54:35)

    59 min
  • 11/07/21 - Vince Fontaine, Craig "Santi" Santiago

    In the first segment of this episode, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Vince Fontaine. Vince (Anishinaabe) has been at the forefront of Indigenous music making in Canada for more than 30 years. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vince is the JUNO Award-winning founder of First Nations rock icons Eagle & Hawk. He is the founder and band leader of the Winnipeg folk-pop collective Indian City. Tiokasin talks with Vince about Indian City's 4th album, CODE RED, which was released on November 3rd. Vince says, "Code Red became a much-used term in 2020, expressing a state of global health emergency during the pandemic; however, in the Indigenous world there has been an ongoing series of Code Reds for decades, if not centuries. This is where the concept and themes for the album emerged." Indian City is on social media (Facebook, Instagram and YouTube). http://indiancity.ca/

    In the second segment, Tiokasin speaks with Craig "Santi" Santiago. Santi is an international touring musician and visual artist. When he's not in the recording studio, Santi can be found hiking in the Catskill Mountains and beyond. Santi has shown his visual art in numerous art galleries. He has toured internationally and state side. He has a new record out under his name, titled "Heavy Like Feather."

    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 and 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: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy)
    Artist: Indian City
    CD: Code Red (November 2021)
    Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
    (00:06:35)

    3. Song Title: Code Red (feat. Don Amero and Jeremy Koz)
    Artist: Indian City
    CD: Code Red (November 2021)
    Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
    (00:12: 30)

    4. Song Title: Storyteller (feat. Sandra Sutter)
    Artist: Indian City
    CD: Code Red (November 2021)
    Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
    (00:27:00)

    5. Song Title: Another Long Night
    Artist: Craig Santiago
    CD: Light Like Feather (2021)
    Label: Craig Santiago
    (00:47:50)

    6. Song Title: Walk Around the World (feat. Chris Burke-Gaffney)
    Artist: Indian City
    CD: Code Red (November 2021)
    Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
    (00:54:27)

    58 min
  • 10/31/21 - Dr. Kisha Supernant, Leya Hale

    In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Kisha Supernant. She is Métis, Papaschase and British and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology, the use of digital technologies in archaeology, and heart-centered archaeological practice.

    She is the Director of the Exploring Métis Identity Through Archaeology (EMITA) project, a collaborative research project which takes a relational approach to exploring the material past of Métis communities, including her own family, in western Canada.

    Recently, she has been involved in work locating the resting places of ancestors and relatives in historic cemeteries and around residential schools with Indigenous communities.

    In the second half-hour, Tiokasin welcomes back Director and Producer Leya Hale to talk about her upcoming documentary film, "Bring Her Home." Leya comes from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She makes her home in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her companion and children.

    She is a producer for Twin Cities PBS and is best known for her first feature documentary, "The People's Protectors, "a Vision Maker Media grant production and winner of the 2019 Upper Midwest Emmy Award for Best Cultural documentary. In 2020, Leya was awarded the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous Artists and attended the 2020 Berlinale European Film Market as a NATIVe Fellow. Leya is currently working on her second feature, Bring Her Home, a documentary that follows three Indigenous women fighting to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives.

    When not producing feature films, Leya works on a variety of short form content in efforts to create social change within the Midwest region. Watch the trailer for "Bring Her Home": https://youtu.be/eEJQlzvsyo0

    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: Lakota Lullaby
    Artist: Alexia Evellyn
    CD: N/A
    Label: N/A, YouTube: https://youtu.be/lSXIVhe_esM
    (00:21:13)

    3. Song Title: The Speck of Dust
    Artist: Leonid & Friends
    CD: The Speck of Dust (2021)
    Label: Leonid Vorobyev
    (00:48:32)

    4. Song Title: Šunka Waḳan Manunpe Olowan Wan
    Artist: Common Man Singers (Earl Bullhead)
    CD: Spirit of the Songs (2006)
    Label: Soar Records
    (00:55:05)

    58 min
  • 10/24/21 - Valerie Lambert, Michael Lambert, and Elisa (EJ) Sobo

    Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the topic of land acknowledgements. The inspiration is an article that was published October 7, 2021 in The Conversation: "Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite - erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead."

    Guests:

    Valerie Lambert (Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma), Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists (a Section of the American Anthropological Association), and an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. Valerie's first book, "Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence" (University of Nebraska Press 2007), is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. It is the winner of the North American Indian Prose Award and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award.

    Michael Lambert (Eastern Band Cherokee) is Associate Professor of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. His research has focused on francophone West Africa and American Indians. He is author of Longing for Exile: Migration and the Making of a Translocal Community in Senegal (Heinemann), and co-author (with Leonard Lambert) of Up from These Hills; Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood (U of Nebraska Press.

    Elisa (EJ) Sobo, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, is a sociocultural anthropologist. She is past President of the Society for Medical Anthropology and a longstanding member of the editorial boards of Anthropology and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Dr. Sobo has published 13 books (e.g., Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research) and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Read the article and find out more about this week's guests here: https://bit.ly/3nm0D7V

    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 and Audio 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)

    Song Title: Getting Started
    Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
    CD: Coincidences and Likely Stories (1992)
    Label: Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI Records
    (00:24:50)

    3. Audio Selection
    Speaker: Jahan Khalighi, Program Director at Chapter 510, a youth writing, bookmaking and publishing center, Oakland, CA. Janah is a youth educator and community arts organizer.
    Background music: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
    Song Title: Momentum
    CD: Akantu: The Origin Series (2021)
    Label: Ghosthorse
    (00:48:57)

    58 min
  • 10/17/21 - Max Wilbert, Dr. Louellyn White

    Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first segment is Max Wilbert. 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 is happening at Thacker Pass and what we can do to support the peoples' efforts.

    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. His latest book is "Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It." 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.

    Tiokasin's guest in the second segment is Dr. Louellyn White, who is Mohawk from Akwesasne. She is an associate professor of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Louellyn is a descendant of Carlisle Indian School survivors and is the founder and spokesperson for the Carlisle Indian School Farmhouse Coalition. Her book, "Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Indian School," was published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

    Tiokasin and Dr. White discuss a recent article by Mary Annette Pember in Indian Country Today in which she was featured: "Professor answers call to find boarding school children." https://bit.ly/3aLBtcK.

    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)

    Song Title: Mind Control
    Artist: Stephen Marley
    CD: Mind Control (2007)
    Label: Universal Records, Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
    (00:27:18)

    3. Song Title: In the Blood
    Artist: Robbie Robertson
    CD: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998)
    Label: Capitol Records
    (00:58:30)

    1 hr
  • 10/10/21 - Christine Diindiisi McCleave, Lori Jump

    In early June 2021, remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. The school was one of the largest Indian residential schools in Canada and operated from the late 19th century to the late 1970s. Indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old, we were forcibly taken from their families and put into residential schools in Canada. This is also what happened in Native boarding schools in the U.S. during the same time period — children’s hair was cut off, they were forbidden to speak their Indigenous languages, and to see their families. Some didn’t return home for many years and some never returned.

    Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Christine Diindiisi McCleave (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), CEO, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition about the organization’s support of the introduction of a U.S. Bill for a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies. Christine is a leader and an activist for Indigenous rights advocating for truth, justice and healing for the genocidal policy of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. She has dedicated her life and work to pursuing truth and healing for the Indigenous survivors of historical trauma at the hands of colonialism and settler-states. Visit https://boardingschoolhealing.org/

    October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. According to the National Institute of Justice, domestic violence disproportionately impacts Native Americans and Alaska Natives, with more than 1.5 million Native women and 1.4 million Native men experiencing violence during their lifetime, often by non-Native perpetrators. Domestic violence among Native Americans is not natural or traditional. The domination and subjugation of Native Americans began with colonization and continues today. Colonization was responsible for the theft, occupation, pollution and exploitation of Indigenous lands. Today, Natives who are living in tribal communities on or near lands that are exploited by extractive industries face the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence.

    Tiokasin talks with Lori Jump (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), executive director of StrongHearts Native Helpline, a 24/7 culturally appropriate domestic, dating and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Lori is the former executive director and current board member of Uniting Three Fires Against Violence, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault tribal coalition in Michigan. She served on the Federal Task Force researching Violence Against American Indians and Alaska Native Women and has more than 26 years of tribal advocacy experience in her community. StrongHearts Native Helpline can be reached by calling or texting 1-844-762-8483 or clicking on the chat icon at strongheartshelpline.org.


    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: All Along the Watchtower, Artist: Featuring Warren Haynes, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville and John Cruz, CD: Listen to the Music (2018), Label: Motema Music

    (00:23:28)

     

    3. Song Title: The Path (acoustic version), Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City, CD: Code Red (November 2021), Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba

    (00:50:50)

     

    4. Song Title: Above the Bones, Artist: Mishka, CD: Above the Bones (2009), Label: Mishka Music

    (00:54:33)

    1 hr 1 min
  • 09/29/21 - Jenni Monet

    In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Jenni Monet, an investigative journalist, media critic, and founder of the weekly newsletter, "Indigenously: Decolonizing Your Newsfeed."

    Jenni has been reporting from Indian Country for as long as she's been a journalist, from the coups d'etat on Jicarilla Apache lands in the late '90s to the dramatic demonstrations at Standing Rock a few years ago where she was arrested while on assignment and later acquitted.

    Jenni got her start as a broadcaster for CBS News affiliates then segue-wayed into public TV and radio, including a stint a tNational Native News. Along the way, Jenni made a few indie docs, returned to school, and moved to the Middle East to cover global affairs for Al Jazeera where she also traveled throughout the Indigenous world.

    Jenni has been working independently since 2015, where her my award-winning reporting has been published by such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PBS News Hour, to name a few. Her media criticism also appears frequently in the Columbia Journalism Review. At times, Jenni can also be seen and heard discussing Indigenous affairs for a variety of media outlets.

    Jenni has an MA in international politics from Columbia Journalism School with a concentration in Indigenous human rights policy. She's a founding member of the Indigenous Media Caucus, and resides on her ancestral homelands in the American Southwest where she's Kawaik'a, a tribal citizen of Laguna Pueblo, Big Turkey clan.

    Jenni and Tiokasin discuss her most recent newsletter story, "Gabby and Us" and several other topics stemming from this piece: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, domestic violence, mainstream news media bias, "Missing White Woman Syndrome," racism, land acknowledgements and more. More information about Jenni can be found at https://www.jennimonet.com/. Sign up to receive her weekly newsletter at https://www.indigenously.org/.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

    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: Kothbiro
    Artist: Ayub Ogada
    CD: The Constant Gardener (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Label: Higher Octave Music
    (00:46:10)

    3. Song Title: Oh, What a World
    Artist: Kacey Musgraves
    CD: Golden Hour (2018)
    Label: MCA Nashville Records
    (00:52:38)

    57 min

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