First Voices Radio

Tiokasin is back with us this week and doing much better!

Rakel is 40 years old and was born and raised in Ittoqqortoormiit in northeastern Greenland. When she was 4 years old, she told her mother that she would become a shaman. Growing up she always heard the stories about how they came from a shamanic family, and she always asked deep questions to what it meant for their descendants. In 2012, she started her journey to actually learn about how her ancestors lived and saw the universe as a whole. She left society and went into nature and learned what nature, Silap aappaa (the other worlds) had to teach us. In 2019, she received her healer name, which is Rakel, and was accepted into the ancient lineage as an angakoq. Ever since, she has learned how to bring the spirits to the modern human and together figure out how to apply the ancient knowledge into a modern world. These profound methods of healing that are more relevant than ever, is what Rakel uses to help people to find themselves as souls, which has been so forbidden and hidden in many ways. "A soul, that is whole, is in balance with the world and in balance with themselves." Rakel is featured in a new film that will be out soon titled "The Eternal Song." More information here: https://theeternalsong.org/movie/the-eternal-song/

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Orlando DuPont, 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)

2. Song Title: Enough
Artist: Kingfisha
Album: Kingfisha (2012)
Label: 886788 Records DK

3. Song: Dear Ko (To Ko the Regt.) (feat. Jim Doney)
Artist: Nacho Moldanado
Album: Point Zero (feat. Jim Doney), 2021
Label: Nacho Moldanado

4. Song Title: Creancient
Artist: Xavier Rudd & The United Nations
Album: Nanna (2015)
Label: Virgin Music

About First Voices Radio:

"First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

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

Tiokasin is out unexpectedly this week.
We are rebroadcasting the interview with Geraldine Patrick Encina from February 23 of this year:

"The 13 year cycle between 2012 to 2025 is marked on stone. It is marked on this stone that has been called the Aztec Calendar, and it is neither Aztec nor a calendar," says Geraldine Patrick Encina. Geraldine is a scholar focused on Mesoamerican calendars, Original Peoples' cosmologies, and the ethical principles embedded in earth-based traditions. Holding a Post-Doctoral degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, her research has recovered Indigenous timekeeping systems and is providing pathways for Native colleagues to re-signify their connection to ecological cycles, offering refreshed insights into living in harmony with the natural world. She is a Member of the Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor, a distinguished member of the Otomi Council of the High Lerma River Basin, and a member of the Academic and Technical Committee of the Biocultural Heritage Network of CONACYT. She is also a member of the Interamerican Society for Astronomy in Culture (SIAC), and a Board Member of the Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Beyond her research, Geraldine is involved in projects that connect ancient wisdom to modern environmental challenges. As an Executive Member of Earth Timekeepers and coordinator of a collective research program to revitalize the original Maya calendar since 2011, she is helping shape the future of biocultural heritage in Quintana Roo State.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Orlando DuPont, Radio Kingston Studio Engineer
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)

2. Song Title: Ready
Artist: Liv Wade
Album: Know Your Medicine (2022)
Label: LIV WADE

3. Song Title: Sugar Man
Artist: Sixto Rodriguez
Album: Searching for Sugar Man (soundtrack album for documentary, 2012)
Label: Light in the Attic / Legacy

About First Voices Radio:

"First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

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

Guest Cindy Rosin is an artist and activist from New York City. Cindy teaches children in the summers and works odd jobs throughout the year to enable her to spend time volunteering for the earth and her inhabitants. She lives on a houseboat in Rockaway, Queens, and spends her time there in the company of the fish, seabirds, turtles, jellyfish and other creatures of the Jamaica Bay estuary. Cindy has had the honor of standing with the buffalo for 19 seasons in the field and is dedicated to fighting for a future where they take back their lands on their own terms. Cindy joins us for an update from Roam Free Nation, which is based in St. Ignatius, Montana. Roam Free Nation's Mission is to inspire responsibility and action for the Earth, highlighting the last wild, migratory buffalo of Yellowstone Country, to serve their perspective, and work to end their killing so they may recover, and naturally restore themselves on the lands that are their birthright. For more information, visit https://roamfreenation.org/. (Special thanks to Stephany Seay, Co-Founder and Board President, Roam Free Nation, for helping make this show possible.)

Production Credits:
 
 Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
 Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
 Orlando DuPont, 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)
 
 2. Song Title: Exodus
 Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers
 Album: Exodus (1977)
 Label: Island Records
 
 3. Song: Wicked System
 Artist: Fundamental Sound
 Album: Mirror of Time (2007)
 Label: Weaving Libra Records
 
 4. Song Title: Garden of Love
 Artist: Winston McAnuff and Fixi
 Album: A New Day (2013)
 Label: Chapter Two Records
 
 5. Song Title: Sunshine Day
 Artist: OSIBISA
 Album: Welcome Home (1975)
 Label: Bronze Records
 
 About First Voices Radio:
 
 "First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.
 
 Akantu Intelligence:
 
 Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

This week's program was inspired by "Flagstaff 'NO!' to Radioactive Trucks", an article by our friend Brenda Norrell in Censored News on February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5. Our guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an Indigenous organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon and transport thru Navajo Nation. Recently, Leona helped to halt Holtec in New Mexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information, visit these websites: https://haulno.com/; https://www.genderandradiation.org/ and https://radioactivewastecoalition.org.

Production Credits:
 
 Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
 Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
 Orlando DuPont, Radio Kingston Studio Engineer
 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)
 
 2. Song Title: Peace of Mind
 Artist: Smokey D Palmtree
 Album: Peace of Mind (2021)
 Label: Gila River Records
 
 3. Song: After the Gold Rush (written by Neil Young)
 Artist: Katie Pruitt
 Album: Ohio / After the Gold Rush (2020)
 Label: Rounder Records
 
 4. Song Title: Cold Little Heart
 Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
 Album: Love & Hate (2016)
 Label: Polydor Records
 
 5. Song Title: Conquer
 Artist: RIVVRS
 Album: Unfamiliar Skin (2016)
 Label: Rogue Fire
 
 6. Song Title: Fallin' Rain
 Artist: The Neville Brothers
 Album: Brother's Keeper (1990)
 Label: A&M Records
 
 About First Voices Radio:
 
 "First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.
 
 Akantu Intelligence:
 
 Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

From the "First Voices Radio" archive.

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with Ross Hamilton in the first half-hour. Ross is the author of several books on Native American prehistory including: "The Mystery of the Serpent Mound," "A Tradition of Giants," and "Star Mounds: Legacy of a Native American Mystery." His research specialty is the lost and forgotten history of North America and her ancient legends that seem to revolve around a profoundly mysterious country that once dominated the landscape known from oral tradition as Turtle Island.
 
In the second half-hour, Dr. Paulette Steeves, Ph.D. (Cree-Métis) is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere. In her research, Dr. Steeves argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas. During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago. Dr. Steeves has taught Anthropology courses with a focus on Native American and First Nations histories and studies, and decolonization of academia and knowledge production at Binghamton University, Selkirk College Fort Peck Community College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mount Allison University. She is an associate professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation. She is the author of "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.
 
 Production Credits:
 
 Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
 Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
 Orlando DuPont, Radio Kingston Studio Engineer
 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)
 
 2. Song: Redemption Song
 Artist: Bob Marley
 Album: Uprising (1980)
 Label: Island / Tuff Gong
 
 3. Song Title: Natural Mystic
 Artist: Luka Bloom
 Album: Keeper of the Flame (2001)
 Label: Bar/None Records
 
 About First Voices Radio:
 
 "First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.
 
 Akantu Intelligence:
 
 Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Guest for the Full Hour:

“The 130-year cycle between 2012 to 2025 is marked on stone. It is marked on this stone that has been called the Aztec Calendar, and it is neither Aztec nor a calendar,” says Geraldine Patrick Encina. Geraldine is a scholar focused on Mesoamerican calendars, Original Peoples’ cosmologies, and the ethical principles embedded in earth-based traditions. Holding a Post-Doctoral degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, her research has recovered Indigenous timekeeping systems and is providing pathways for Native colleagues to re-signify their connection to ecological cycles, offering refreshed insights into living in harmony with the natural world. She is a Member of the Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor, a distinguished member of the Otomi Council of the High Lerma River Basin, and a member of the Academic and Technical Committee of the Biocultural Heritage Network of CONACYT. She is also a member of the Interamerican Society for Astronomy in Culture (SIAC), and a Board Member of the Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Beyond her research, Geraldine is involved in projects that connect ancient wisdom to modern environmental challenges. As an Executive Member of Earth Timekeepers and coordinator of a collective research program to revitalize the original Maya calendar since 2011, she is helping shape the future of biocultural heritage in Quintana Roo State.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Orlando DuPont, 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)

2. Song Title: Ready

Artist: Liv Wade

Album: Know Your Medicine (2022)

Label: LIV WADE

3. Song Title: Sugar Man

Artist: Sixto Rodriguez

Album: Searching for Sugar Man (soundtrack album for documentary, 2012)

Label: Light in the Attic / Legacy

About First Voices Radio:

“First Voices Radio,” now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

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

 
 During this episode, some of our favorite "music that keeps pace with Earth," as Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse says.
 
 Production Credits:
 
 Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
 Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
 Orlando DuPont, 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)
 
 2. Song Title: Lakota Flute Song
 Artist: Georgia Wettlin-Larson
 Album: Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women (1995)
 Label: Smithsonian Folkways
 
 3. Song Title: Look at Us (Peltier and AIM Song)
 Artist: John Trudell
 Album: Tribal Voice (1983)
 Label: Effective Records
 
 4. Song Title: You've Got Nothing to Lose
 Album: This was released as a single
 Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
 Label: Third Man Records
 
 5. Song Title: On the Beach
 Artist: Neil Young
 Album: On the Beach (1974)
 Label: Reprise Records
 
 6. Song Title: Road to Zen
 Artist: Corey Stevens
 Album: Road to Zen (1997)
 Label: Discovery Records
 
 7. Song Title: Treaty
 Artist: Yothu Yindi
 Album: Tribal Voice (1991)
 Label: Mushroom Records
 
 8. Song Title: The Way I Feel
 Artist: Cowboy Junkies
 Album: 'Neath Your Covers, Part 2 (2007)
 Label: Latent Recordings
 
 9. Song Title: Some Of Us Are Brave
 Artist: Danielle Ponder
 Album: Some of Us Are Brave (2022)
 Label: FUTURE CLASSIC
 
 10. Song Title: When We Were Younger
 Artist: SOJA
 Album: Strength to Survive (2012)
 Label: ATO Records
 
 11. Song Title: Rumours of Glory
 Artist: Bruce Cockburn
 Album: Waiting for a Miracle (1995)
 Label: Gold Mountain Records
 
 12. Song Title: The Cleansing (The Red Earth Song)
 Artist: John Trudell
 Album: Tribal Voice (1983)
 Label: Effective Records
 
 About First Voices Radio:
 
 "First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.
 
 Akantu Intelligence:
 
 Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Guest for the full hour:

Returning guest Jonathan Gonzales was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African. "Among other related topics, we discuss cults, culture and civilization and the differences and how different cultures are treated by cults and civilization," Tiokasin says.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Orlando Bishop, Radio Kingston Studio Engineer
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)

2. Song Title: Jungle (instrumental)
Artist: Tash Sultana
Album: Triple J's Hottest 100, Vol. 24 (2017)
Label: ABC Music

3. Song Title: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Artist: Marvin Gaye
Album: What's Going On (1971)
Label: Tamia

About First Voices Radio:

"First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

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

Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), co-host, is sitting for Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week. She talks for the entire hour with Michael Holloman (Colville Confederated Tribes) about Japanese photographer Frank S. Matsura (1873-1913), the subject of the exhibition "Frank S. Matsura: Portraits from the Borderland" that opened on Feb. 1 at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. The exhibition examines Indigenous representation and identity during a period of regional transformation in the early years of the 20th century. Michael is the lead curator of the original exhibition, which premiered at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Cultures in Spokane, Washington. He has guided the High Desert Museum's showing. The exhibition will be on view at the High Desert Museum through Sept. 7, 2025 and is traveling under the auspices of Art Bridges. More information at https://highdesertmuseum.org/

Michael works and lives in the ancestral homelands of the Nimiipuu and Palus peoples. He is an Associate Professor of Art and coordinator of Native Arts, Outreach and Education for the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University. Throughout his professional career he has developed extensive relationships with Native communities, artists, and cultural organizations across the region that support art-based programming and partnerships.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Co-Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Orlando Bishop, Radio Kingston Studio Engineer
Anne Keala Kelly, 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)

2. Song Title: Kōjō no Tsuki (Moon Over the Ruined Castle)
Artist: Kurumi Kobato
Album: Kokuro no Uta
Label: JVCKENWOOD Victor Entertainment

3. Song Title: Kōjō no Tsuki (Moon Over the Ruined Castle), featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone
Artist: Thelonious Monk
Album: Straight, No Chaser (1967)
Label: Columbia

About First Voices Radio:

"First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

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

Will Falk is a biophilic author, attorney, and activist. He works with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and his law practice is focused on helping Native American communities protect their sacred sites. He is the author of two books. "How Dams Fall" describes his relationship with the Colorado River within the context of the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking rights for a major ecosystem that he helped to file against the Colorado Attorney General. "When I Set the Sweetgrass Down" is a full-length collection of poetry. You can follow Will's work at willfalk.org. Tiokasin and Will dissect a recent essay by Will, titled, "Tribal Sovereignty, White Man's Reservations, and the Need for Tribal-Municipal Solidarity to Protect Our Collective Future." Find it here: https://bit.ly/40O2XJE

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Orlando Bishop, 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)

2. Song Title: Break the Glass
Artist: Don Amero
Single: Break the Glass (January 2025)
Label: Don Amero

About First Voices Radio:

"First Voices Radio," now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

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