First Voices Radio

For this repeat show, we revisit Tiokasin's conversation with Rebecca Clarren, author of “The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance” (Viking, 2023). Rebecca has been writing about the American West for more than 20 years. She is the winner of the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on “The Cost of Free Land.” Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and 10 grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as MotherJones, High Country News, The Nation, and Indian Country Today. Her debut novel, “Kickdown” (Sky Horse Press, 2018), was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize.

Learn more about Rebecca at www.rebecca-clarren.com, @RebeccaClarren (Twitter) and @Rclarren (Instagram).

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Love Theme from Spartacus
Artist: Terry Callier
Album: TimePeace (1998)
Label: Verve Records

3. Song Title: Come and Get Your Love
Artist: Redbone
Album: Wovoka (1973)
Label: Epic Records

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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.

Kapi'olani A. Laronal, MA, Ed., is a descendant of the Haida (Eagle Clan, Sgwaa Gitanee, People of the Tall Grass), Tsimshian, Native Hawaiian, and Filipino. Kapi’olani’s experiences working with Native communities on ocean and land restoration projects, cultural preservation, and protocols have significantly shaped her academic and professional life. She is an educator, athlete, life coach and consultant. Kapi'olani brings years of professional experience in secondary and higher education institutions supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and policies centered on college student outreach, recruitment and services for traditionally underserved and low-income communities of color. Her work specializes in Indigenous and First Nations community-centered partnerships.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Mountains and Miller
Artist: Lanie Gardner
Single: Released in 2024
Label: Bee String Records

3. Song Title: Mykonos Sundown Feelings
Artist: Islands of Chill
Album: Islands of Chill: A Smooth Breeze of Relaxing Sounds from the World’s Most Famous Beaches (2005)
Label: Manifold Music GmbH

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REPEAT SHOW. David Graeber and David Wengrow are the co-authors of "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). "This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast. There is not a single chapter that does not (playfully) disrupt well-seated intellectual beliefs. It is deep, effortlessly iconoclastic, factually rigorous, and pleasurable to read." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author, "The Black Swan."

Tiokasin talks with co-author David Wengrow, a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including, "What Makes Civilization?" David has conducted archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.

Co-author David Graeber (d. 9/2/2020) was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He was the author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory," and was a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, The Guardian and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Rich Man's War
Artist: John Trudell with Jesse Ed Davis
Album: AKA Graffiti Man (1992)
Label: Rykodisc

3. Song Title: Prayer
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse with vocals by Lisa Bodnar
Album: Ghosthorse Ksa (2007)
Label: Ghosthorse

4. Song Title: Darker Than a Shadow
Artist: Terry Callier
Album: Speak Your Peace (2002)
Label: Mr Bongo

5. Artist: Terry Callier
Album: It’s About Time
Album: The New Folk Sound (1965)
Label: Prestige Records

6. Song Title: Waiting on a War
Artist: Foo Fighters
Album: Medicine at Midnight (2021)
Label: Roswell Records

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Tiokasin talks with Daygot Leeyos (Oneida Nation, Wolf Clan). A multimedia artist, emcee/poet, music producer, performer and gardener, Daygot is halfway through a bachelor's degree in cinematography. She studied music production at Dubspot in Manhattan and audio engineering at The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio. Daygot has traveled around the world as an activist, cultural ambassador and performing artist, including United Nations conventions, Indigenous ceremony and international cultural exchanges. She has been involved in Oneida Language revitalization and preservation throughout her life in both immersion setting learning classes and hybrid style methods. Daygot’s recent studies include research to prove Indigenous language preservation helps prevent suicide.

Her new single for missing and murdered Indigenous peoples is titled: MMIWPS: https://bit.ly/3UWwcHn.

Daygot is working on an album and expanding her artistic endeavors.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Watersong
Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City
Album: Supernation (2012)
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Winnipeg, Manitoba

3. Song Title: Silent Running (on Dangerous Ground)
Artist: Mike + the Mechanics
Album: Mike + the Mechanics (1985)
Label: Atlantic / Warner Music Group Corp.

4. Song Title: What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye)
Artist: Feat. Sara Bareilles, Clarence Milton Bekker & Titi Tsira
Album: Playing for Change 3 / Song Around the World (2014)
Label: Playing for Change Records

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

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the hour with Max Wilbert. Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. Max is the author of two books, most recently "Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It,” published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth.

Max’s work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Smelling the Rain
Artist: Genevieve Chadwick
Album: Riding the Wind Saving Time (2009)
Label: Cloud Studios

3. Song Title: Fly With Us
Artist: Sarita
Album: Earth Anthems (2024)
Label: Same Sky Productions

4. Song Title: The City: Grass and Concrete Taxi to Brooklyn
Artist: Mark-Almond
Album: Mark-Almond (2005)
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.

5. Song Title: Sunrise Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Album: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse

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

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with our friend Dr. Manuel Rozental for the entire hour. Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer.

Manuel has been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He is part of an initiative: Pueblos en Camino, Peoples on the Path, with a mandate to weave autonomies and resistance between peoples. Their discussion includes: international relationships, “Can Indigenous peoples be both Indigenous and capitalists?” (Answer: “No, because the same mentality that exploits other people and Mother Earth can only end up destroying everything…”) and an update on recent events and activities taking place in Abya Yala (South America).

Manuel draws discussion points from the book, “As We Have Always Done” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist.

Finally, Manuel educates listeners about the plight of Abdullah Öcalan, who has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over 25 years and has been cut off from the outside world. Öcalan’s writings are inspiring intellectuals, free thinkers, scientists, workers, activists, artists, trade unionists, social movements, politicians and entire societies. Öcalan left Syria 25 years ago as a Kurdish leader in the wake of an international conspiracy and returned years later as a pioneer of a free, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and grassroots democratic society.

For more understanding, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/4b5Wn3A

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Freedom Now
Artist: Nick Mulvey feat. Arruj Aftab and Golshifteh Farahani)
Single from Choose Love Campaign
Label: Conscious Music Group / Kartel Music (2024)

3. Song Title: Morning in America
Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications
Album: American Love Call (2019)
Label: Dead Oceans

4. Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Childish Gambino - Donald Glover
Album: Feels Like Summer
Label: Wolf+Rothstein, Liberator Music, RCA

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

In the first half-hour, Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly has a lively conversation with award-winning journalist, film producer and community organizer Kevin Abourezk about “Cultural Appropriation in the Era of AI,” which was inspired by Kevin’s March 28, 2024 article in Indian Country Today: “Navajo word for beautiful at center or controversy.” Kevin is currently deputy managing editor of Indian Country Today and was a reporter and editor for the Lincoln Journal Star for 18 years. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, he has spent his career documenting the lives, accomplishments and tragedies of Native American people. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of South Dakota and a master's in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Read Kevin’s article here: https://ictnews.org/news/navajo-word-for-beautiful-at-center-of-controversy.

In the second half-hour, Keala speaks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Chief Executive and Attorney at the Association on American Indian Affairs about the new rules for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 22 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. She is a former Chief of Staff to the National Indian Gaming Commission, where she assisted in the development and implementation of national gaming policy, and oversaw the agency’s public affairs, technology, compliance and finance divisions. Shannon has also served Native Country in the private sector as an attorney, leading a large national firm’s Native Nations law practice group that worked to strengthen, maintain and protect sovereignty, self-determination and culture. Shannon was appointed by Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Sally Jewell to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee in 2013, and was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Native American to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee within the State Department in 2015; she was fired by President Trump in 2019. Shannon received a B.A. in American Indian Studies from California State University, Long Beach and joint M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Arizona in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Anne Keala Kelly, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Indian in the Child
Artist: Sandra Sutter
Album: Cluster Stars (2018)
Label: Sandra Sutter

3. Song Title: Mountain Song
Artist: Sandra Sutter
Album: Cluster Stars (2018)
Label: Sandra Sutter (Vince Fontaine and Chris Burke-Gaffney, Producers)

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, an hour-long discussion about the terrifying uptick in syphilis infections and congenital syphilis cases in Indian Country. This is a problem throughout the US and it’s hitting Indian Country the hardest. Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) spends the hour with Amanda Singer (Diné), Executive Director of the Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition/Diné Doula Collective in Window Rock, Arizona. Amanda is a Certified Lactation Counselor and Indigenous Doula.

The organization’s mission is to improve the health of Navajo families by providing compassionate unbiased, and accessible care to improving all birthing families and Infant health through holistic traditional practices and to promote healing.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Anne Keala Kelly, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Little One
Artist: Sharon Burch
Album: Yazzie Girl (1989)
Label: Canyon Records

3. Song Title: Grandmother’s Ways
Artist: Sharon Burch
Album: Touch the Sweet Earth (1995)
Label: Canyon Records

4. Song Title: The Peacemaker is Born
Artist: Joanne Shenandoah
Album: Peacemaker’s Journey (2000)
Label: Silver Wave Records

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 Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Trey Blackhawk in the first half-hour. Trey Blackhawk is first and foremost a husband and a father to three beautiful children. He graduated from the Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Nebraska and is currently attending the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln. A first-generation farmer and college student, Trey sees the need for education and a movement towards being food sovereign. He currently manages the Winnebago Tribe's Farm which specializes in food production. When he isn't farming, you can still find him outdoors enjoying nature around his home with his wife and children. He is an avid outdoorsman who hunts, fishes and forages. Read about Trey’s blanket on Native News Online: https://bit.ly/4aucJ67.

In the second half-hour, Indigenous resistance music from Turtle Island and beyond.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Anne Keala Kelly, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: MMIR Sioux City Powwow 2023
Artist: New Breed - Drum Group
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
(Searchable on YouTube)

3. Song Title: AIM Song (Unity Song)
Artist: Ode’min Kwe Singers
Album: New Moon Medicine (2004)
Label: Ode’min Kwe Singers

4. Song Title: Quechua 101 Land Back Please
Artist: Bobby Sanchez
Album: Ita (2021)
Label: Harawiq Records

5. Song Title: Kaulana Na Pua
Artist: Na Waiho'olu'u O Ke Anuenue featuring Sudden Rush
Album: Together (1999)
Label: Way Out! West Enterprises

6. Song Title: Native Tongue
Artist: MOJU, formerly known as MOJO JUJU
Album: Native Tongue (2018)
Label: ABC Music

7. Song Title: Maranga Ake Ai
Artist: NLC
Album: Maranga Ake Ai (2020)
Label: Waateamusic

8. Song Title: The Urgent Call of Palestine
Artist: Zeinab Sha’ath
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
(Song is searchable on YouTube)

9. Song Title: Star People
Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City featuring Jim Cuddy
Album: Code Red (2021)
Label: Rising Star Productions, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada

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

PaulStar is a Cree recording artist and producer from Chisasibi, Quebec. He talks with Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) in the first half-hour about his new album “Bring It All Together” and some of the challenges he has faced and the role of music in his own life. With a blend of influences from his Cree roots and his love of alternative rock, pop and hip-hop, “Bring It All Together” is a testament to PaulStar’s musical evolution. When creating the album, he underwent an introspective journey, propelled by his passion to elevate the voices of Indigenous peoples while taking inspiration from his favorite bands. PaulStar is a graduate of Algonquin College's Music Industry Arts program in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the founder of Meikin Records. PaulStar is well-known in the music industry and has received much critical acclaim for his work as a producer and session player. Visit https://meikinrecords.com/ to find out more about PaulStar and to listen to his music. Paul’s music can also be found on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube.

In the second half-hour, Keala speaks with Corrina Gould — a lifelong advocate for protecting the sacred, repatriation and acknowledgement of the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples — and the recent success in securing one area of a desecrated shell mound in Berkeley, California. Corrina, who is Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation, was born and raised in the village of Huichin, now known as Oakland, California. She is the Co-Founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run organization and the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led organization within her ancestral territory. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, the Land Trust calls on Native and non-Native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ and https://shellmound.org/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly, Guest Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast 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: Low
Artist: PaulStar
Single (2023)
Label: Meikin Records

3. Song Title: Rain
Artist: PaulStar
Album: Bring It All Together (2024)
Label: Meikin Records

4. Song Title: Land Back
Artist: REBELWISE (feat. Quincy Davis, Cheryl Angel, Ashley Seasunz and Desirae harp)
Album: Land Back (Nov. 24, 2022)
Label: Seven Vision

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