First Voices Radio

“Selling Mother Earth: Effort by the NY Stock Exchange to Designate Mother Earth as a New Asset Class.” Tiokasin spends the hour talking with Rebecca Adamson — Indigenous Economist, Cherokee and Founder of First Nations Development and First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist and ground-breaking Indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective about how Indigenous people’s systems thinking and the value system behind Indigenous economies can be used to catalyze change. Rebecca has won many awards: PBS Change Makers, National Women’s History Recipient, Council on Foundations Scrivner Award for Most Innovative Grant-Maker, John Gardner Civic Leadership Award. She is widely known for her asset-based development strategies and co-authored the award-winning book “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide.” Rebecca currently serves as Advisor to the Wharton Business School ESG Initiative, Trustee Women’s Media Center and Trustee Bay and Paul Foundations.

For More Information (Resources):

Recommended Reading: "Bloom 23: Where Biodiversity Meets the Bottom Line": https://bit.ly/3vppPCm

Recommended Reading: "NYSE and Intrinsic Exchange Group Partner to Launch a New Asset Class to Power a Sustainable Future" (Business Wire, September 14, 2021): https://bit.ly/3TZWmIV

Recommended Viewing: "Rebecca Adamson: Enoughness, Restoring Balance to the Economy": https://bit.ly/3vtsTxp

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: Life of a Native (remix)
Artist: Okema
Single: 2019
Label: Okema

3. Song Title: The Venus Project Track 13
Artist: The Lost Children of Babylon (feat. Rasul Allah, Cosmic Creator, Atun Sen Get and Emily Clibourn)
Album: Zeitgeist: Spirit of the Age (2010)
Label: Soul Kid Record

4. Song Title: Be Thankful for What You’ve Got
Artist: Orgone
Album: Raw and Director (2020)
Label: 3 Palm Records

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Tiokasin catches up with returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker for the full hour. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school. Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.

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: Come As You Are (Nirvana)
Artist: Playing for Change, Various Artists (with opening lead vocals by Genevieve Chadwick from Ulladulla, Australia)
Single: 2021
Website: https://www.playingforchange.com/

3. Song Title: Ship of Fools
Artist: World Party
Album: Private Revolution
Label: Chrysalis

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 we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Curtis Zunigha. Curtis is an enrolled member of the federally-recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians https://delawaretribe.org/ He has more than 35 years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. Curtis is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices. He is Co-Director of Cultural Affairs for The Lenape Center, https://thelenapecenter.com/ based in New York City. The Lenape Center promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people through the arts, environmental advocacy, social justice, and agricultural practices. The Lenape Center’s work represents the return of the original Indigenous people to their original homeland of Lenapehoking (NY, NJ and PA). Curtis is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

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: Exodus (Inspired by the Film “One Love: Bob Marley”)
Artist: Skip Marley
Album: One Love (2024)
Label: Island Records

3. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s
Artist: Beautiful People
Album: If 60s Were 90s (1992)
Label: Essential Records

4. Song Title: Autumn Sky Meditation
Artist: Shane Miller / Nature’s Eye
Album: N/A
Label: Find Nature’s Eye on YouTube

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 Steven Solomon, Sr., a lifelong Lummi fisherman and traditional knowledge holder of the reef net practice. “Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, this technique uses ropes to create an artificial reef that channels fish toward a net stretched between two anchored boats. Fishers observe the water and pull in the net at the right moment, intercepting salmon as they migrate from the Pacific Ocean to the Fraser River near present-day Washington state and British Columbia. Colonialism, government policies, habitat destruction, and declining salmon populations have separated tribes from this tradition. Today, only 12 reef net permits exist, with just one belonging to the Lummi Nation. Many tribal members hope to revive reef net fishing to restore their cultural identity and a sustainable salmon harvest but face difficulties balancing economic realities with preserving what the Lummi consider a sacred heritage.” — Liz Kimbrough, author, “Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery,” Mongabay, Nov. 21, 2023: https://bit.ly/3IlGIk9

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: Freedom Now (feat. Golshifteh Farahani & Arooj Aftab)
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Album: Freedom Now (released Feb. 13, 2024)
Producers: The Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again).

3. Song Title: Ambrosia
Artist: A Reminiscent Drive
Album: Ambrosia (2000)
Label: F Communications

4. Song Title: War / No More Trouble (Live at The Pavillon De Paris - 1977)
Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers
Album: Gold (2005)
Label: Island 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

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.

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: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Artist: The Dramatics
Concert: Wattstax, Watts Summer Festival, Los Angeles Coliseum (1971)
Organizer: Stax Records; Distributed by Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures

3. Song Title: Way of the Future
Artist: Sneezy
Album: 440 Cook (2019)
Label: Color Red Music

4. Song Title: Native American Flute Music
Artist: Pan Flute Crew
Album: Best Spiritual Flute Music Collection (2016)
Label: Magic Art Project

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’s guests are Chilean-based Indigenous Mapuche artist Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla and Vassar College Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Montserrat Madariaga-Caro.

They will talk about the art exhibition, “Abolengo: An Illustrious History of Looting in Mapuche Lands” featuring Kütral’s work. The exhibition opens Thursday, Feb. 22 and is on view through Feb. 29 at The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Kütral’s work interrogates settler narratives and practices – extractivism and overconsumption – that allow colonial continuity in Mapuche lands (the south of Chile and Argentina). Through parody, pastiche and “modding,” or alterations, Kütral intertwines pop culture and critiques of environmental racism and violence against Indigenous people.

Dr. Madariaga-Caro’s research focuses on the intersections of Indigenous poetics, aesthetics, and micropolitics of land, life and justice. Her current book project illuminates how the works of Indigenous Mapuche poets and artists invigorate land relations among humans and other ecological bodies and work against settler-colonialism, racial extractive capitalism, and compulsory cis-hetero socializations.

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: Ball and Chain 
Artist: Xavier Rudd and J-MILLA 
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022) 
Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D) 

3. Song Title: Nafas 
Artist: The Spy from Cairo 
Single (2010) 
Label: N/A 

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

Do the languages and cosmologies of Native Americans hold the keys to the mysteries of quantum physics and the nature of reality? That is the intriguing premise of "The Language of Spirituality," a documentary and a discussion of what Anthony Della Flora witnessed, about the intersection of spirituality, modern science and language, inspired by a series of dialogues between Native scholars and elders, western physicists and linguists.

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: Avannaani
Artist: Uummannaq Børnehjem
Album: Uummannarmivaqqat (Music from the Children’s Home Uummannaq, Greenland) (2023)
Label: N/A

3. Song Title: Takutissavat Angussallugu
Artist: Uummannaq Børnehjem, Heidinnaguaq Jensen
Album: Uummannarmivaqqat (Music from the Children’s Home Uummannaq, Greenland) (2023)
Label: N/A

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

Danny Desjarlais is Project Manager of Lower Sioux Industrial Hemp Construction at Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota. Danny is a dedicated and experienced Natural Builder with a passion for sustainable construction methods and a commitment to creating eco-friendly structures for Lower Sioux Community members to call home.

Danny says, “We are the original caretakers of this land being Indigenous … we’ve gone so far away from taking care of Mother Earth. We hadn’t grown any plants here since before contact. Once contacted they took all our farming and we hadn’t farmed since we started growing hemp. It’s really quite amazing how it’s been a big full circle moment.”

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: Change 
Artist: Kodi Lee 
Single (2024) 
Label: N/A 

3. Song Title: Osage Oil Boom 
Artist: Robbie Robertson 
Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 
Label: Sony Masterworks 

4. Song Title: Raglan 
Artist: Bruci Jordan 
Album: Raglan (2019) 
Label: N/A 

5. Song Title: Garden of Love 
Artist: Winston McAnuff & Fix 
Album: A New Day (2013) 
Label: Chapter Two Records 

6. Song Title: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 
Artist: Marvin Gaye 
Album: What’s Going On (1971) 
Label: Tamia 

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, Tiokasin speaks with Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga and Nez Perce), one of the five Native artists featured in the upcoming exhibition, “Sensing Sasquatch,” which will be on view March 2, 2024 - January 12, 2025 at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. Native peoples of the Plateau have long known about, encountered, depicted and told stories about Sasquatch, and the exhibition will examine the primate-like, reclusive and elusive being in the context of the High Desert region through an Indigenous lens.

Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in New York on his mother's Onondaga reservation. He began exhibiting his artwork at 18 years old as a hobby. He began taking his artwork career more seriously when he attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. His artwork has been described as “Bold, Culturally Relevant and Inspiring!” featuring vibrant colors and animal subjects, most commonly buffaloes and his tribe. Frank’s way of creating his artwork is to combine numerous aspects of modern culture with the internet and technology and combine it with Native American ideas. Frank has stated that the intention of his artwork is to highlight the social and political problems today’s society. In addition, issues in today's society and in the lives of Native Americans is what drives him to continue with his career. Frank’s goal for his artwork is to change the way people perceive Native American artwork and abolish any stereotypes that follow Native American artwork. He hopes to teach aspiring Native American artists to make the artwork that they want to make and not worry about their artwork being "Indian enough" or "Native enough.” Frank says, “Indigenous people are now at a point where they have to be dealt with … the popular culture, and the world can no longer ignore what we know and who we are.” More about Frank can be found at https://frankbuffalohyde.com/

In the second half-hour, Tiokasin welcomes back our friend Ed Kabotie with an important update. "The continued contamination of lands occupied by the Indigenous nations of the Colorado Plateau must be recognized for what it is: a continuation of the genocidal philosophies of Manifest Destiny. Many issues that Indigenous people face remain out of sight, out of mind to the general public,” says Ed.

Ed Kabotie is an artist and musician from the Hopi village of Shungopavi and the Tewa village of Khap’o Owinge. He considers himself to be an “edu-tainer,” combining visual art, music, and education for his lectures and performances about “Alter-Native History” and issues related to the Indigenous people and lands of the four corner states region. Ed is also an event organizer and, along with his band Tha ‘Yoties and the generous support of nonprofits and committed friends, has held events that feature the Native voices in his homeland. Ed’s solo music incorporates acoustic guitar, Native American flute, harmonica, percussion and voice. His lyrics are sung in English, Hopi and Tewa, and are often written in a storytelling fashion. Ed describes the music as “Nu-Native,” utilizing contemporary instrumentation as a vehicle to share the virtues of his Indigenous heritage, as well as our past and present struggles with colonialism.

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: History Repeats Itself
Artist: Jane’s Addiction
Album: N/A
Label: N/A

3. Song Title: Delcho Drums
Taken From: Denetah Radio, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
Album: N/A
Label: N/A

4. Song Title: Tell Me a Tale
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Album: Home Again (2012)
Label: Universal Music Group

5. Song Title: Don’t Worry Be Hopi
Artist: Ed Kabotie and Tha ‘Yoties
Album: N/A (Can be heard on YouTube)
Label: Ed Kabotie

6. Song Title: Funky Yotie Party
Artist: Ed Kabotie and Tha ‘Yoties
Album: N/A (Can be heard on YouTube)
Label: Ed Kabotie

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

Adoptee and journalist Trace Hentz is the author of “ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: A Memoir,” with the history of the Indian Adoption Project and Indian Child Welfare Act; this includes her long journey to find her natural father in Illinois and tribal relatives. Trace, who created the American Indian Adoptees website in 2009, has announced a new project, “THE COUNT 2024.” It coincides with the release of a new history book, “Almost Dead Indians,” Book 5 in the Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects series.

The American Indian Adoptees website is in the top 50 adoption websites with over 2.5 million views: http://blog.americanindianadoptees.com. The book series was written for adoptees to know their own history. Trace Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) has received many awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association, formerly the Native American Journalists Association. Her ancestry is a mix of Shawnee and Anishinaabe.

More about Trace can be found on her website: www.tracehentz.com

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: Life as a Native
Artist: Okema
Album: Single (2019)
Label: Mixed, Mastered and Directed by Blu Barry

3. Song Title: American Dream
Artist: Ondara
Album: Tales of American (2019)
Label: Verve Forecast

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