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Marley Shebala, Diné and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger. In the Diné way, she is Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan), her mother’s clan, and born for Cha’al (Frog clan), which is her father’s clan. Her mom is from Lake Valley, New Mexico, which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation and next to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Her father is from the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. Her home towns are Lake Valley and Zuni. “Marley Shebala's Notebook” is her website where she provides current news coverage of the Navajo government and Navajo communities on and off the Navajo Nation. She also produces Navajo Nation environmental news and political analysis of the Navajo government and legislative process. Marley hosted "Politics on the Navajo Nation," an internet news show. But due to unreliable WIFI on the Navajo Nation where she resides, the weekly news show was cancelled until she can raise funds to increase WiFi power at her residence. She is available for presentations on the benefits of a free and open press in Indian Country and how to achieve accurate and fair news coverage of the Navajo Nation and Indian Country.

Marley works part-time at the Gallup Independent newspaper, which is headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico. She is the only reporter at the Gallup Independent Diné Bureau in Window Rock, Arizona, which covers the Navajo Nation. Before working for the Gallup Independent, she worked as the Navajo Times newspaper’s’ Senior Reporter specializing in investigative reporting on politics, domestic violence, law enforcement, veterans and the environment. She also covered a wide range of general interest stories. Her stories have won numerous awards from state and national organizations over the more than 30 years she has been in journalism.

More information on Marley’s website: http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/

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: Spatial Moon (added commentary by the late John Trudell)
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Album: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse

3. Song Title: It Ain’t Over
Artist: The Black Keys
Album: Dropout Boogie (2022)
Label: Nonesuch/Warner Records

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Good music and words to begin 2024.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Maya), 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: It’s Morning in America
Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications
Album: American Love Call (2019)
Label: Dead Oceans

3. Song Title: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Single: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose (2014)
Label: Third Man Records

4. Song Title: Shade of History
Artist: Julian Cote feat. Pura Fe Crescioni
Album: Shade of History Soundtrack
Label: Pine Needle Productions

5. Song Title: I Can’t Give Everything Away
Artist: Spoon
Album: I Can’t Give Everything Away (2023)
Label: Matador Records

6. Song Title: States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Album: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North

7. Song Title: Perspectives
Artist: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Album: Stretch Music (2015)
Label: Ropeadope Records

8. Song Title: A Cry In The Forest (Live)
Artist: Dan Fogelberg
Album: Dan Fogelberg Live: Greetings from the West (1991)
Label: Epic Records

9. Song Title: Burning Times
Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave
Album: Burning Times (1993)
Label: Earthbeat

10. Song Title: Triste Pena
Artist: Gipsy Kings
Album: Mosaique (1989)
Label: Columbia/Electra

11. Song Title: School Days
Artist: Labi Siffre
Album: Man of Reason (1991)
Label: China Records

12. Song Title: World On Fire
Artist: Stick Figure
Album: World on Fire (2019)
Label: Ruffwood Records

13. Song Title: Lakota Lullaby
Artist: Alexia Evellyn
Album: N/A
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

Ending the year… a selection of songs from our 2023 shows. All are Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse and listener favorites!

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Maya), 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)
(00:00:22)

2. Song Title: Intro (The Sacred Pipe) from Killers of the Flower Moon Soundtrack -
Artist: Robbie Robertson

3. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Artist: Mari Boine

4. Song Title: Imba
Artist: Otyken

5. Song Title: Ball and Chain - J-MILLA and Xavier Rudd
Artist: J-MILLA and Xavier Rudd

6. Song Title: Mother Earth
Artist: SOJA

7. Song Title: Ablaze (feat. Jennifer Kreisberg)
Artist: Tartie

8. Song Title: 1492
Artist: Dakota Yazzie

9. Song Title: Brother Warrior
Artist: Sharon Burch

10. Artist: Iron Sky
Artist: Paolo Nutini

11. Song Title: Your Freedom is the End of Me
Artist: Melanie De Biasio

12. Song Title: Mind Control
Artist: Stephen Marley

13, Song Title: Imiqtaq
Artist: Riit (Rita-Claire Mike-Murphy) & Andrew Morrison

14. Song Title: Time Drift
Artist: Smokey D. Palmtree

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

For this week's show, we're revisiting a conversation between Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Annamarie Hill. Annamarie is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation located in northwestern Minnesota. It was while she was studying Music and Business at a private women’s college in the southern part of the state that she realized the impact of inhumane treatment put upon her father and family and became determined to somehow help right the wrongs that had devastated American Indian communities. After graduation, Annamarie moved to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Metropolitan area and began a career in the state legislature and government for more than a decade before taking the role of State Government Affairs Director for Red Lake.

After lobbying for Red Lake Nation for several years, Annamarie went on to lead the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council as Executive Director for a decade. It was during this time that the highly regarded and award-winning “Why Treaties Matter” exhibit and Dakota Ojibwe Language Revitalization program were developed. Annamarie currently works for the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Duluth Campus as the Strategy and Outreach Director. Annamarie is a part of the Mantyh Lab, a research team led by Neurologist and Dementia Specialist Dr. William Mantyh. The NIH- funded research project is to examine the APOE gene’s relationship with Alzheimer’s disease in the Native population. Annamarie remains active in the lobbying and advocating world for her people and provides professional and executive coaching and mentoring to many.

Annamarie has a bachelor’s degree in music and business administration from The College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota, and a master’s degree in Tribal Administration and Governance from the University of Minnesota/Duluth.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Maya), 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) 
(00:00:22) 

2. Song Title: Laugh Out Loud 
Artist: Hataałii 
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023) 
Label: Dangerbird Records 
(00:29:58) 

3. Song Title: (Intro) The Sacred Pipe, Osage Oil Boom 
Artist: Robbie Robertson 
Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon 
Label: Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment 
(00:47:47) 

4. Song Title: Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) 
Artist: Osage Tribal Singers 
Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon 
Label: Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment 
(00:51:17) 

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

Alex White Plume is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people at Wounded Knee. Between 1986-1990, the ride was a Wiping of the Tears ceremony for the Lakota nation. There were 19 riders on the very first ride in 1986 from Bridger, SD to Wounded Knee, SD. The ride was called the Future Generation Ride after 1990, when the Wiping of the Tears ceremony ended.

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
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) 
(00:00:22) 

2. Song Title: Turning Away 
Artist: Dougie MacLean 
Album: Indigenous (1991) 
Label: Dunkeld Records 
(00:27:08) 

3. Song Title: Lakota Dream Song 
Artist: Earl Bullhead 
Album: Across Indian Lands (1999) 
Label: SOAR 
(00:42:10) 

4. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s 
Artist: Beautiful People 
Album: If 60s Were 90s (1994) 
Label: Continuum Records 
(00:44:48) 

5. Song Title: Road to Hell Part 1 
Artist: Chris Rea 
Album: On the Beach (1986) 
Label: Geffen Records (USA) and Magnet (International) 
(00:49:52) 

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 welcomes back Stephany Seay for the full hour. Stephany has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year’s Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years of service over philosophical differences.

Stephany has nearly 20 years of experience standing with the buffalo, is an avid wildlife photographer, backcountry skier, and horsewoman. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance, and co-founder of Roam Free Nation. Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from ourselves from the unsustainable and selfish creation of industrial civilization.

Find Roam Free Nation at https://roamfreenation.org/.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
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) 
(00:00:22) 

2. Song Title: Brother Warrior 
Artist: Sharon Burch 
Album: Touch the Sweet Earth (1995) 
Label: Canyon Records 
(00:27:28) 

3. Song Title: Osage Oil Boom 
Artist: Robbie Robertson 
Album: Killers of the Flower Moon Soundtrack (2023) 
Label: Masterworks 
(00:42:02) 

4. Song Title: (Intro) the Sacred Pipe) 
Artist: Robbie Robertson and the Osage Nation 
Album: Killers of the Flower Moon Soundtrack 
Label: Masterworks 
(00:44:54 ) 

5. Song Title: Family Man 
Artist: Fleetwood Mac 
Album: Tango in the Night (1987) 
Label: Warner Records 
(00:45:30) 

6. Song Title: Star People feat. Jim Cuddy 
Artist: Indian City (composed by Vince Fontaine and Chris Burke-Gaffney) 
Album: Code Red (2021) 
Label: Rising Sun Productions, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 
(00:49:25) 

7. Song Title: Iron Sky 
Artist: Paolo Nutini 
Album: Caustic Love (2014) 
Label: Atlantic Records 
(00:55:20) 

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 spends the full hour 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 WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
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) 
(00:00:22) 

2. Song Title: Love Theme from Spartacus 
Artist: Terry Callier 
Album: TimePeace (1998) 
Label: Verve Records 
(00:28:30) 

3. Song Title: Come and Get Your Love 
Artist: Redbone 
Album: Wovoka (1973) 
Label: Epic Records 
(00:52:20) 

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 Ghosthorse's conversation with Professor Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism” (North Atlantic Books, 2021). The original broadcast aired in March 2023.

Vanessa is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. Vanessa began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil and Canada. She works across sectors in international and comparative education, particularly focusing on global justice and citizenship, Indigenous and community engagement, sustainability, and social and ecological responsibility.

Her research examines relationships between historical, systemic, and ongoing forms of violence, and the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Vanessa is one of the founding members of Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and Teia das 5 Curas, an international network of Indigenous communities mostly in Canada and Latin America. She currently collaborates with with these groups to direct research projects and learning initiatives related to global healing and wellbeing in times of unprecedented challenges.

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
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)
(00:00:22)

2. Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: J-MILLA and Xavier Rudd
Album: Xavier Rudd: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artist Services Australia (P&D)
(00:25:13)

3. Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Album: In the Anthropocene (2019)
Label: Fiction Records
(00:55:27)

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 hosts another roundtable discussion focused on current Indigenous issues with three returning guests.

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).

Lucas Jatobá is a photographer and filmmaker who was born in Manaus, northern Brazil. He had been living in Rio de Janeiro since 2014, where he went to study Anthropology at the Fluminense Federal University. Lucas started working as a freelancer, doing professional and volunteer documentation works on topics related to human rights, especially issues related to urban social issues.

Christian Matute Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles.

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) 
(00:00:22) 

2. Song Title: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose 
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka 
Single: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose (2014) 
Label: Third Man Records 
(00:27:45) 

3. Song Title: Himno de la Guardia Indígena - Guardia Fuerza 
Artist: Performed by Ali Aka Mind, Andrea Echeverri, Carlos Arturo Villamarin, Chane Meza, Derly Elide Musse Pasu, Eulalia Yagari, Gregorio Merchan, La Perła, Parranderos del Cauca Cuatro Más Tres 
Written by: Hernan Sánchez Luligo, Manuel Jesús Sánchez 
Produced by: Cory Camel, Juan Carlos Pellegrino 
Single: Himno de la Guardia Indígena - Guardia Fuerza (2020) 
Source: Parranderos del Cauca Cuatro Más Tres 
(00:53:02) 

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 Martin Shaw is a writer, mythologist and oral storyteller. An award-winning writer, his last book, “Bardskull," was described by The Sunday Times as ‘rich and transgressive’ and was Book of the Day in The Guardian. Martin spent four years living in a tent exploring remaining pockets of British wilderness. www.drmartinshaw.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)
(00:00:22)

2. Song Title: Tired of Fighting
Artist: Menahan Street Band
Album: Make the Road by Walking (2008)
Label: Daptone Records
(00:25:30)

3. Song Title: Moonshine Got Me
Artist: Daniel Norgren
Album: Buck (2013)
Label: Superpuma Records
(00:48:50)

4. Song Title: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Single: 2023
Label: N/A
(00:55:50)

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