Today 4 stories : 1) Misleading Native history. 2) Flag removal in Arizona 3)The fight for climate and environmental justice has always been led by indigenous.3) Land back to the Potawatomi Nation in Illinois 4) Funny story from Ricey Wild

On today’s episode of Heart of the Earth we talk about the removal of Ira Hayes and the Navajo code takers from gov’t websites, Trump and return of colonialism, the passing of Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva and an update on the murder of Emily Pike.

on today's episode of heart of the Earth, we talk about the documentary film Sugarcane , which has been nominated for an Academy award. It tells the story of many generations of a family who is at Indian boarding school in British Columbia. We also discuss Nemomye nenquimo's book We will not be Saved A Memoir of Hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest, we also talk about a native Alaskan who was only 17 years old and committed suicide in the very northern part of Alaska near the Arctic Circle in the town of what is what was known as Barrow. the police put his body on a sled and drove it through town.

On today's Heart of the Earth we celebrate Leonard Peltier's return home to the Turtle Mt Chippewa nation in North Dakota. We also talk about the "citizenship" of Native Americans and Trumps plans. We end with the story about the nonprofit Warm Elders that provides firewood to elders on the Navajo Reservation.

On today's episode of Heart of the Earth we honor the late Santee Sioux poet and artist John Trudell. He would have turned 79 on Feb 15th. We hear the poems he wrote in the last year of his life, and also a review of the Red Dirt Boogie concert that took place in Tulsa Oklahoma on February 6th.