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Today we’re honoring the life and legacy of Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually tribal leader whose name has become synonymous with the struggle for treaty fishing rights, the protection of salmon, and the defense of tribal sovereignty.

From his first arrest for fishing at the age of fourteen, through the Fish Wars and the historic Boldt Decision of 1974, Billy Frank Jr. dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Native peoples and the waters that sustain them.

Now, his legacy is receiving national recognition through his selection to represent Washington State in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol.

Today we have the opportunity to learn about Billy Frank Jr. in a much more personal way as we’re joined by his son and daughter-in-law, who will share their memories, family stories, and reflections on his extraordinary life and the work that continues today.

The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.

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The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.

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The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.

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The Bay Native Circle presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Dr Eddie Madril,  producer Janeen Antoine and Tony Gali. Thank you for your support.

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This week on Bay Native Circle, we learn more about the MMIP case of Timothy Charles Lee. Timmy was an aspiring fashion design student from Berkeley. After getting stuck at the Concord BART station on his way home one night, his body was found hung in a tree the next day. The community has organized a fashion show to be held this Saturday in Walnut Creek. And we close out the show with a report from kpfa’s news director, Lauren Schmitt. She has been reporting from the border wall construction blockade on the land of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation.

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In honor of Leonard Peltier’s birthday coming up on September 12th, Tony Gonzales introduces an interview conducted with Leonard by Democracy Now!’s host Amy Goodman, this was “his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at American Indian boarding school and his later involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and more. “We still have to live under that, that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The fight for, the struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.” (Taken from the show Description for the September 19th 2025 episode of Democracy Now! on the KPFA website)

The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.

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This is Morning Star Gali.

Tonight’s program features an update by Amy Juan of the International Treaty Council about the situation at the Tohono O’dam Reservation Border.  Please follow the updates that our news department is reporting on also.  We will also have an update on AB18181, along with some statements from the press conference related to AB18181. From the conference we will hear from the Vice-Chair of the Yosemite Miwok, along with Waylon Coats, an archeologist who is  also Miwok regarding the proposed road thru their ancestral territory.

We were also fortunate to interview Joan Anselmo, former National Park Service Superintendent who is part of “Friends of the Moose Corridor” where there is a proposed bike path through Grand Tetons National Park, which would destroy many archeological sites in that area, along with interfering with the Grizzly Bear habitant…as one person posted..”what could go wrong having bikers through grizzly bear territory? ___________________________

This program was co-produced by Morning Star Gali, Loyen Redhawk Gali, and Catherine Jackson, and Falcón. Special thanks to Kendall Crakow for production assistance and Brian Wilson for research assistance.  Please support our Native programming as our communities and lands are under attack and write to your congressional and state representatives.

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Tonight’s radio program “Bay Native Circle” August 26th 2026, Tony Gonzales interviewed David Garcia, enrolled member of the Tohono’ Oodam Tribal nation, about a federal court decision rendered August 14, 2026 that denied blocking its decision to construct the Wall across their 62 mile reservation on the southern border with Mexico. Tony Gonzales  also interviewed Joey Williams of the Kawaiisu Tribe of Kern County, California.  They talked about the US 250 anniversary and also California Native history including legislative bills such as SB 1105 and AB 1581.  Books for reading were also recommended for our listeners such as Benjamin Madley’s “An American Genocide” and Tony Platt’s “The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley.”

The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.

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Our first guest Julian Brave NoiseCat is an Oakland-raised author who has garnered wide acclaim and awards for his first book We Survived the Night.  The first indigenous filmmaker in history nominated for an Academy Award, he talks with us about his moving documentary Sugarcane which lays bare the horrific abuses of Canadian residential schools, focusing on the one where his own family members were sent and where his infant father was rescued from an incinerator.

Claire Greensfelder and Toby McLeod discuss the new Native Vision Film Series at Berkeley’s David Brower Center featuring In the Light of Reverence, Sugarcane, and The Eternal Song on Aug 14, Sep 16 and Oct 18.

The  7th annual free Native Ways Festival happens Saturday, Sep 26 at the Ohlone Park. Condolences are offered to the family of Pit River artist Jean LaMarr who recently joined the ancestors and whose work at the Ohlone Park will still be honored in a planned celebration.

The Bay Native Circle presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Dr Eddie Madril,  producer Janeen Antoine and Tony Gali. Thank you for your support.

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Host Dr. Eddie Madril opens with a beautiful Peyote prayer song, then interviews local chef Crystal Wahpepah about her Oakland restaurant Wahpepah’s Kitchen, and shares a community calendar. The show closes with a Press conference held Tuesday on the Capitol Grounds with California native leaders including Assemblymember James Ramos and Indigenous Justice founder and BNC host Morning Star Gali about the unacceptable delays of the UC system for the legally required and long overdue repatriation of California native artifacts and their most egregious disregard for the remains of our California Indigenous relatives.

The Bay Native Circle’s weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Dr. Eddie Madril, producer Janeen Antoine and Tony Gonzales.

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