KPFA - Bay Native Circle

Host: Ras K’Dee

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Host Lakota Harden speaks with to a young man on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Lakota Action Network’s Nick Tilsen, (Oglala) speaks about organizing around issues affecting young people there, and the Wind/ Solar Project bringing further economic independance for the reservation.

Ana Maria Murillo of the Uwa Defense Project, speaks about the support for the Uwa Tribe in Columbia in their fight against Oil Corporations, and the upcoming Uwa speaking tour here.

Music by Floyd Westerman, George Leach and Brule are featured, and the Bay Indian Calendar.

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Ras K’Dee opens the show with his piece Love Da Way, then talks with Garry

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Ras K’Dee and Antoine have a conversation with Russ Redner, director of

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Ras K’Dee shares a spoken word piece on racial stereotypes and Antoine presents the Bay Area Indian Calendar. Hosts talk with Barry Bachrach, Attorney for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, about Peltier’s case and his move to the US Penitentary at Terre Haute, Indiana. Carol Craig, Yakama tribal member, and Public Information Manager for the Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management Program talks about her anti-mascot letter addressed to the NCAA and her work with schools on changing their mascots and responds to call-ins.

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BNC opens with a song from Ras K’Dee’s Street Prison CD followed by American Indian Contemporary Arts’ Bay Area Indian Calendar. Host Antoine talks with noted poet, writer, curator and policy advocate Suzan Shown Harjo about the Mascot issue and the lawsuit Harjo et. al v. Pro Football, Inc. against the Washington Redskins. The show is completed with call-ins to discuss the mascot issue with Harjo.

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Host Ras K’Dee interviews Mialli Coley, 22 year old President of the Inuit

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Hosts K’Dee and Antoine interview Kelvin Long who discusses the water issues in the southwest, including the development of a ski resort on the SF Peaks and the effort to prevent the use of reclaimed water to develop artificial snow for a ski resort. Kelvin profiles native organizations involved in water issues such as Black Mesa Water Coalition, the Black Mesa Trust, and ECHOES – Educating Communities While Healing and Offering Environmental Support. A longer interview is with the three native Grand Marshals selected for the Gay Parades in Minneapolis and San Francisco. Randy Burns, Paula Gunn Allen and Richard LaFortune all represent the native Two Spirit community and have been selected to lead the parades. They discuss their involvement and activism and some of the lgbt issues within and outside the native community. We also have Ras K’Dee’s “Luv Da Way” and the Bay Area Indian Calendar.

Bay Area events, announcements

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In honor of our native fathers we have interviews with Josh Perez, a Bay Area Dine father who talks about his experience as a youth and a young father, also a tribute to Dave Chief who recently crossed over, plus an interview with Floyd Redcrow Westerman about his role in the native community and beyond. The performers of the upcoming Native Contemporary Arts Festival are profiled, plus music by Ras K’Dee, Verdel Primeaux and Brule, and the Bay Area Indian Calendar.

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