Let's Talk Native with John Kane

This time I'm the guest as I join Ahmed Ali on WUSB Stony Brook

LTN #591 12_31_24; A look back on 2024 and a look forward to 2025! by John Kane

It cannot possibly be a coincidence that this level of abuse could occur at EVERY Indian Boarding School. "Kill the Indian - Save the Man" was not just a metaphor. Metaphors do not require graves!

Yesterday a group calling themselves a tri-council signed a land claim settlement in direct violation of their own authority and will of the people.

Lots of bad history with December and a year that ends with Trump returning to the White House. How fitting!

LTN #587 10/29/24; Joe Biden's Apology by John Kane

I didn't produce an LTN podcast this week but I did a special two hour broadcast in Washington DC on WPFW for Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday.

Almost ten years after the school's name change, the Lancaster little league football team still has "Redskins" embedded in their program.

These are my words on the subject, the day and what we should be demanding.

The slogan never should have been "Every Child Matters!" That was like responding to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter." We should have used "Native Children Matter" or "Our Children Matter." But the final report from the Interior Department on Residential Schools suggest our children didn't and still don't matter to government officials. The sad part is, we aren't showing much concern for Deb Haaland's whitewash of this American Genocide either.