Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine

S1 EP3 – Finding Family


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This show is about family — in all its different forms.  A lot of Native families have been disrupted one way or another by government sponsored genocide. But there have always been Native women and men working to repair that disruption. This episode features five amazing women doing this incredible work.

Heidi Grika: Mother, White Earth Band of Ojibwe

Jasmine Grika: Nokomis Circle liaison at Ain Dah Yung Center in St Paul, Cheyenne River Sioux and the Red Lake Nation

Lucy Favorite: Executive Director, American Indian Family and Children's Services

Shana King: Parent Advocate at the Indian Child Welfare Law Center in Minneapolis, Vice-Chair of the American Indian Family Services Center in St Paul, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation

Sandy White Hawk: Founder of Indian Orphans Association and First Nations Repatriation Institute, Sicungu Lakota, Rosebud Sioux Tribe

Hosts Leah Lemm and Cole Premo also speak with MN Native News producer/reporter Laurie Stern.

Theme Music: Cole Premo

Special Music: Leah Lemm “Rocket Ship”

Links:

http://adycenter.org/staff/jasmine-grika

https://aifacs.org/

http://www.icwlc.org/about-the-indian-child-welfare-act-law-center/staff/

http://www.wearecominghome.com/

 

Native Lights Podcast is a production of Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities, and made possible by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Culture Heritage Fund, and the citizens of Minnesota. Ampers is an association of 18 independent community radio stations in Minnesota, which are all licensed to a college, school, university, Native American tribe, or directly to the community. http://ampers.org/

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