First Voices Radio
189 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings“First Voices Radio,” now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.
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04/21/24 - Kevin Abourezk, Shannon O’Loughlin
April 22, 2024 12:23 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBIn the first half-hour, Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly has a lively conversation with award-winning journalist, film producer and community organizer Kevin Abourezk about “Cultural Appropriation in the Era of AI,” which was inspired by Kevin’s March 28, 2024 article in Indian Country Today: “Navajo word for beautiful at center or controversy.” Kevin is currently deputy managing editor of Indian Country Today and was a reporter and editor for the Lincoln Journal Star for 18 years. A mem...
04/14/24 - Amanda Singer
April 14, 2024 21:44 - 56 minutes - 76.9 MBThis week, an hour-long discussion about the terrifying uptick in syphilis infections and congenital syphilis cases in Indian Country. This is a problem throughout the US and it’s hitting Indian Country the hardest. Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) spends the hour with Amanda Singer (Diné), Executive Director of the Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition/Diné Doula Collective in Window Rock, Arizona. Amanda is a Certified Lactation Counselor and Indigenous Doula. The organization...
04/07/24 - Trey Blackhawk, Indigenous resistance music from Turtle Island and beyond
April 11, 2024 00:21 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBGuest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Trey Blackhawk in the first half-hour. Trey Blackhawk is first and foremost a husband and a father to three beautiful children. He graduated from the Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Nebraska and is currently attending the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln. A first-generation farmer and college student, Trey sees the need for education and a movement towards be...
03/31/24 - PaulStar, Corrina Gould
April 02, 2024 21:47 - 56 minutes - 68.1 MBPaulStar is a Cree recording artist and producer from Chisasibi, Quebec. He talks with Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) in the first half-hour about his new album “Bring It All Together” and some of the challenges he has faced and the role of music in his own life. With a blend of influences from his Cree roots and his love of alternative rock, pop and hip-hop, “Bring It All Together” is a testament to PaulStar’s musical evolution. When creating the album, he underwent an ...
03/24/24 - Rebecca Adamson
March 27, 2024 03:11 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB“Selling Mother Earth: Effort by the NY Stock Exchange to Designate Mother Earth as a New Asset Class.” Tiokasin spends the hour talking with Rebecca Adamson — Indigenous Economist, Cherokee and Founder of First Nations Development and First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist and ground-breaking Indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective about how Indigenous people’s systems thinking and the value system behind Indigenous economies can be used to catalyze change. Rebe...
03/17/24 - Dr. Tink Tinker
March 18, 2024 04:40 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBTiokasin catches up with returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker for the full hour. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly eur...
03/10/24 - Curtis Zunigha (Repeat Show)
March 12, 2024 03:21 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Curtis Zunigha. Curtis is an enrolled member of the federally-recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians https://delawaretribe.org/ He has more than 35 years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. Curtis is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices. He is Co-Director of Cultural Affairs for The Lenape Cen...
03/03/24 - Steven Solomon, Sr.
March 04, 2024 04:47 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the hour with Steven Solomon, Sr., a lifelong Lummi fisherman and traditional knowledge holder of the reef net practice. “Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, this technique uses ropes to create an artificial reef that channels fish toward a net stretched between two anchored boats. Fishers obs...
02/25/24 - Jonathan Gonzales
February 26, 2024 18:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBJonathan Gonzales was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host ...
02/18/24 - Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla, Dr. Montserrat Madariaga-Caro
February 19, 2024 03:47 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBTiokasin’s guests are Chilean-based Indigenous Mapuche artist Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla and Vassar College Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Montserrat Madariaga-Caro. They will talk about the art exhibition, “Abolengo: An Illustrious History of Looting in Mapuche Lands” featuring Kütral’s work. The exhibition opens Thursday, Feb. 22 and is on view through Feb. 29 at The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Kütral’s work interrogates settler narrative...
02/11/24 - Anthony Della Flora
February 12, 2024 03:48 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBDo the languages and cosmologies of Native Americans hold the keys to the mysteries of quantum physics and the nature of reality? That is the intriguing premise of "The Language of Spirituality," a documentary and a discussion of what Anthony Della Flora witnessed, about the intersection of spirituality, modern science and language, inspired by a series of dialogues between Native scholars and elders, western physicists and linguists. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lako...
02/04/24 - Danny Desjarlais
February 05, 2024 18:43 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBDanny Desjarlais is Project Manager of Lower Sioux Industrial Hemp Construction at Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota. Danny is a dedicated and experienced Natural Builder with a passion for sustainable construction methods and a commitment to creating eco-friendly structures for Lower Sioux Community members to call home. Danny says, “We are the original caretakers of this land being Indigenous … we’ve gone so far away from taking care of Mother Earth. We hadn’t grown a...
01/28/24 - Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ed Kabotie
January 29, 2024 17:56 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBIn the first half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga and Nez Perce), one of the five Native artists featured in the upcoming exhibition, “Sensing Sasquatch,” which will be on view March 2, 2024 - January 12, 2025 at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. Native peoples of the Plateau have long known about, encountered, depicted and told stories about Sasquatch, and the exhibition will examine the primate-like, reclusive and elusive being in the context of the H...
01/21/24 - Trace Hentz
January 22, 2024 05:09 - 57 minutes - 53 MBAdoptee and journalist Trace Hentz is the author of “ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: A Memoir,” with the history of the Indian Adoption Project and Indian Child Welfare Act; this includes her long journey to find her natural father in Illinois and tribal relatives. Trace, who created the American Indian Adoptees website in 2009, has announced a new project, “THE COUNT 2024.” It coincides with the release of a new history book, “Almost Dead Indians,” Book 5 in the Lost Children of the Indian Ad...
01/14/24 - Marley Shebala
January 19, 2024 22:24 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBMarley Shebala, Diné and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger. In the Diné way, she is Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan), her mother’s clan, and born for Cha’al (Frog clan), which is her father’s clan. Her mom is from Lake Valley, New Mexico, which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation and next to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Her father is from the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. Her home towns are Lake Valley and Zuni. “M...
01/07/24 - Good Music and Words to Begin 2024
January 08, 2024 14:32 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBGood music and words to begin 2024. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Maya), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) 2. Song Title:...
12/31/23 - Favorite Songs From This Year's Shows
January 02, 2024 20:53 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBEnding the year… a selection of songs from our 2023 shows. All are Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse and listener favorites! Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Maya), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Ta...
12/24/25 - Annamarie Hill (Repeat)
December 27, 2023 13:45 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBFor this week's show, we're revisiting a conversation between Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Annamarie Hill. Annamarie is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation located in northwestern Minnesota. It was while she was studying Music and Business at a private women’s college in the southern part of the state that she realized the impact of inhumane treatment put upon her father and family and became determined to somehow help right the wrongs that had devastated American Indian communitie...
12/17/23 - Alex White Plume
December 19, 2023 14:27 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBAlex White Plume is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people at Wounded Knee. Between 1986-1990, the ride was a Wiping of the Tears ceremony for the Lakota nation. There ...
12/10/23 - Stephany Seay
December 11, 2023 14:34 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBTiokasin welcomes back Stephany Seay for the full hour. Stephany has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year’s Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways ...
12/03/23 - Rebecca Clarren
December 06, 2023 20:45 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBTiokasin spends the full hour with Rebecca Clarren, author of “The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance” (Viking, 2023). Rebecca has been writing about the American West for more than 20 years. She is the winner of the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on “The Cost of Free Land.” Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and 10 grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared ...
11/26/23 - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti (Repeat)
November 27, 2023 17:42 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBThis week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Professor Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism” (North Atlantic Books, 2021). The original broadcast aired in March 2023. Vanessa is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. Vanessa began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 a...
11/19/23 - Jonathan Gonzales, Lucas Jatobá, Christian Matute Sagbay
November 21, 2023 21:03 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse hosts another roundtable discussion focused on current Indigenous issues with three returning guests. Jonathan Gonzales was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is I...
11/12/23 - Martin Shaw
November 13, 2023 16:46 - 58 minutes - 54 MBGuest Martin Shaw is a writer, mythologist and oral storyteller. An award-winning writer, his last book, “Bardskull," was described by The Sunday Times as ‘rich and transgressive’ and was Book of the Day in The Guardian. Martin spent four years living in a tent exploring remaining pockets of British wilderness. www.drmartinshaw.com Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Eng...
11/05/23 - Annamarie Hill
November 10, 2023 14:58 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBAnnamarie Hill is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation located in northwestern Minnesota. It was while she was studying Music and Business at a private women’s college in the southern part of the state that she realized the impact of inhumane treatment put upon her father and family and became determined to somehow help right the wrongs that had devastated American Indian communities. After graduation, Annamarie moved to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Metropolitan area and began a ...
10/29/23 - Albert Marshall (Repeat)
November 01, 2023 20:19 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBFor this week's show, we're digging into the First Voices Radio archive and revisiting a conversation between Tiokasin’s and elder Albert Marshall, from the Moose Clan of the Mi'kmaw Nation. He lives in the community of Eskasoni in Unama’ki – Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Albert is a fluent speaker of the Mi'kmaw language, a passionate advocate of cross-cultural understandings and healing and of our human responsibilities to care for all creatures and our Earth Mother. He is the spouse ...
10/22/23 - Kevin Abourezk
October 26, 2023 13:53 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBThis week’s edition is about “story” and how storytelling reconnects us to our histories, cultures and homelands, and in Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s words is “nourishment and good medicine.” Tiokasin speaks with Kevin Abourezk. Kevin is featured in the seventh season of “Stories from the Stage,” a WORLD-original series that highlights stories told by ordinary people from all walks of life. This season includes seven Native Americans. Kevin tells a story about his involvement in an ac...
10/15/23 - Binnie Klein
October 16, 2023 16:04 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBBinnie Klein hosts “A Miniature World,” a music and interview show at WPKN 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT. WPKN streams at wpkn.org. (WPKN is the former “home” of “First Voices Radio” and a longtime, treasured affiliate). Binnie maintains a private practice in psychotherapy in New Haven, CT, and has been a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. She also is an author and publishes in many publications. Binnie’s latest creative project is an indie music collaboratio...
10/08/23 - Eda Zavala Lopez, Oqwilowgwa Kim Recalma-Clutesi (Repeat)
October 09, 2023 15:12 - 56 minutes - 52 MB“First Voices Radio” is digging into our archive to share two conversations from last year. In the first half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Eda Zavala Lopez, a direct descendant of the Wari people of Peru. She inherited ancient traditions and profound knowledge related to plants, spirits and magical storytelling from her ancestors. Eda is dedicated to Amazonian Indigenous healing practices by leading ceremonies with medicinal plants, practicing ancient ways of healing knowledge and em...
10/01/23 - John Trudell (From 1980)
October 04, 2023 15:44 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB“First Voices Radio” digs deep into our 30-year-old archive. The words of the late John Trudell are from 1980 but his observations have stood the test of time and still ring true. John (1946-2015) was a poet, a fighter for Native American rights, an agitator, and many other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suits him he would have refused to be pinned down. “Actually I don’t consider myself to be any of those things. They’re things that I d...
09/24/23 - Resmaa Menakem (Repeat)
September 25, 2023 16:14 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBFor this week's show, we're digging into the First Voices Radio archives and revisiting Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with author, Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist, and master trainer Resmaa Menakem. Tiokasin and Resmaa discuss grief, trauma, Indigeneity, reclamation of cultures, and autonomous practicality separate from "identity" and history. Resmaa coaches leaders and people to rise through suffering’s edge. His work focuses on making the invisible,...
09/17/23 - Chasity Salvador
September 18, 2023 03:56 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBChasity Salvador is a young farmer and traditional seed keeper growing food and seed for her family and community. She is a full-spectrum doula, Indigenous breastfeeding counselor and birth keeper providing birth work services to her community. Chasity is a scholar, writer, and organizer on Pueblo women in agriculture, and Indigenous food and seed sovereignty. She is a poet that tells the story on how all these lines of work contribute to the wellbeing and healing of Pueblo women ...
09/10/23 - Hataałiinez Wheeler, Albert Haskie
September 12, 2023 01:08 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBTiokasin is joined by two guests for the full hour. Hataałiinez Wheeler is a very modern kind of crooner: a pensive, deep-voiced troubadour whose serene surf-country songs tap into the hope and despondency of a new generation. The music he makes as Hataałii — a Navajo term that means “to sing,” a fitting diminutive of his given name — is at turns witty and world-weary, sunny but endearingly solipsistic. Albert Haskie is a software developer from the Navajo Nation. He is the crea...
09/03/23 - Dr. Emma McNicol
September 04, 2023 13:24 - 56 minutes - 52 MBTiokasin is joined by Dr. Emma McNicol, a feminist philosopher and expert on Simone de Beauvoir. Emma works at the nexus of race, culture and gender theory, examining themes of exclusion and intersectionality in historical and contemporary feminist theory. Emma is the Senior Project Coordinator of Fire to Flourish's National Indigenous Disaster Resilience program, a project exploring Indigenous leadership in the face of natural hazards intensified by climate crisis. Recommended ...
08/27/23 - Russell Charles Means (Interview from 2000)
August 28, 2023 17:14 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBFrom the 2000 program archive. Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage. Means was active in international issues of Indigenous peoples, incl...
08/20/23 - Music from Levon and Roselyne Menassian, Conversation with Darlene and Willard Pipeboy from 2003
August 21, 2023 20:59 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse is back this week with a very special show. He will begin with an untitled musical track featuring Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Duduk, voice and Native flute. Tiokasin will talk about the conference that he recently attended in Portugal. In the second half-hour, from our extensive archive stretching back 31 years: Darlene and Willard Pipeboy were frequent guests on First Voices ‘Indigenous’ Radio (as it was known at the time) from 1999 thro...
08/13/23 - Shannon O’Loughlin, Anne Keala Kelly on the Maui wildfires
August 14, 2023 16:46 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBSitting in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week is First Voices Radio’s Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), an independent journalist, filmmaker and activist from Moku Nui (Big Island) in the illegally occupied Hawaiian Islands. Keala begins with commentary about this past week’s deadly wildfires that completely destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui, located on the island’s west side. Lahaina is the historic seat of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Fires are still burning in other areas...
08/06/23 - Steven T. Newcomb (Repeat)
August 08, 2023 14:12 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBFor this week's episode, we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Steven T. Newcomb. For the replay, Tiokasin recorded some additional commentary at the end and added a few new music selections. Don’t just repudiate….rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than four decades of research...
07/30/23 - Darryl Leroux
July 31, 2023 13:23 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBOn this week's show, Darryl Leroux returns to "First Voices Radio" to spend the entire hour with Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Tiokasin and Darryl will discuss Darryl's new article, “State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting,” which was published in the latest issue of American Indian Culture & Research Journal, a leading, peer-reviewed Native American Studies/Indigenous Studies journal in the U.S. Darryl is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the Unive...
07/23/23 - Jonathan Gonzales, Christian Matute Sagbay
July 24, 2023 02:28 - 58 minutes - 54 MBTiokasin spends the hour with Jonathan Gonzales and Christian Matute Sagbay. Jonathan was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and...
07/16/23 - Elizabeth Woody, Charles Lyons and Christian Poirier
July 17, 2023 04:44 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBIn the first half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs, Yakama and Diné), executive director since 2018 of The Museum at Warm Springs in Warm Springs, Oregon. The Museum opened its doors to the public on March 14, 1993 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary throughout 2023 with special exhibits, public programs and events. Built to Smithsonian Institution professional standards, The Museum’s mission is to preserve, advance and share the traditions, cultural and ...
07/09/23 - John Michelotti, Special Report on Montaukett Tribal Recognition
July 11, 2023 12:44 - 58 minutes - 54 MBIn the first half-hour, mycologist John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi. As former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, John co-founded the Catskill Regional Mycoflora Project as well as the Gary Lincoff Memorial Scholarship. He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He is an instructor for the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification courses in NY. He was chosen by ...
07/02/23 - Miryam Yataco
July 03, 2023 16:38 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Miryam Yataco back to “First Voices Radio.” Miryam is a Quechua Peruvian-born language rights advocate, an expert in bilingualism, and a sociolinguist. Her work is rooted in the idea of language rights as human rights. In Peru, Miryam worked with Quechua Indigenous Congress women as a congressional assistant in matters of language rights. Miryam is a former faculty member at New York University where she worked for 22 years. She has published on m...
06/25/23 - Dr. Ruby Gibson
June 26, 2023 16:20 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Ruby Gibson to “First Voices Radio.” Dr. Gibson, a mixed blood woman of Lakota/Ojibwe and Mediterranean descent, has spent the past 40 years dedicated to the craft and science of Historical Trauma reconciliation, cultural healing, and generational well-being among Native and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Gibson founded Freedom Lodge, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, in Rapid City, SD to serve our relatives and communities. She developed the transge...
06/18/23 - Dr. Manuel Rozental
June 19, 2023 17:05 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with regular guest and friend of “First Voices Radio” Dr. Manuel Rozental. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel’s been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He is part of an initiative: Pueblos en Camino, Peoples on the Path with a mandate to weave autonomies and resistance between peoples. Tiok...
06/11/23 - Robin Wall Kimmerer (Repeat from 2016)
June 12, 2023 15:33 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThis week we are revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's 2016 conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer. Robin is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the widely acclaimed “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” (Milkweed Editions, 2013). In 2022, the was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding...
06/04/23 - Alnoor Ladha
June 06, 2023 03:52 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBTiokasin Ghosthorse’s guest for the full hour is Alnoor Ladha. Alnoor is an activist, journalist, political strategist and community organizer. From 2012 to 2019 he was the co-founder and executive director of the global activist collective The Rules. He is currently the council chair for Culture Hack Labs. Alnoor talks of various possibilities involving the changes it will take for humankind in the Anthropocene. The language and attitude exposé it would take for the recognition o...
05/28/23 - Max Wilbert, Ofelia Rivas
May 29, 2023 17:19 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBMax Wilbert is back for an update on Thacker Pass. Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. For nearly two decades he has been working to save our planet. This has taken him to the Siberian Arctic, to fossil fuel blockades, to solidarity work with environmentalists in the third world, and beyond. Max is part of several grassroots political movements, including Fertile Ground Institute for Social and Ecological Justice and Deep Green Resistance. Max co-founded Protect Thac...
05/21/23 - Munya Andrews, Malcolm Burn (Repeat)
May 22, 2023 14:39 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThis week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Munya Andrews and his discussion on greed with Malcolm Burn. The original episode aired on April 10, 2022. Munya Andrews is an Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born to an Aboriginal woman and Scottish father, she is proud of her Aboriginal and Celtic heritage. Her Bardi 'saltwater' people come from the Dampier Peninsula and the offshore islands north of Broome. Regarded by Melbourne U...
05/14/23 - Zack Khalil
May 15, 2023 16:05 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBZack Khalil (Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians) is a filmmaker and artist from Bahweting (so called Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work centers Indigenous narratives in the present—and looks toward the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Zack is a core contributor to New Red Order, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward Indigeneity into question, yet promotes this desire, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous a...