This is the second-to-last broadcast of "First Voices Radio." Although the show is leaving the airwaves (the last episode will be Sunday, July 6), Tiokasin wants listeners and supporters to know that he isn't "retiring." Rather, as he says, he's "transitioning, moving into these dimensions that are still offered in life." If listeners want to keep up with him, they can join his Facebook page, Instagram (although he's not very active on that platform), his Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthor...
Jul 01, 2025•56 min•Ep. 235
Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Facilitator, Educator and Program Developer on issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men's Work, Consent and Culture. He has worked with religious organizations, cultural groups and regional organizations and has taught in higher education for 16 years engaging issues of Race, Gender, Environmental issues, Media and Culture. Ukumbwa has been a member and supportive of numerous local, national and international organizations and movements advocating for Pan...
Jun 12, 2025•58 min•Ep. 234
The problem of syphilis infections and congenital syphilis cases in the U.S. is extremely alarming and has hit Indian Country very hard. Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) talked with Amanda Singer (Diné), Executive Director of the Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition/Diné Doula Collective in Window Rock, Arizona about this serious issue. Amanda is a Certified Lactation Counselor and Indigenous Doula.The organization's mission is to improve the health of Navajo families by providing compassionate...
Jun 04, 2025•56 min•Ep. 233
Guest Maxine Hammond Dashu, known professionally as Max Dashu, is an American feminist historian, author, and artist . Her areas of expertise include female iconography, mother-right cultures and the origins of patriarchy. Max founded the Suppressed Histories Archives (global women's history) and is the author of "Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture." https://www.suppressedhistories.net/ Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red La...
Jun 04, 2025•57 min•Ep. 232
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse's thoughts on "sustainability" with a mix of music that fits the theme. "How is your heart? How is your mind? How is your body and how is your body treating you? How is life treating you? Or are you treating your life? I wonder about this word "sustainability." To me it's "sustain-ability" to live with earth. Our mind is, of course, gathering information from all points and not one linear beginning and ending." - Tiokasin Ghosthorse Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthors...
May 19, 2025•57 min•Ep. 230
A monologue by Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse in the first half-hour followed by music in the second half-hour. 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: Mind Control Artist: Stephen Marley Album: Mind Control (2007) Label: Tuff Gong 3. Song Title: Feels Like Summer Artist: Donald Glover - Childish Gambino Album: Summer Pack (2018) Label: Wolf +...
May 09, 2025•57 min•Ep. 229
Linford D. Fisher is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. His research and teaching relate primarily to the cultural and religious history of colonial America and the Atlantic world, including Native Americans, religion, material culture, and Indian and African slavery and servitude. He is the author of "The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America" (2012) and the co-author of "Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's...
Apr 29, 2025•57 min•Ep. 228
Guest Manish Jain - a radical "unlearner" and rethinker of education - is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations and inter-cultural dialogue. Inspired by MK Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Ivan Illich, his village grandmother, Indigenous communities and Jain spiritual philosophy, Manish is one of the leading planetary voices for de-schooling our lives. He has helped thousands of young people escape from factory schooling and recove...
Apr 21, 2025•57 min•Ep. 227
London and Ibiza based singer and songwriter Nick Mulvey has always been immersed in the world of music. Before launching his solo career in 2012, Nick gathered a treasure trove of musical experiences. He studied music and art in Havana, Cuba, and was an integral part of the Mercury Award-nominated Portico Quartet. Nick's debut album, "First Mind" was a remarkable debut that left a lasting impression on all who listened. Since then, he has continued to create music and tour whenever possible, ba...
Apr 07, 2025•59 min•Ep. 231
Tiokasin is back with us this week and doing much better! Rakel is 40 years old and was born and raised in Ittoqqortoormiit in northeastern Greenland. When she was 4 years old, she told her mother that she would become a shaman. Growing up she always heard the stories about how they came from a shamanic family, and she always asked deep questions to what it meant for their descendants. In 2012, she started her journey to actually learn about how her ancestors lived and saw the universe as a whol...
Apr 01, 2025•56 min•Ep. 226
Tiokasin is out unexpectedly this week. We are rebroadcasting the interview with Geraldine Patrick Encina from February 23 of this year: "The 13 year cycle between 2012 to 2025 is marked on stone. It is marked on this stone that has been called the Aztec Calendar, and it is neither Aztec nor a calendar," says Geraldine Patrick Encina. Geraldine is a scholar focused on Mesoamerican calendars, Original Peoples' cosmologies, and the ethical principles embedded in earth-based traditions. Holding a P...
Apr 01, 2025•58 min•Ep. 225
Guest Cindy Rosin is an artist and activist from New York City. Cindy teaches children in the summers and works odd jobs throughout the year to enable her to spend time volunteering for the earth and her inhabitants. She lives on a houseboat in Rockaway, Queens, and spends her time there in the company of the fish, seabirds, turtles, jellyfish and other creatures of the Jamaica Bay estuary. Cindy has had the honor of standing with the buffalo for 19 seasons in the field and is dedicated to fight...
Mar 18, 2025•58 min•Ep. 224
This week's program was inspired by "Flagstaff 'NO!' to Radioactive Trucks", an article by our friend Brenda Norrell in Censored News on February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5 . Our guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an Indigenous organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon and transport thru Navajo Nation. Recently, Leona helped to halt Holtec in New Mexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master o...
Mar 18, 2025•58 min•Ep. 223
From the "First Voices Radio" archive. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with Ross Hamilton in the first half-hour. Ross is the author of several books on Native American prehistory including: "The Mystery of the Serpent Mound," "A Tradition of Giants," and "Star Mounds: Legacy of a Native American Mystery." His research specialty is the lost and forgotten history of North America and her ancient legends that seem to revolve around a profoundly mysterious country that once dominated the landsc...
Mar 18, 2025•57 min•Ep. 222
Guest for the Full Hour: “The 130-year cycle between 2012 to 2025 is marked on stone. It is marked on this stone that has been called the Aztec Calendar, and it is neither Aztec nor a calendar,” says Geraldine Patrick Encina. Geraldine is a scholar focused on Mesoamerican calendars, Original Peoples’ cosmologies, and the ethical principles embedded in earth-based traditions. Holding a Post-Doctoral degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, her research has recovered Indigenous timekee...
Feb 24, 2025•58 min•Ep. 221
Music for the Full Hour: During this episode, some of our favorite "music that keeps pace with Earth," as Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse says. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Orlando DuPont, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi...
Feb 24, 2025•57 min•Ep. 220
Guest for the full hour: Returning guest 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 Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African. "Among other related topics, w...
Feb 14, 2025•59 min•Ep. 219
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), co-host, is sitting for Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week. She talks for the entire hour with Michael Holloman (Colville Confederated Tribes) about Japanese photographer Frank S. Matsura (1873-1913), the subject of the exhibition "Frank S. Matsura: Portraits from the Borderland" that opened on Feb. 1 at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. The exhibition examines Indigenous representation and identity during a period of regional transformation in the early years o...
Feb 06, 2025•57 min•Ep. 218
Will Falk is a biophilic author, attorney, and activist. He works with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and his law practice is focused on helping Native American communities protect their sacred sites. He is the author of two books. "How Dams Fall" describes his relationship with the Colorado River within the context of the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking rights for a major ecosystem that he helped to file against the Colorado Attorney General. "When I Set the Sweetgra...
Feb 06, 2025•55 min•Ep. 217
(REPEAT SHOW) Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest for the full hour is Dr. Emma McNicol. Emma is a feminist philosopher and expert on Simone de Beauvoir. She 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 ...
Feb 06, 2025•57 min•Ep. 216
(REPEAT SHOW) Tiokasin 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 about various possibilities involving the changes it will take for humankind in the Anthropocene. The language and attitude exposé it would take for the recognition...
Jan 19, 2025•59 min•Ep. 215
Tiokasin’s guest this week is our friend Ofelia Rivas. Ofelia is an elder and activist from the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. Ofelia says this on her website (oodhamrights.org): “The O’odham way of life is based on the land that has held the remains of our ancestors since the creation of this world. The O’odham did not migrate from anywhere according to our oral history. Our creation tellings record our history and teach the O’odham the principles of li...
Jan 19, 2025•55 min•Ep. 215
Ending the year… a selection of songs from our 2024 shows - Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse and listener favorites. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Orlando DuPont, 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 (Au...
Jan 01, 2025•55 min•Ep. 214
Tiokasin Ghosthorse and guest Anne Keala Kelly discuss representation and take the new Disney film "Moana 2" as the jumping off point for their conversation. They talk about the film and what's wrong with it for multiple cultural, spiritual and political reasons, and the way Disney and Hollywood continue to exploit Indigenous peoples and their cultures and profit from it. Keala is a Kānaka Maoli award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, podcaster, writer and activist living on Hawai'i Isl...
Jan 01, 2025•55 min•Ep. 213
"First Voices Radio" is honored to welcome Paul Crane Tohlakai to the show. Paul was born on the Navajo Nation in Arizona in 1950 near Pinon. His life began not without a struggle. He almost succumbed to life threatening illness but survived to become a one of the last of his generation to experience life that others only dream of. Upon finishing high school and attending one year at a university, he decided that what he had to learn was not indoors and set out what would be a life of roaming fr...
Jan 01, 2025•56 min•Ep. 212
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker. 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 euro-christian sch...
Jan 01, 2025•57 min•Ep. 211
From the "First Voices Radio" 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 do…but they're parts of me. They're no...
Nov 11, 2024•58 min•Ep. 210
Tiokasin's guest this week is Qacung Blanchett. Qacung is a founding member of Pamyua, the iconic tribal funk & Inuit soul crew. Qacung's been making waves for nearly three decades. With a passion that's pure fire, he's dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices through music, art, and culture. When he's not rocking the stage or producing music, Qacung's leading the charge as Creative Director of Áak'w Rock and shaping the future of Indigenous performance. With a trophy case full of accolades...
Nov 11, 2024•56 min•Ep. 210
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks returning guest and longtime friend of “First Voices Radio” Ukumbwa Sauti. Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Facilitator, Educator and Program Developer on issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men's Work, Consent and Culture. He has worked with religious organizations, cultural groups and regional organizations and has taught in higher education for 16 years engaging issues of Race, Gender, Environmental issues, Media and Culture. Ukumbwa has been a member ...
Oct 28, 2024•57 min•Ep. 209
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Sará Yafah King to “First Voices Radio.” Dr. King is a neuroscientist, artist, political and learning scientist, education philosopher, social impact entrepreneur, meditation teacher and story-teller. She is passionate about catalyzing humanity’s capacity to radically and lovingly witness themselves as “intergenerational beings, thereby catalyzing our ability to heal from intergenerational trauma. Dr. King is the CEO and founder of the companies MindHeart Co...
Oct 28, 2024•55 min•Ep. 209
