Host 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 through the mid-200...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 151
Sitting 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 of Maui and al...
Aug 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 150
For 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 and writing on...
Aug 08, 2023•59 min•Ep. 149
On 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 University of ...
Jul 31, 2023•57 min•Ep. 148
Tiokasin 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 African). Ch...
Jul 24, 2023•59 min•Ep. 147
In 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 artistic heri...
Jul 17, 2023•59 min•Ep. 146
In 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 the Catskill Ce...
Jul 11, 2023•59 min•Ep. 145
Host 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 matters of langu...
Jul 03, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 144
Host 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 transgenerational trau...
Jun 26, 2023•59 min•Ep. 143
Host 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. Tiokasin and Manuel d...
Jun 19, 2023•57 min•Ep. 142
This 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 stems from li...
Jun 12, 2023•58 min•Ep. 141
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 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 of capitalistic ...
Jun 06, 2023•59 min•Ep. 140
Max 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 Thacker Pass. He ...
May 29, 2023•57 min•Ep. 139
This 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 University as a...
May 22, 2023•55 min•Ep. 138
Zack 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 accomplices to p...
May 15, 2023•55 min•Ep. 137
Kevin Schot is a Norse-Gael descendant of the "Great Heathen Army" that settled in Scotland in the 800s. Kevin works purely for environmental and social regeneration and rehabilitation, as well as being a strong ally for Indigenous First Nation rights and reconciliation. At home in Sweden, he took on the struggle to follow original dreaming and build Scandinavia's first full scale Earthship by hand (completely sustainable home invented by architect Michael Reynolds in Taos New Mexico) and is on ...
May 08, 2023•59 min•Ep. 136
Don't just repudiate....rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Tiokasin welcomes Steven T. Newcomb back to the show for the full hour. Steve (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 and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religio...
May 01, 2023•58 min•Ep. 135
Four guests join Tiokasin in a roundtable discussion for the full hour. 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)...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 134
This week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Martín Prechtel, where they discussed topics related to his important and timeless book, “The Smell of Rain on Dust” (North Atlantic Books, 2015). The original broadcast aired in August 2022. Tiokasin will be back next week with a new episode. Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh ...
Apr 17, 2023•56 min•Ep. 133
This 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. Tiokasin will be back with a new episode the week of April 24th. Vanessa is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. Vanessa...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 132
This week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Indigenous plant medicine educator Joe Pitawanakwat from November 14th, 2021. Tiokasin will be back with a new episode on Sunday, April 23rd. Joe Pitawanakwat is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter. He is the Founder and Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now fully online, education based business, focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of...
Apr 03, 2023•57 min•Ep. 131
In the first half-hour, “First Voices Radio” Correspondent Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) talks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), CEO and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs. The Association has been tracking domestic and international auctions selling sensitive American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian cultural heritage since 2018. Bonhams Skinner, a large global auction house, has been hosting a 10-day American Indian and Tribal Art online auct...
Mar 27, 2023•57 min•Ep. 130
Tiokasin spends the full hour talking about Indigenous resistance and cultural survival in Peru with María Blanco and Aymar Accopacatty. Aymar, who has been a frequent guest this year, is an intercultural artist and museum textile conservator. He is a lifelong student of his Indigenous Aymara heritage, in honor of his Native community of Qullana Socca, Puno, Perú. María Blanco is the daughter of Hugo Blanco Galdós, “a living legend, one of a constellation of elders who have left this time of cal...
Mar 20, 2023•59 min•Ep. 129
Tiokasin spends the full hour with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism” (North Atlantic Books, 2021). 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 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/N...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 128
In the first half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Charles Lyons and Charlie Espinosa . They are the co-authors of “For some Colombians, vows of mining reform are just a flash in the pan” (Mongabay, Feb. 20, 2023: http://bit.ly/3mkZrEN ). Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He recently produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour, which included two long-form reports on deforestation and Indigenous rights. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
Mar 06, 2023•58 min•Ep. 127
Tiokasin 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 euro-christian s...
Feb 27, 2023•58 min•Ep. 126
In the first half-hour, Professor Angelique W. EagleWoman , (Wambdi A. Was’teWinyan), is a law professor, legal scholar, Chief Justice on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Supreme Court, and has served as a pro tempore Tribal Judge in several other Tribal Court systems. As a practicing lawyer, one of the highlights of her career was to serve as General Counsel for her own Tribe, the Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate. She is a citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation an...
Feb 20, 2023•58 min•Ep. 125
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse hosts another monthly roundtable. His guests tonight are Christian Matute Sagbay , Rad Pereira and Dioganhdih Hall . Christian Mature Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselve...
Feb 13, 2023•58 min•Ep. 124
Tiokasin continues a conversation started last week with Aymar Accopacatty . Aymar is an intercultural artist and museum textile conservator. He is a lifelong student of his Indigenous Aymara heritage, in honor of his Native community of Qullana Socca, Puno, Perú. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor...
Feb 06, 2023•59 min•Ep. 123
In the first half-hour, Tiokasin welcomes Sandra White Hawk . Sandra is the author of "A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return,” published in December 2022 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Sandra is a Sicangu Lakota adoptee from the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. She is the Founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute. First Nations Repatriation Institute is the first organization of its kind whose goal it is to create a resource for First Nations people impac...
Jan 30, 2023•57 min•Ep. 122
