Season 1 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” Radio Show
Show #1: Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee), President and Executive Director of The Morning Star Institute, discusses the state of Indian Country on Capitol Hill. Original air date: 2-05-07
Show #2: Richard Velky (Schaghticoke), Chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation on the politics of their struggle for federal recognition and the role of the state of Connecticut in opposing them. Original air date: 2-12-07
Show #3: Randolph Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oklahoma University, on his book, Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker. Original air date: 2-19-07
Show #4: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. (Kanaka Maoli) offers an overview of Hawaiian sovereignty politics and the contested
terrain of federal recognition and proposed legislation to confine Kanaka Maoli to a domestic dependent nation. Original air date: 2-26-07
Show #5: Robert J. Miller (citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma), Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School, discusses his book,
Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny. Original air date: 3-5-07
Show #6: David Cornsilk (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), journalist and activist, discusses the recent vote at Cherokee Nation to disenfranchise the Freedman descendants and the history of Cherokee slave holding, citizenship, and sovereignty issues. Original air date: 3-12-07
Show #7: Ned Blackhawk, Ph.D. (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone), Associate Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on his book, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Original air date: 3-19-07
Show #8: Richard Anguksuar LaFortune (Yup’ik), Director of 2SPR: Two Spirit Press Room, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Native media
& cultural literacy project. Original air date: 3-26-07
Show #9: Dale Turner, Ph.D. (Temagami First Nation in Northern Ontario, Canada), Associate Professor of Government and American Indian
Studies at Dartmouth College, discusses his book, This is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy. Original air date: 4-09-07
Show #10: Brian Baguck Wescott, Ph.D. (Koyukon and Yup’ik nations), co-producer, filmmaker, and actor discusses his docudrama, “We Are Still Here,” an educational biopic about Cahuilla elder Katherine Siva Saubel from Banning, CA, and a new documentary series in development, tentatively titled “The 20th Century Indian Show,” which will be written by novelist Thomas King, and directed by Chris Eyre. Original air date: 4-23-07
Show #11: Host J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. (Kanaka Maoli) offers an overview of current political issues facing tribal nations in New England and the role of the states in opposing their quest for sovereign recognition. Original air date: 4-30-07 (RECORDING UNAVAILABLE)
Show #12: Sarah Deer (Muscogee) attorney, Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist for the Tribal Law & Policy Institute in Saint Paul, Minnesota, discusses a report just released by Amnesty International USA on April 24, 2007, titled, “Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women From Sexual Violence in the USA”. Original air date:5-7-07
Show #13: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. (Kanaka Maoli), Ph.D. discusses “the Akaka bill,” a flawed and federally driven legislative proposal awaiting a vote in the US Senate for the federal recognition of Native Hawaiians as a domestic dependent governing entity. Original air date: 5-14-07
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