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 school.
Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.
Tiokasin and Dr. Tinker dissect "It's Time to Rethink the Idea of 'Indigenous,'" by Manvir Singh (The New Yorker, Feb. 20, 2023).
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 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)
(00:00:22)
2. Song Title: School Days
Artist: Labi Siffre
Album: Man of Reason (1991)
Label: China Records
(00:30:10)
3. Song Title: Hidden Falls
Artist: Buffalo Weavers
Album: The Dark is Getting Bright (2020)
Label: N/A
(00:49:20)
4. Song Title: Who Set the World on Fire
Artist: Stick Figure
Album: Who Set the World on Fire (2019)
Label: Ruffwood Records
(00:51:55)
5. Song Title: Come As You Are
Artist: Nirvana
Album: Nevermind (1991)
Label: DGC Records
(00:55:48)
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