Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Marcie R. Rendon (White Earth Ojibwe) about her new book, “Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium,” which was recently published by the University of Minnesota Press. Marcie was included on Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 list of 31 Native American authors to read. She has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Cash Blackbear mystery series, the third volume of which, "Sinister Graves," was a 2023 Minnesota Book Award finalist. In 2020, Marcie received Minnesota’s McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2017, with poet Diego Vazquez, she received the Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women in the county jail system.
Marcie says, “The ancestors who walk with us sing our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them audible to people today. We still exist. Our ancestors exist. Our songs exist.”
More about Marcie can be found on her website: https://www.marcierendon.com/
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), 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: Everybody Knows
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: I’m Your Man (1988)
Label: Columbia
3. Song Title: Decho Drums
Artist: Dinetah
Album: N/A
Label: N/A
4. Song Title: Some of Us are Brave
Artist: Danielle Ponder
Album: Some of Us are Brave (2022)
Label: FUTURE CLASSIC
5. Song Title: All Come True
Artist: World Party
Album: Private Revolution (1986)
Label: Chrysalis
6. Song Title: Life of a Native
Artist: Okema
Album: Single (2019)
Label: Mixed, Mastered and Directed by Blu Barry
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