First Voices Radio

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 discuss the recent, extraordinary story of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and spent 40 days alone in the Colombian Amazon. Manuel relays new evidence and details of their experience from the Indigenous point of view. This is a story beyond what the mainstream media and the institutions are telling us. The truth has come out and is being largely ignored. The children—three girls of the Huitoto nation (ages 13, 9 and 11 months) and a boy age 4—survived a plane crash in the jungle, escaping from threats to their father by FARC dissidents. The mother died in the crash. The children, lead by the oldest girl, survived 40 days in the thickest jungle. Her skills and knowledge of the jungle made this possible. This is something that has astonished everyone. The Special Forces of the Colombian armed forces used all their technology to search and rescue them and failed. Except that they were joined by Indigenous guards and spiritual elders. It was an elder, Rubio, who meeting in ritual with the elder of the forest (spirit) lead to their location, and the Indigenous guard following his guidance found them alive. They are recovering well. Manuel says: “This is a message from the jungle and its people to the world! Women, indigenous knowledge, the Mother Jungle, the spiritual power and wisdom spoke. If we are to survive, we need these skills. A slap in the face to modernity and arrogance. An Indigenous guard who took part in the effort called for the rescue of all Indigenous children from the streets of the cities where they have been turned beggars and miserable, and committed everyone to rescue them from modernity. The story is being and will be exploited, but this truths must be known!” A very special thanks to our friend Manuel for this important perspective and what we know and will always remember. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Michael G. Haskins, Studio Engineer, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Manuel Blas, 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: Laugh Out Loud Artist: Hataałii Album: Singing Into Darkness (Release Date: June 30, 2023) Label: Dangerbird Records (00:50:20) 3. Song Title: From the Beginning Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer Album: Trilogy (1972) Label: Cotillion Records (00:53:00) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 listening to the earth’s oldest teachers—the plants around us. Robin’s first book, “Gathering Moss,” was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Robin’s writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s “On Being” with Krista Tippett and has addressed the general assembly of the U.N. about “Healing Our Relationships with Nature.” She lives in Syracuse, NY where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. As a writer and a scientist, Robin’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities but also restoration of our relationships to land. Robin holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, and MS and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. In 2022, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. For more information about Robin, visit https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Michael G. Haskins, Studio Engineer, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Manuel Blas, 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: Once Upon a Time in the West Artist: Dire Straits Album: Communiqué (1979) Label: Warner Records (00:52:39) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 societies steeped in warmongering languages, speculative logos, and denial of Indigenous cultures sustaining Earth, including harboring ideas to postpone the end of the world. Join Tiokasin and Alnoor as they focus on the broader transition from our current meta-crisis to adjacent possible futures. 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 Manuel Blas, 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: We Deserve to Dream Artist: Xavier Rudd Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022) Label: Armada Music (00:24:03) 3. Song Title: Vuoi Vui Me Artist: Mari Boine Album: In the Hand of the Night Idjagiedas (2006) Label: Lean AS (00:55:17) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 is also co-author of "Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It" (with Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith). Max’s Substack newsletter is the best way to get updates on his work. Ofelia Rivas is an elder and activist from the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. Ofelia’s 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 life. The survival of O’odham today is our him’dag.” Ofelia can be reached at her email address: 4oodhamrights@gmail.com. Tiokasin and Ofelia discuss a recent, tragic report in Censored News by Brenda Norrell. Raymond Mattia (Tohono O’odham), a lifelong friend of Ofelia, was recently shot 38 times by border patrol agents on the front steps of his home on the border when he had called them for help. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/statement-from-mattia-family-excessive.html 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: North of Superior Artist: Nadjiwan Album: The Great Sea (2023) Label: Heading North Music (Toronto, ON, Canada) (00:28:15) 3. Song Title: 1492 Artist: Earth Surface People CD: 500 Years (2021) Label: Underwater Panther Coalition (00:50:30) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 "leading Australian thinker," Munya is an accomplished author and barrister with degrees in anthropology and law. Educated in Australia and the United States, she is fascinated by comparative religions, languages, mythology and science, and is intrigued by the way in which they interact and inform each other. Munya’s book, "Journey into Dreamtime," is an easy guide to Aboriginal spirituality that explains Dreamtime concepts in a simple way. Munya's life purpose is to create better understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal people, leaving behind a legacy of Dreamtime wisdom for generations to come. Munya's long term vision is to create a fairer, more inclusive Australian society, which recognizes and pays respect to its First Nations people. Following Tiokasin’s talk with Munya, he and Malcolm Burn, FVR’s show engineer and host of “The Long Way Around” on Radio Kingston, discuss “greed,” while contemplating the title of the closing song, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” Tiokasin asks, "How does one get to rule the world?" Answer: "By turning your back on Mother Nature/Mother Earth." Following this train of thought, Tiokasin talks about greed, which he says is a “being,” a “value” that many people in the U.S. and Western Hemisphere don’t understand. What if greed had a “cost”; what if one had to “pay” something for greed? Malcolm says that "we live in a culture where greed is kind of celebrated and is expected on a certain level —turn on the television and everyone wants more of everything, bigger this, bigger that, more; our culture is consumer based." Both agree that greed is a characteristic of the wasicu and the windigo (the one who is never satisfied). Tiokasin says there is no ceremony to accept greed intelligently. Greed is a being. How is it treating you and how are you treating it?  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 Manuel Blas, 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 HuntersAlbum: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:22)2. Song Title: Lakota Calling Song / Dream Song / Doing Song / Being SongArtist: LakotaAlbum: N/ALabel: N/A(00:35:35)3. Song Title: Everybody Wants to Rule the WorldArtist: Tears for FearsAlbum: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985)Label: Phonogram / Mercury(00:45:40) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. About First Voices Radio: ”First Voices Radio,” now in its 31st year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world. 

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 participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency. His work has been exhibited at Artists Space, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lincoln Center, Walker Arts Center, and the Sundance Film Festival among other institutions. Zack is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Grant, and Gates Millennium Scholarship. Contact Zack at 1-888-newred1 and newredorder.org 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: Storm (SINGLE, 2023) Artist: Otyken Label: N/A (00:25:05) 3. Song Title: Red Flags feat. Aleah Bell Artist: PLEX Album: Who Am I To Judge? (2022) Label: Merilainen Music Inc. (00: 48:15) 4. Song Title: Imba Artist: Otyken Album: Kykakacha (2021) Label: Aboriginal Records (00:51:17) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 track to design and manifest the North's smallest ecological footprint for a family. He intends working in the same way for other families on completion of this after years of cold climate sustainability/regenerative research. After receiving a double certificate from Matt Powers "Advanced Permaculture Student Online" (APSO), he offers Design and Consultation services by donation, to his nonprofit organization "The Medicine Ways Co-operative" based in Sweden. The work continues today toward completing the Earthship known as the "Midgård Blackship" and has a YouTube channel following the progress called "Babble from the Bubble." Kevin is a determined voice against colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, slavery and the predatory form of invasive capitalism in the world. Kevin’s work can be supported through the fundraising private video diary/community-to-be at https://www.patreon.com/medicineways 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: Wela’lin (Thank You) Artist: Emma Stevens, Morgan Toney and SHiFT FROM THA 902 Single: 2021 Label: N/A (00:25:50) 3. Song Title: Survivin’ Artist: Bastille Album: Lost in Life (2021) Label: UME - Global Clearing House (00:44:00) 4. Song Title: Turning Away Artist: Dougie MacLean Album: Indigenous (1991) Label: Dunkeld Records (00:47:58) 5. Song Title: Tough Reckoning Artist: Timothy Hull Album: Reckoning from the Brightness of Being (1996) Label: N/A (00:53:20) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve and Tiokasin will be discussing the Vatican’s formal repudiation of the Doctrine in March of this year. Steve is the author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 and Chicago Review Press) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve is available for film screenings and talks. For more information and booking: http://originalfreenations.com/. 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: Mr. Soul Artist: Buffalo Springfield Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) Label: Atco Records (00:31:19) 2. Song Title: Fallen Angel Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Robbie Robertson (1987) Label: Geffen Records (00:43:08) 3. Song Title: In the Blood Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy (1998) Label: Capitol/EMI (00:48:37) 4. Song Title: Warrior Artist: Xavier Rudd Album: Nanna (2015) Label: Nettwerk (00:53:00) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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). Dioganhdih Hall, Mohawk of Akwesasne, is a Haudenosaunee community member and a two-spirit multi-disciplinary artist based in their traditional homelands in so called "upstate NY." Their medium of expression weaves between ancestral food cultivation, storytelling, community organizing, hip hop lyricism, beat production and sound engineering. Their primary focus of their work is claiming space for Native folks to re-Indigenize and find movement and joy in the interconnected liberation of our bodies, spirit and land. Dioganhdih is currently working on a food sovereignty project in the Hudson Valley called Iron Path farms (@ironpathfarms). Rad Pereira (they/them) is a queer trans (im)migrant artist and cultural worker of Pindorama, Abya Yala (Brasil) building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures. They are based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Haudenosaunee territory (northern Hudson Valley). They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film. They are building a Native led food sovereignty and world building project called Iron Path Farms. They are a solidarity economy organizer working across platforms, communities and industries. @______rad___. Kapi`olani A. Laronal, MA, Ed., is a descendant of the Haida (Eagle Clan, Sgwaa Gitanee, People of the Tall Grass), Tsimshian, Native Hawaiian, and Filipino. Kapi’olani’s experiences working with Native communities on ocean and land restoration projects, cultural preservation, and protocols have significantly shaped her academic and professional life. She is an educator, athlete, life coach, and consultant. 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 Manuel Blas, 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: Wicked System Artist: Fundamental Sound Album: Mirror of Time (2007) Label: Weaving Libra Records (00:29:40) 3. Song Title: The Happiest Days of Our Lives Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Wall (1979) Label: Columbia Records (00:54:35) 4. Song Title: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Wall (1979) Label: Columbia Records (00:56:28) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

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 approach. In his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. Martín’s books include: “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar”; “Long Life, Honey in the Heart”: “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun”; “Stealing Benefacio’s Roses”; “The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic” and “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise.” His latest book, “Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel” was published on June 8, 2021. More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/ 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 Manuel Blas, 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: Vuoi Vuoi Me Artist: Marie Boine Album: In the Hand of the Night Idjagiedas (2006) Label: Lean AS (00:18:48)  3. Song Title: Ukiuq Artist: The Jerry Cans Album: Inuusiq (2016) Label: Pheromone Distribution/Fontana North (00:23:30)  4. Song Title: Carnival Artist: Natalie Merchant Album: Tigerlily (1995) Label: Elektra (00:50:12)  AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.