First Voices Radio

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Sará Yafah King to “First Voices Radio.” Dr. King is a neuroscientist, artist, political and learning scientist, education philosopher, social impact entrepreneur, meditation teacher and story-teller. She is passionate about catalyzing humanity’s capacity to radically and lovingly witness themselves as “intergenerational beings, thereby catalyzing our ability to heal from intergenerational trauma. Dr. King is the CEO and founder of the companies MindHeart Collective and MindHeart AI along with her co-founder Dr. Eve Ekman (the former head of well-being at Apple), an artificial intelligence start-up and design studio specializing in building platforms, software, and tools grounded in neuroscience, art, and contemplative practices to support the development of loving-awareness, Beloved Community, and healing. She is also the author of “The Science of Social Justice” framework for research and facilitation which theorizes that social justice and well-being are one and the same phenomena, as well as she is the inventor of the “Systems Based Awareness Map” (SBAM) — the world’s first theoretical map of human awareness — which her company is transforming into a technological platform that merges language and body-based storytelling to promote the well-being of individual and “collective nervous systems.” More about Dr. King and her work is at https://mindheartcollective.com/ Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer 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: Why Can’t We Live Together (live) Artist: Steve Winwood Album: Winwood: Greatest Hits Live (2017) Label: Wincraft Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Lorelei Williams. Lorelei is an Indigenous Salish/Coast Salish woman of the Skatin/Sts'Ailes Nations, living in Vancouver, Canada. She is the founder of Butterflies in Spirit and until recently, she also served as the Women's Coordinator at the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre, addressing Indigenous social justice issues. In addition, Lorelei has been an Indigenous counselor at the Rape Crisis Center (WAVAW) and coordinator of the Golden Eagle Rising Society, an Indigenous nonprofit organization that provides support, training and advocacy programs to initiatives and organizational efforts that promote and protect Indigenous lives throughout British Columbia. Lorelei has been active in Collecting Information on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Vancouver, and in urban political and community advocacy groups and relatives of the disappeared and murdered. It is because of her work that Lorelei received the 2017 Everyday Political Citizen Award from the Samara Center for Democracy and multiple other recognitions. She has also participated in the recovery of bodies of disappeared persons in Mexico, meeting with family members of the missing at the Winnipeg Landfill, the 2023 Women for Peace Festival in Colombia, the 2024 National Day of Victims of the Disappear in Mexico, and the 2024 International Indigenous Fashion Week in Paris. (Special thanks to Manuel Rozental and Pacho Natha for introductions and coordination of this interview!) Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer 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: Just Another Holy Man Artist: Floyd Red Crow Westerman Album: N/A Label: N/A 3. Song Title: Superstar (feat. Matthew Santos) Artist: Lupe Fiasco Album: Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool (2007) Label: 1st & 15th Entertainment and Atlantic Records 4. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me Artist: Mari Boine Album: Idjagie​đ​as - In the Hand of the Night (2006) Label: Norse Music 5. Song: Lost Children of Babylon Artist: The Venus Project featuring Rasul Allah, Cosmic Crusador, Atun Sen Geb and Emily Clibourn Album: Zeitgeist: The Spirit Of The Age (2010) Label: Soul Kid Records/Chambermusik 6. Song Title: Rebel Soul Artist: Raye Zaragoza Album: Women in Color (2020) Label: Rebel River Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Max Wilbert, a frequent guest and friend of "First Voices Radio." Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. Max is the author of two books, most recently "Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It," published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth. Max's work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere.Tiokasin and Max discuss Max's Sept. 15, 2024 column, "Alternative Cultures Are Beautiful and Important. They're Also Not Enough." Find Max's column on his Substack (Biocentric with Max Wilbert): https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/alternative-cultures-are-beautiful. And check out Max's new website, Protect the Coast PNW: https://www.protectthecoastpnw.org/Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio EditorKevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Guitar Solo Intro)Artist: Pink FloydAlbum: Wish You Were Here (1975)Label: Harvest (UK), Columbia/CBS (US)3. Song Title: Fool's OvertureArtist: SupertrampAlbum: Even in the Quietest Moments (1977)Label: A&M Records4. Song Title: Ball and ChainArtist: Xavier RuddAlbum: Jan Juc Moon (2022)Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

REPEAT SHOW. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dr. Ruby Gibson. 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 trauma recovery model Somatic Archaeology© and is the author of "My Body, My Earth," "The Practice of Somatic Archaeology," and "My Body, My Breath, A Tool for Transformation," which are available in English, Romanian and Spanish. Dr. Gibson developed and teaches an Historical Trauma Master Class, and builds leadership skills in Native Wellness amongst the graduates. She also teaches a Somatic Archaeology© Master Class for non-Native students. Using our Body and Mother Earth as benevolent sources of biological, emotional and ancestral memory, Dr. Ruby's techniques are being field tested among clients and students with amazing effectiveness. She is honored to witness the courage and amazing capacity that each person has to reconcile suffering. As the mother of four beautiful children, one granddaughter, and two grandsons, Dr. Ruby has a heart full of hope for the next seven generations! Contact Dr. Ruby at https://freedomlodge.org/, http://www.mybodymybreath.org/ and https://rubygibson.com/.Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerMalcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio KingstonTiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio EditorKevin Richardson, Podcast EditorMusic 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)2. Song Title: Antidrug (Single)Artist: Bridget LoudonLabel: Loudsound (2023)3. Song Title: Ship of FoolsArtist: World PartyAlbum: Private Revolution (1986)Label: Chrysalis Records4. Song Title: The PusherArtist: SteppenwolfAlbum: Steppenwolf (1968)Label: ABC Dunhill Records5. Song Title: That SmellArtist: Lynyrd SkynyrdAlbum: Street Survivors (1977)Label: MCA RecordsAKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Edzi’u, a Tahltan and Tlingit artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Edzi’u is an innovative songwriter and composer who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, elders’ stories, words, and their ethereal voice. Edzi’u is the gentlest balance of hard and soft, a non-binary 2-spirit Indigiqueer femme, their strength of identity resonates in their music to create a fullness of fierce spirit combined with an elegant grace. Their new music is full of thick synths, drums dripping with reverb and a mix of a modern take on 80s and 90s sounds that blends the nostalgic essence of Stevie Nicks, the raw emotional depth of Sharon Van Etten, and the atmospheric electronic textures of DRAMA. The result is a sonic river of pain and beauty that sweetly soars into a singular, healing journey. Tiokasin talks with Edzi’u about their new EP, “Tunnel Vision,” a poignant exploration of the cruelty of heartbreak, the painful truth of mistreatment, and the radiant journey of resurgence. With vulnerability and fortitude, each track lingers with the listener like a cherished memory. Edzi’u invites listeners into an auditory sanctuary where music serves as both refuge and revelation. In this sacred space, reclamation of self stands as the most powerful act of all. Edzi’u and their artistry is a beacon of auntie joy for queer and Indigenous communities and beyond, embodying resilience, grace, and unapologetic authenticity. Find out more about Edzi’ at https://www.edziumusic.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: Raven Clan Welcome Artist: Edzi'u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 3. Song Title: Can You Introduce Yourself in the Language Artist: Edzi’u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 4. Song Title: Not Enough Artist: Edzi’u Album: Tunnel Vision (2024) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 5. Song Title: You Don’t Wanna Know Me Artist: Edzi'u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 6. Song Title: Ego Death Artist: Edzi’u Album: Tunnel Vision (2024) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 7. Song Title: Warrior Song Artist: Edzi’u Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023) Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds 8. Song Title: Fly With Us (feat. Ara Eden) Artist: Sarita Album: Earth Anthems (2024) Label: Ancient Future Productions AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

FROM THE “FIRST VOICES RADIO” ARCHIVE. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talked with Rick Hill Sr., a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. Rick holds a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Museum Director, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM; and Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, SUNY Buffalo. He formerly served as Senior Project Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic Institute, Ohsweken, Ontario. Rick is an interpretive specialist to develop exhibitions for the recently renovated Mohawk Institute, the oldest Indian residential school in Canada. He is the Indigenous Innovation Specialist at Mohawk College in Hamilton and serves as a Cultural Advisor to FNTI in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Tiokasin and Rick talk about the changes the U.S. Constitution and its state at the time and the original intention and lived experience of the Haudenosaunee Confederation. Their conversation, although it took place a number of years ago is still extremely relevant to today. “Right now, this country is in a state of change and what I believe were sacred to the leaders, the founding [colonial] fathers were these ideals and the laws that they did to come up with a partnership with the Native nations, is being ignored by this current generation of Americans. I think that we have to look back at that these were seriously sacred promises, legal promises made, and if you abuse the First People of the land, how do you really expect your great-grandchildren to grow up and be able to celebrate democracy that you herald? It’s really about justice. I always say the Indians are the miners canary of American justice. How America treats the Native people, it’s going to symbolic of what is forthcoming as to how they’re going to treat the rest of the people.” — Rick Hill Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston 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: Hoka Hey Artist: N/A Album: N/A Label: N/A 3. Song Title: The Path (feat. Jeremy Koz) Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City Album: Code Red (2021) Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, MB, Canada 4. Song Title: After the Gold Rush Artist: Katie Pruitt Album: Ohio / After the Gold Rush (2020) Label: Rounder Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our friend Charles Lyons for a report on the Brazil and the Amazon. Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He recently completed a feature documentary about former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In 2023, Charles received a Conservando Juntos/ Earth Journalism Network grant (supported by USAID), to report on the continuing violence due to illegal gold mining within the Yanomami territory in the Amazon. His resulting article was published in Mongabay. Based in Rio, Charles has produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour and long-form news reports on deforestation and Indigenous rights in the Amazon supported by The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour, with a focus on marginalized communities in tribal lands and favelas. He has written editorials for The New York Times about suicides among the Guarani tribe in the southwest of Brazil and about the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon. More recently, Charles has covered illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Suriname. 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: Peyote Healing Artist: Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike Album: Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy (1998) Label: Capitol/EMI 3. Song Title: For the Earth Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Ettie Luckey (unreleased), 2013 Album: Unreleased Label: N/A 4. Song Title: What’s Going On Artist: Marvin Gaye Album: What’s Going On (1971) Label: Tamia (Motown subsidiary) 5. Song Title: Away From Here Artist: Smokey D. Palmtree Album: Peace of Mind (2021) Label: Gila River Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our dear friend Manuel Rozental for an update and riveting, important conversation. Manuel reports to us from Colombia. Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel has 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. 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: Who Discovered America Artist: Ozomatli Album: Street Signs (2004) Label: Real World/Concord 3. Song Title: Sea Gets Hotter Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications (feat. Aaron Frazer) Album: American Love Call (2019) Label: Dead Oceans 4. Song Title: Water is Life Artist: Luca Bloom Album: Refuge (2017) Label: Big Sky AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Marley Shebala back to the show. Marley Shebala, Diné and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger. Marley talks about the continuing, alarming issue of transporting uranium waste across portions of the Navajo Nation, which already started several years ago. Without any notice, the transportation of uranium waste is taking place not only at Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. This affects not only the Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada so communities need to find out where this transportation route goes. If the sovereign Navajo Nation is not being notified about this route it’s unlikely other communities (cities, towns and rural areas) are being notified about the transport of this waste through their communities and its dangers. People need to be aware of how uranium waste could contaminate people, roads, air, water, etc. (virtually everything). For years Marley has been covering the uranium issue on the 25,000 square-mile Navajo Nation. Most of the Navajo Nation has been contaminated by uranium. Many, may Navajo people have been suffering and continue to suffering from different cancers, children were and continue to be born with defects, etc. However, the US federal government thinks that depleted uranium can still be used: for weapons of war and by somehow turning uranium waste into a type of fuel that will be “clean” nuclear energy for household uses. This is a huge national, and global issue. There is a small group of Diné people traveling to DC at the end of September. They will be traveling in a bus and telling people along the way what they have gone through and asking others if they have also been poisoned and made sick by depleted uranium, too. For more background about today’s discussion, please visit “Requiem for RECA (Radiation Exposure Compensation Act)” by Kathy Helms, who has been covering this issue for years: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/requiem-reca-kathy-helms-ohuvc/. Follow Marley on Facebook, where she will be posting information about the DC trip and the activities that will happen there (as well as covering Navajo Nation activities): https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala. Additional important information about this issue and many others can be found on Marley’s website: http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/ About Marley: In the Diné way, Marley Shebala is Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan), her mother’s clan, and born for Cha’al (Frog clan), which is her father’s clan. Her mom is from Lake Valley, New Mexico, which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation and next to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Her father is from the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. Her hometowns are Lake Valley and Zuni. “Marley Shebala's Notebook” is her website where she provides current news coverage of the Navajo government and Navajo communities on and off the Navajo Nation. She also produces Navajo Nation environmental news and political analysis of the Navajo government and legislative process. Marley hosted "Politics on the Navajo Nation," an internet news show. But due to unreliable WIFI on the Navajo Nation where she resides, the weekly news show was cancelled until she can raise funds to increase WiFi power at her residence. She is available for presentations on the benefits of a free and open press in Indian Country and how to achieve accurate and fair news coverage of the Navajo Nation and Indian Country. Marley works part-time at the Gallup Independent newspaper, which is headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico. She is the only reporter at the Gallup Independent Diné Bureau in Window Rock, Arizona, which covers the Navajo Nation. Before working for the Gallup Independent, she worked as the Navajo Times newspaper’s’ Senior Reporter specializing in investigative reporting on politics, domestic violence, law enforcement, veterans and the environment. She also covered a wide range of general interest stories. Her stories have won numerous awards from state and national organizations over the more than 30 years she has been in journalism. 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: Blackbird Song Artist: Lee Dewyze as heard on AMC’s The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 13 “Along” Single Label: January 2014 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company, exclusively licensed to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 3. Song Title: Raglan Artist: Bruci Jordan Single: Raglan (2024) Label: Bruci Jordan 4. Song Title: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Artist: Traffic (Steve Winwood, Producer) Album: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971) Label: Island 5. Song Title: Ambrosia Artist: A Reminiscent Drive Album: A Reminiscent Drive (2001) Label: React AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

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 AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse