First Voices Radio

From the 2000 program archive. Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage. Means was active in international issues of Indigenous peoples, including working with groups in Central and South America and with the United Nations for recognition of their rights. He was active in politics at his native Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and at the state and national level. Beginning an acting career in 1992, he appeared on numerous television series and in several films, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Pocahontas” and released his own music CD. Means published his autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread,” in 1995. He was given the name Waŋblí Ohítika meaning “Brave Eagle” in the Lakota language. He talks about an array of topic but mostly patriarchy and matriarchy, and what it means to become a “Pow Wow” Indian. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Sacred Black Hills Artist: Larry Long Album: Fun for Freedom / Sweet Thunder (1984) Label: Flying Fish Records (00:30:00) 3. Song Title: Don’t Wanna Fight Artist: Alabama Shakes Album: Sound and Color (2015) Label: ATO Records (00:47:19) 4. Song Title: He Sapa Ki, Un Kita Pi Artist: Earl Bullhead Album: Keeper of the Drum (1995) Label: Soar Records (00:53:38) 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 is back this week with a very special show. He will begin with an untitled musical track featuring Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Duduk, voice and Native flute. Tiokasin will talk about the conference that he recently attended in Portugal. In the second half-hour, from our extensive archive stretching back 31 years: Darlene and Willard Pipeboy were frequent guests on First Voices ‘Indigenous’ Radio (as it was known at the time) from 1999 through the mid-2000s. Both carried knowledge and common sense of the Lakota and Dakota wichohan (life ways). This interview was drawn from the 2003 archive before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, before the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan in 2011, and other events as the Western world and Earth continue to clash. Please listen to these two Wakán (note: there is not really a word for “elder” since it is a noun). Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Artists: Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse (00:02:38) 3. Song Title: Sunrise Moon Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse Album: Somewhere in There (2016) Label: Ghosthorse (00:10:57) 4. Song Title: Psychos Artist: Jenny Lewis Album: Joy’All (2023) Label: Blue Note Records (00:13:20 ) 5. Song Title: Conquer Artist: RIVVRS Album: Unfamiliar Skin (2016) Label: Rogue Fire (00:20:42) 6. Song Title: Ball and Chain Artist: Xavier Rudd, J-Milla Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022) Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D) (00:25:00) 7. Song Title: What About Me? Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service Album: What About Me? (1970) Label: Capitol Records (00:53:50) 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

Sitting in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week is First Voices Radio’s Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), an independent journalist, filmmaker and activist from Moku Nui (Big Island) in the illegally occupied Hawaiian Islands. Keala begins with commentary about this past week’s deadly wildfires that completely destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui, located on the island’s west side. Lahaina is the historic seat of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Fires are still burning in other areas of Maui and also on Moku Nui. For the majority of the hour, Keala speaks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), CEO and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs, continuing a conversation about repatriation that was begun in March 2023 on this program. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 22 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. She has served Indian Country in the private sector as an attorney, leading a large national firm’s Indian law practice that worked to strengthen, maintain and protect Indian nation sovereignty, self-determination and culture. More information at: https://www.indian-affairs.org/. This episode ends with a tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, “… who became a warrior woman and stood up to call out the centuries of soul-devouring abuse heaped on children by the Catholic church. It happened to the Irish and we all know it happened to the First Peoples of the Americas and other colonized countries.” — Anne Keala Kelly Production Credits: Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Co-Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Danny Boy (single) Artist: Sinead O’Connor Description: Sung acapella on 12/24/1993 broadcast of The Late Late Show (Irish Talk Show) (00:49:35) 3. Song Title: Natural Mystic Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers Album: Exodus (1977) Label: Island Records (00:54:05) 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

For this week's episode, we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Steven T. Newcomb. For the replay, Tiokasin recorded some additional commentary at the end and added a few new music selections. Don’t just repudiate….rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Steven T. Newcomb (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 discuss the Vatican’s formal repudiation of the Doctrine in March 2023. 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 Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Mr. Soul Artist: Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil Young) Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) Label: Atco Records (00:30:23) 3. Song Title: Fallen Angel Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Robbie Robertson (1987) Label: Geffen Records (00:42:10) 4. Song Title: Blackbird Song Artist: Lee DeWyze Album: The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2 Label: Republic Records (00:47:08) 5. Song Title: The Stray Artist: Ellen Benevides (Apache) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on flute Unreleased Single: 2003 Label: Ghosthorse (00:53:54) 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

On this week's show, Darryl Leroux returns to "First Voices Radio" to spend the entire hour with Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Tiokasin and Darryl will discuss Darryl's new article, “State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting,” which was published in the latest issue of American Indian Culture & Research Journal, a leading, peer-reviewed Native American Studies/Indigenous Studies journal in the U.S. Darryl is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is French-Canadian from northern Ontario, Canada. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Stolen Lands Artist: Julian Taylor Album: Beyond the Reservoir (2022) Label: Howling Turtle (00:22:20) 3. Song Title: Robbie Robertson Artist: Remembrance Album: Sinematic (2019) Label: UME Direct (00:51:22) 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

Tiokasin spends the hour with Jonathan Gonzales and Christian Matute Sagbay. Jonathan 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). Christian Matute Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: In the Land of the Blind Artist: Cy Curnin Album: Lockdown (2020) Label: Self-Released (00:28:45) 3. Song Title: I Am My Own Worst Enemy (single) Artist: Cy Cumin Album: N/A (single) Label: N/A YouTube: https://youtu.be/zOO5szEjnM4 (00:53:02) 4. Song Title: Remembrance Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Sinematic (2019) Label: UME Direct (00:56:35) 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 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. 

In the first half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs, Yakama and Diné), executive director since 2018 of The Museum at Warm Springs in Warm Springs, Oregon. The Museum opened its doors to the public on March 14, 1993 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary throughout 2023 with special exhibits, public programs and events. Built to Smithsonian Institution professional standards, The Museum’s mission is to preserve, advance and share the traditions, cultural and artistic heritage of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. Elizabeth is an internationally renowned poet, author, essayist and visual artist. She is also an educator, mentor, collaborator and community leader. In 2016, Elizabeth became the first Native American to be named Oregon’s Poet Laureate. Find out more about The Museum at Warm Springs at museumatwarmsprings.org In the second half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Charles Lyons and Christian Poirier about Charles’ July 11, 2023 article for the environmental news site Mongabay, titled “Six months on, the Yanomami crisis continues amid rising violence.” The article was produced with funding from Earth Journalism Network. Charles, who is based in Rio de Janeiro, is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He is currently making a documentary film about former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He is senior consultant for Amazon Aid Foundation. Last year, Charles produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour, which included two long-form reports –– one on deforestation in the Amazon; the other on Indigenous rights. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce and edit coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour. He is currently writing a series of articles on illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries for Mongabay. Christian Poirier is a senior member of Amazon Watch’s team. Having coordinated the Brazil Program since 2009, Christian helped lead international solidarity campaigns to halt the construction of large Amazon dams and to call on the global private sector to cease its complicity in environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon. He has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of international development and advocacy, focusing on environmental, agrarian, and social justice issues. Read Charles’ article at https://bit.ly/43wEXJ8 Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Ramirez (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) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Joy’All Artist: Jenny Lewis Album: Joy’All (2023) Label: Blue Note/Capitol (00:28:39) 3. Song Title: Mad World Artist: Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (2001) Label: Down Up Down Music (00:56:20) 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 

In the first half-hour, mycologist John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi. As former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, John co-founded the Catskill Regional Mycoflora Project as well as the Gary Lincoff Memorial Scholarship. He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He is an instructor for the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification courses in NY. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production. John has presented at the New York Botanical Gardens, Telluride Mushroom Festival, and North American Mycological Association Annual Foray, as well as several colleges and universities. His goal is to educate and inspire people to work with fungi to improve their health, communities, and the environment. More information about Catskill Fungi can be found at https://catskillfungi.com/. Special Report: In the second half-hour, “First Voices Radio” looks at a story that has not gotten much attention in the news, despite recent developments coming out of Albany, NY. It’s about Indigenous recognition and sovereignty, particularly on Long Island. The fight for the Montaukett Indian Nation to be reinstated as a state-recognized tribe might have an end in sight with the passage of a new bill in the New York state senate that passed unanimously on May 31. This comes more than a century after the Montaukett lost their recognition in the infamous 1910 Pharaoh v. Benson case. This legislative action comes with calls both locally in New York and nationwide to rise up for Indigenous sovereignty. Recently, Native paddlers from tribes all over the country paddled more than 1,500 miles in the northeast to call attention to these issues and defend their water rights. Hofstra University Graduate Journalism Student Cody Hmelar caught up to the canoers when they reached New York and prepared this audio feature for the hyper-local online news site, The Long Island Advocate. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer 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: Radioactive Artist: Imagine Dragons Album: Night Visions (2012) Label: KIDinaKORNER (00:25:20) 3. Song Title: I’m Going Home Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie Album: Coincidence and Likely Stories (1992) Label: Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI (00:49:40) 4. Song Title: Ghost Dance Song Artist: Red Shadow Singers Album: Ghost Dance Songs (2004) Label: Arbor Records Ltd. (00:52:42) 5. Song Title: Riders on the Storm Artist: The Doors Album: Classics from The Doors (1971) Label: Revolver Music (00:55:30) 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 Miryam Yataco back to “First Voices Radio.” Miryam is a Quechua Peruvian-born language rights advocate, an expert in bilingualism, and a sociolinguist. Her work is rooted in the idea of language rights as human rights. In Peru, Miryam worked with Quechua Indigenous Congress women as a congressional assistant in matters of language rights. Miryam is a former faculty member at New York University where she worked for 22 years. She has published on matters of language policies, Indigenous language/territory reclamation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization of knowledge and power. Miryam is currently a research associate at the Linguistic Department within Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and she is a founder member of a group of Indigenous scholars and activists forwarding the aims of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer 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: Iron Sky Artist: Paolo Nutini Album: Caustic Love (2014) Label: Atlantic Records (00:29:40) 3. Song Title: Land Rights Artist: Xavier Rudd Album: White Moth (2007) Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D) (00:45:05) 4. Song Title: Mind Control Artist: Stephen Marley Album: Mind Control (2007) Label: Tuff Gong (00:51:15) 5. Song Title: States I’m In Artist: Bruce Cockburn Album: Bone on Bone (2017) Label: True North (00:56:05) 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 Dr. Ruby Gibson to “First Voices Radio.” 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 a 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 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: Antidrug (Single) Artist: Bridget Loudon Label: Loudsound (2023) (00:28:19) 3. Song Title: Ship of Fools Artist: World Party Album: Private Revolution (1986) Label: Chrysalis Records (00:43:15) 4. Song Title: The Pusher Artist: Steppenwolf Album: Steppenwolf (1968) Label: ABC Dunhill Records (00:48:48) 5. Song Title: That Smell Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd Album: Street Survivors (1977) Label: MCA Records (00:54:42) 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