Wednesday, January 27, 2010– Book of the Month: Summer of Sunflowers: (listen)
Although many of us may be covered in snow and ice, and the summer season is months away, we are bringing you a bit of its warmth. In her debut novel Cynthia Woodty (Navajo) unveils a murder mystery that keeps the reader eager to find out “whodunit?” It’s told from the point of view of a young Navajo woman named Shannon, when she returns home from Los Angeles to visit her grandmother on the Navajo reservation for the summer. Join us for our Book of the Month, as we begin to unlock the mystery of the new fiction novel “Summer of Sunflowers.”

Friday, February 19, 2010– Book of the Month: Red Alert!: (listen)
Native American scholar Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi/Muscogee) has published a thoughtful, forward-looking treatise that serves as a Native response to the environmental crisis facing our planet. The book seeks to debunk the modern myths that humankind is the center of creation and that it exerts control over the natural world. Taking a hard look at the biggest problem that we face today – the damaging way we live on this earth – Wildcat draws upon ancient Native American wisdom and nature-centered beliefs to advocate a modern strategy to combat global warming.

Friday, March 26, 2010–Book of the Month: One Small Sacrifice: (listen)
A new book by award-winning journalist Trace DeMeyer (Shawnee/Cherokee) called “One Small Sacrifice: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects” explores the history and practice of closed adoption as a form of ethnic cleansing of the American Indian. Her ground breaking memoir includes testimony to the U.S. Senate in 1976 concerning the Indian Adoption Projects operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Child Welfare League of America, when one quarter of all Indian children were removed from their families and placed with non-Indians.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010– Book of the Month: America’s First Warriors: (listen)
In 2006, Steven Clevenger (Osage) began a three-year project following Native American soldiers into war in Iraq and back home again. He wanted to document the warrior tradition, the war experience, and to reveal the cultural acceptance sometimes withheld from American soldiers. While there, he shot candid moments of the soldiers at war and conducted interviews in a combat zone. He also captured stirring moments of grief, apprehension, and the day-to-day life of the war weary Iraqi people. The resulting images and interviews with these Native men and women comprise America's First Warriors.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010– Book of the Month: X-Marks: (listen)
During the 18th and 19th centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. In his new book titled “X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent”, author Scott Richard Lyons (Leech Lake Ojibwe) argues for a greater recognition of the diversity of Native America and considers the implications of the idea of an Indian nation. Do Indians have the right to choose a non-traditional way of living, thinking and being without fear of being condemned as inauthentic?

Wednesday, June 30, 2010– Book of the Month: In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided: (listen)
Time and time again it has been proven that the legal system has formed the world we live in today as Natives. One Native author traces how our Native life has been shaped and at times eaten away by the legal system. In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided, Walter Echo-Hawk explores how several court decisions have affected Indian Country. Do you believe the goal of the legal system is to achieve a universal measure of truth and justice? Guests include Pawnee author Walter Echo-Hawk, Counsel to the Crowe & Dunlevy law firm.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010–Book of the Month: The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars: (listen)
The right for American Indians and Alaska Natives to self-governance and self-determination is drawing much less debate these days. There is little doubt, especially among Native people ourselves, that these rights are inherent. But it took a couple of men, Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Forrest Gerard (Blackfeet), to set America on this course. Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock) tells the story of how these two men changed the landscape of Indian affairs and sold the premise and the promise of Indian sovereignty, in his new book titled “The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars.” Trahant and Gerard join us in Studio 49.

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