Native America Calling

Monday, March 7, 2022 – Buy Indian Act

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Host: Shawn Spruce

After more than a century, a pending update to the Buy Indian Act could provide a major boost for Native contractors and other Native-owned businesses doing business with the U.S. Department of Interior. One key provision of the update would clear regulatory hurdles for Native contractors working with the Indian Health Service and prioritize hiring Native labor. We’ll find out how the act could help Native businesses and tribal economies.

 

Guests:

Santiago Almaraz, director of the Office of Management Services at the Indian Health Services
Kay Bills, president of Strategic Native American Partnerships

 

Break 1 music: Intertribal (song) Sweetgrass (artist) Follow the Trial (album)

Break 2 music: Eagle Dance REMIX (song) Decontie & Brown (artist) Ancestors (album)

Friday, March 4, 2022 – Tribal bison restoration

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Native mothers are more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white counterparts. The numbers are much worse for urban Native populations. We’ll have pre-natal experts go over the risks and the efforts to improve the troubling statistics.

 

 

GUESTS

Troy Heinert, executive director of the Intertribal Buffalo Council

Lucille Contreras, CEO and founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project

Philip Little Thunder Sr., spiritual advisor of the Buffalo Field Campaign

Lisa Iron Cloud, cultural foods manager for Makoce Agriculture Development

Break 1 music: Happy Sundance (song) Dallas Arcand (artist) Modern Day Warrior (album)

Break 2 music: Remembering the Warrior (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Thursday, March 3, 2022 – Mitigating pregnancy risks

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Host: Andi Murphy

Native mothers are more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white counterparts. The numbers are much worse for urban Native populations. We’ll have pre-natal experts go over the risks and the efforts to improve the troubling statistics.

 

 

 

GUESTS

Nicolle Gonzales, founder and midwifery director of the Changing Woman Initiative

Norma Rabbitskin (seen above with her grandson), senior health nurse for the Sturgeon Lake First Nation

Shirley Bighead, director of health for Sturgeon

Break 1 music:  New Women Song (feat. Jennifer Kreisberg) (song) Cris Derksen (artist) Cris Derksen: Orchestral Powwow (album)

Break 2 music: Remembering the Warrior (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 – Identifying and removing offensive place names

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The U.S. Interior Department identified nearly 700 federal place names using the S word. The list is the most significant step yet in forever removing the term from maps and signposts, much less the lexicon of acceptable place names. Some states are moving ahead with laws to legally force the name change in places not covered by the current federal push.
Today on Native America Calling, Andi Murphy speaks with Paul Spitler, senior legislative policy manager for the Wilderness Society; Maria Givens, co-founder and partner of Tahoma Peak Solutions; Dr. Walter C. Fleming, Department Head of the Native American Studies Department at Montana State University; and Sarah Sunshine Manning, NDN Collective Director of Communications.
Break 1 music: Plains Vs Coast, Pt 2 (song) Fawn Wood (artist) Iskwewak (album)
Break 2 music: Remembering the Warrior (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 – The Native history of Yellowstone National Park

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Long before it was a national park, Yellowstone was an important place for at least two dozen tribes. Documented Native connections to the land go back at least 10,000 years. This year, Yellowstone is marking its 150th year as a federal national park. The dedication by President Ulysses S. Grant was the final blow to unrestricted use of the land by tribes.

Guests:

Dr. Shane Doyle (Apsáalooke) – educational and cultural consultant

Robyn Rofkar (Eastern Shoshone and Confederated Salish and Kootenai) – administrative assistant for the Eastern Shoshone Cultural Center

Lynette St. Clair (Eastern Shoshone) – Indian education coordinator for Fort Washakie School

 

Break 1 music: Traveling Song (song) Judy Trejo (artist) Circle Dance Songs of the Paiute and Shoshone (album)

Break 2 music: Remembering the Warrior (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Monday, February 28, 2022 – Native voters face new hurdles

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Host: Andi Murphy

Wisconsin is the latest state to pass a slate of new voting laws that put up barriers for many voters. Native voters and those of color could be disproportionately turned away by the measures. Wisconsin’s governor promised to veto the legislature’s bills. Native voting advocates in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and elsewhere are expressing alarm over new laws that might limit election participation.

Guests:

Jacqueline De Leon (Isleta Pueblo) – staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund

Ta’jin Perez (Totonac) – deputy director of Western Native Voice

 

Break 1 music: Get Up Stand Up (song) Bailey Wiley, Che Fu, King Kapisi, Laughton Kora, Maisey Rika & Tiki Taane (artist) Get Up Stand Up (single)

Break 2 music: Remembering the Warrior (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs Of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Friday, February 25, 2022 – The Menu: ‘Illegal’ sugarbush ceremony; healing Indigenous café; and bison return to Texas Apache land

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The Detroit Police Department issued an apology after officers abruptly closed down a sugarbush ceremony in a public park. Café Gozhóó in Arizona is back open fulfilling and healing meals for those recovering from substance abuse. A herd of bison are adjusting to their new home in Waelder, Texas, the traditional homelands of the Lipan Apache; And, the Bering Straits Native Corporation share their culinary stories and community recipes in the new “Tundra to Table” cookbook.

Guests:

Rosebud Bear-Schneider (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewas) – Anishinaabe farmer, food educator and Detroit sugarbush organizer

Nephi Craig (White Mountain Apache) – nutritional recovery program coordinator at Café Gozhóó which is a part of the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s Rainbow Treatment Center

Lisa Wedin (Bering Straits Native Corporation shareholder) – social media and communication coordinator for the Bering Straits Native Corporation

Lucille Contreras (enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas) – CEO and founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project

 

Break 1 Music:  Unconquered (song) Injunuity (artist) Unconquered (album)

Break 2 music: Euphony (song) Nitanis “Kit” Largo (artist) Serenity (album)

Thursday, February 24, 2022 – A conversation with Cynthia Chavez Lamar

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When Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo) took the helm of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., she became the first Native woman to serve as a Smithsonian museum director. She has a long history of museum administration, which includes directing the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

 

Break 1 Music: We Danced Movement I (song) Cris Derksen (artist) The Cusp (album)

Break 2 music: Euphony (song) Nitanis “Kit” Largo (artist) Serenity (album)

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 — Snow snakes and other traditional winter games

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It’s the time of year when snow snakes are racing across the frozen open spaces in the Upper Midwest, northeast and wherever else there is adequate snow cover. They are not actual snakes, but a game to see who can throw carved and decorated wooden sticks the farthest. It’s one of the traditional Native winter games seeing a surge in popularity thanks to culture and language revitalization efforts.

Guests:

Paul DeMain (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Ojibwe descent) – chairman of the board of directors of Honor the Earth and an organizer of the Inter-Tribal Nations Snow Snake Festival

Susan Ninham (Ojibwe) – teacher and games organizer

Jon Greendeer (Ho-Chunk) – health and wellness coordinator for the Ho-Chunk Nation and first first place winner of the 0-54 category at the first

Wayne Valliere (Ojibwe and member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians) – director of language and culture at the Lac du Flambeau Public Schools

 

Break 1 music: Pow Wow Song #8 (song) Red Lake Singers (artist) Old Times (album)

Break 2 music: Euphony (song) Nitanis “Kit” Largo (artist) Serenity (album)

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 – Are Native businesses and consumers ready for 5G?

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5G wireless technology promises to revolutionize everything from business transactions to online gaming. But already worries are surfacing about how smooth the transition will be. What will be the fallout—and costs—for rural reservation residents that already come up short when it comes to connectivity?

Guests:

Geoffrey Blackwell (Omaha/Chickasaw/Choctaw/Muscogee Creek) – chief strategy officer and general counsel for Amerind Risk and former chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s office of Native Affairs and Policy

CC Hovie (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) – StrongHearts Native Helpline communications manager

Dr. Traci Morris  (Chickasaw Nation) – executive director of the American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University

 

Break 1 music: Siku (song) Pamyua (artist) Caught In The Act (album)

Break 2 music: Euphony (song) Nitanis “Kit” Largo (artist) Serenity (album)

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