Facing Our Hard History (The Boarding School Episode)

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What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

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Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

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How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Sikowis (in exile) …

Christine Diindiisi McCleave, Ethel Blind, and Janna Pratt join us to talk about “Residential Schools” and working towards truth, justice, and healing from genocidal policy set forth by the US and Canada that allowed christian clergy to neglect, rape, torture, and murder Indigenous children.

Christine Diindiisi McCleave is Chief Executive Officer of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and an enrolled citizen of Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Nation. She has dedicated her life and work to pursuing truth and healing for the Indigenous survivors of historical trauma at the hands of colonialism and settler-states. In 2020, Christine was instrumental in writing H.R.8420 – Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act—the first-ever bill introduced to establish a commission addressing boarding school policy in the U.S.

Ethel Blind is a nehiyaw-iskwew from the George Gordon First Nation in Canada and is a residential school survivor herself and uses that experience to help heal others. She is a registered social worker who has worked many years in First Nations communities in Saskatchewan, Alberta and the NorthWest Territories. She has 28 years of experience as a contracted mental health therapist with First Nations and Inuit Health through Indigenous Services Canada. Her work focuses on life events on ancestral and historical trauma: childhood issues, grief/loss/ suicidal ideology/depression, substance abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence, and the residential school legacy.

Janna Pratt is from the George Gordon First Nation in Treaty 4 territory. Janna is a fourth-generation residential school survivor, whose passion is to raise residential school awareness. As a Storyteller, she shares her love of her People’s history and the stories they have told. Janna believes a better understanding of History will bring all Canadians together and move forward to reconciliation, which can’t be done until all stories are heard. She is currently working on a project about the Muskowekan First Nation residential school in order to tell the radical truth of what happened there and was inspired to tell this story by her grandmother who went to this school.