For today’s show, Patty spends the hour talking about Native foodways and the work of Wild Bearies in educating and building community through Indigenous cuisine with founder and executive chef Elena Terry of the Ho-Chunk Nation. From Indigenous seed distribution and decolonizing food to her own experiences butchering the hunt and foraging milkweed as a […]
Indigenous Perspectives on the Rights of Nature
“We have to take care of all of creation because it is us.” That’s Simone Senogles, who was arrested earlier this week for protesting Line 3, a pipeline expansion proposed by Enbridge to bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. Today, Simone and Casey Camp-Horinek join […]
Tracing the Zapatista Movement
Over the course of her twenty-five years on air, Friday host Esty Dinur has regularly offered coverage on the Zapatistas, a group of revolutionary Indigenous activists in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. For today’s show, we get updates on the Zapatista movement from journalist Kurt Hackbarth and writer and organizer Hilary Klein, who […]
Voting in Indian Country
With election day fast approaching tomorrow, today we turn our attention to the fight for Native American voting rights with Jean Reith Schroedel, author of the new book Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches. Jean Reith Schroedel is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy at Claremont Graduate University. She is […]
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Week with Kasey Keeler
Earlier this week, the U.S. celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day. For today’s show, we extend the holiday by sitting down with Dr. Kasey Keeler, professor of American Indian Studies, for a wide-ranging discussion of Indigenous issues in North America. The conversation covers an array of topics including the shift from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, […]
How COVID-19 Is Affecting Indigenous Communities
Indigenous communities are being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Today, we first take a look at how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting Native American communities with Jourdan Bennett-Begaye and Patty Talahongva of Indian Country Today. They talk about shortages at medical facilities, the importance of elders in Native cultures, the rise in cases in […]
