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A new wave of summer missionaries will soon flock to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Journalist Mary Annette Pember (Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe) tracked where the money raised to help Oglala Sioux tribal members goes. Her latest piece in Indian Country Today is titled, “Seasonal complaint: ‘Missionaries are on our reservation.‘” Also, College Horizons has some perspective about how the college bribery scandal affects Native students trying to get into college.
Guests:
Arlo Iron Cloud Sr. (Lakota) – communications coordinator at Thunder Valley CDC and DJ at KILI radio station
Mary Annette Pember (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) – independent journalist and writer
Jourdan Bennett-Begaye (Diné) – reporter and correspondent for Indian Country Today
Pauly Denetclaw (Diné) – staff reporter for the Navajo Times and tribal media fellow for Indian Country Today
Carmen Lopez (Navajo) – executive director of College Horizons
Also mentioned on the show:
The Atlantic: Death By Civilization by Mary Annette Pember
Indian Country Today: Who will be next? ‘One of the hardest jobs in the world,’ leading the National Congress of American Indians by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye
Indian Country Today: A Native Embassy Row? Navajo Nation is looking for a DC home by Pauly Denetclaw
Break 1 Music: Tataria (song) Gabriel Ayala (artist) Shades Of Blue (album)
Break 2 Music: Hummingbird (song) The Jir Project Band (artist) The Pueblo (album)
