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Host: Shawn Spruce
A viral video of a California teacher resorting to objectionable Native stereotypes in the classroom begs the question: what will it take to get the message across? Some pockets of the population remain blind to mandatory diversity training and public education campaigns designed to end culturally insensitive comments and actions. (This is an encore show so we won’t be taking listeners’ calls)
Guests:
Dr. Sherry Johnson (enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) – education director for the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation tribal citizen) – publisher and editor of “Native News Online” and “Tribal Business News”
James Fenelon (Dakota and Lakota, Gaelic Irish and Norsk) – Lang visiting professor for Social Change at Swarthmore College and professor of sociology at California State University San Bernadino
Break 1 Music: Indians Never Die (song) Black Belt Eagle Scout (artist) Mother Of My Children (album)
Break 2 music: Encouragement Pipe Song (song) Joseph Shields, Jr. (artist) Wahancanka [Remember Me Grandfather] (album)
Thank you for making space to talk about this issue, acknowledging pain trauma this continues to cause, as well as problem solving ideas to empower us to address it. As Alaskan, parent and an educator, I’m proud to say we have beautiful resource available to the entire state and because of internet, the world, Alaska Native Knowledge Network. http://www.ankn.uaf.edu