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Vice President Kamala Harris will wrap up the Democratic National Convention, a climax to the four-day political spectacle to launch the vice president into the home stretch toward the November election. A presidential candidate for barely a month, Harris makes her best case to lead the nation for the next four years. If voters choose Harris, what could her administration mean for Native Americans? We’ll examine her record on the Indian Child Welfare Act, sovereignty, consultation, and honoring treaties. We’ll draw from her work as a U.S. senator, California attorney general, and vice president when it comes to issues important to Native Americans.

GUESTS

Chris Roberts (Choctaw), Mayor of Shoreline, Wash.

Gabriella Cázares-Kelly (member of the Tohono O’odham Nation), Pima County recorder

Robert Miguel (Ak-Chin), chairman of the Ak-Chin Indian Community

Xochitl Torres Small, Former New Mexico congresswoman

Shaun Griswold (Laguna, Zuni, and Jemez Pueblo), editor of Source New Mexico

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

Break 2 Music: Current (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album)

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Even if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the White House, her agenda is dependent on what happens in Congressional elections. Since entering the race a few short weeks ago, Harris’ favorability has risen in polls—and once wary Democratic candidates are starting to see her as a strength. We’ll discuss what’s at stake for Native issues when it comes to other national elections and whether Harris has momentum enough to make a difference in races other than her own.

GUESTS

Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), editor and publisher of Tribal Business News and the founder, publisher, and editor of Native News Online

Neely Bardwell (descendant of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian), political editor for Native News Online

Shaun Griswold (Laguna, Zuni and Jemez Pueblo), editor of Source New Mexico

Pauly Denetclaw (Diné), political correspondent for ICT

Break 1 Music: Intertribal Song (song) Black Lodge (artist) Enter the Circle – Pow-Wow Songs Recorded Live at Coeur D’Alene (album)

Break 2 Music: Current (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album)

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Beyond building momentum for the presidential candidates, there is some work to do at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Native delegates have a voice in developing the platform that Democrats look to as the blueprint to effect policy. How much of what the policy direction relates to issues important to Native Americans? We’ll zero in on how sovereignty, ICWA, the trust responsibility, and consultation intersect with the mainstream push by Democrats and how that shows up in official party positions.

GUESTS

Clara Pratte (Navajo), CEO of Strongbow Strategies and DNC Native American Caucus chair

Isaac Casados (Diné), secretary of the Democratic Party of New Mexico and DNC delegate for New Mexico

Duane Duffy (Mescalero Apache), vice president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe

Shaun Griswold (Laguna, Zuni and Jemez Pueblo), editor of Source New Mexico

Break 1 Music: Narbona (song) The Delbert Anderson Trio (artist) MANITOU (album)

Break 2 Music: Current (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album)

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For their most important public gathering in the presidential election, Democrats have chosen to meet on the traditional lands of the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwe, Odawa, and a handful of other nations. The state has no established federally recognized tribes, but the number of Chicago citizens who identify as Native American has more than doubled in the past ten years. We’ll be in Chicago, talking with Native Chicago residents who are also clued in to the Democratic political process about what the party is doing to reach Native voters and what sets them apart from their political rivals.

GUESTS

Pamela Silas (enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin descendant), active member of the Chicago American Indian Community

Mary Smith (citizen of the Cherokee Nation), former IHS director and founder of the Caroline and Ora Smith Foundation

Monica Rickert-Bolter (Prairie Band Potawatomi), visual artist and director of operations at the Center for Native Futures

Shaun Griswold (Laguna, Zuni, and Jemez), editor of Source New Mexico

Break 1 Music: Four Two-Step Songs (song) Pyawasits, Silas & Webster (artist) Wild Rice: Songs From The Menominee Nation (album)

Break 2 Music: Current (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album)