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There’s a richness when Black and Indigenous cultures meet. But there’s also some exclusion arising from outside expectations that someone needs to be one or the other. Artists who have a foot in more than one culture have a creative way of expressing that blended identity and the joys and drawbacks of a shared, but separate history. We’ll hear from artists who draw from two or more prominent cultural sources.

GUESTS

Paige Pettibon (Bitterroot Salish, Black, and white), visual artist and jewelry maker @plain_to_sea 

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

Mikailah Thompson (Nimiipuu), owner of Beadwork by Mikailah and Indigenous Creative, LLC 

Kameron White (Choctaw and Cherokee), comic book artist and illustrator

Break 1 Music: Aya’a’sh Dootl’izh/The Bluebird (song) Radmilla & Herman Cody (artist) Shi Kéyah (album)

Break 2 Music: Muskwa Dance (feat. Quinton Tootoosis & Dawn Desmarais) (song) Dallas Arcand (artist) Modern Day Warrior (album)

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A jury convicted Brian Steven Smith on all counts in the murders of two Alaska Native women, Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk. The trial, lasting just over two weeks, made international headlines, at least in part because the killer recorded graphic video of one of the murders. The trial exposed ongoing vulnerabilities and inequities Native women in Alaska cope with, and dredges up memories of past trauma Native residents face on a disproportionate basis.

GUESTS

Antonia Commack (Iñupiaq from the Native Village of Shungnak), MMIW activist

Michael Livingston (Unangax), retired Alaska Native police officer 

Sarah Adams (citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), co-founder of Matriarch and founder of Cousins

Break 1 Music: Remember Me (song) Fawn Wood (artist) Kikāwiynaw (album)

Break 2 Music: V for Vanity (song) THRONE (artist) Lionfish (album)

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The University of Wisconsin system takes in more than $1 million a year from lands given them by the federal government a century and a half ago. They are among the institutions that reap what a new investigation by the online publication Grist says is more than $2.2 billion dollars in 2022. The ongoing source of money comes from mining, drilling, farming, and other uses on lands granted by the U.S. Government to promote both continuing education and a policy of removing Native American possession and use of that land. Any past promised benefits to tribes and their citizens are falling short.

GUESTS

Tristan Ahtone (Kiowa), editor-at-large for Grist

Rick Williams (Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne), executive director of People of the Sacred Land

Maria Parazo Rose, spatial data analyst at Grist

Break 1 Music: Someone Drew a Line (song) Vincent Craig (artist) Vol. 1 (album)

Break 2 Music: V for Vanity (song) THRONE (artist) Lionfish (album)

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“Aloha” is a more than a word for Native Hawaiians — and its elevated importance in how people approach their own lives and wellbeing is invoked in one of society’s most controversial debates. The Hawaii Supreme Court upheld that state’s restrictions on carrying guns in public, in part saying “the spirit of Aloha” informs how the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is interpreted locally. How the legal argument will play out is anyone’s guess. We’ll get guidance on what the true meaning of “Aloha” and how else it informs daily Hawaiian life.

GUESTS

Cathy Manu Ka’iama (Hawaiian national), professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa teaching at the Shidler College of Business and the Center for Hawaiian Studies

Keahi Kuroiwa (Native Hawaiian), host of Equally Sovereign on KKCR radio  

Tom “Pōhaku” Stone (Native Hawaiian), Kanalu (cultural education worldwide, spreading aloha) 

Break 1 Music: Wahine U`i [Beautiful One] (song) Linda Dela Cruz (artist) Linda Dela Cruz Hawaii’s Canary (album)

Break 2 Music: V for Vanity (song) THRONE (artist) Lionfish (album)

Age and injury take their toll on people’s joints. The pain that comes along with that limits activities and reduces a person’s quality of life. Joint replacement surgery is not routine, but it is common and technological advances are making it safer with shorter recovery times. Native Americans access hip and knee replacements at a rate lower than other ethnic groups. And the number of Native orthopedic surgeons falls far short of the percentage of Native Americans in the overall population. We’ll explore the benefits of joint replacements and the signs a person might look for when considering surgery.

GUESTS

Dr. Meghan Whitmarsh-Brown, division chief of adult hip and knee constructive surgery at the University of New Mexico and assistant professor of orthopedics  

Dr. John Cox (Navajo), orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip and knee replacement  

Ronald Solimon, business person from Laguna and Zuni