Native America Calling

Monday, August 26, 2024 – World Wilderness Congress and protecting Oak Flat

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This week, Indigenous leaders, climate, activists, and community members from more than 80 different nations around the world are convening in Rapid City, S.D. The 12th World Wilderness Congress will be looking at concerns and solutions to issues facing forest health, biodiversity, and wildlife. We’ll talk with elders actively addressing these issues. Also, we’ll hear updates from the group Apache Stronghold as they make their way across the country raising awareness of a copper mining project on Oak Flat in Arizona before stopping in Washington D.C. The group will turn to the U.S. Supreme Court for protections of the sacred site.

GUESTS

Ilarion Merculieff (Unangan), founder and president of the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways

Phil Two Eagle (Sicangu Lakota), executive director of the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council

Wendsler Nosie Sr. (member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe), founder of the Apache-Stronghold

 

Break 1 Music: The Power of the Land [Feat. Dr. Duke Redbird and Twin Flames] (song) Sultans of String (artist)

Break 2 Music: Ancestors (song) Mike Bern (artist) Ancestors (album)

Friday, August 23, 2024 – Native in the Spotlight: Hugo Morales

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Hugo Morales (Mixtec) rose from his Indigenous family farming roots in Oaxaca, Mexico to found Radio Bilingue, the largest Latino radio network in the United States. The network continues to offer a diverse array of programming in English, Spanish, Mixtec, and Triqui languages. Morales earned money while going to school by picking fruit in California. Among his many accomplishments and honors, he ultimately earned a law degree from Harvard University. He continues his strong commitment to educate others. We’ll hear from Morales about his journey and where he’s going next.

Plus, we’ll hear closing coverage of the 2024 Democratic National Convention with Native Vote 2024 contributor Shaun Griswold from Source NM.

Break 1 Music: Canci​ó​n mixteca [Mixtec Song] canci​ó​n ranchera (song) Los Texmaniacs (artist) Borders y Bailes (album)

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

Thursday, August 22, 2024 – What a Harris presidency would mean for Native Americans

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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)

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 – The Harris effect on other races

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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)

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 – The work of DNC delegates

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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)

Monday, August 19, 2024 – Chicago welcomes the Democratic National Convention

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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)

Friday, August 16, 2024 – Live at Santa Fe Indian Market 2024

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Distinctly Native American artwork, fashion, and films converge again for the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, with at least 1,000 booths and somewhere around 100,000 visitors. Native America Calling is live from Santa Fe, hearing from Southwestern Association for Indian Arts representatives, 2023 Best In Show winner Jennifer Tafoya, curators from the Native Cinema Showcase, and others to get a preview of the largest juried Native art market in the world.

GUESTS

JoAnn Chase (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), SWAIA vice chair

Jennifer Tafoya (Santa Clara Pueblo), artist, potter, and 2023 Best of Show at the Santa Fe Indian Market

Chris Youngblood (Santa Clara Pueblo), potter

Cindy Benitez, program manager for the Native Cinema Showcase for the National Museum of the American Indian

 

Break 1 Music: Flyer (song) The Zoniez (artist)

Break 2 Music: Our Mother the Earth [Feat. Dr. Duke Redbird] (song) Sultans of String (artist)

 

Watch previous Santa Fe Indian Market programs

Thursday, August 15, 2024 – Native Playlist: Geneviève Gros-Louis

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Violinist, composer, and producer Geneviève Gros-Louis has a busy schedule of solo and group performances and discussions leading up to the release of her new album that celebrates Wendat culture and talent. She captivated the audience at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival with a piece composed specifically for the premiere of the film, Killers of the Flower Moon. She also composed the score to a season of National Geographic’s series, Life Below Zero: First Alaskans. Gros-Louis returns to the Native America Calling studio with live performances of her work.

Plus, we’ll catch up with organizers of the Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico this weekend. We’ll talk about the Native art, music and film being featured this weekend.

GUESTS

Geneviève Gros-Louis (Huron-Wendat), composer, violinist, and music producer

Lonnie Bernally (Diné), development director of the Poeh Cultural Center

Jacob Shije (Santa Clara Pueblo), musician and marketing manager of the Poeh Cultural Center

 

Break 1 Music: Thunder Medicine (song) Geneviève Gros-Louis (artist)

Break 2 Music: Our Mother the Earth [Feat. Dr. Duke Redbird] (song) Sultans of String (artist)

Native America Calling at the Democratic National Convention

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Native America Calling is at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Ill. August 19-22.

Host Shawn Spruce along with Native Vote 2024 contributor Shaun Griswold from Source NM will bring you the latest news, views, and inside stories from the City of Big Shoulders with a focus on how the Democratic platform and candidates will impact the lives of Native folks across the U.S.

We’re live from Media Row Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during our regular broadcast at 1 p.m. ET.

And tune into our special Thursday night broadcast and webcast hosted by Shawn & Shaun featuring Vice President Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech on Native America Calling‘s digital channels and your local station between 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET.

Monday, August 19, 2024 – Chicago welcomes the Democratic National Convention

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 – The work of DNC delegates

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 – The Harris effect on other races

Thursday, August 22, 2024 – What a Harris presidency would mean for Native Americans

Friday, August 23, 2024 – Native in the Spotlight: Hugo Morales

 

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 – Recalling how Yaqui resistance shaped Mexican and American colonization

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The Yaqui people fought for centuries against Spanish missionaries, miners, slave-traders, and the iron-fisted, anti-Indigenous rule of the Mexican government in the latter part of the 19th Century. Once the dominant culture in what is now Sonora, Yaqui populations were eventually diminished from conflict, disease, and even deportation out of their homelands. They eventually won back a significant portion of their traditional homeland in 1930. We recognize the Yaqui people on the anniversary of a significant battle alongside Mexican revolutionaries against both Mexican and American forces.

GUESTS

Dr. Anabel Galindo (Yaqui descendant), assistant professor at Northern Arizona University

Robert Valencia (Pasqua Yaqui), former chairman and vice chairman Pascua Yaqui Tribe chairman and adjunct history faculty at Pima College

Break 1 Music: Deer Dance (song) Tosay Hwilit [White Bird] & Taciovakok [a Herb] (artist) Yaqui Ritual and Festive Music by Musicians & Singers from Old Paschua Village, Tucson & Rio Yaqui, Sonora (album)

Break 2 Music: Our Mother the Earth [Feat. Dr. Duke Redbird] (song) Sultans of String (artist)

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