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5G wireless technology promises to revolutionize everything from business transactions to online gaming. But already worries are surfacing about how smooth the transition will be. What will be the fallout—and costs—for rural reservation residents that already come up short when it comes to connectivity?

Guests:

Geoffrey Blackwell (Omaha/Chickasaw/Choctaw/Muscogee Creek) – chief strategy officer and general counsel for Amerind Risk and former chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s office of Native Affairs and Policy

CC Hovie (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) – StrongHearts Native Helpline communications manager

Dr. Traci Morris  (Chickasaw Nation) – executive director of the American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University

 

Break 1 music: Siku (song) Pamyua (artist) Caught In The Act (album)

Break 2 music: Euphony (song) Nitanis “Kit” Largo (artist) Serenity (album)

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More than a decade before Alaska became a state and two decades before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Selma Alabama, Elizabeth Peratrovich (Tlinget) made a lasting mark on the future of civil rights. Alaska just celebrated the annual day set aside for her. We’ll take another look at her contributions to civil rights in Alaska and beyond.

Guests:

Daphyne Albee (Tlingit) – grand president for the Alaska Native Sisterhood

Paulette M. Moreno (Tlingit and Southern Tshone Nation) – three term Alaska Native Sisterhood grand president, 2019-2021, and current ANS executive council woman

Michael Roberts (Tlingit) – president and CEO of the First Nations Development Institute

 

Break 1 music: Sunrise Song (song) Khu.éex’ (artist) They Forgot They Survived (album)

Break 2 music: Euphony (song) Nitanis “Kit” Largo (artist) Serenity (album)

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Valentine’s Day is a time of romance for some, and heartache for others. Whether or not you’ve adequately processed Valentine’s Day 2022, we’ll extend the discussion with a look at Native singles’ worst dates. We’ll hear your stories of dating gone wrong and get advice from relationship experts on how to stay strong despite romance disasters.

Guests:

Dr. Roger Kuhn – licensed family therapist and professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University

Bernina Gray – entrepreneur and single mom

Stacy Laravie – Ponca tribal member

 

Break 1 music: Come and Get Your Love (song) Redbone (artist) Wovoka (album)

Break 2 music: Trixter Trot (song) Tha Yoties (artist) Midnight Patrol (album)

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A tiny Nebraska town once known for being a destructive source of alcohol for Pine Ridge Reservation residents, could be a model of hope and healing. White Clay’s liquor establishments were closed down in 2017. Now a collection of visionary community members see the town as a potential hub for substance abuse treatment and transition facilities for vulnerable populations.

Guests:

Tatewin Means (Sisseton Wapaton and Oglala Lakota) – executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation

Favian Kennedy – director of Anpetu Luta Otipi, comprehensive alcohol and substance about treatment for the Oglala Sioux Tribe

Abram Neumann – director of Iglutheca

 

Break 1 Music: Song of Encouragement (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs Of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Break 2 music: Trixter Trot (song) Tha Yoties (artist) Midnight Patrol (album)

 

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The 2016 shooting death in Saskatchewan of Coulton Boushie, from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation, touched off a national discussion about race and justice. The public pressure of the debate compounded the trauma of Boushie’s family, who were thrust into the spotlight at the worst time of their lives. Since that time, the family has worked to develop Tools for Indigenous Family Survivors of Violence for those that are both grieving a tragic event and forced to be their own advocates to the public. They have also produced a film, “nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up,” that documents the Boushie family’s journey through grief and the legal system.

GUESTS:
Jade Tootoosis
Alumni Relations Coordinator at the University of Alberta and cousin sister of the late Colten Boushie.

Dr. Tasha Hubbard
Writer, filmmaker, and Associate Professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory and has ties to Thunderchild First Nation in Treaty Six Territory.

Dr. Gina Starblanket
Associate Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She is Cree and Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory.

 

Break 1 Music: Thank You, Singers (song) Northern Cree (artist) When It’s Cold – Cree Roundance Songs (album)

Break 2 music: Trixter Trot (song) Tha Yoties (artist) Midnight Patrol (album)

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A revamped version of the Violence Against Women Act has bipartisan support in Congress. Originally enacted in 1995 and later amended to give tribes more authority to hold domestic abusers and other violent offenders accountable, the law expired in 2018. Congressional lawmakers supporting the re-authorization say it includes provisions allowing tribes to go after non-Native perpetrators of sexual violence.

Guests:

Angel Charley (Laguna Pueblo) – executive director of the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

Michelle Demmert (Tlingit) – law and policy specialist for the Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center and current delegate and chief justice for the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

 

Break 1 music: Woman’s Song (song) Joanne Shenandoah (artist) Sounds Of Indian Summer: Contemporary Native Music From The National Museum Of The American Indian (album)

Break 2 music: Trixter Trot (song) Tha Yoties (artist) Midnight Patrol (album)

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This year’s annual State of Indian Nations address is the third under threat of the COVID-19 pandemic that is disproportionately affecting Native Americans. Also, tribes in Oklahoma continue to battle with the state since the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on criminal jurisdiction. And the U.S. and Canada are forced to face their past transgressions at boarding schools. In this special edition of Native America Calling, we present NCAI President Fawn Sharp’s 2022 State of Indian Nations address.

 

Break 1 music: Intertribal (song) High Noon (artist) Generations (album)

Break 2 music: Trixter Trot (song) Tha Yoties (artist) Midnight Patrol (album)

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It’s a big week for Indigenous landmarks in sports. The U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team welcomes Abby Roque (Wahnapitae First Nation), their first-ever Indigenous player. She is one of at least four Indigenous athletes at the Olympics in Beijing. The coming weekend also marks the most-watched American sports match-up of the year: the Super Bowl. This year, neither team uses Native mascots or imagery. At the same time, we welcome the Washington Commanders to the NFL.

Guests:

Jason Giles (Muscogee Creek) – executive director of the National Indian Gaming Association

Kolby KickingWoman (Blackfeet and Gros Ventre) – reporter for Indian Country Today

Cuyler Frank (Navajo) – KCZY radio manager

 

Break 1 Music: Stomp the Yard (song) Elk Soldier (artist) The Elk Way (album)

Break 2 music: Stomp Dance (song) George Hunter (artist) Haven (album)

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Wall Street uncertainty, inflation, meme stock, and wide swings with crypto currency might have you wary of investing, whether you’re new to the stock market or a veteran investor. But investing has never been more accessible and it’s a viable option for Native people to build wealth. We’ll get a run down on the current investor market and some starter tips.

Guests:

Rob Mascio – director with FINRA

Dave Burrell – chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Bank in Marshalltown Iowa, owned by the Sac and Fox tribe

 

Break 1 music: Plant The Seeds (song) Digging Roots (artist) We Are (album)

Break 2 music: Stomp Dance (song) George Hunter (artist) Haven (album)

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As the nation just marked the 100^th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre along what was known as Black Wall Street, there’s one story that is largely overlooked. Allotments by Oklahoma tribes for their former slaves were among the key reasons the Black residents—including Freedmen—were able to build wealth.

Guests:

Saché Primeaux-Shaw (enrolled in the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, Seminole and Chickasaw freedmen descendent, and Yankton Dakota descent) – community organizer

Dr. Maurice Franklin – lecturer and consultant on organizational sustainability and development strategies, professor at California State University, Northridge and a founding member of the National Black Justice Coalition

 

Break 1 music: Memorial Song (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs Of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Break 2 music: Stomp Dance (song) George Hunter (artist) Haven (album)