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Host: Shawn Spruce

Native graphics and images are at the heart of the new art exhibition “Pivot” at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. What’s different is the images are all on skateboard decks. The creators of the show say it melds together the resilient Native work adapted to a decidedly non-Native medium.

GUESTS

Break 1 Music: Just Lie Down (song) Black Belt Eagle Scout (artist) Mother of My child (album)

Break 2 music: Smoke Dance One (feat. Frazer Sundown) (song) DJ Shub (artist) PowWowStep EP (album)

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Host: Andi Murphy

Shinnecock Nation artists feature prominently in an all-Indigenous exhibition in Southampton, New York.  “Outcropping — Indigenous Art Now” features more than 50 artists from around the world. It’s a platform for Indigenous issues from a variety of perspectives, but it is curated by Jeremy Dennis from the Shinnecock Nation, the original Native inhabitants of the land where the exhibition is housed.

GUESTS

Jeremy Dennis – Artist, photographer, and curator of “Outcropping”

Denise Silva-Dennis – Artist, educator, and a retired school teacher

Matt Ballard – Artist and activist

Suzanne Kite – Artist

Break 1 music: Happy Sundance (song) Dallas Arcand (artist) Modern Day Warrior (album)

Break 2 music: Eagle Dance REMIX (song) Decontie & Brown (artist) Ancestors (album)

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The creator of the first all-Native comic-con brings you a new public television series exploring the contributions of Indigenous knowledge. Dr. Lee Francis IV looks into the scientific basis behind traditional methods for building materials, agriculture, clothing and even cosmetics. We’ll get a glimpse of what’s in store.

Guests:

Anthony Rodriguez – concept creator and director of “Indigi-Genius”

Dr. Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo) – host, producer and writer of “Indigi-Genius” and the CEO and founder of Native Realities

Break 1 music: Agent 49 (song) Arigon Starr (artist) Wind-Up (album)

Break 2 music: Four Two-Step Songs (song) Pyawasits, Silas & Webster (artist) Wild Rice: Songs From The Menominee (album)

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Host: Alyssa Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi London

A Karuk girl embarks on a journey with her tribe’s revived coming of age ceremony; exploring the connection of creative expression balanced with Cherokee tradition, language and land; a virtual reality experience that uses humor, narrative and dream-like images that demand viewers bear witness to colonialism’s legacy. Those are among the films utilizing Native filmmakers recognized at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Guests:

Brit Hensel (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation) – filmmaker and director of Udeyonv – What They’ve Been Taught

Ahnahktsipiitaa Colin Van Loon (Niitsitapi) – filmmaker, director and producer and the writer and director of “This is Not a Ceremony”

Shaandiin Tome (Diné) – filmmaker and director of Long Line of Ladies

Break 1 music: Mehcinut (song) Jeremy Dutcher (artist) Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (album)

Break 2 music: Wim Ah I Wem, Tiwa (single) Gregg Analla (artist)

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Host: Shawn Spruce

A group of young Native artists received VIP treatment leading up to what became the storied event starting on August 15, 1969. They were excited to offer their work to a new East Coast audience and take in the impressive line-up of musical acts. But they were in for a big surprise as the adventure on Max Yasgur’s farm in New York took on a life of its own and became a historic gathering. We’ll get remembrances from those who were there and what the experience means to them now.

Guests:

Sandy Fife Wilson (Muskogee Creek) – artist, retired art teacher and graduate of IAIA

Sharon Mouss (Muskogee Creek) – Sandy’s sister, Woodstock attendee and retired college instructor

Charlie Bird (Laguna and Santo Domingo Pueblo) – Woodstock guest

Break 1 Music: Fire (song) Jimi Hendrix (artist) Live at Woodstock (album)

Break 2 Music: Electric Pow Wow Drum (song) The Halluci Nation (artist) A Tribe Called Red (album)

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Host: Andi Murphy

In Native America, we love a good scary story. Some creatives take that love to a whole other level and center some of their work around things that go bump in the night. ACONAV fashion designer Loren Aragon is obsessed with acid-blooded Xenomorphs from “Alien.” And, coming down the pipe is an Indigenous anthology of werewolves by Native creatives. Leading up to Halloween weekend, we’re taking a haunted tour with Native artists through their odd, unsettling and downright scary works of multimedia storytelling.

Guests:

Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca) – author of “Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories” and former chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma

Jordaan Arledge (Chickasaw) – founder and editor-in-chief of Arledge Comics

Dr. Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo) – owner of Red Planet Books and Comics and CEO and publisher of Native Realities

Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo) – owner and designer of ACONAV

Break 1 Music: Monster Mash (song) Black Lodge (artist) Kids’ Pow-Wow Songs (album)

Break 2 music: Monsters of the World Unite (song) Arigon Starr (artist) Meet the Diva (album)

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Host: Alyssa Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi London

Preston Singletary (Tlingit) has a new album coming out with his band Khu.éex. He also has a traveling exhibition of his glass artwork, heading next to the National Museum of the American Indian. And his design for a public work of art was chosen to be installed outside Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena. Nick Galanin is another busy artist with one-man shows all over the globe. He also has a new album of his music out. They are among several Native multidisciplinary artists who draw inspiration and support from their culture and each other to keep their creativity thriving.

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

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Host: Alyssa Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi London

Indigenous artists from North America and beyond document their relationships with nuclear testing and uranium contamination in their homelands in “Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology,” an exhibit at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We’ll speak with curators and artists about the exhibit that combines frustration with the power of artistic expression.

Guests:

Mallery Quetawki (Zuni Pueblo) – artist

Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation) – co-curator of the “Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology” exhibit

Manuela Well-Off-Man – chief curator for the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Adrian Stimson (Siksika Nation) – artist featured in the “Exposure” exhibit

Break 1 Music: Diyin Creates Sound (song) Randy Boogie (artist) The Blessingway Boogie (album)

Break 2 music: Burning Flame (song) Jan Michael Looking Wolf Band (artist) Breaking Free (album)