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Host: Shawn Spruce
Native mothers are more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white counterparts. The numbers are much worse for urban Native populations. We’ll have pre-natal experts go over the risks and the efforts to improve the troubling statistics.
GUESTS
Troy Heinert, executive director of the Intertribal Buffalo Council
Lucille Contreras, CEO and founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
Philip Little Thunder Sr., spiritual advisor of the Buffalo Field Campaign
Lisa Iron Cloud, cultural foods manager for Makoce Agriculture Development
Break 1 music: Happy Sundance (song) Dallas Arcand (artist) Modern Day Warrior (album)
Break 2 music: Remembering the Warrior (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)
