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Host: Shawn Spruce
A series of troubling incidents around the country appear to harken to a time of unchecked discrimination, racism and basic disregard for Native people. A South Dakota hotel owner publicly announces a ban on all Native Americans. Students at an Oklahoma school forcibly cut off a Kickapoo first grader’s hair. And a Texas high school doubles down on fake headdresses and other made-up imagery to bolster its “Cherokee values” brand. How, after all the media interviews, op-eds, awareness campaigns and personal pleas for change, can such ignorance of fundamental respect keep surfacing in 2022?
GUESTS
Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation) – attorney and co-founder of Not Your Mascot
Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota) – CEO of the NDN Collective
Break 1 music: The Real People (song) RiverFlowz (artist) RiverFlowz (album)
Break 2 music: 10000 Generations (song) Khu.éex’ (artist)
