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Two recent court decisions denied efforts by Minnesota tribes and environmental groups to halt the controversial Line 3 Replacement Project last week. Despite the setback, the chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa says his tribe will not stop fighting the 1,097-mile pipeline project. The Enbridge Energy pipeline is slated to go across northern Minnesota, carrying crude oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. The planned route skirts the Red Lake and White Earth reservations and crosses through the Fond du Lac reservation. The company expects the project to take about 9 months to complete.

Guests: 

Frank Bibeau (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe: White Earth) – tribal attorney

Joe Plumer (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) –  legal counsel for the Red Lake Nation

Nick Kedrowski (Oneida Nation) –  managing partner and senior instructor of Five Skies Training

Paul Eberth – director of U.S. tribal engagement for Enbridge

 

Break 1 music: Track 06 (song) Red Lake Singers (artist) Old Times (album)

Break 2 music: I Rise (feat. Murray Porter & Sandy Scofield) Russell Wallace (artist) Unceded Tongues (album)

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Bandolier bags come from Woodlands tribes like the Ojibwe, and can include glass seed beads, spot stitching and woven straps. Pipe bags are often from Plains tribes and serve as holders for sacred ceremonial pipes. In the Pacific Northwest octopus or finger bags have intricately decorated ‘fingers’ hanging from the bottom of the bag. We’ll explore the utility and decoration of Native bags. We’ll also hear from bag makers about their craft and passion for the things they carry.

Guests:

Doug Limon (Oneida/Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) – artist

Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota) – curator at the National Museum of the American India

 

Break 1 music: Straight Song (song) Pyawasits, Silas & Webster (artist) Wild Rice: Songs From The Menominee Nation (album)

Break 2 music: Igluvut (song) Quantum Tangle (artist) Shelter as We Go . . .(album)

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After a CBC investigation called her claimed Indigenous heritage into question, Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer resigned as director of the CBC-TV series “Trickster,” a show she co-created. The National Film Board also dropped its intention to distribute her film “Inconvenient Indian” and pulled it from a Sundance Film Festival screening. It’s the latest in a continuing series of prominent people who initially benefitted from their Indigenous identity but were forced to backtrack when those claims couldn’t be documented. We’ll hear about the latest incident and an effort to expose those who improperly cash in on Native heritage.

Guests:

Dr. Andrew Jolivette (Ishak Nation) – professor and department chair of ethnic studies, and director of Native American and Indigenous studies at the University of California-San Diego, and board president of the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco

Dr. Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) – Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta

Jacqueline Keeler (Dakota and Diné) – writer and author of an upcoming book called “Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Occupation, Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Lands”

Renee M. Chacon (Diné and Mexica)- youth program coordinator at Spirit of the Sun, co-founder of Womxn from the Mountain and Sahumadora of Danza Azteca\

 

Break 1 music: Ideal Dub (song) Casper Loma Da-Wa (artist) Honor the People (album)

Break 2 music: Igluvut (song) Quantum Tangle (artist) Shelter as We Go . . .(album)

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President Joe Biden signed executive orders within days of taking office reversing some of the previous administration’s immigration policies. The new president called to reunite immigrant families and protect asylum seekers and he proposed legislation to give legal status to about 11 million immigrants who are currently living in the U.S. without documentation. Biden also halted border wall construction and diverted the funds elsewhere. Displaced Indigenous people are part of the migrant groups that come to the U.S. from Mexico and Central and South America. What does a new presidential administration mean for future immigration policy and the treatment of Indigenous people who cross the border?

Guests:

Javier Osorio – assistant professor in the school of government and public policy of the University of Arizona

Oscar Chacón – co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas

Tina Marie (Mexican Huicholes ) – commander for northern California Brown Berets National Organization

 

 

Break 1 music: Rolling Stone (song) Burning Sky (artist) A Simple Man (album)

Break 2 music: Igluvut (song) Quantum Tangle (artist) Shelter as We Go . . .(album)

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Every culture has its own version of bread. Among Native cultures, Pueblos in New Mexico have a distinctive loaf, Canadian First Nations in Canada have variations on bannock, and almost everyone is familiar with fry bread. Different tribes have unique approaches to bread even though recipes can be vastly different among bakers within a tribe. Many Native versions of bread are adaptations from recipes and ingredients introduced by outsiders, but the flatbreads and loaves have become a big part of tribal food culture today. We’ll hear about corn and wheat and crusts and crumbs as we celebrate Native bread.

Guests:

Dave Smoke-McCluskey (Mohawk) – chef and owner of Corn Mafia

Grace Tracy (Diné) – traditional plant-based teacher at Ft. Defiance Medical Center

Paul Natrall (Suquamish) – second generation chef, owner of Mr. Bannock food truck sit on the board of directors of the Indigenous culinary of associated nations

Susan Sekaquaptewa (Hopi) – assistant agent for the Hopi Tribe cooperative extension program

 

Break 1 music: Frybread (song) Native Roots (artist) Rain Us Love (album)

Break 2 music: Believe In Yourself (Old Beat) (song) Bryden Gwiss (artist) The Forgotten T.R.U.T.H. (The.Real.Un.Told.History) (album)

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When Cherokee leader Sequoyah introduced a written version of his language 200 years ago, his fellow Cherokees were skeptical. He eventually won them over and now the Cherokee Syllabary evolved to be included on typewriters, printing presses, and even mobile phone apps. This year the Cherokee Nation is celebrating the bicentennial of its written language. We’ll get the history of Sequoyah’s 12-year process to develop the series of symbols and letters that represent the spoken language. We’ll also talk about ways the syllabary is helping keep the language thriving.

Guests:

Chuck Hoskin Jr. (Cherokee Nation) – Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

Jacob Chavez (Cherokee Nation) – a student of language in the Master Apprentice Program at the Cherokee Nation

Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation) – manager of the Cherokee language program

 

Break 1 music: Siyo, Siyo (song) Paula Nelson (artist) C.H.A.N.T. Cherokee Hope And New Traditions (album)

Break 2 music: Believe In Yourself (Old Beat) (song) Bryden Gwiss (artist) The Forgotten T.R.U.T.H. (The.Real.Un.Told.History) (album)