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A serious security breach of the consumer credit reporting agency, Equifax, exposes an estimated 143 million people to hackers and identity thieves. Having your identity stolen by criminals can create problems with your own credit and lead to months of hassles to clear up misdeeds done in your name.  Do you know the signs of identity theft? We’ll talk with experts about preventing and tackling identity theft.

Mentioned on the show:

Identity Theft Among American Indian and Alaskan Native Elders

To check if you were involved in the breach: Equifax Security website

Guests:

Jamie Yancy – Chief Technology Officer for the Native American Bank

Shawn Spruce (Laguna Pueblo) – financial education consultant with First Nations Development Institute

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

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Indian Country Today Media Network is “taking a hiatus to consider alternative business models.” We’ll talk with Native journalists about the future of Native media. Also the leaders and members of the Navajo Nation are discussing lifting a 2002 moratorium on genetic research. And will the Trump administration dramatically reduce the boundaries of Bears Ears? It’s our regular news round up.

Mentioned on the show today:

Native Media Universe chart

Guests:

Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock) – Charles R. Johnson Endowed Professor of Journalism at the University of North Dakota

Pauly Denetclaw (Navajo) – staff reporter for the Navajo Times

Tristan Ahtone (Kiowa) – Neiman fellow and reporter

Break Music:  Nou E Ha’eha’e (song) Mailani (artist) Manawa (album)

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In addition to the difficulty of relearning some daily tasks, sighted people who experience vision loss are more likely to report depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Eye Institute warns that 16 percent of Native Americans are at risk for developing diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in adults. Cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and stroke are some of the other causes of vision loss. We’ll discuss the causes of vision loss and healthy ways to prevent or manage them.

Guests:

Dr. Mark Horton – senior ophthalmologist at the Indian Health Service

Dr. Gregg Baldwin – optometrist that specializes in low vision

John Woolf (Cheyenne River Sioux) – President of Thundercloud Optical Services

Break Music: Song 514 (song) Judy Trejo (artist) Stick Game Songs Of The Paiute (album)

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The experiences of Indigenous women heading up their own businesses and the lessons they learned are the focus of our Book of the Month feature. “Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs of New Mexico: Surpassing Barriers and Stereotypes” opens the doors to the lives of a handful of women from different tribal nations. The book details their pursuit of business practice and philosophy that integrates their indigenous values and traditions. We meet some of the book’s contributors and learn how they carved out a space for their ambitions and ideas.

Guests:

Michele Justice (Navajo Nation) – Entrepreneur and President  and CEO of Personnel Security Consultants

Evalena Boone (Zuni/Cheyenne-Arapaho) – Adjunct Professor UNM and artist

Jaye Francis (Pueblo of Laguna) – Book Contributor and program coordinator UNM

Raul Gouvea, Phd – Book Contributor and professor UNM

Stephine Poston (Pueblo of Sandia) – Book Contributor and founder of Poston & Associates, LLC

Break Music: Strong Native Women (song) Karina Møller (artist) Simplify (album)

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Resentment by Native people in New Mexico is rising over an annual reenactment of Spanish conquistadors retaking Santa Fe in 1692. Frustration boiled over this year, resulting in the arrest of eight people protesting the Entrada de Don Diego de Vargas.
Organizers of the annual pageant say they’re commemorating a “peaceful resettlement.” Native opponents say the demonstration does not accurately represent the bloody oppression that accompanied the actual historical events. Where do such reenactments fit in with current national discussions about race and making heroes out of flawed historical figures?

Guests:

Elena Ortiz (Ohkay Owingeh) – organizer for In the Spirit of Po’Pay

Demetrius Johnson (Diné) – President of KIVA club, organizer with Red Nation

Rob Martinez – deputy state historian for New Mexico

Break Music: Dat One (song) The Delbert Anderson Trio (artist) MANITOU (album)

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The new documentary, “We Breathe Again” premieres on PBS on Sept. 26. It puts faces to the troubling issue of suicide in Alaska. A 2012 study by Alaska State Epidemiology found suicide rates among Alaska Native men ages 15 to 24 are more than three times higher than their non-Native counterparts. The filmmakers go beyond the statistics and expose the underlying causes and the daily human struggle to rise above the heartbreaking momentum.

Guests:

Evon Peter (Gwich’in and Koyukon) – vice chancellor for Rural, Community and native Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Marsh Chamberlain – director, cinematographer and co-editor for “We Breathe Again”

Keggulluk Polk (Yup’ik and Mohawk) – a film participant and healer

Enei Begaye Peter (Diné and Tohono O’odam) – one of the producers of the film, executive director of Native Movement and director and board president of the Indigenous Leadership Institute

Break Music: Intertribal Happy Feet (feat. Chippewa Travellers) (song) Cris Derksen (artist) Cris Derksen: Orchestral Powwow (album)

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Native music veteran Lee Tiger (Miccosukee) says his new album, “One Earth, One People, Come Together,” is a pathway to global harmony. He says the concept is an extension of what his father, Buffalo Tiger, instilled in him. Tiger hopes the songs on the album will inspire audiences to reconnect to what he calls a global chain of love that’s been overlooked and uncared for. Lee Tiger with the group Tiger Tiger is our September Music Maker.

Guest:

Lee Tiger (Miccosukee) – Singer

 

Break music: It Takes Time (song) Lee Tiger (artist) One Earth, One People, Come Together (album)

 

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Decades after the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology acquired a totem pole under dubious circumstances, the family of the pole’s carver came to the institution to rededicate it in its new home. The new superintendent of a U.S. National Monument in Iowa says he will dedicate his tenure to correcting past disrespectful behavior involving effigy mounts. Is there momentum for mending relations with tribes over past illegal and unethical indiscretions?

Guests:

Jim Nepstad – superintendent of Effigy Mounds National Monument

Albert LeBeau (enrolled member of the Cheyenne river Sioux tribe) –  cultural resource program manager for the Effigy Mounds National Monument

Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) – President of the Morning Star institute and guest curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and author of “Nation to Nation”

Break Music: Sun Child (artist) The Jir Project Band (artist) Sun Child (album)

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Qayats, bull boats, and birch bark canoes all have traditionally carried Native people over the water. In some communities the craft of making boats using traditional methods and materials continues. On the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation, a learning group is working on making traditional birch bark canoes. We’ll talk with them about their tips and techniques for traditional boats.

Guests:

Paul DeMain (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Ojibwe descent) – editor of News for Indian Country

Pedro Zepeda (Seminole Tribe of Florida) – traditional Seminole artist

Julie Duggins  – archeology supervisor for Public Lands Archaeology within the Bureau of Archaeological Research in the Division of Historical Resources at the Florida Department of State

Break music: Canoe Journey (song) Jim Boyd (artist) Voices From The Lakes (album)