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Two states and several cities have decriminalized the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Many more states are considering legislation to provide more widespread public access to hallucinogens. That has some Indigenous people worried about maintaining an adequate supply of natural psychoactive plants for ceremonies. We’ll hear about the evolving demand for hallucinogenic plants and what practitioners say needs to be done to protect them as the push for legalization continues.

GUESTS

Dr. Yuria Celidwen (Nahua and Maya), Indigenous scholar, activist, and senior fellow of the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley

Marlena Robbins (Diné), second-year doctoral student at the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley  

Miriam Volat, director of the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund, co-director of the Riverstyx Foundation, and director of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative

Dr. Osiris Garcia Cerqueda (Mazatec from Huautla de Jimenez in Oaxaca, Mexico), history professor at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla

Break 1 music: RAINBOW MEDICINE – randy b feat smog (song) Randy Boogie (artist) THE BLESSINGWAY BOOGIE (Deluxe Edition) (album)

Break 2 music: Shawnee Stomp Dance (song) Various Artists (artist) Spiritual Songs and Dances of the Native American Indians

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After decades of pressure by animal rights groups and tribes, the Miami Seaquarium announced it will release the captive orca, Lolita, also known as Tokitae. The marine mammal has spent more than a half century in captivity and no one is sure how she will adapt to the wild. The Lummi Tribe considers orca to be relatives and have been pushing for Tokitae’s release to what biologists believe is her home pod in the Pacific Northwest.

GUESTS

Squil-le-he-le Raynell Morris (Lummi Tribe), matriarch and elder of the Lummi, board member for Friends of Toki, and vice president of the Sacred Lands Conservancy

Sweetwater Nannauck (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian), director of Idle No More Washington, traditional storyteller, dancer, singer, and activist

Break 1 music: It’s Our Arbor Tonight (song) Fawn Wood Featuring Kevin Yazzie (artist) Kikāwiynaw (album)

Break 2 music: Shawnee Stomp Dance (song) Various Artists (artist) Spiritual Songs and Dances of the Native American Indians

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In his concurrence with the U.S. Supreme Court majority, Justice Clarence Thomas writes that “the color of a person’s skin is irrelevant to that individual’s equal status as a citizen of this nation.” The 6-3 decision does away with more than a half century of giving students of color an advantage in college recruiting in order to diversity the educational and professional population. Proponents of affirmative action say the numbers are clear: doing away with the practice of giving priority to Black, Latino, and Native students means there will be fewer of them in college.

GUESTS

Matthew Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians), law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and author of the Turtle Talk blog

Carmen Lopez (Navajo), executive director of College Horizons and Graduate Horizons

Julia Wakeford (Mvskoke and Yuchi), policy director for the National Indian Education Association

James Kvaal, United States Under Secretary of Education

Break 1 music: Intertribal Happy Feet (feat. Chippewa Travellers) (song) Cris Derksen (artist) Cris Derksen: Orchestral Powwow (album)

Break 2 music: Shawnee Stomp Dance (song) Various Artists (artist) Spiritual Songs and Dances of the Native American Indians

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At a time when Australian bands like Men At Work, Midnight Oil, and INXS were reaching worldwide recognition, a number of Aboriginal rock and reggae bands were making their own waves in the music world. Names like Coloured Stone, No Fixed Address, and others were getting broader interest from audiences and notched impressive record sales globally. All the while they faced considerable racism and their peoples’ land rights battles, themes that their songs often invoke. We’ll hear from some of those musicians about how they now look back on this important decade of music. This is an encore show so we won’t be taking live calls from listeners.

GUESTS

Dr. Shino Konishi (Yawuru woman), associate professor for the Australian Catholic University 

Laurie May, poet and former label manager for CAAMA Music

Ricky Harrison (Kurnai man), singer/songwriter with No Fixed Address 

Grant Hansen (Kulin man), guitarist/vocals with Blackfire; television and radio broadcaster 

Bunna Lawrie (Mirning man), singer and founding member of Coloured Stone, elder and medicine man 

Jason Lee Scott (Mirning/Wirrangu man), singer/songwriter

@nativevoiceone Coloured Stone singer Bunna Lawrie (Mirning man) on why they were labeled a political band. #Aboriginal ♬ original sound – Native Voice One

@nativevoiceoneHighlight from our special episode about Aboriginal bands with Grant Hansen (Kulin man), guitarist and vocalist with Blackfire. @CAAMA♬ original sound – Native Voice One

Break 1 music: Talkin’ Treaty (song) Blackfire [Australia] (artist) Regeneration (album)

Break 2 music: Shawnee Stomp Dance (song) Various Artists (artist) Spiritual Songs and Dances of the Native American Indians

 

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Whether it’s the frozen Alaska tundra or the hot, arid expanse of the Navajo Nation, tribal law enforcement officials, helped out by dedicated volunteers, make up search and rescue systems ready to deploy in a moment’s notice. They have an array of tools, ranging from trained dogs to drones to try and find people reported missing and bring them home safe. We’ll hear from search and rescue professionals about how the methods and technology they use.

GUESTS

Dan Martinez (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs), tribal emergency manager

Alanna Wright (Yurok and Hupa), senior paralegal and special tribal criminal jurisdiction coordinator for the Yurok Tribe

Caleb Landers, deployment manager and K9 handler at Quapaw Nation Emergency Management 

Hugh Murray, K9 handler

Break 1 music: Canoe Song (song) Chenoa (artist) Spirit of Salishan (album)

Break 2 music: Summer (song) RiverFlowz (artist)

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This year marks 150 years since President Ulysses S. Grant signed the executive order establishing the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Although a fraction of the wide territory the Mescalero originally occupied, the establishment of the New Mexico reservation marked a stable place where the tribe could call home and practice their ceremonies and traditions after decades of conflict with the U.S. Government. It’s now also a center of economic development and natural resource management.

GUESTS

Pascal Enjady (Mescalero Apache), language and culture assistant  

Jacob Daukei (Mescalero Apache), councilman for the Mescalero Apache Tribe

Duane Duffy (Mescalero Apache), councilman for the Mescalero Apache Tribe

 

Break 1 music: Creation Story (song) John-Carlos Perea (artist) Creation Story (album)

Break 2 music: Summer (song) RiverFlowz (artist)

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Tribes in southeast Alaska are sounding the alarm over low salmon numbers. They’re hoping to work with Canadian First Nations to craft a plan to help revive populations. The state of Alaska moved to halt commercial fishing of chinook salmon to protect orcas that feed on the fish, but a federal appeals court sided with opponents of the ban. The state is restricting sport fishing in Cook Inlet and some other locations. We’ll hear from Native fishers in the region about their concerns over salmon and the cultural and economic toll it is having this year.

GUESTS

Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission

Louie Wagner (member of the Metlakatla Indian Community), lifelong fisherman from Metlakatla, Alaska and tribal rights representative

 

Break 1 music: Qalurru (Dip Netting) (song) Pamyua (artist) Drums of The North: Traditional Yup’ik Songs (album)

Break 2 music: Summer (song) RiverFlowz (artist)

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The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center lists safe, affordable, accessible, and stable housing as one of the most pressing concerns for Native domestic abuse survivors, both on and off the reservation. The lack of housing increases the likelihood of a survivor being drawn into sex trafficking. It can also be the reason someone chooses to stay in an abusive situation. We’ll hear about what’s being done to make housing accessible to survivors broadcasting live from the Women Are Sacred conference.

GUESTS

Caroline LaPorte (immediate descendant of the Little River Band Of Ottawa Indians), Director of the STTARS Indigenous Safe Housing Center for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Gwen Packard (Ihanktonwan Dakota), Senior Housing Specialist, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Noreen Hill (Oneida Nation of the Thames), executive director/founder, Mother Nation

Dawn Begay (Diné), Native American Affairs Coordinator, City of Albuquerque

Break 1 music: Women’s Honoring Song (song) Red Hawk Medicine Drum (artist) New Beginnings (album)

Break 2 music: Summer (song) RiverFlowz (artist)