Native America Calling

Clockwise from top left: U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk/D-KS); Lynette Greybull (Northern Arapaho/Hunkpapa Lakota), Democratic nominee for Wyoming's at-large U.S. House seat with U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (Yup'ik/D-AK); U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell (Cherokee/R-NM); U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee/R-OK), nominee for U.S. Senate; and Gov. Kevin Stitt (Cherokee/R-OK).

Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Native ballot outlook

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Host: Shawn Spruce

Native candidates have a lot at stake coming up in the midterm elections. After redistricting, some incumbents find themselves in tight races, while others are expected to sail into office. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce zeroes in on a few Native candidates, both newcomers and veterans, and looks at how a win or loss impacts the larger picture with O.J. Semans Sr. (Rosebud Sioux), co-executive director for Four Directions Vote, and Jordan James Harvill (Cherokee/Choctaw), National Program Director for Advance Native Political Leadership.

 

Break 1 music: Braves Against the Machine (feat. Marla Nauni) (song) Quese Imc (artist) Defover30 (album)

Break 2 music: Ask Your Mom for Fifty Cents (song) Black Lodge Singers (artist) Kids’ Pow-Wow Songs (album)

Comments

  1. JoKay Dowell says

    I wish journalists would stop referring to anti-Indigenous sovereignty candidate with a questionable membership in the Cherokee Nation, MAGA Reflublican Governor Kevin Stitt, and I’m-in-it-for-the-CDIBiznefits-Card-Carrier-Culturally-NOT-Cherokee-Markwayne Mullin, as Native or Indigenous. Stitt has fought and bullied and disrespected the tribes of Oklahoma from the day he was elected. (And lost every battle he picked with the tribes.) MAGA-Mullin, when faced with the choice of MAGA or tribal sovereignty, will sell out the tribes at the drop of a hat. That hateful, racist MAGA mentality is not who Indigenous peoples have ever been. It’s sickening. Please stop.

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