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Chef Candace was born in Minnesota and lived on the white earth reservation until she moved out east with her mother in 2005. Finishing her culinary education at the Culinary Institute of America she has worked her way down the east coast and is now home in Fargo ND. She move back to the Midwest to be close to family and her culture. Candace moved home to share her passion for food and agriculture...

(From the Stephen Friedman Gallery) Jeffrey Gibson’s work fuses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and experience of living in Europe, Asia and the US with references that span club culture, queer theory, fashion, politics, literature and art history. The artist’s multi-faceted practice incorporates painting, performance, sculpture, textiles and video, characterised by vibrant colour and pattern. Gibso...

Minneapolis-based artist, Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera investigates the constructions of racial, ethnic, gender, national and cultural identity via numerous mediums including printmaking, installation, and public art. Tavera is a dual citizen with Mexico and the United States. Her artwork focuses on the Latinidad within the United States by examining cultural signifiers determined by our...

Kevin Pourier is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, has been carving Buffalo horn on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota for about 20 years. Pourier is one of the only artists in the country working in the medium of incised buffalo horn. The works he produces carry forward Lakota artistic practices for creating spoons, vessels and other every day items of sublime beauty from the hor...

Kay WalkingStick is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is a Cherokee/Anglo landscape painter has had over 30 solo shows in the US and Europe.  Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, the Museum of Canada in Ottawa, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The Newark Museum in Newark, NJ, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Museum of the American Indi...

Thank you for an incredible season. Be sure to check out elevenwarriorarts.com for more details.

Goota Ashoona is is a third generation Inuit artist. She is a multimedia artist, and a part of Canada’s premiere Inuit art family, the Ashoona’s of Cape Dorset. She was born in Cape Dorset and raised in an Inuit outpost camp at Lona Bay on the southwest coast of Baffin Island. She now lives in Winnipeg with her husband, Bob, and twin sons Joe and Sam.

Indigenous Art Fair on Saturday November 19th, 2022. Over 30 artists selling their work and crafts. Food for sale. Free screenprinted shirts designed by John Hitchcock Dance group demonstrating Northern Plains dance styles.

Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. Cherokees have three federally recognized tribes: Eastern Cherokee Band of Indians, United Keetoowah Band, and Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation claims Black as a citizen. Cherokee homelands are in the Southeast of what is now called the US, but most of our tribe was forcibly relocated to Indian Territory in the 1830s. Currently at UCLA, Black is completi...

In the final installation of 5 Scary Questions host Joe Williams speaks with friends and family as they share stories from their experiences.

Join us for part two of this star-studded event. Dallas Goldtooth, Raven Chacon, Loren Waters, Jana Schmieding, Chad Charlie, Dakota Mace, America Merideth, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Savannah Tallbear, Tanya RedRoad, and Pte/Buffalo Man returns with another astonishing story.

Part 1 of our annual Halloween series. Our past guests have shared strange and scary stories.

Tanya RedRoad (Little Shell Band of Chippewa Decedent of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)owns a small catering business Tee's Taco's. She also currently works as the director of Toxic Taters Coalition. She has done advocacy and activism in many sectors that face systemic challenges for Indigenous communities. Those areas include, Domestic and Sexual Violence, Substance Use Challenges, Mental Heal...

Peggy Flanagan is a mom, an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, and Wolf Clan. She is the 50th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, the first Native American ever elected to serve in this role, and currently the highest ranking Native woman elected to executive office in the country. She is a former State Representative, School Board Member, and non-profit executive, and through all th...

Ruth Buffalo is an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. She is originally from Mandaree. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Si Tanka University and two master degrees from the University of Mary: one in management, another in  business administration, and a master of public health from North Dakota State University. Fargo Native American C...

Tamara St. John is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation of South Dakota.  She is the Tribal Archivist/Curator of Collections and works with the Tribal Historic Preservation Office on Cultural Preservation issues. She has been working on Native American Graves and Repatriation Act issues for the tribe with a long term...

Heather is an enrolled member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe with Lineage to Eastern Shoshone, a mom of two amazing boys, queer and bold in her passion to make a positive impact on the next generations. Heather has been involved in equity work her entire life; it’s not work that she chose to start at any one specific time. Rather, for Heather, the work of equity is a way of life. Her formal educationa...

Kathleen Ash-Milby is Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum. She has organized numerous exhibitions of Native American art, including Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe). She was previously an associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian and curator and co-director of the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City. Publications include essays...

Savannah Tallbear is from the Kaw Nation, Southern Cheyenne and is Oglala Lakota, Savannah primarily works with acrylic and permanent inks. She is inspired by her childhood, heritage and daily life. She has a presence online as Bears Will Kill You and Bear Hair is OK in various forms, a former college athlete, an advocate for those in need, and is a fantastic jewelry creator and painter. She is an...

Buffalo Man is a South Dakota Hall of Fame artist with music featured in the motion picture ‘Doe Boy’ by Chris Eyres and the Emmy nominee Amazon Prime series ‘Bosch’. He continues to grow his musical repertiore with 3 released EPs and a multitude of singles that can be found on all major streaming platforms. His motivation to create music that is poignant and diverting stems from being born and ra...

Recorded live on May 14th 2022, Isanti played a live session for listeners of 5 Plain Questions. Set List: Now Or Never 2:18 On The Brink 5:14 Leaves Me Down 7:49 Lakota Woman Blues 11:32 Bittersweet Serenade 14:14 Bliss 17:26 Intensified 20:15

Kenton James (Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska/Cheyenne River) is a musician based out of Flandreau, SD. He started garage rock band the Lilacs in 2004 with his brother Keldon James. In 2012 he formed Sons of Sans Arc with brother Keldon and his wife Elisabetta Giomo-James (Montebelluna, Italy). From 2012-2019 Sons of Sans Arc toured the upper Midwest and in 2018 toured Italy behind their 2017 EP Vi...

Stuart James is a hip hop artist born & raised in Saint Michael on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. Hip hop has always been a voice for the oppressed. Life on the reservation can be ugly & beautiful at the same time and Stuart encourages listeners to find the good in every situation regardless of how difficult life gets. Stuart is a boxing coach, community organizer & songw...

Call for Stories. If you have a scary story, incident, something you can't explain share you story with us. We will select 20 stories from our listener audience to share with everyone. Email me, Joe, at 5scarystories@gmail.com and if your story is selected we'll connect and record our story in August! Good luck and I can't wait to hear from you! 5scarystories@gmail.com

We're off this week. Please think about a scary story you wish to share with the Joe in the podcast and be on the lookout this summer for a link to share your story in the upcoming 5 Scary Questions episodes in October!