Creative FRONTLINE

Interview with Robert Lundahl filmmaker "Unconquering the Last Frontier"

This episode expresses directly and strongly the reasons and the purpose of producing Creative FRONTLINE since its beginning on KPFK as “Climate Change. Is Here” in 2022. As stated by a Yankton Lakota colleague to me, “Robert, you have two audiences, Non-Native and NaIIve. " It's never been a vehicle for Native activism per se, it's always been a pathway for understanding the need and importance o...

Californias desert regions have a long history of get rich quick schemes development disasters and ceaseless promotional efforts. Poorly laid plans are often not founded on solid ground. Once the impermanent Salton Sea was touted as Americas latest and best vacation and lifestyle paradise. Today, lithium production captures the imagination of hungry investors. There’s no question intentions are go...

Indigenous Hawai'ian David Pu'u informs on the gigantic Wind Farm planned for the California Coast it's vulnerabilities, costs, and non-ecological disposal in Africa.

Robert Lundahl, Host Version

Our topic today is dams including our own dams close to home. The Matilija dam on a tributary of the Ventura River, and the Devils Gate Dam along the Arroyo Seco, what it takes to course correct through transformation, regeneration and reconciliation taking into account all species, habitats and relationships to all life force.

The story of Celilo falls is the story of the Pacific Northwest. Pictures of Indian people dip netting for the giant salmon that once freely made their way up the Columbia to a Lower Snake river now clogged and obstructed by 14 dams, many with navigation locks, may be seen on-line, a remnant of a past destroyed for "progress," shipping, trade, getting wheat to market through a region once controll...

Special Program Launch features 1 hour on Lithium Mining, and Introduces how Hemp Bast may be Transformed into Graphene-Like Carbon Nanosheet Supercapacitors as an Alternative to Destructive Lithium Energy systems. Nations around the world rely on lithium based energy systems to power a transition to Carbon Pollution-Free Electricity (CFE). Unfortunately, Lithium based systems pose significant ris...

Rushing waters plunging off the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite form the Walker River, plummeting across state lines into Nevada and Walker Lake. It is a terminus or sink with no outlet. Where do the waters go? Underground and onward down the Amargosa, under Las Vegas, down the Colorado toward the Gulf This Underground River unites peoples and cultures through historical conflict, destruction of the e...

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Water In The West 2.0 First Hour Rough KPFK

From "Gangster Shoes," to a newly arrived Navajo Boy barely speaking English, championship football, and a newly accredited school, the '70's produced change and the people who produced that change.

On Creative FRONTLINE, we try to get our shows done for the upcoming **Monday Midnight** early... Experiencing Sherman Indian School. Much consideration and appreciation were given to this show, and have been felt for Matthew Leivas Sr., and his family, his mother, and grandfather, Henry Hanks, the last recognized Chief of the Chemehuevi People. This is a story about fortitude, care, concern, and...

Creative FRONTLINE has focused on Ash Meadows as a biodiversity hot spot in the desert, and after learning of the Chemehuevi Peoples' history in the area we asked Hereditary Chief Matt Leivas to explain the meaning and importance to his people. We'll continue the series with commentary in upcoming episodes.

Today, Tracker and I are with Larry Merculieff (Unangan). in advance of the global Wild12 conference in the Black Hills, which places indigenous voices at the forefront for the first time.

Larry Merculieff Raw Interview Pt 2 08 10 by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker/Journalist

Larry Merculieff Raw Interview Pt 1 08 10 by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker/Journalist

This is a story of the early years of the oil industry, a burning river and a blowout, Earth Day, and the Environmental Protection Agency, and how it all intersects. We’re back with David Pu’u, Indigenous Hawai’ian and lifelong surfer raised in Santa Barbara, and the incredulous story of the birth of the Environmental Movement in the United States during the 1970s– and how that leads us to regene...

David Pu'u is a llfelong surfer, an engineer and a military analyst with an indigenous perspective We are discussing the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, in Japan, as we seek to understand human systems, the ways we produce energy, and how we seek to avoid calamitous mistakes, and the dangers of the mind. A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (...

Massive infrastructures are planned 20 to 60 miles offshore from the Pristine Beaches and natural environments of the Central Californiia Coast. New industrial facilities plug in via huge cables. Industrial construction: Assembly in SF harbor, tow to Los Angeles, configure and tow to Morro Bay. Industrial infrastructure planned on central coast includes lithium battery assembly at Morro Bay harbor...

We have an episode coming up from the farm as we help tell the story of Chemehuevi Sweet Corn, visiting with Chemehuevi Elder Matt Leivas about regenerative practices on the land, revitalizing vegetative landscapes, and purifying water along the Colorado River. Tune in for this positive ecological, and regenerative, vision.

Filmmaker, Journalist, Robert Lundahl interviews Dr. Oliver Mupila, internationally renowned Medical Doctor, Gerontologist, prolific Author, Environmentalist, and Human Rights Defender. Mupila has led research into indigenous plant medicine and is, himself, indigenous Lunda from Village Kameya , Chief Chibwika. District Mwinilunga North Western Zamba. He is founder of the Center of Excellence on A...

What’s Really Going on in the Amargosa River Basin, Ash Meadows and Beyond? Western Shoshone Chief Johnny Bobb on impacts to the natural ecosystem, his people and animals from nuclear testing, transport, and disposal near his home at Jomba, NV.

The Cry: Traditional Grief and its Meaning Today. Amid the boulders and the Junipers, artist Max Carmichael shares notes on a ceremony, memorializing a dear friend, guided by place, its similarities with ancient practices, the Cry, a testimony of time and death. The Gift of a Rattle.

Last Chance for Freedom. Parole Hearing Leonard Peltier Part 2