Radio Aula Mundi

Devon Mihesuah is a historian and writer and a previous editor of the American Indian Quarterly. She is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, and a Chickasaw, Norwegian, French, German, and Irish descendant. Mihesuah is the second Native woman to receive a named/distinguished professor...

National Geographic Photographer Kiliii Yüyan is a visual storyteller, and Nat Geo Explorer, whose work has brought him to some of the world’s harshest environments. Chinese-American and Nanai/Hèzhé (indigenous East Asian), he has traveled across the polar regions working with indigenous cultures, wildlife, and underwater environments. Kiliii was a traditional dsai (kayak) builder until he became...

Chad ‘Little Coyote’ Yellowjohn comes from a Shoshone-Bannock/Spokane ancestral line. Chad was raised in Ione, Washington, and, at a young age, was mute, speaking only gibberish. Over the years, his imagination began to extensively blossom on paper, thus gaining a heavy interest in free hand illustration. Currently he is motivated to discover the means to promote optimistic activism or ‘protecting...

Chris Neville is a lifelong musician and composer, playing across many genres and styles. He is the long time musical director of Chicago phenomenon Tributosaurus, and is a current member of several bands including The Meadowlark Lemons. The Meadowlark Lemons are a gritty funk, soul and jazz ensemble etched out of the streets and sounds of Chicago, Illinois. The quintet is made up of highly skille...

Michael Gebert is a James Beard Award-winning freelance copywriter based in Chicago. His most recent publication, ‘The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining’, explores how Chicago evolved into a world-class dining destination, featuring stories from renowned chefs and food professionals. ••• https://www.michaelgebert.com/food/index.html https://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Way-Oral-History-Dini...

Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based comedian, TV writer, director, Emmy-nominated producer, and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, and Comedy Central. As a television writer Joey has written for shows such as the 7x Emmy-nominated Spirit Rangers on Netflix, Molly of Denali and Alma’s Way on PBS, New Loone...

Dominic A. Pacyga is professor emeritus of history in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago, and, most recently, Clout City. ••• https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/P/D/au5845156.html ••• Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker https://...

Hannah Frank is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, musician, and performer whose style blends blues, traditional folk, roots, spoken word, jazz, and rock. ••• https://hannahfrankmusic.com/ https://BloomSchoolofJazz.com ••• Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, January 2026 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM27...

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (born February 21, 1933) is a Native American author. She has written children’s books with the intention of dispelling stereotypes and negative images of Native Americans. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, Virginia was a teacher/counselor in Pierre, White, the Flandreau Indian School, and the Rapid City School District. She also served as an adjunct...

Hannah Frank is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, musician, and performer whose style blends blues, traditional folk, roots, spoken word, jazz, and rock. ••• https://hannahfrankmusic.com/ https://BloomSchoolofJazz.com ••• K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in 2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic, 2007). The recipient of the 2019 Rum...

Sondra Segundo is a multidisciplinary artist and Haida language activist. She is a regalia maker, traditional and contemporary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, singer-songwriter, and keeper of ancestral songs. Sondra is the lead female vocalist of the Seattle-based tribal funk band, Khu’éex’, and sings/tells stories in the Tlingit and Haida languages. She also produces music...

Bridging The Gap # 56: between Daniel H. Wilson, a Cherokee author, and Preston Singletary, a Tlingit artist... ••• Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and the multiple New York Times bestselling author of techno-thrillers such as ‘Robopocalypse’, ‘The Clockwork Dynasty’, and ‘The Andromeda Evolution’ (an authorized sequel to the Crichton classic). He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mell...

Sunburnt Stone is a band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their music combines various influences and genres between country, blues, rock, and Americana. All the band members, Andrew Wilson, Daryl Young, and Nichole Tsosie, are Diné, members of the Navajo Nation. Their songs generally reflect experiences in life, sunset skies, and the pains of broken glass weathering through the souls of each and...

Felicia Pichette is an indigenous language student and teacher at the Spokane Language House in the state of Washington, in the United States. Its mission is to create a new generation of fluent speakers of Np’oq͗ ínišcn, the Spokane language, which is a dialect of Salish. In turn, the Salish language is highly endangered and at risk of disappearing. Only a few years ago, there were just two Eld...

Terry White’s career as a musician started in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, where he began teaching himself guitar as a teenager. After graduating from highschool, he started a band, Modern Day Saints, and they moved to Los Angeles, where they enjoyed a rabid LA following as regulars on the legendary Sunset Strip. In 1994, White moved back to Chicago, started a solo career, but also...

All interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker in Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, New York City, New York, and Ashland, Oregon. https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, January 2026 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7zRG5Kyjop3CXRv_rirs6l&si=eXGfpK912Jxvomjh ••• At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all lan...

Roberta Noell Tom is a Diné (Navajo) artist and children’s book author. She is Áshįįhí born for Nát’oh Dine’é Táchii’nii, and a U.S. Navy veteran and aerospace professional. ‘Bebe Bear and Her Dream Adventures at Masani’s’ is written and illustrated by Roberta Noell Tom. It is her debut children’s book about a Diné girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut, engineer, and more. It encourages childre...

Terry White’s career as a musician started in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, where he began teaching himself guitar as a teenager. After graduating from highschool, he started a band, Modern Day Saints, and they moved to Los Angeles, where they enjoyed a rabid LA following as regulars on the legendary Sunset Strip. In 1994, White moved back to Chicago, started a solo career, but also...

Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture, and language. Among many recent premieres, Tate’s highlights include commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Turtle Island Quartet. On August 15, 2025, the Dover Quartet released their newest album ‘Abokkoli Taloowa’ (Woodland Songs), which fea...

Hattie Lee Mendoza, a member of the Cherokee Nation whose art is inspired by her native ancestry, but also by a rural Kansas upbringing, answers a question coming from Jim Bachor, a graphic designer and mosaic artist based in Chicago... ••• Hattie Lee Mendoza is a member of the Cherokee Nation whose art is inspired by her native ancestry, but also by a rural Kansas upbringing. She illustrates narr...

Chris Vallillo is a singer-songwriter and roots musician, who makes the people and places of ‘unmetropolitan’ America come to life in song. Having spent dozens of years in the rural Midwest, he has a natural affinity for American roots music. ••• https://www.chrisvallillo.com/ https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/chris-vallillo https://m.youtube.com/user/1936Angelus ••• William A Rodriguez is an indi...

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and the multiple New York Times bestselling author of techno-thrillers such as ‘Robopocalypse’, ‘The Clockwork Dynasty’, and ‘The Andromeda Evolution’ (an authorized sequel to the Crichton classic). He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Machine Learning and Robotics. His new novel, ‘Hole in the Sky’, is a s...

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of ‘Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery’, leading a global team in the goal to document indigenous slavery across the Western Hemisphere. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and indigenous slavery scholar, Dr. Rael-Gálvez has served as the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preserv...

Sondra Segundo is a multidisciplinary artist and Haida language activist. She is a regalia maker, traditional and contemporary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, singer-songwriter, and keeper of ancestral songs. Sondra is the lead female vocalist of the Seattle-based tribal funk band, Khu’éex’, and sings/tells stories in the Tlingit and Haida languages. She also produces music...

Sunburnt Stone is a band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their music combines various influences and genres between country, blues, rock, and Americana. All the band members, Andrew Wilson, Daryl Young, and Nichole Tsosie, are Diné, members of the Navajo Nation. Their songs generally reflect experiences in life, sunset skies, and the pains of broken glass weathering through the souls of each and...