Creative FRONTLINE

Integrating health, culture, environment and language, as people of the sea Shelly Vendiola walks us down the road of her personal history as a trained peacemaker in the field of conflict resolution, important in light of climate change adaptation. Shelly introduces us to the systems approach she brings to her work with the Swinomish Tribe Protect Mother Earth Subcommittee, building on traditional...

Interview with Ilarion Merculieff–Filmmaker Robert Lundahl. Ilarion Merculieff (Larry) tells stories from his Pribilof Island homeland of St. Paul and St. George Islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, 250 miles north of the Aleutians. He expresses concerns about Arctic ecosystems generally, and in specific as related to multiple species of birds, marine mammals, and fish, including the Yukon Riv...

Interview with Ilarion Merculieff–Filmmaker Robert Lundahl. Ilarion Merculieff (Larry) tells stories from his Pribilof Island homeland of St. Paul and St. George Islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, 250 miles north of the Aleutians. He expresses concerns about Arctic ecosystems generally, and in specific as related to multiple species of birds, marine mammals, and fish, including the Yukon Riv...

Clifford Humphrey started Ecology Action recyclers in Berkeley in 1968. He's one of the true founders of the environmental movement. Here he carries a message from the inspired elders who conceived of a better world in the midst of war and chaos like we have today. We began a general conversation about the economics of greenwash, which we circled and snuck up on from behind in this, Clifford's gif...

Lithium in America tells the not unfamiliar story of industry and government pushing forward huge energy projects with market driven exuberance despite local opposition and failure to consult with tribes. The film shines a light on these questionable practices as we interview leaders and members from 5 tribes with respect to 4 major projects in 3 states that are bellweathers of policy today, and w...

With the release of the recent report, "Characterizing the Geothermal Lithium Resource at the Salton Sea" by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the first formal assessment of the much-touted lithium resource there is quantified. As we discovered in our earlier Creative Frontline KPFK Radio broadcast with Imperial Valley's Luis Olmedo of Comite Civico Del Valle, there are three questions of note. In pla...

Chemehuevi Tribal Elder and Board Member of the Native American Land Conservancy Matthew Leivas, Sr. (Chemehuevi), asks, "What's in your drinking water?"

Today we take a step back in time to the 1960's, and strangely, further onward ahead into a new world of climate uncertainty, in the spirit of the first Earth Day and a generation of logical dreamers who wanted to heal the planet before it was too late. We look back, and we look ahead with Clifford Humphrey, who became the first curbside recycler while still a student at U.C. Berkeley in 1968 and...

Jim LaBelle makes the connection between the traumas of the boarding school system and mining sacred lands. In “Dislocation by Extraction”

President of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, Jim LaBelle takes us behind the walls of one of the most notorious government–run Native American boarding schools, and, on the path to healing.

Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Sacred Sites and Lithium Extraction Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature. What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country? Rights of Na...

Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Gathering Fire Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Sacred Sites and Lithium Extraction Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature. What Are the Right...

Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Making the Connection Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature. What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country? Rights of Nature is a glob...

Mike Miller (Tlingit) #Biodiversity and the Coastal Marine #Ecosystem. Mike Miller is a lifelong commercial and subsistence fisherman and longtime councilperson Sitka Tribe of Alaska. Mike discusses the importance of forage fish to the Marine Ecosystem as a whole, and to a variety of species up and down the West Coast.

Chemehuevi NuWu Elder and Leader. Environmental Whistleblower and Protector of the Colorado River.

Chemehuevi NuWu Elder and Leader. Environmental Whistleblower and Protector of the Colorado River.

Climate Change and the Peopling of the Americas Dr. Ben Potter, Anthropological Archaeologist, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Climate Change and the Peopling of the Americas

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - When you look at a gleaming new electric vehicle what do you see? We love our cars, that is not in question, and our new technologies- and lithium mining for batteries for these vehicles is where it all begins. I looked up “What is Green Technology?” on Investopedia and found this: What Is Green Tech? Green tech refers to a type of technology that is considered environmenta...

I am honored to have recently interviewed Dorece Sam (Ft. McDermitt Pai-Sho Tribe), her aunt, Elder, Josephine Dick, and son, who goes by the name "Young Warrior." All are descendants of Ox Sam, who escaped the massacre of 1865, on horseback, as his people and family perished in an attack by the First Nevada Cavalry. A similar battle wages today, for many of the same reasons. Indigenous group seek...

A former Director and current consultant for the Bears Ears Coalition, Gonzales-Rogers has brought his deep experience on these issues to the Yale School of the Environment. This spring he is teaching a tribal resources and sovereignty clinic hosted by the Yale Center for Environmental Justice (YCEJ), which is open to students from YSE, Yale Law School, Yale School of Management, and Yale Divinity...

Luis Olmedo Executive Director of Comite Civico del Valle, Inc., Luis is a community advocate who advises on local, regional, and state environmental health programs and is a member of various state and national networks that focus on environmental policy, civic leadership, and environmental justice. Luis Olmedo has served as Executive Director for nearly two decades where he has led a team of loc...

KPFK One Minute Intro Creative Frontlne, Preston Arrow - Weed by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker/Journalist

For over 35 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities win some of the most significant victories in the history of that movement. In 1990, Bradley helped bring together grassroots Indigenous leaders in the first Protecting Mother Earth/Toxic Threat to Indian Lands Conference which led to the formation of the Indi...

The Land You Know Has Been Given to You With Preston Arrow-weed and Faron Owl Bradley Angel and Robert Lundahl, Producers Directed by Robert Lundahl Thank You Greenaction, Ah-Mut-Pipa Foundation ©Copyright 2023, Agence RLA, LLC, Greenaction www.agence-rla.com www.greenaction.org

Mahlee Yellowfeather was raised in a back canyon, speaking only Apache. She was taught by the Elders. Mahlee is the great granddaughter of Geronimo. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict. Here she tells of the occurrences at Oak Flat, and the meaning of the area to the Apache people.