First Voices Radio

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Matt Remle (Hunkpapa Lakota). Matt lives in Duwamish Territory - Seattle, Washington - with his family. He is the editor and writer for Last Real Indians and works for the Office of Native Education for the Marysville School District. Matt is the co-founder of the group Mazaska Talks which focuses on global divestment from banks and corpora...

During this episode of First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse presents a special hour of music and commentary. He features 11 songs that were listener favorites during 2021. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthors...

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Munya Andrews. Munya is an Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born to an Aboriginal woman and Scottish father, she is proud of her Aboriginal and Celtic heritage. Her Bardi 'saltwater' people come from the Dampier Peninsula and the off-shore islands north of Broome. Regarded by Melbourne University as a "leading Australia...

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dakota Yazzie of Earth Surface People, an Indigenous (Diné) led music collective whose work is based in decolonizing popular music through Indigenous storytelling and history. Earth Surface People was started in 2015 with multi-instrumentalist Dakota Yazzie and jazz saxophonist Jai Ram Rideout. The band's music melds influences from Hip Hop, Neo Soul,...

Tiokasin's guest is Nina Wilson, a founder of the Idle No More Movement. She is a Nakota Dakota Neheyaw woman from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. Nina lives on reserve raising her youngest who is still at home for a few more years.  She works in many capacities spiritually and professionally. Nina has a western education as well as traditional knowledge. Nina...

Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural col...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first half-hour is Shelley Buck, President of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Indian Community in Minnesota. The Prairie Island Indian Community, a federally recognized Indian Nation, is located in southeastern Minnesota along the banks of the Mississippi River, approximately 30 miles from the Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tiokasin and President Buck discuss a Novembe...

Joe Pitawanakwat joins Tiokasin Ghosthorse for the full hour of this episode. Joe is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter.  He is the Founder and Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now fully online, education based business, focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, ed...

In the first segment of this episode, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Vince Fontaine. Vince (Anishinaabe) has been at the forefront of Indigenous music making in Canada for more than 30 years. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vince is the JUNO Award-winning founder of First Nations rock icons Eagle & Hawk. He is the founder and band leader of the Winnipeg folk-pop collective Indian City. Ti...

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Kisha Supernant. She is Métis, Papaschase and British and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology, the use of digital technologies in archaeology, and heart-centered archaeologic...

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the topic of land acknowledgements. The inspiration is an article that was published October 7, 2021 in The Conversation: "Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite - erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead." Guests: Valerie Lambert (Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma), Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Universi...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first segment is Max Wilbert. In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and Will Falk launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Max appears regularly on First Voices Radio to give updates on what is happening at Thacker Pass and what we can do to support the peoples' efforts. Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and h...

In early June 2021, remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. The school was one of the largest Indian residential schools in Canada and operated from the late 19th century to the late 1970s. Indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old, we were forcibly taken from their families and put into residential schools in Can...

In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Jenni Monet, an investigative journalist, media critic, and founder of the weekly newsletter, "Indigenously: Decolonizing Your Newsfeed." Jenni has been reporting from Indian Country for as long as she's been a journalist, from the coups d'etat on Jicarilla Apache lands in the late '90s to the dramatic demonstrations at...

In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse remembers Andre Vltchek. September 22 marked one year since First Voices Radio friend Andre's untimely death in Istanbul, Turkey. Tiokasin remembers his immense contributions: many books of non-fiction and fiction; documentary films; hundreds of essays and media appearances. We got to know Andre on "First Voices Radio" in early 2017...

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with linda manyguns about a recent article, "Calgary professor won't use capital letters unless it's to acknowledge Indigenous peoples." dr. linda manyguns is a Blackfoot woman born on the tsutina nation, now registered at siksika. she is the grandmother to five children. linda grew up in europe as an airforce brat. in her early years she worked as a high...

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dylan Shields about his experience on the recent Whitestone Hill Memorial Horseback Ride with a group from a number of Dakota and Lakota nations. Dylan, a filmmaker, grew up on the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada among the Paiute and Shoshone people. They rode across the northern Plains from Crow Creek, South Dakota to Whitestone Hill Sta...

This week, Tiokasin welcomes Dr. Rosita Worl back to "First Voices Radio." Dr. Rosita Worl is President of the Sealaska Heritage Institute. Her Tlingit names are Yeidiklasókw and Kaaháni, is Tlingit, Ch'áak' (Eagle) moiety of the Shangukeidí­ (Thunderbird) Clan from the Kawdliyaayi Hít (House Lowered From the Sun) in Klukwan. She is an anthropologist and for many years served as Assistant Professo...

This week on "First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes two guests: Debra Utacia Krol and Ukumbwa Sauti. Debra Utacia Krol is an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic. She is a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe. Debra's current coverage area - which is supported by the Catena Foundation and the Water Funder Initiative - is the intersection of climate, culture and commerc...

This week on a special repeat episode of "First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Alnoor Ladha. Alnoor's work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking and narrative work.  He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rul...

Update on Thacker Pass with guest Will Falk. Will and Max Wilbert (another of our frequent guests), launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada in January of this year. Will is a biophilic writer, lawyer and the author of “How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me,” published by Homebound Publications. The book describes his relationship with the Co...

As we’ve reported before on “First Voices Radio,” since April 28, 2021, tens of thousands of Colombians have been protesting in the streets in just about every part of the country. They’ve been participating in a months-long National Strike against the government, demanding widespread change in its social economic program, its response to the COVID pandemic, and respect for the defense of human ri...

In this special repeat edition, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming...

This week, Tiokasin welcomes back Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Dr. Paulette Steeves was born in Whitehorse Yukon Territories and grew up in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation. Dr. Steeves holds an adjunct faculty position at Mount Allison Un...

Ofelia Rivas is the guest for the full hour. She is an elder and activist from the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. Ofelia will have a new website online soon: oodhamrights.org   Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 F...