Let's Talk Native with John Kane

The Cayuga conflict degrades even farther as anger and outrage rules the day. Unity and solidarity at the blockades for Wet'suwet'en. Factionalism and divisiveness in Cayuga.

Some follow up to the Cayuga conflict and updates on the blockades across Canada and the pipeline resistance in Wet'suwet'en.

Another Fed Wrecked "leader" demonstrates abuse of power with cops and bulldozers. Reminiscent of the bulldozing of smoke shops by the Onondaga chiefs and the use of police against their people, Clint Halftown followed the playbook of his former mentors.

The Canadian House of Commons met to address the Wet'suwet'en pipeline conflict and the Mohawk blockades. The Left wants to kill us with kindness and the Right just wants to kill us. Sakoietah joins me once again to talk about holding Canada accountable and a review of all the band council chiefs sucking up to Canada.

Free, prior and informed consent IS veto power. But who has it? Original people! Certainly not Americans and Canadians of "Indian" descent!

What can we do? How do we support our brothers and sisters on the front lines defending our lands and people? There is much we can do but there is also what we cannot do.

James Sakoietah Gray joins John to talk about Wet’suwet’en and the actions people are taking all over Canada. We aren’t talking “protests”, we are talking shut downs!

The legacy of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery is the pervasiveness of Christianity among the victims of the doctrine. Black and Native people succumbed to the pressures of slavery, genocide, assimilation and subjugation and now are predominantly Christians.

Decolonization is not about finding comfortable places within the systems of oppression. It's about dismantling those systems! We cannot simply mirror all their failed systems and claim independence because we now have them. We need to formulate our own solutions that bring our past forward.

The American Genocide: 1492-???? What's the end date? Is there one? When will we say this was the day/month/year it ended? Support the show and check out our new merch store! - https://www.letstalknative.com/store

True history is not only buried but it's lied about and white washed. And that history is carried forward in pop culture and what's taught to children everyday. Support the show and check out our new merch store! - https://www.letstalknative.com/store

That promissory note was not written to us. The creed was not to us. The American Dream was never ours. Our playing field was not tilted or skewed. It was stolen. We still fight for a free and independent existence, not for equality and sameness. Support the show and check out our new merch store! - https://www.letstalknative.com/store

Seven years ago we had a powerful movement that called for our people to be Idle No More! Since then far too many have grown idle and silent. It's time for us to to get active and support activism. I have no problem with social media activism but less selfies and mind numbing videos and more education valuable info would go along way.

Ours was not the "primitive culture." We saw all creation not as man's dominion but rather we saw our place in it. We made commitments to seven generations to do no harm. We didn't believe in an all seeing, all knowing, all powerful white man in the sky who created all things, heard all prayers and created man in his image to rule the world. Nope we had to regress to a primitive culture to buy thi...

An anniversary of sorts, 7 years after standing up to cops trying to shut down an "Idle No More" flashmob round dance. But the real topic is calling out what has infiltrated our culture and sorting out what's ours and what's not. Check out our latest video "We Are Not Your Mascots" - https://youtu.be/Z1pQiUl9KX4

The Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw fight the State of Oklahoma over the State's attempt to extort a new gaming compact out of Native casinos for more money.

Will Trump's New Years fireworks finally convince us to stop our kids from enlisting into the US military? It pains me to hear Native people boasting about our enlistment rates. If we really wanted to defend our lands we would fighting against the US not for them.

Some will celebrate. Others will struggle. Let's commit to more kindness in the new year.

Massacres, murder and the largest mass execution in US history make December a tough month for Native people. I have lost a family member in December and today I lost my Choctaw brother Ben Carnes.

Is "Identity Politics" becoming the new "Political Correctness"? I support both and so should you. I support identity and being correct.

How much has our culture taken a backseat to all the other influences on our lives: church, school, work, media, money?

The ship has long sailed to prevent man-made climate change and the hate and divisiveness world-wide over race, religion, greed and oppression is only growing. So what impact can we, as indigenous peoples, have to change these global conflicts? NONE!! We cannot topple their leadership or move their populations to reform but we can prepare for these conflicts and ultimately show true leadership by...

Who has the most influence on us? Church? Schools? Media? Hollywood? The Internet? Well where do we fit in? Where do we stack up on the influence scale?

Genocide doesn't just happen. It is a crime committed against people. A caller who joined me made a powerful statement. She said that her ancestors were NOT slaves. They were enslaved! Support the show and buy John's new shirt! https://bit.ly/2RxGVaI

The good white skinned folks of Langhorn, Pennsylvania insist on being "Redskins." And they reject the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission attempting to put conditions on their use of a racial slur for a nickname. Donna Fann-Boyle joins me for the program to discuss the desire of these folk to be unrestrained racists.