rAMP (Radio Aula Mundi Podcast)

All interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker in New York City, New York,  Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ashland, Oregon, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, including with Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Kevin Schultz... •••  Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of ‘Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery’,  leading a global team in...

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 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South.  She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles.  •••  https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman  https://karenharryman.co...

Robert Madden is an author and archaeologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.  For many years, he sifted through existing records of Native American artifacts to look for the oldest dice in the United States.  His research led him to the conclusion that dice, games of chance, and gambling have been a persistent feature of Native American culture for at least the last 12,000 years,  wi...

Viola ‘Vi’ Waghiyi is a Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen, mother, and grandmother.  Since 2002, she has worked with Alska Community Action on Toxics (‘ACAT’) and serves as Environmental Health and Justice Director.  She is a nationally recognized environmental justice leader and is frequently invited to speak locally, nationally, and internationally.  Vi serves as a leader...

Todd Kessler is a singer-songwriter and recording artist in the Chicago area.   Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Todd Kessler was always singing.  He began playing the trumpet at 9 years old, but by 12, he’d fallen in love with the guitar and began writing his own songs.  •••    https://toddkesslermusic.com/  https://www.hemifran.com/artist/Todd%20Kessler/  •••  Interview conducted by Marco...

Joanna Hopson is an Iñupiaq Arctic games coach and athlete who competed in the annual Arctic Winter Games, held this year in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.  In addition to common winter events like curling and figure skating, the games include traditional indigenous competitions including single foot kick, knuckle hop, and stick pull. https://www.facebook.com/share/1D4gJBdzsi/  •••  Interview conducte...

Michael Yellow Bird is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is an enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota, USA.  His research interests focus on the effects of colonization and methods of decolonization, decolonizing social work, ancestral health, healthy indigenous aging, and shifting behavior, thoughts, beliefs, and ways...

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 profes...

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 ‘protect...

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 ski...

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-...