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Wednesday, May 1st, 2002 - Bulletin from Eric Martin
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1) NAC Topics for 4/29 - 5/03
2)Voices From The Circle - Romance on the Pow Wow Trail plus more
3) Different Drums featuring David Lohnes Jr.
4) Oyate Ta Olowan - Stephan Small Salmon (Flathead)
5) alterNative Voices - Christianity and Indian Country plus more.
5)Earthsongs - Lila Downs
NAC
Topics for April 29 - May 3
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MON - 4/29: Sexual Assault in Indian Country:
The statistics are staggering when it comes to crimes committed against
Native American and Alaska Native women. According to the U.S. Department
of Justice Native women suffer violent crimes at a rate three and a half
times greater than the national average. What does this mean for the future
of Native America? As the nation recognizes April as Sexual Assault
Awareness Month, the DOJ reports that over 70 percent of sexual assaults
are never reported. How do we empower Native women to take a stand against
abuse? Guests include spokeswomen from Mending the Sacred Hoop in Duluth,
Minnesota and Morning Star House of Albuquerque.
TUE - 4/30: Book-of-the-Month: "Heart of the Rock":
Every year, more than 1.3 million people visit the island of Alcatraz.
Surrounded by the San Francisco Bay, this island was the location of an
infamous federal prison. What first greets visitors on their arrival are
these words, painted in red on the side of the building on the dock:
"Indians welcome - Indian Land." A new book called "Heart of the
Rock"
captures the invasion of Alcatraz by American Indians in 1969. What does
Alcatraz symbolize to Native people today, and how did it impact the
treatment of Natives in America? Guests include author Adam Fortunate Eagle
of the Ojibway Nation.
WED - 5/01: Columbia River Indian Salmon Harvest:
Tribes along the Columbia River have instituted commercial fisheries to
rescue Chinook salmon and their tribal heritage. Now, fresh salmon from
fisheries can be purchased from tribes. Angler groups look upon the
fisheries as a threat to the native salmon. They point out that although
tribes have increased the number of salmon, they need to change their
indiscriminate gill netting techniques. Should non-Natives have any input
into Native commercial fisheries? Are tribes guilty of netting all fish
haphazardly? Guests include Bruce Harpole, President of the Oregon Fishing
Club.
THU - 5/02: Ahupua-a: From the Mountains to the Sea:
There is a traditional philosophy within the Native Hawaiian island culture
that follows a tribal way of thinking when it comes to distributing the
bounty the islands provide. It is called Ahupua-a, which means "from the
mountains to the sea." Everything that is needed to sustain life is found
from the tip of the highest mountain to the coral reefs of the sea, and
should be there for everyone to share. Can a resurgence of this holistic
view return to the islands? Guests include Native Hawaiian Jimmy Torio,
Executive Director of Anahola Homesteaders Council.
FRI - 5/03: Zuni and Appalachia Theatre:
Storytelling is vital in every culture to maintain tradition and
communication. Sadly, storytelling has been replaced with radio,
television, and other forms of technology. However, in the new book
"Journeys Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachia Collaboration," two
cultures
1,600 miles apart unite to reincarnate storytelling in a theatrical form.
The Roadside Theatre of Virginia and the Idiwanan An Chawe theatre group of
the Pueblo of Zuni come together in a cross-cultural presentation of music,
storytelling, theatre and dance. What do these seemingly vastly different
peoples share in common? Guests include Edward Wemytewa of the Zuni Nation.
Voices From The Circle - Romance on the Pow Wow
Trail plus more
This week, VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE radio and cybercast
listeners can hear
about romance on the pow wow trail and more!
But before we begin with our round dance songs and other tunes about
affairs of the heart, Jim Boyd lets us all know how pow wow proud he is
with "Makes Me Proud." Grady Shadow Hawk Jones takes us to the
"Spirits of
Our Ancestors" through the magic of his flute. Smokeytown pow wow drum
traveled to the Lac Court O'Reilles Chippewa Reservation in Northcentral
Wisconsin where they recorded many of their favorite songs including this
popular boy-meets-girl "Round Dance Song." Another great flutist Jeff
Ball
takes us on a musical "Journey" and on a "Black Hills
Stomp." Joanne
Shenandoah and Bill Miller collaborate to pay tribute to all Native
entertainers with a song they co-wrote on the eve of the 2000 Native
American Music Awards... "Earth and Sky." Beneath our Southern
Medicine
Line in Mexico, you'll find Xavier Quijas Yxayotl who has mastered the clay
flutes, ancestral drums and songs of Meso-America. We're all invited to
"Make an Offering to Mother Earth."
This week's VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE features a special interview with
William A. Mehoja, Sr. who has left us with his important words about
education, especially the kind which comes through the elders in the form
of oral tradition.
Randy Wood continues our pursuit of romance on the pow wow trail with
another round dance song - "911 L-O-V-E." Jim Boyd returns to tout the
full
effects of functionalism with the "Not Drinking Song." Jeff Ball lets
us
know - flute style - how it is to be "Red and Blue." Black Lodge helps
us
to continue our romantic ways on the pow wow trail with this week's third
and final round dance song (If you haven't found each other by now...forget
it!) on "Hold My Hand." Candace Nokes of the Mark Truesdell and the
Lost
Pioneer Band heats up the pow wow trail romance angle with "Talk to
Me."
Bill Miller concludes our romantic pow wow trail excursion with "This Kind
of Love."
May all your pow wow dreams come true.
'meegwitch & way way nen!
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(All Times ET)
Monday - 4/29: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Tuesday - 4/30: 4am
Saturday - 5/04: 3pm
Sunday - 5/05: 4am, 3pm
Monday - 5/06: 4am
Different Drums featuring
David Lohnes Jr
This week, Different Drums is excited to bring you an
entire hour of music
and conversation from a musician we predict you'll be hearing a lot more
about in the future - David Lohnes Jr. (Dakota/Menominee), an enrolled
member of the Spirit Lake Nation of North Dakota. His debut CD release,
"Dakota Skies," released in 2001, ranges from country rock to wailin'
blues, and the subject manner ranges from the powwow to love gone bad that
comes out feeling good after it's been turned into a song. In conversation
with Different Drums producer Tricia King, he displays good-natured humor
as well as inspiration for all, with his advice on how to believe in
yourself and follow a dream. Join us for an hour of good music and engaging
conversation this week, as we put the spotlight on David Lohnes Jr., on
Different Drums.
Listen online by going to www.airos.org
(All Times ET)
Tuesday 4/30: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Wednesday 5/01: 4am
Saturday 5/04: 5pm
Sunday 5/05: 6am, 5pm
Monday 5/06: 6am
Oyate Ta Olowan - Stephan
Small Salmon (Flathead)
This week Oyate Ta Olowan visits with Stephan Small Salmon
(Flathead).
Stephan is a powwow man. He sings and dances competitively along the powwow
trail during the summer months, often walking away with the big prize
money. During the winter he cuts wood. He was born in 1939 and has no
children. Although he had no formal education beyond high school, Stephan
has spent a good deal of his life learning the traditional cultural
teachings and spiritual ways of the Flathead people. He has traveled quite
a bit, spent time in Denver, Seattle and Chicago, but he always returns
home again.
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(All Times ET)
Wednesday 5/01: 7pm
Thursday 5/02: 1am, 7am
Friday 5/03: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Saturday 5/04: 4am, 2pm
Sunday 5/05: 3am, 2pm
Monday 5/06: 3am
alterNative Voices
Christianity and Indian Country>
This week alterNative Voices features an interview with Ms. Cynthia Kent
(Southern Ute), Executive Secretary for Native American and Indigenous
Ministries, The General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist
Church. We discuss Christianity and the keeping of ones cultural
identity. Also, when the church designates empowerment resources for
Native people, how is the accountability of these resources within church
structure assured for Native people?
New items include a story of survival from Alaska and what is the lame
explanation for the bookmark with a dead Indian image.
This week's music menu is diverse and all Native on alterNative Voices.
Our website is always available with events, jobs, scholarships,
announcements and news you can use. www.alternativevoices.org
Listen online by going to www.airos.org
(All Times ET)
Wednesday 5/01: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Thursday 5/02: 4am
Saturday 5/04: 6pm
Sunday 5/05: 7am, 6pm
Monday 5/06: 7am
Earthsongs
- Lila DOWNS
Next time on Earthsongs: Modern Music From Native America, music from
Natay, Howard Lyons, Spirit Nation and our feature artist, Lila Downs. She
grew up in the mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, the daughter of a
Scottish-American cinematographer father and a Mixtec-Indian mother who
sang in Mexico City. In college Lila studied to be an opera singer but
dropped-out, followed the Grateful Dead for a while and moved back to the
mountains of Oaxaca where she learned to weave cloth.
"While I was in Oaxaca, I was asked to translate from English to Mixtec
death certificates of young boys who had left for the United States
searching for work. Their relatives wanted to know how they died. It was
so
powerful, being this translator of their deaths. I had to sing about it, to
honor them if I could."
Today Lila Downs has three albums to her credit and has cultivated a
devoted fan base through heavy touring in Mexico, South America, the U.S.
and Europe -- singing songs in the Indian languages of Mexico such as
Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl.
All this and plus the Native Word of the Day. Details at
www.earthsongs.net.
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(All Times ET)
Thursday 5/02: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Friday 5/03: 4am
Saturday 5/04: 4pm
Sunday 5/05: 5am, 4pm
Monday 5/06: 5am
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