“Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights & Artists with Diane Fraher of The Heart Stays (2024)”

04/19/24 • 58 min

With Hollywood film production costs easily exceeding millions of dollars per film, and given the constant marginalization, erasures, and stereotypes about Native Americans and Indigenous peoples for more than a century, as well as the film industry’s chronic unwillingness to unconditionally support an abundance of Native American film productions, distributions, and exhibitions, many Native Americans film writers, producers, and directors find themselves working independently outside of the Hollywood-entertainment media system. Our guest for the hour is the writer, director and producer of a new feature film, The Heart Stays (2024), a coming-of-age story about two Osage sisters. Cast with veteran and non-veteran Native American actors/actresses, our guest for the hour emphasizes the unique artistic importance of the film, demonstrates how the film’s story is an artistically superior method of Native storytelling, and expresses how a unique community-based business model was used to produce The Heart Stays. Tune in for the hour to hear our guest explain how and where the film was made and how this ground-breaking and newly produced featured film is truly a Native American film that all must experience and see. The Heart Stays was released on March 26th, 2024, and is available on a variety of digital streaming platforms including, but not limited to: Apple TV, Prime Video, Vudu, Google Play, and DirecTV. Guest: • Diane Fraher (Osage/Cherokee Nations), founder and director of Amerinda Inc., a community-based multi-arts organization that works to empower Native Americans. She also the writer, director and producer of a new feature film, The Heart Stays (2024), a coming-of-age story about two Osage sisters filmed on Osage Nation. Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

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U.S. Policy Mismanagement in Denying the Lives of the Buffalo Relations

Once numbering at least 40-60 million, settler colonial men once hunted the buffalo through the train windows for sport – who had the most kills. By 1890, however, there were less than 1,000 buffalo with only 23 surviving in Yellowstone’s Pelican Valley. Today, in Yellowstone National Park, the buffalo are trapped for slaughter and quarantine. In fact, once migrating into Montana, the buffalo are under the control of the Department of Livestock instead of Yellowstone Park National Service. When trapped, the buffalo are often tested for Brucellosis – the disease given to them by cattle. In Gardiner, MT, a group of 28 buffalo migrating into Gardiner Basin were recently trapped by Yellowstone National Park at Stephens Creek near Gardiner, Montana. The group was the first buffalo to migrate into the basin this season. Another group of 49 buffalo migrated beyond Yellowstone National Park’s trap and the remaining buffalo retreated from the National Forest to Yellowstone National Park. Today on American Indian Airwaves, our guest provides in-depth updates on the U.S. National Park Services failed Bison Management program and the Yellowstone National Park continued operations causing the depopulation of the last remaining original genetically pure buffalo herds (~9,000), the failed Endangered Species Act, how the climate crises is impacting the ecosystems throughout the region and the buffalo relations, as well as how the U.S. government’s divide and conquer strategy in creating buffalo policies simultaneous benefits larger Native American nations buffalo management programs from far way compared to local and smaller Native American nations near the Yellowstone Nation Park regions. Moreover, our guest highlights the cultural importance of the buffalo relations for Native American lifeways and what is threatening the cultural sustainability for future Native America nations. Guest: • James Holt Sr. (Nimiipuu Nation), Executive Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), and the board member for International Wildlife Coexistance Network Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

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Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024: In the Spirit of the Eagle and Condor Prophecy

The “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an indigenous and First Nation ceremonial run that invites the participation of Native and non-Native individuals committed to the survival of Native American cultures, nations, and the uniting of the indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (North, Central and South America). With its roots in traditions of running as prayer and as an expression of indigenous cultural self-determination, the Peace & Dignity Journeys was formally established in 1990 in Quito, Ecuador at a gathering of over two hundred representatives from different Indigenous nations from throughout the western hemisphere. The 6,000-mile, seven-month spiritual relay run takes place every four years and this year runners will begin in Fairbanks, Alaska running south and in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina running north, eventually all runners will converge and meet El Cuaca, Columbia. Tune in to hear our guests discuss this year’s significantly important Peace and Journeys 2024 ceremonial run, the organizational coordination for the preparation across Turtle Island, and how people can help and who can participate. This year’s Peace and Dignity Journeys starts in May 2024. Guests: Eddie Gonzales and Marcus Vargas are organizers and co-chairs for the Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024 – Central Coast. For more information, you can visit: www.peacedignitycentralcoast.org Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.