First Voices Radio

Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Since 1992, "First Voices Radio" has been exploring global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

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09/10/23 - Hataałiinez Wheeler, Albert Haskie

First Voices Radio

09/12/23 • 57 min

Tiokasin is joined by two guests for the full hour.

Hataałiinez Wheeler is a very modern kind of crooner: a pensive, deep-voiced troubadour whose serene surf-country songs tap into the hope and despondency of a new generation. The music he makes as Hataałii — a Navajo term that means “to sing,” a fitting diminutive of his given name — is at turns witty and world-weary, sunny but endearingly solipsistic.

Albert Haskie is a software developer from the Navajo Nation. He is the creator of the app Adoone’é. Serving as the lead developer in the project, Albert has strived to uphold his culture and traditions as a Navajo/Diné. It is his deep-rooted belief that everyone should have access to the resources that preserve and celebrate their Navajo/Diné heritage. Albert finds great joy in tackling Navajo/Diné language and culture preservation in the 21st century. With Adoone’é he aims to contribute to his community and empower others to do the same. Albert says that “Together, we can foster a world where Navajo/Diné individuals can achieve fluency in the Navajo/Diné language.”

Read. More about Hataałiinez Wheeler here: https://bit.ly/44LBdUI.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor
Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)
2. Song Title: Laugh Out Loud
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:14:04)
3. Song Title: Standing Ovation
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:21:49)
4.Song Title: Midnight Soldier
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:26:13)
5. Song Title: Story of Francisco
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:29:24)
6. Song Title: Pain in Popejoy’s Hand
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:43:12)
7. Song Title: Fusion (Live) (Internal Flight variation)
Artist: Estas Tonne
Album: Fusion (Internal Flight variation) Live in Zurich, 2022
Label: ETMusic
(00:47:52)

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Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

09/12/23 • 57 min

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08/27/23 - Russell Charles Means (Interview from 2000)

First Voices Radio

08/28/23 • 57 min

From the 2000 program archive. Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage.

Means was active in international issues of Indigenous peoples, including working with groups in Central and South America and with the United Nations for recognition of their rights. He was active in politics at his native Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and at the state and national level. Beginning an acting career in 1992, he appeared on numerous television series and in several films, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Pocahontas” and released his own music CD. Means published his autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread,” in 1995.

He was given the name Waŋblí Ohítika meaning “Brave Eagle” in the Lakota language. He talks about an array of topic but mostly patriarchy and matriarchy, and what it means to become a “Pow Wow” Indian.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

2. Song Title: Sacred Black Hills
Artist: Larry Long
Album: Fun for Freedom / Sweet Thunder (1984)
Label: Flying Fish Records
(00:30:00)

3. Song Title: Don’t Wanna Fight
Artist: Alabama Shakes
Album: Sound and Color (2015)
Label: ATO Records
(00:47:19)

4. Song Title: He Sapa Ki, Un Kita Pi
Artist: Earl Bullhead
Album: Keeper of the Drum (1995)
Label: Soar Records
(00:53:38)

08/28/23 • 57 min

07/23/23 - Jonathan Gonzales, Christian Matute Sagbay

First Voices Radio

07/24/23 • 58 min

Tiokasin spends the hour with Jonathan Gonzales and Christian Matute Sagbay. Jonathan was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African).

Christian Matute Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles.

2. Song Title: In the Land of the Blind
Artist: Cy Curnin
Album: Lockdown (2020)
Label: Self-Released
(00:28:45)

3. Song Title: I Am My Own Worst Enemy (single)
Artist: Cy Cumin
Album: N/A (single)
Label: N/A
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zOO5szEjnM4
(00:53:02)

4. Song Title: Remembrance
Artist: Robbie Robertson
Album: Sinematic (2019)
Label: UME Direct
(00:56:35)

About First Voices Radio:
”First Voices Radio,” now in its 31st year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

07/24/23 • 58 min

08/13/23 - Shannon O’Loughlin, Anne Keala Kelly on the Maui wildfires

First Voices Radio

08/14/23 • 61 min

Sitting in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week is First Voices Radio’s Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), an independent journalist, filmmaker and activist from Moku Nui (Big Island) in the illegally occupied Hawaiian Islands.

Keala begins with commentary about this past week’s deadly wildfires that completely destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui, located on the island’s west side. Lahaina is the historic seat of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Fires are still burning in other areas of Maui and also on Moku Nui.

For the majority of the hour, Keala speaks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), CEO and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs, continuing a conversation about repatriation that was begun in March 2023 on this program. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 22 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. She has served Indian Country in the private sector as an attorney, leading a large national firm’s Indian law practice that worked to strengthen, maintain and protect Indian nation sovereignty, self-determination and culture.

More information at: https://www.indian-affairs.org/.

This episode ends with a tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, “... who became a warrior woman and stood up to call out the centuries of soul-devouring abuse heaped on children by the Catholic church. It happened to the Irish and we all know it happened to the First Peoples of the Americas and other colonized countries.” — Anne Keala Kelly

Production Credits:
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Co-Host
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

2. Song Title: Danny Boy (single)
Artist: Sinead O’Connor
Description: Sung acapella on 12/24/1993 broadcast of The Late Late Show (Irish Talk Show)
(00:49:35)

3. Song Title: Natural Mystic
Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers
Album: Exodus (1977)
Label: Island Records
(00:54:05)

08/14/23 • 61 min

08/06/23 - Steven T. Newcomb (Repeat)

First Voices Radio

08/08/23 • 58 min

For this week's episode, we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Steven T. Newcomb. For the replay, Tiokasin recorded some additional commentary at the end and added a few new music selections.

Don’t just repudiate....rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than four decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.

Steve and Tiokasin discuss the Vatican’s formal repudiation of the Doctrine in March 2023. Steve is the author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 and Chicago Review Press) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve is available for film screenings and talks.

For more information and booking: http://originalfreenations.com/.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

2. Song Title: Mr. Soul
Artist: Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil Young)
Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
Label: Atco Records
(00:30:23)

3. Song Title: Fallen Angel
Artist: Robbie Robertson
Album: Robbie Robertson (1987)
Label: Geffen Records
(00:42:10)

4. Song Title: Blackbird Song
Artist: Lee DeWyze
Album: The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2
Label: Republic Records
(00:47:08)

5. Song Title: The Stray
Artist: Ellen Benevides (Apache) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on flute
Unreleased Single: 2003
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:53:54)

08/08/23 • 58 min

07/30/23 - Darryl Leroux

First Voices Radio

07/31/23 • 56 min

On this week's show, Darryl Leroux returns to "First Voices Radio" to spend the entire hour with Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Tiokasin and Darryl will discuss Darryl's new article, “State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting,” which was published in the latest issue of American Indian Culture & Research Journal, a leading, peer-reviewed Native American Studies/Indigenous Studies journal in the U.S. Darryl is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is French-Canadian from northern Ontario, Canada.

2. Song Title: Stolen Lands
Artist: Julian Taylor
Album: Beyond the Reservoir (2022)
Label: Howling Turtle
(00:22:20)

3. Song Title: Robbie Robertson
Artist: Remembrance
Album: Sinematic (2019)
Label: UME Direct
(00:51:22)

07/31/23 • 56 min

08/20/23 - Music from Levon and Roselyne Menassian, Conversation with Darlene and Willard Pipeboy from 2003

First Voices Radio

08/21/23 • 59 min

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse is back this week with a very special show. He will begin with an untitled musical track featuring Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Duduk, voice and Native flute. Tiokasin will talk about the conference that he recently attended in Portugal.

In the second half-hour, from our extensive archive stretching back 31 years: Darlene and Willard Pipeboy were frequent guests on First Voices ‘Indigenous’ Radio (as it was known at the time) from 1999 through the mid-2000s. Both carried knowledge and common sense of the Lakota and Dakota wichohan (life ways). This interview was drawn from the 2003 archive before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, before the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan in 2011, and other events as the Western world and Earth continue to clash.

Please listen to these two Wakán (note: there is not really a word for “elder” since it is a noun).

2. Artists: Levon and Roselyne Menassian (Armenian) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse (00:02:38)

3. Song Title: Sunrise Moon
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Album: Somewhere in There (2016)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:10:57)

4. Song Title: Psychos
Artist: Jenny Lewis
Album: Joy’All (2023)
Label: Blue Note Records
(00:13:20 )

5. Song Title: Conquer
Artist: RIVVRS
Album: Unfamiliar Skin (2016)
Label: Rogue Fire
(00:20:42)

6. Song Title: Ball and Chain
Artist: Xavier Rudd, J-Milla
Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D)
(00:25:00)

7. Song Title: What About Me?
Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album: What About Me? (1970)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:53:50)

08/21/23 • 59 min

07/16/23 - Elizabeth Woody, Charles Lyons and Christian Poirier

First Voices Radio

07/17/23 • 59 min

In the first half-hour, Tiokasin speaks with Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs, Yakama and Diné), executive director since 2018 of The Museum at Warm Springs in Warm Springs, Oregon. The Museum opened its doors to the public on March 14, 1993 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary throughout 2023 with special exhibits, public programs and events. Built to Smithsonian Institution professional standards, The Museum’s mission is to preserve, advance and share the traditions, cultural and artistic heritage of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. Elizabeth is an internationally renowned poet, author, essayist and visual artist. She is also an educator, mentor, collaborator and community leader. In 2016, Elizabeth became the first Native American to be named Oregon’s Poet Laureate.

Find out more about The Museum at Warm Springs at museumatwarmsprings.org

In the second half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Charles Lyons and Christian Poirier about Charles’ July 11, 2023 article for the environmental news site Mongabay, titled “Six months on, the Yanomami crisis continues amid rising violence.” The article was produced with funding from Earth Journalism Network. Charles, who is based in Rio de Janeiro, is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He is currently making a documentary film about former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He is senior consultant for Amazon Aid Foundation.

Last year, Charles produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour, which included two long-form reports –– one on deforestation in the Amazon; the other on Indigenous rights. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce and edit coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour. He is currently writing a series of articles on illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries for Mongabay. Christian Poirier is a senior member of Amazon Watch’s team. Having coordinated the Brazil Program since 2009, Christian helped lead international solidarity campaigns to halt the construction of large Amazon dams and to call on the global private sector to cease its complicity in environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon. He has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of international development and advocacy, focusing on environmental, agrarian, and social justice issues.

Read Charles’ article at https://bit.ly/43wEXJ8

2. Song Title: Joy’All
Artist: Jenny Lewis
Album: Joy’All (2023)
Label: Blue Note/Capitol
(00:28:39)

3. Song Title: Mad World
Artist: Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules
Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (2001)
Label: Down Up Down Music
(00:56:20)

07/17/23 • 59 min

07/09/23 - John Michelotti, Special Report on Montaukett Tribal Recognition

First Voices Radio

07/11/23 • 58 min

In the first half-hour, mycologist John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi.

As former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, John co-founded the Catskill Regional Mycoflora Project as well as the Gary Lincoff Memorial Scholarship. He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He is an instructor for the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification courses in NY. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production.

John has presented at the New York Botanical Gardens, Telluride Mushroom Festival, and North American Mycological Association Annual Foray, as well as several colleges and universities. His goal is to educate and inspire people to work with fungi to improve their health, communities, and the environment. More information about Catskill Fungi can be found at https://catskillfungi.com/.

Special Report:
In the second half-hour, “First Voices Radio” looks at a story that has not gotten much attention in the news, despite recent developments coming out of Albany, NY. It’s about Indigenous recognition and sovereignty, particularly on Long Island.

The fight for the Montaukett Indian Nation to be reinstated as a state-recognized tribe might have an end in sight with the passage of a new bill in the New York state senate that passed unanimously on May 31. This comes more than a century after the Montaukett lost their recognition in the infamous 1910 Pharaoh v. Benson case. This legislative action comes with calls both locally in New York and nationwide to rise up for Indigenous sovereignty.

Recently, Native paddlers from tribes all over the country paddled more than 1,500 miles in the northeast to call attention to these issues and defend their water rights. Hofstra University Graduate Journalism Student Cody Hmelar caught up to the canoers when they reached New York and prepared this audio feature for the hyper-local online news site, The Long Island Advocate.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

2. Song Title: Radioactive
Artist: Imagine Dragons
Album: Night Visions (2012)
Label: KIDinaKORNER
(00:25:20)

3. Song Title: I’m Going Home
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: Coincidence and Likely Stories (1992)
Label: Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI
(00:49:40)

4. Song Title: Ghost Dance Song
Artist: Red Shadow Singers
Album: Ghost Dance Songs (2004)
Label: Arbor Records Ltd.
(00:52:42)

5. Song Title: Riders on the Storm
Artist: The Doors
Album: Classics from The Doors (1971)
Label: Revolver Music
(00:55:30)

07/11/23 • 58 min

09/03/23 - Dr. Emma McNicol

First Voices Radio

09/04/23 • 56 min

Tiokasin is joined by Dr. Emma McNicol, a feminist philosopher and expert on Simone de Beauvoir. Emma works at the nexus of race, culture and gender theory, examining themes of exclusion and intersectionality in historical and contemporary feminist theory.

Emma is the Senior Project Coordinator of Fire to Flourish's National Indigenous Disaster Resilience program, a project exploring Indigenous leadership in the face of natural hazards intensified by climate crisis.

Recommended reading: https://bit.ly/3qW7Q4a

2.Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover - Childish Gambino
Album: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf + Rothstein/RCA Records
(00:22:00)

3. Song Title: Your Freedom is the End of Me
Artist: Melanie De Biaso
Album: Lilies (2017)
Label: [PIAS] Le Label
(00:48:35)

4. Song Title: Harvest Moon (by Neil Young)
Artist: The Brothers Comatose (feat. AJ Lee and Blue Summit)
Single: 2022
Label: Universal Music Australia
(00:52:17)

09/04/23 • 56 min

FAQ

How many episodes does First Voices Radio have?

First Voices Radio currently has 164 episodes available.

What topics does First Voices Radio cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Native American, Podcasts and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on First Voices Radio?

The episode title '09/10/23 - Hataałiinez Wheeler, Albert Haskie' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on First Voices Radio?

The average episode length on First Voices Radio is 58 minutes.

How often are episodes of First Voices Radio released?

Episodes of First Voices Radio are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of First Voices Radio?

The first episode of First Voices Radio was released on Sep 16, 2020.

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