First Voices Radio

Tiokasin Ghosthorse

“First Voices Radio,” now in its 32nd 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.

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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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09/24/23 - Resmaa Menakem (Repeat)

First Voices Radio

09/25/23 • 58 min

For this week's show, we're digging into the First Voices Radio archives and revisiting Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with author, Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist, and master trainer Resmaa Menakem. Tiokasin and Resmaa discuss grief, trauma, Indigeneity, reclamation of cultures, and autonomous practicality separate from "identity" and history.

Resmaa coaches leaders and people to rise through suffering’s edge. His work focuses on making the invisible, embodied and visible. Resmaa Menakem is a healer, a longtime therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma. He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute, a cultural trauma navigator, and a communal provocateur and coach. Resmaa is best known as the author of the New York Times bestseller “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies,” and as the originator and key advocate of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice of living and culture building.

Resmaa has served as the director of counseling services for Tubman Family Alliance, a domestic violence treatment center in Minneapolis; the behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; a divorce and family mediator; a social worker for Minneapolis Public Schools; a youth counselor; a community organizer; and a marketing strategist.

Find Resmaa on Facebook, Instagram, X and LinkedIn. His website is https://www.resmaa.com/.
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: Come and Take It
Artist: John Németh
Album: Stronger Than Strong (2020)
Label: Memphis Grease Records
(00:26:07)

3. Song Title: Freedom
Artist: Mau Power Feat. Archie Roach
Album: The Show Will Go On (2014)
Label: Aylan Styles
(00:55:00)

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

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

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)

12/24/25 - Annamarie Hill (Repeat)

First Voices Radio

12/27/23 • 58 min

For this week's show, we're revisiting a conversation between Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Annamarie Hill. Annamarie is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation located in northwestern Minnesota. It was while she was studying Music and Business at a private women’s college in the southern part of the state that she realized the impact of inhumane treatment put upon her father and family and became determined to somehow help right the wrongs that had devastated American Indian communities. After graduation, Annamarie moved to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Metropolitan area and began a career in the state legislature and government for more than a decade before taking the role of State Government Affairs Director for Red Lake.

After lobbying for Red Lake Nation for several years, Annamarie went on to lead the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council as Executive Director for a decade. It was during this time that the highly regarded and award-winning “Why Treaties Matter” exhibit and Dakota Ojibwe Language Revitalization program were developed. Annamarie currently works for the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Duluth Campus as the Strategy and Outreach Director. Annamarie is a part of the Mantyh Lab, a research team led by Neurologist and Dementia Specialist Dr. William Mantyh. The NIH- funded research project is to examine the APOE gene’s relationship with Alzheimer’s disease in the Native population. Annamarie remains active in the lobbying and advocating world for her people and provides professional and executive coaching and mentoring to many.

Annamarie has a bachelor’s degree in music and business administration from The College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota, and a master’s degree in Tribal Administration and Governance from the University of Minnesota/Duluth.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Ramirez (Maya), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

2. Song Title: Laugh Out Loud
Artist: Hataałii
Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
Label: Dangerbird Records
(00:29:58)

3. Song Title: (Intro) The Sacred Pipe, Osage Oil Boom
Artist: Robbie Robertson
Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon
Label: Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment
(00:47:47)

4. Song Title: Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)
Artist: Osage Tribal Singers
Album: Soundtrack from Killers of the Flower Moon
Label: Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment
(00:51:17)

03/03/24 - Steven Solomon, Sr.

First Voices Radio

03/04/24 • 58 min

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the hour with Steven Solomon, Sr., a lifelong Lummi fisherman and traditional knowledge holder of the reef net practice. “Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, this technique uses ropes to create an artificial reef that channels fish toward a net stretched between two anchored boats. Fishers observe the water and pull in the net at the right moment, intercepting salmon as they migrate from the Pacific Ocean to the Fraser River near present-day Washington state and British Columbia. Colonialism, government policies, habitat destruction, and declining salmon populations have separated tribes from this tradition. Today, only 12 reef net permits exist, with just one belonging to the Lummi Nation. Many tribal members hope to revive reef net fishing to restore their cultural identity and a sustainable salmon harvest but face difficulties balancing economic realities with preserving what the Lummi consider a sacred heritage.” — Liz Kimbrough, author, “Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery,” Mongabay, Nov. 21, 2023: https://bit.ly/3IlGIk9

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)

2. Song Title: Freedom Now (feat. Golshifteh Farahani & Arooj Aftab)
Artist: Nick Mulvey
Album: Freedom Now (released Feb. 13, 2024)
Producers: The Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again).

3. Song Title: Ambrosia
Artist: A Reminiscent Drive
Album: Ambrosia (2000)
Label: F Communications

4. Song Title: War / No More Trouble (Live at The Pavillon De Paris - 1977)
Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers
Album: Gold (2005)
Label: Island Records

03/10/24 - Curtis Zunigha (Repeat Show)

First Voices Radio

03/12/24 • 58 min

This week we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Curtis Zunigha. Curtis is an enrolled member of the federally-recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians https://delawaretribe.org/ He has more than 35 years of experience in tribal government and administration, community development, telecommunications, and cultural preservation. Curtis is an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices. He is Co-Director of Cultural Affairs for The Lenape Center, https://thelenapecenter.com/ based in New York City. The Lenape Center promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people through the arts, environmental advocacy, social justice, and agricultural practices. The Lenape Center’s work represents the return of the original Indigenous people to their original homeland of Lenapehoking (NY, NJ and PA). Curtis is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, 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)

2. Song Title: Exodus (Inspired by the Film “One Love: Bob Marley”)
Artist: Skip Marley
Album: One Love (2024)
Label: Island Records

3. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s
Artist: Beautiful People
Album: If 60s Were 90s (1992)
Label: Essential Records

4. Song Title: Autumn Sky Meditation
Artist: Shane Miller / Nature’s Eye
Album: N/A
Label: Find Nature’s Eye on YouTube

12/17/23 - Alex White Plume

First Voices Radio

12/19/23 • 56 min

Alex White Plume is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people at Wounded Knee. Between 1986-1990, the ride was a Wiping of the Tears ceremony for the Lakota nation. There were 19 riders on the very first ride in 1986 from Bridger, SD to Wounded Knee, SD. The ride was called the Future Generation Ride after 1990, when the Wiping of the Tears ceremony ended.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

2. Song Title: Turning Away
Artist: Dougie MacLean
Album: Indigenous (1991)
Label: Dunkeld Records
(00:27:08)

3. Song Title: Lakota Dream Song
Artist: Earl Bullhead
Album: Across Indian Lands (1999)
Label: SOAR
(00:42:10)

4. Song Title: If 60s Were 90s
Artist: Beautiful People
Album: If 60s Were 90s (1994)
Label: Continuum Records
(00:44:48)

5. Song Title: Road to Hell Part 1
Artist: Chris Rea
Album: On the Beach (1986)
Label: Geffen Records (USA) and Magnet (International)
(00:49:52)

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.

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)

08/20/23 - 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)

11/19/23 - Jonathan Gonzales, Lucas Jatobá, Christian Matute Sagbay

First Voices Radio

11/21/23 • 57 min

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse hosts another roundtable discussion focused on current Indigenous issues with three returning guests.

Jonathan Gonzales 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).

Lucas Jatobá is a photographer and filmmaker who was born in Manaus, northern Brazil. He had been living in Rio de Janeiro since 2014, where he went to study Anthropology at the Fluminense Federal University. Lucas started working as a freelancer, doing professional and volunteer documentation works on topics related to human rights, especially issues related to urban social issues.

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: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Single: You’ve Got Nothing to Lose (2014)
Label: Third Man Records
(00:27:45)

3. Song Title: Himno de la Guardia Indígena - Guardia Fuerza
Artist: Performed by Ali Aka Mind, Andrea Echeverri, Carlos Arturo Villamarin, Chane Meza, Derly Elide Musse Pasu, Eulalia Yagari, Gregorio Merchan, La Perła, Parranderos del Cauca Cuatro Más Tres
Written by: Hernan Sánchez Luligo, Manuel Jesús Sánchez
Produced by: Cory Camel, Juan Carlos Pellegrino
Single: Himno de la Guardia Indígena - Guardia Fuerza (2020)
Source: Parranderos del Cauca Cuatro Más Tres
(00:53:02)

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How many episodes does First Voices Radio have?

First Voices Radio currently has 215 episodes available.

What topics does First Voices Radio cover?

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

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Episodes of First Voices Radio are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.

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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