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

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

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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

Previous Episode

03/03/24 - Steven Solomon, Sr.

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

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)

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

Next Episode

03/17/24 - Dr. Tink Tinker

Tiokasin catches up with returning guest Dr. Tink Tinker for the full hour. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at Iliff School of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christian school. Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands.

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: Come As You Are (Nirvana)
Artist: Playing for Change, Various Artists (with opening lead vocals by Genevieve Chadwick from Ulladulla, Australia)
Single: 2021
Website: https://www.playingforchange.com/

3. Song Title: Ship of Fools
Artist: World Party
Album: Private Revolution
Label: Chrysalis

First Voices Radio - 03/10/24 - Curtis Zunigha (Repeat Show)

Transcript

Narrator00:00:00.080

Makes you such a threat? We choose the right to be who we are. We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom. There's a way to live with Earth and a way not to live with Earth. We choose the way of Earth. It's about power.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse00:01:41.230

Greetings and good day, and welcome, my relatives. I shake your hands with a good heart. It's good for all of us to be here. You