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

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.

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: 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)

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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.

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)

Previous Episode

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

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)

Next Episode

07/30/23 - Darryl Leroux

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)