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

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)

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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)

Previous Episode

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

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)

Next Episode

09/03/23 - Dr. Emma McNicol

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)