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National Writers Series: Peter Matthiessen
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Peter Matthiessen talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
Joy Harjo: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate
The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:23
Waterlily
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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A novel about the Dakota Sioux people and their lifestyle prior to the arrival of the settlers.

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 12:06:02
High Elk's Treasure
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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A fictional novel about a horse that gets lost/stolen and a young boy's journey to recover it. Along the way finding a medicine bundle that was lef...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:15:01
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: A conversation with Kent Nerburn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Area Voices
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"....I really came to discover two things. The first one was how incredibly misrepresented the native experience had been in our historical narrat...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 19:38
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A sofa and mattresses on the street in front of an apartment building. "Sofa Free, and throw in 2 box springs", Credit: walknboston is licensed under CC by 2.0.
There’s an eviction crisis in the United States, and it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 10
The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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"The truth behind the legend from the voices of the Lakota. The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's last stand," as it is also known, ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:40:27
Gwen Westerman
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Wordish
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Poet Gwen Westerman shares her poem "Root Words" on this weeks segment of Wordish.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:45
Native author Thomas King on his latest work, "The Inconvenient Indian"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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"The Inconvenient Indian" from the U of MN Press is an unconventional, subversive account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 26:15
  • Purchases: 1
Sean Sherman, author of "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," on The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Sean Sherman is an Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. His new cookbook, "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," shares award-winning ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 17:12
The World Is One Place
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Diane Glancy
Writers Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez discuss co-editing the anthology THE WORLD IS ONE PLACE: NATIVE AMERICAN POETS VISIT THE MIDDLE EAST. Glan...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. Pulled from three archive programs in 1990 and 1996, this author of f...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
It's Very Indian to Watch AbFab
From: The Organist
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Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 24:54
Anton Treuer: Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Realgoodwords
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Scott Hall reviews Bemidji Author Anton Treuer's new book Warrior Nation.

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Poets Greg Field and Denise Low
From: New Letters on the Air
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We conclude Native American Heritage Month with Greg Field and Denise Low. Drawing upon their Native heritage, Greg Field reads from his 2014 book ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist and Poet Gerald Vizenor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor Native American Heritage Month and Veteran's Day with Gerald Vizenor. Raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, Vizenor at age 1...

Bought by WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
David Treuer's latest novel, "Prudence," about love & loss in WWII-era America
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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David Treuer, Ojibwe from Leech Lake, now lives in southern California, writing and teaching at USC. He joined WTIP's Buck Benson recently to discu...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 23:28
  • Purchases: 1
#1307- "If This Can Work in Omaha, It Will Work Anywhere," Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith
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Beth Katz on Project Interfaith; Katy Scrogin on Sherman Alexie's Blasphemy.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 36:25
The Art of Minnesota Mystery Author, William Kent Kruger
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we feature a MN based writer that creates his art in coffee shops. William Kent Kruger has written over 15 novels, 13 ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 37:44
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer" - Jim Northrup Discusses his New Book
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Jim Northrup's "Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer"
Syndicated columnist and author, Jim Northrup, talks with Heidi Holtan on a whole range of topics from his column "Fond Du Lac Follies" to his expe...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 2
American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Words as the Way to Freedom: Jimmy Santiago Baca
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jimmy Santiago Baca
He went from illiterate street kid, to world renowned poet. But it was in prison that Jimmy Santiago Baca connected with his Native American and C...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? "Voices from the Ojibwe Nation"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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Three members of Ojibwe communities, which reach from Michigan to Montana in the United States and from Quebec to Saskatchewan in Canada, share the...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Peconic Public Broadcasting, WNMU-FM, KMRE-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 18
What's the Word? "American Indian and Alaska-Native Tribal Traditions"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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A celebration of American Indian and Alaska-Native tribal traditions

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Peconic Public Broadcasting, WNMU-FM, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 27
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58