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I Am From, Gabriel Spinks
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Gabriel delivers a convincing poem relating to his Dakota ancestry.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 1
Dream of Wild Health saves seeds traditionally cultivated by Native American communities
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Diane Wilson is executive director of Dream of Wild Health, a St. Paul nonprofit working to collect and save seeds once cultivated by Indian commun...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 1
Presence of the Past
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: Archeologist Michael Holt at work in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve., Credit: NPS photo by Andrea Willingham
Some of the earliest records of human occupation in North America are in northwest Alaska. Archeologists in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve te...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 4
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
RPM Podcast #014: “Mesoamerica”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In the 14th episode of the RPM Podcast, host Ostwelve speaks with two musical architects of the Mexican Indigenous revival - Yaotl of Aztlan Underg...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KDNK


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 2
RPM Podcast #013: “Motherhood”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In Episode 13, RPM looks at Indigenous motherhood and music.

Bought by KZYX and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 2
RPM Podcast #012: “Revitalization”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In Episode 12 of the podcast, RPM looks at the Indigenous language revitalization movement. Half of the world’s languages have disappeared in the p...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 22:56
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #011: “Music is the Medicine”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our 11th episode, we talk with one of the hardest working musicians on Turtle Island – Mohawk blues-rocker Derek Miller.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:40
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #009: “Indigenous Rock”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In episode nine, RPM turns up the volume on Indigenous rock music, from metal to punk.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #008: “Singer-Songwriters”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our eighth episode, the great oral tradition of our Indigenous cultures thrives in 21st century song.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #007: “Native Hip-Hop”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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Hip-hop is one of the most popular musical genres in Indian Country. In our seventh episode, we explore why the art of hip-hop is such a strong for...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #006: “Six Nations”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora. In our sixth episode we look at the music from the Six Nations.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #004: “New Traditional”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our fourth episode, RPM looks at New Traditional, beginning with the question: What is it? And how can something be new and traditional at the s...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
BOY -- Filmmaker Taika Waititi
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Taika Waititi, San Francisco, CA 3/15/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Taika Waititi talks childhood, hero worship, and whether or not the Maori are one of the lost tribes of Israel.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2012
  • Length: 11:55
Native American Art of the Southwest at the Heard Museum
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with communications manager Debra Krol. The museum is dedicated to the sensitive and acc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Massasoit's Peace Pact with the Pilgrims: Peace Talks Radio [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Massasoit, as depicted in PBS Series WE SHALL REMAIN, Credit: www.pbs.org
Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy who negotiated a truce with British settlers of Plymouth Colony that lasted for 40 years in t...

Bought by KVSC, WNCW, KVMR, WFHB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 26
Massasoit's Peace Pact with the Pilgrims: Peace Talks Radio [59:00/54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Massasoit
Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy who negotiated a truce with British settlers of Plymouth Colony that lasted for 40 years in t...

Bought by KDNK, RadioStPete Florida, WKMS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 82
Making Peace With Nature After Environmental Disasters [Peace Talks Radio] 29:00
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Reflecting on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, three people, who have placed their relationship with nature at the center of their lives, offer their thoug...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Making Peace With Nature After Environmental Disasters: Peace Talks Radio (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Reflecting on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, three people, who have placed their relationship with nature at the center of their lives, offer their thoug...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2010
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
"We Come From"
From: Littleglobe
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Poem about origins performed by members of Santa Fe Indian School's spoken word team.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Legends: Star Stories
From: Native Voice One
Series: Legends
Caption: Elbert TwoPonies
"Star Stories" is the second episode in the Legends storytelling series.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KRZA, KMUD, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 14
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 KZYX, KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
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, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 27
Peter Wolf Toth: Trail of the Whispering Giants
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Peter Wolf Toth of Edgewater, Florida has spent more than thirty years carving giant statues of Indians across America.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 28:52