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Tyto alba
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 04:57
Amen Anemone
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:02
Lesquerella and Eshscholzia, the law firm
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Lesquerella is named in honor of Leo Lesquereaux and Wikipedia reminds me that he was a “Swiss bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany.” S...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 10:00
Black Swallowtail
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The scientific name of the black swallowtail is Papilio polyxenes. Papilio is from the Latin for butterfly and the specific epithet polyxenes is fr...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:04
Tan My Hide with Rumex
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, it was a cold winter, but as I sit and write this blurb it is 75 degrees outside with overnight lows in the low 30s. Now that is classic sout...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
A Pecan Tree and a Shrew
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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When we got our little homestead over 25 years ago, the woman we purchased it from told us, “Don’t forget to get the pecans off the tree by the cre...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:35
Trip to the Cascabel Fair
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains. Park L...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:48
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 WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half 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 WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS, KRDP and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 13
Native Plants Gigs
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Road trips with a truck load of native plants are a lot of work, but are especially satisfying when you head home with very few plants in the truck...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 06:16
Arizona Yellow Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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think I talked more about Toumey oak (Quercus toumeyi) than yellow bells. It is an awfully sweet little native oak. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t occ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:20
Western Soapberry Tree
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Western soapberry is Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii and is in the family Sapindaceae. In the soapberry family there are around twelve species. ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:45
Black-tailed Jacks, Mexican Elderberry and Vegan Cowboys
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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For goodness sake, I forgot to mention the black-tailed jackrabbit’s ears! The large ears are magnificent parabolic reflectors that keep them well ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:30
Beyond a Song: Cary Morin (Part 2)
From: ISOAS Media
Series: Beyond a Song
Caption: Cary Morin
Host Rich Reardin talks with Native American singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinairé Cary Morin.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
Voices of Native American Theater
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: They Don’t Talk Back by Frank Henry Kaash , Credit: Photo by Craig Schwartz Photography © 2016
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) founder and artistic director of Native Voices gives Native playwrights support and a platform.

Bought by KZUM, New England Public Media, Harford Community Radio, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:59
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond a Song: Cary Morin (Part 1)
From: ISOAS Media
Series: Beyond a Song
Caption: Cary Morin
Host Rich Reardin talks with Native American singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinairé Cary Morin.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
Native-American Basketmaker Kelly Church--keeps tradition alive and vibrant
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kelly Church, Credit: Richard Church, Pottawatomi and Ottawa
2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is an Anishanabe basketmaker who combines a traditional craft with a contemporary eye.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:56
Encounters at the Heart of the World (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World, tells the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as they rose to a...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCWP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9
Encounters at the Heart of the World (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World, tells the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as they rose to ...

Bought by New England Public Media, WJCT, KMUN, WVAS, KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates Native American music.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bryan Akipa, Credit: Tom Pich
2016 National Heritage Fellow and Dakota flute player and maker Bryan Akipa is reinvigorating a First Nation musical tradition.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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Remembering the dead through food - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways - Decolonizing your diet

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WKMS, WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 6
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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Remembering the dead through food - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways - Decolonizing your diet

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WKMS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 13
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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The season of the Ghost Supper - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways

Bought by WGZS, WFIU, KHNS, KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Encounters at the Heart of the World (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
Encounters at the Heart of the World (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:59