Bay Native Circle – August 11, 2004
Remembering Leonard Peltier. Snag Magazine interviews Pow Wow dancers.
7:00 PM Pacific Time: Wednesdays
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.
Remembering Leonard Peltier. Snag Magazine interviews Pow Wow dancers.
This week on Bay Native Circle, hosts Lakota Harden and Janeen Antoine interview Sebastian Zavala, Peruvian, Youth intern of the International Indian Treaty Council, and of SKINS (SFSU) student organization. Also Samuel Heredia, talks about the role of a modern day ‘warrior/common man’ "Ikc’e Wic’asa" and responsibilities in Native community. Music featured is by: Tudjaat, … Continued
Host Janeen Antoine interviews Beverly Slapin, Director of Oyate, a local group working to change the popular perception of Native Peoples in textbooks and classrooms – www.oyate.org. Also, this week’s Bay Area Indian Calendar.
L. Frank Manriquez is a Tongva/Ajachmem artist and cultural activist who is interviewing California Indian families, prompting a flood of memories with old family photographs. Their stories will become part of a new textbook for California public schools. We’ll also learn about the 9th Annual Indian Canyon Storytelling and Arts Festival this Saturday — presented … Continued
Adrian Hendricks examines the politics of POV in a presentation to the 27th Annual Ethnobiology Conference at U.C. Davis. And host Lakota Harden shares personal insights about her role as a Sundancer, and the meaning of ancient ceremony in the lives of contemporary Native peoples. Also the Bay Area Indian Calendar.
PBS Filmmaker James Fortier ("Alcatraz Is Not An Island") talks about his new projects, and writer & poet Paula Gunn Allen sets the record straight about Pocohontas. And as always, we have the Bay Area Indian Calendar.
Zuni artist, actor and veteran Michael Horse reflects on the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the transition and the place of Native Peoples in the military. Also, the Bay Area Indian Calendar of Events.
This week on Bay Native Circle, host Ras K’Dee kicks it with LTD, Little Dave Tlingit, and Gregg McVicar interviews Cheryl Seidner, Chair of the Wiyot Table Bluff Reservation about Eureka’s decision to return 40 acres of the tribe’s sacred island, site of a brutal massacre of an entire village of Tuluwat in 1860. All … Continued
Host Janeen Antoine speaks with Yupik writer, native language researcher, community organizer, and language activist Richard LaFortune about the promise of relearning indigenous languages after two generations of forced eradication.
Well be talking with Gilbert Blacksmith from the Medicine Warriors Dance Group and hearing songs from "All Nations Singers" appearing at the upcoming "Native Contemporary Arts Festival". And Janeen Antoine will talk with Nancy Steele, a Karuk woman from Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.