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Listen to the Program July 22, 2010

Emily Schiffer, Dana Dupris, Carlys High Bear, Demi Beautiful Bald Eagle, Wynema Dupris, Karlisle High Bear, Samantha High Bear, Jessie Carlson
www.myviewpoint.org
MyViewpointPhotography@gmail.com
My Viewpoint is a youth photography initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Students (aged 6-20) learn both darkroom and digital techniques. Their images have been published in several magazines including PDN, South Dakota Magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine Online (upcoming). For two weeks in July five committed teenage photographers and three adults will travel from South Dakota to New York to begin the design of a national group exhibition. The purpose of this trip is to explore the ways in which the youth want to exhibit My Viewpoint’s work, and to begin the curation process. The youth will also be photographing New York City, and printing their images at ICP’s facilities.
Listen to the Program July 15, 2010

Tina Cordova, Louise Benally & Anna Rondon a coalition of community groups affected by uranium mining and committed to renewable energy development — announces the 31st Anniversary Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill of July 16 - 1979. The purposes of this event are to remember and honor the Diné communities that were affected by the largest release of radioactive waste in U.S. history, and to reaffirm the Navajo Nation’s ban on uranium mining and processing. www.sric.org

Valerie Taliman Publicist for the Iroquois National Lacrosse Team which has travelled with their own Haudenousaunee passports since 1977 were denied orginally by England and given assurances by the US State Dept. that they would be allowed to return to the U.S. The national lacrosse team is to particpate in the the 2010 World Lacrosse Championships today and competing against England in the opening game. www.iroquoisnationals.org
Listen to the Program July 8, 2010

Canunpa Gluha Mani In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order that removed the Nebraska land from the reservation; the legality of this order has been disputed. Ever since, Whiteclay has been notable primarily for the vast quantities of alcohol sold to residents of the legally dry Pine Ridge reservation. The status of Whiteclay's beer stores became a volatile political issue in the late 1990s, as a pair of unsolved murders in 1999 led to a series of marches and rallies led by various activist groups (including the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Nebraskans for Peace) demanding that the state of Nebraska revoke the area's liquor licenses and increase law enforcement in the area. www.battleforwhiteclay.org

Brenda Dardar-Robichaux The Houma Indian Nation of Louisiana’s coastline prepare for the worst as the eco-destruction as the Gulf oil crisis continues to affect living conditions. The man-made disaster that has pumped millions of gallons of toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico is nothing like a hurricane. It’s far worse. www.unitedhoumanation.org

Paul Stamets The BP oil spill has inflicted enormous harm in the Gulf of Mexico and will continue to do so for decades, to come. Although estimates have been that BP could be liable for more than 14 billion dollars in clean up damages, very few in the media have mentioned the long-term, generational consequences of this oil spill. We must now deal with the after effects. One solution is mycoremediation, the process of using fungi to return a contaminated eco-system to a less contaminated land. www.fungi.com/mycotech/petroleum_problem.html
Listen to the Program July 1, 2010

Ronald Holloway of The NJ Sand Hill Band Of Lenape & Cherokee Indians filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court in Newark NJ laying claim to the State of NJ as well as charging the then Governor Corzine, NJ Sec'ty of State Nina Wells; NJ Attorney General Ann Milgram and NJ Senate President, Richard Codey with violation of human rights, genocide, and breaking of treaties etc. Contact: 973.293.3884
Chanunpa Gluha Mani "He Walks As He Protects The Pipe" protest and form a blockade against Whiteclay, Neb. -situated on South Dakota/Nebraska border- and the illegal drug and alcohol trafficking occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. www.battleforwhiteclay.org
Britton Schwartz www.amazonwatch.org Peruvian President Alan Garcia dealt a blow to the indigenous rights movement when he recently refused to sign a law that would give indigenous people more control over oil and mining projects on their traditional lands.
Daniel Pinchbeck www.2012timeforchange.com Presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic [sic] wisdom of [Indigenous] cultures with the scientific method.
Featuring: Sting, David Lynch, Gilberto Gil, Ellen Page, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Paul Stamets, Buckminster Fuller, Barbara Marx Hubbard and many others...
Listen to the Program June 24, 2010

JAMIE BILLIOT (Dulac People of the Houma Nation, Louisiana), Director of the Community Center in Dulac, here at the USSF to speak to the affects of the BP Gulf oil spill.
CLAYTON THOMAS-MULLER(Mathais Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada) is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. Clayton is the campaigner organizer of the Indigenous Environmental Network’s Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign.
CASEY CAMP-HORINEK(Ponca Nation) is a long-time Native rights activist and environmentalist.Her community has witnessed the Keystone pipeline coming down from the tar sands bring synthetic crude to Oklahoma to be refined in the oil refineries, creating respiratory problems for the Ponca people.
Listen to the Program June 17, 2010

SCOTT RICHARD LYONS (Ojibwe/Dakota) is associate professor of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches Indigenous and American literatures. Author of the new book X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent During the 18th and 19th centuries, North American Indian leaders leaders community signed treaties with the Europeans powers and the American and Canadian governments with an "X", signifying their and assent to the the terms. These "X-marks" indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditiions), reistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to both a European modernity and the end of a particular moment of Indian history and identity).
KAREN SUSSMAN Contact: 605-964-6866 International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros The keeping of 300 wild mustangs set for slaughter in various means by the Bureau of Land Management and other public lands users in contention with the ideals of ISPMB to rescue the horses.
ISPMB in Lantry, South Dakota is situated on the Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation undergoing a recent touchdown of more than 5 tornadoes (the morning of this interview).
Listen to the Program May 20, 2010

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Listen to the Program May 6, 2010

Reports of 3 Blackhawk helicopters attempting to land on the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre site for "educational and historical" purposes is thwarted by the traditional Lakota and the logic used by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Indian Reorganization Act government to communicate. Censored News

OFELIA RIVAS Voice Against the Wall From the Sonoran Desert, the O’odham, the people of the Lightening Lands. Her visit to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth, which was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia from April 20th to 22nd.

KAREN MARRERO SARAYAKU April 29th a group of men from Sarayaku were attacked with dynamite and firearms. Our comrades managed to see that some of the attackers were of African race.The reasons behind the attack have to do with the position of Sarayaku to not allow a group of outsiders to occupy a portion of land, within the territory legally alotted to Sarayaku, in order to construct a new airstrip. The intention of these persons is to settle there and form a pseudocommunity, that they call Kutukachi, in order to negotiate with the oil company AGIP.
Listen to the Program April 29, 2010

KARMEN RAMIREZ BOSCAN (Wayuu) - the real life of Avatar’s Indigenous peoples - talks about the impact of Colombia’s armed conflict and trans-national companies. The Wayuu’s opposition to eight megaprojects - Jepirachi Wind Park, the Caribe Gas Pipeline between Colombia and Venezuela, the Rancheria River dam, and especially to the El Cerrejon mine were the reasons for the official persecution. Their work in defense of their territory, international denunciations about the operations of transnationals have resulted in being threatened by paramilitaries and the criminalization of their activities. From the Desert – Notes about paramilitaries and violence in Wayuu territory of the Middle Guajira.
Listen to the Program April 22, 2010

KAREN REDHAWK DALLET (Shadow Catchers Institute) & BRAD GARNESS(Alaskan Inter-Council) and KAI LANDOW & TOM ANTHONY -Attny. Hawaii Kingdom
"On April 19-22, 2010, over 15,000 people and up to 70 governments from all over the world will gather to attend the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The event is in response to the failed COP15 in Copenhagen and aims to highlight the central role of peoples movements and social movements in the climate struggle and the critical alliance that must be forged between movements and progressive governments. We also discussed the meaning of the word "Indigenous". In collaboration with Govinda Dalton of Earthcycles, Mo Hollis of Seventh Generation Fund, Kerin Gould of Abya Yala Nexus and Karah Woodward - Digital Warrior Media