GUESTS

Elise Aachix̂ Qağaduug Beers (Aleut, Unangan)

Elias Gold (Diné)

Joey Clift (Cowlitz)

Dr. Shelly Lowe (Diné)

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“Guts,” a comedy by Elias Gold (Diné), is a story of a drifter who wreaks havoc on the Navajo reservation in search of a particular traditional food.

We’ll talk with both filmmakers and also get an update on a new initiative to elevate Indigenous voices across film and TV.

GUESTS

Charlene Aqpik Apok (Iñupiaq), executive director, Data for Indigenous Justice

Karrisa Newkirk (Caddo), president/founder, MMIW-Chahta

LaRenda Morgan (Cheyenne and Arapaho), cousin of Ida Beard and MMIP advocate

Cheryl Horn (Nakota and Aaniiih), Fort Belknap MMIP advocate

Numerous data sources point to the disproportionate rate that Native people are victims of violence and their cases go unresolved.

Advocates also complained that Alaska officials are not adequately acknowledging the number of unsolved cases. Since that complaint, state officials added 50 names to the unsolved cases list.

Advocates say the Trump administration’s removal of the Not One More report from the Department of Justice’s website is a setback for public awareness and the work to fight the ongoing problem.

Now a well-known and award-winning chef, DeSpain is sharing that fusion of Native and Mexican cuisine and heritage in her debut cookbook, “Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking.”

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Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi) was already familiar with traditional everyday foods like frybread, meat pies, and corn soup growing up on the Osage reservation in Oklahoma. And on the Mexican side of her family, tamales, pozole, and atole were a staple.

He shares dozens of recipes inspired by his travels and the people he calls friends, teachers, and leaders that he encounters along the way.

Annmarie Decoteau is the Indigenous curriculum and instruction specialist for Bismarck Public Schools.

A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Decoteau helps educators teach about Thanksgiving from a more authentic Native perspective.

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He still serves on the tribal business council after decades of service in many capacities. We'll speak with Tonasket about the history of his tribe, his own call to leadership, and what’s next for his people.

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Tonasket credits the mentorship of tribal activist Lucy Covington for guiding his insights and energy to protect the sovereignty of the 12-tribe coalition under the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. He since went on to an ongoing vigilance for hunting, fishing, & other treaty rights.

As a newly elected tribal council member in 1971, he cast the deciding vote against a deal with the federal government that traded cash payouts to individual tribal members for the tribe’s permanent termination.

GUESTS

Danielle Boyer (Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), robotics inventor

Randy Kekoa Akee (Native Hawaiian), Harvard University

Michael Running Wolf (Lakota and Cheyenne), community leader in AI research

Crystal Hill-Pennington, professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks

We’ll hear about the potential benefits and threats of AI to Native people.

A project with three universities provides a framework of standards to prevent AI from stripping Native Americans and all other Indigenous peoples of their right to control images, language, cultural knowledge, and other components of their identities they’ve worked so hard to retain.

GUESTS

Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu (Diné), city member-elect for the city of Gallup

Ed Lowery Jr. (Lumbee), mayor-elect of Parkton, N.C.

Chris Roberts (Choctaw), mayor of Shoreline, Wash.

David Holt (Osage), mayor of Oklahoma City, Okla.

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Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu is one of a number of Native candidates filling local elected seats since the mid-term elections. We’ll talk with some of them about what their hopes are for their coming term of elected public service.