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  • From the "First Voices Radio" archive: The words of the late John Trudell are from 1980 but his observations have stood the test of time and still ring true. John (1946-2015) was a poet, a fighter for Native American rights, an agitator, and many other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suits him he would have refused to be pinned down. "Actually I don't consider myself to be any of those things. They're things that I do…but they're parts of me. They're not the total." Indeed, Trudell was the complex sum of all that he saw, endured and accomplished during his 69 years, a time when he experienced more than most people might in several lifetimes.

    More information about John Trudell can be found at https://www.johntrudell.com/.

    In the second half, Tiokasin featured the audio from a film, "Consciousness: Ultimate Truth, Our Purpose on Earth." Tiokasin is the featured narrator. Firemaker and keeper is Johnathan Gonzales (Tuxtipec-Taino from Mexico is featured in the film). Filming by Michael Raimondo; Editing by Justine du Toit; Sound mix by Tamryn Breakey. This film is part of a series collaboration between three independent filmmakers, "Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films." These films explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. Available on YouTube.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Orlando DuPont, Engineer
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Featured Audio: From the short film, "Consciousness: Ultimate Truth, Our Purpose on Earth"
    Narrator: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
    About the Film: Firemaker and keeper Jonathan Gonzales (Tuxtipec-Taino from Mexico) is featured in the film. Filming by Michael Raimondo; Editing by Justine du Toit; Sound mix by Tamryn Breakey. This film is part of a series collaboration between three independent filmmakers, "Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films." These films explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. Available on YouTube.

    3. Song Title: Society
    Artist: Eddie Vedder
    Album: Into the Wild (2007)
    Label: J Records

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  • Tiokasin's guest this week is Qacung Blanchett. Qacung is a founding member of Pamyua, the iconic tribal funk & Inuit soul crew. Qacung's been making waves for nearly three decades. With a passion that's pure fire, he's dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices through music, art, and culture. When he's not rocking the stage or producing music, Qacung's leading the charge as Creative Director of Áak'w Rock and shaping the future of Indigenous performance. With a trophy case full of accolades, including The Kennedy Center's Next 50, United States Artist Fellow, and Native Arts and Culture Foundation's SHIFT award, Qacung's the real deal. Get ready to vibe with this Indigenous innovator!" Find out more about Qacung at his website: https://qacung.com/

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: The Gathering (feat. AirJazz)
    Artist: Qacung
    Album: Miu (2021)
    Label: N/A

    3. Song Title: Our Stories (feat. Byron Nicholas)
    Artist: Qacung
    Album: Miu (2021)
    Label: N/A

    4. Song Title: The Seed
    Artist: Aurora
    Album: A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) (2019)
    Label: Decca and Glassnote Records

    5. Song: Theo's Dream
    Artist: Robert Mirabal
    Album: Indians Indians (2003)
    Label: Silver Wave Records

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks returning guest and longtime friend of “First Voices Radio” Ukumbwa Sauti. Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Facilitator, Educator and Program Developer on issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men's Work, Consent and Culture. He has worked with religious organizations, cultural groups and regional organizations and has taught in higher education for 16 years engaging issues of Race, Gender, Environmental issues, Media and Culture. Ukumbwa has been a member and supportive of numerous local, national and international organizations and movements advocating for Pan-Africanism, Anti-Racism, Relationship, Sexual and Intimacy safety and education and Men's Development. Ukumbwa has presented across New England, USAmerica, California, Toronto and Barbados. He has worked as Social Media Director for Voice Male Magazine and an organizer for the Greater Boston Men's Network and is currently the moderator for the Men's Work Initiative. Ukumbwa is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from West Africa. More about Ukumbwa and his work can be found at his linktr.ee: https://bit.ly/4hk075s

    Tiokasin and Ukumbwa discuss questions that Ukumbwa recently raised in a 5-minute YouTube video titled “Radical Compassion.” One of these questions: How does European colonialism, racism and patriarchy break down grounded connection between families, friends, communities, nations and ultimately between the internal sum of our own parts, our facets of humanity inside of any of us?” They reflect on the limitations of seeking freedom and liberation within the prescribed frameworks of human rights and civil rights and explore alternative conceptions of freedom. Watch Ukumbwa’s video here: https://bit.ly/3Upfqjx

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Shooting the Statues
    Artist: Amine Bouhafa
    Album: Timbuktu, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014)
    Label: Les Films du Worso

    3. Song Title: Beaiveldttas (Butterfly)
    Artist: Mari Boine
    Album: Eight Seasons (2023)
    Label: Norse Music

    4. Song Title: Can You Introduce Yourself in The Language?
    Artist: Edzi’u
    Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Dr. Sará Yafah King to “First Voices Radio.”

    Dr. King is a neuroscientist, artist, political and learning scientist, education philosopher, social impact entrepreneur, meditation teacher and story-teller. She is passionate about catalyzing humanity’s capacity to radically and lovingly witness themselves as “intergenerational beings, thereby catalyzing our ability to heal from intergenerational trauma. Dr. King is the CEO and founder of the companies MindHeart Collective and MindHeart AI along with her co-founder Dr. Eve Ekman (the former head of well-being at Apple), an artificial intelligence start-up and design studio specializing in building platforms, software, and tools grounded in neuroscience, art, and contemplative practices to support the development of loving-awareness, Beloved Community, and healing. She is also the author of “The Science of Social Justice” framework for research and facilitation which theorizes that social justice and well-being are one and the same phenomena, as well as she is the inventor of the “Systems Based Awareness Map” (SBAM) — the world’s first theoretical map of human awareness — which her company is transforming into a technological platform that merges language and body-based storytelling to promote the well-being of individual and “collective nervous systems.” More about Dr. King and her work is at https://mindheartcollective.com/

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Why Can’t We Live Together (live)
    Artist: Steve Winwood
    Album: Winwood: Greatest Hits Live (2017)
    Label: Wincraft Records

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
    Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Lorelei Williams. Lorelei is an Indigenous Salish/Coast Salish woman of the Skatin/Sts'Ailes Nations, living in Vancouver, Canada. She is the founder of Butterflies in Spirit and until recently, she also served as the Women's Coordinator at the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre, addressing Indigenous social justice issues. In addition, Lorelei has been an Indigenous counselor at the Rape Crisis Center (WAVAW) and coordinator of the Golden Eagle Rising Society, an Indigenous nonprofit organization that provides support, training and advocacy programs to initiatives and organizational efforts that promote and protect Indigenous lives throughout British Columbia. Lorelei has been active in Collecting Information on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Vancouver, and in urban political and community advocacy groups and relatives of the disappeared and murdered. It is because of her work that Lorelei received the 2017 Everyday Political Citizen Award from the Samara Center for Democracy and multiple other recognitions. She has also participated in the recovery of bodies of disappeared persons in Mexico, meeting with family members of the missing at the Winnipeg Landfill, the 2023 Women for Peace Festival in Colombia, the 2024 National Day of Victims of the Disappear in Mexico, and the 2024 International Indigenous Fashion Week in Paris. (Special thanks to Manuel Rozental and Pacho Natha for introductions and coordination of this interview!)

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Just Another Holy Man
    Artist: Floyd Red Crow Westerman
    Album: N/A
    Label: N/A

    3. Song Title: Superstar (feat. Matthew Santos)
    Artist: Lupe Fiasco
    Album: Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool (2007)
    Label: 1st & 15th Entertainment and Atlantic Records

    4. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
    Artist: Mari Boine
    Album: Idjagie​đ​as - In the Hand of the Night (2006)
    Label: Norse Music

    5. Song: Lost Children of Babylon
    Artist: The Venus Project featuring Rasul Allah, Cosmic Crusador, Atun Sen Geb and Emily Clibourn
    Album: Zeitgeist: The Spirit Of The Age (2010)
    Label: Soul Kid Records/Chambermusik

    6. Song Title: Rebel Soul
    Artist: Raye Zaragoza
    Album: Women in Color (2020)
    Label: Rebel River Records

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Max Wilbert, a frequent guest and friend of "First Voices Radio." Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. Max is the author of two books, most recently "Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It," published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth. Max's work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere.

    Tiokasin and Max discuss Max's Sept. 15, 2024 column, "Alternative Cultures Are Beautiful and Important. They're Also Not Enough." Find Max's column on his Substack (Biocentric with Max Wilbert): https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/alternative-cultures-are-beautiful.

    And check out Max's new website, Protect the Coast PNW: https://www.protectthecoastpnw.org/

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Guitar Solo Intro)
    Artist: Pink Floyd
    Album: Wish You Were Here (1975)
    Label: Harvest (UK), Columbia/CBS (US)

    3. Song Title: Fool's Overture
    Artist: Supertramp
    Album: Even in the Quietest Moments (1977)
    Label: A&M Records

    4. Song Title: Ball and Chain
    Artist: Xavier Rudd
    Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
    Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
    Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

  • REPEAT SHOW. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dr. Ruby Gibson. Dr. Gibson, a mixed blood woman of Lakota/Ojibwe and Mediterranean descent, has spent the past 40 years dedicated to the craft and science of Historical Trauma reconciliation, cultural healing, and generational well-being among Native and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Gibson founded Freedom Lodge, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, in Rapid City, SD to serve our relatives and communities. She developed the transgenerational trauma recovery model Somatic Archaeology© and is the author of "My Body, My Earth," "The Practice of Somatic Archaeology," and "My Body, My Breath, A Tool for Transformation," which are available in English, Romanian and Spanish. Dr. Gibson developed and teaches an Historical Trauma Master Class, and builds leadership skills in Native Wellness amongst the graduates. She also teaches a Somatic Archaeology© Master Class for non-Native students. Using our Body and Mother Earth as benevolent sources of biological, emotional and ancestral memory, Dr. Ruby's techniques are being field tested among clients and students with amazing effectiveness. She is honored to witness the courage and amazing capacity that each person has to reconcile suffering. As the mother of four beautiful children, one granddaughter, and two grandsons, Dr. Ruby has a heart full of hope for the next seven generations! Contact Dr. Ruby at https://freedomlodge.org/, http://www.mybodymybreath.org/ and https://rubygibson.com/.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Antidrug (Single)
    Artist: Bridget Loudon
    Label: Loudsound (2023)

    3. Song Title: Ship of Fools
    Artist: World Party
    Album: Private Revolution (1986)
    Label: Chrysalis Records

    4. Song Title: The Pusher
    Artist: Steppenwolf
    Album: Steppenwolf (1968)
    Label: ABC Dunhill Records

    5. Song Title: That Smell
    Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Album: Street Survivors (1977)
    Label: MCA Records

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Edzi’u, a Tahltan and Tlingit artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Edzi’u is an innovative songwriter and composer who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, elders’ stories, words, and their ethereal voice. Edzi’u is the gentlest balance of hard and soft, a non-binary 2-spirit Indigiqueer femme, their strength of identity resonates in their music to create a fullness of fierce spirit combined with an elegant grace. Their new music is full of thick synths, drums dripping with reverb and a mix of a modern take on 80s and 90s sounds that blends the nostalgic essence of Stevie Nicks, the raw emotional depth of Sharon Van Etten, and the atmospheric electronic textures of DRAMA. The result is a sonic river of pain and beauty that sweetly soars into a singular, healing journey.

    Tiokasin talks with Edzi’u about their new EP, “Tunnel Vision,” a poignant exploration of the cruelty of heartbreak, the painful truth of mistreatment, and the radiant journey of resurgence. With vulnerability and fortitude, each track lingers with the listener like a cherished memory. Edzi’u invites listeners into an auditory sanctuary where music serves as both refuge and revelation. In this sacred space, reclamation of self stands as the most powerful act of all. Edzi’u and their artistry is a beacon of auntie joy for queer and Indigenous communities and beyond, embodying resilience, grace, and unapologetic authenticity. Find out more about Edzi’ at https://www.edziumusic.com/

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Raven Clan Welcome
    Artist: Edzi'u
    Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    3. Song Title: Can You Introduce Yourself in the Language
    Artist: Edzi’u
    Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    4. Song Title: Not Enough
    Artist: Edzi’u
    Album: Tunnel Vision (2024)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    5. Song Title: You Don’t Wanna Know Me
    Artist: Edzi'u
    Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    6. Song Title: Ego Death
    Artist: Edzi’u
    Album: Tunnel Vision (2024)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    7. Song Title: Warrior Song
    Artist: Edzi’u
    Album: Potlatch in the Box (2023)
    Label: Ts’ats’ée Sounds

    8. Song Title: Fly With Us (feat. Ara Eden)
    Artist: Sarita
    Album: Earth Anthems (2024)
    Label: Ancient Future Productions

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • FROM THE “FIRST VOICES RADIO” ARCHIVE. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talked with Rick Hill Sr., a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. Rick holds a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Museum Director, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM; and Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, SUNY Buffalo. He formerly served as Senior Project Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic Institute, Ohsweken, Ontario. Rick is an interpretive specialist to develop exhibitions for the recently renovated Mohawk Institute, the oldest Indian residential school in Canada. He is the Indigenous Innovation Specialist at Mohawk College in Hamilton and serves as a Cultural Advisor to FNTI in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

    Tiokasin and Rick talk about the changes the U.S. Constitution and its state at the time and the original intention and lived experience of the Haudenosaunee Confederation. Their conversation, although it took place a number of years ago is still extremely relevant to today. “Right now, this country is in a state of change and what I believe were sacred to the leaders, the founding [colonial] fathers were these ideals and the laws that they did to come up with a partnership with the Native nations, is being ignored by this current generation of Americans. I think that we have to look back at that these were seriously sacred promises, legal promises made, and if you abuse the First People of the land, how do you really expect your great-grandchildren to grow up and be able to celebrate democracy that you herald? It’s really about justice. I always say the Indians are the miners canary of American justice. How America treats the Native people, it’s going to symbolic of what is forthcoming as to how they’re going to treat the rest of the people.” — Rick Hill

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Hoka Hey
    Artist: N/A
    Album: N/A
    Label: N/A

    3. Song Title: The Path (feat. Jeremy Koz)
    Artist: Vince Fontaine’s Indian City
    Album: Code Red (2021)
    Label: Rising Sun Productions, Inc., Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    4. Song Title: After the Gold Rush
    Artist: Katie Pruitt
    Album: Ohio / After the Gold Rush (2020)
    Label: Rounder Records

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our friend Charles Lyons for a report on the Brazil and the Amazon. Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He recently completed a feature documentary about former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In 2023, Charles received a Conservando Juntos/ Earth Journalism Network grant (supported by USAID), to report on the continuing violence due to illegal gold mining within the Yanomami territory in the Amazon. His resulting article was published in Mongabay. Based in Rio, Charles has produced coverage of the 2022 Brazilian election for PBS NewsHour and long-form news reports on deforestation and Indigenous rights in the Amazon supported by The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Prior to that, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to produce coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, also for PBS NewsHour, with a focus on marginalized communities in tribal lands and favelas. He has written editorials for The New York Times about suicides among the Guarani tribe in the southwest of Brazil and about the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon. More recently, Charles has covered illegal gold mining in Amazonian countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Suriname.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Peyote Healing
    Artist: Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike
    Album: Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy (1998)
    Label: Capitol/EMI

    3. Song Title: For the Earth
    Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Ettie Luckey (unreleased), 2013
    Album: Unreleased
    Label: N/A

    4. Song Title: What’s Going On
    Artist: Marvin Gaye
    Album: What’s Going On (1971)
    Label: Tamia (Motown subsidiary)

    5. Song Title: Away From Here
    Artist: Smokey D. Palmtree
    Album: Peace of Mind (2021)
    Label: Gila River Records

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back our dear friend Manuel Rozental for an update and riveting, important conversation. Manuel reports to us from Colombia. Dr. Manuel Rozental is a long-time Colombian activist, researcher and community organizer. Manuel has been involved with grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements for four decades. He is part of an initiative: Pueblos en Camino, Peoples on the Path, with a mandate to weave autonomies and resistance between peoples.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Who Discovered America
    Artist: Ozomatli
    Album: Street Signs (2004)
    Label: Real World/Concord

    3. Song Title: Sea Gets Hotter
    Artist: Durand Jones & The Indications (feat. Aaron Frazer)
    Album: American Love Call (2019)
    Label: Dead Oceans

    4. Song Title: Water is Life
    Artist: Luca Bloom
    Album: Refuge (2017)
    Label: Big Sky

    AKANTU INTELLIGENCE
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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Marley Shebala back to the show. Marley Shebala, Diné and A:shiwi (or Zuni), is an investigative journalist, photographer, videographer and blogger. Marley talks about the continuing, alarming issue of transporting uranium waste across portions of the Navajo Nation, which already started several years ago. Without any notice, the transportation of uranium waste is taking place not only at Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. This affects not only the Navajo Nation but also Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada so communities need to find out where this transportation route goes. If the sovereign Navajo Nation is not being notified about this route it’s unlikely other communities (cities, towns and rural areas) are being notified about the transport of this waste through their communities and its dangers. People need to be aware of how uranium waste could contaminate people, roads, air, water, etc. (virtually everything). For years Marley has been covering the uranium issue on the 25,000 square-mile Navajo Nation. Most of the Navajo Nation has been contaminated by uranium. Many, may Navajo people have been suffering and continue to suffering from different cancers, children were and continue to be born with defects, etc. However, the US federal government thinks that depleted uranium can still be used: for weapons of war and by somehow turning uranium waste into a type of fuel that will be “clean” nuclear energy for household uses. This is a huge national, and global issue. There is a small group of Diné people traveling to DC at the end of September. They will be traveling in a bus and telling people along the way what they have gone through and asking others if they have also been poisoned and made sick by depleted uranium, too.

    For more background about today’s discussion, please visit “Requiem for RECA (Radiation Exposure Compensation Act)” by Kathy Helms, who has been covering this issue for years: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/requiem-reca-kathy-helms-ohuvc/. Follow Marley on Facebook, where she will be posting information about the DC trip and the activities that will happen there (as well as covering Navajo Nation activities): https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala. Additional important information about this issue and many others can be found on Marley’s website: http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/

    About Marley: In the Diné way, Marley Shebala is Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan), her mother’s clan, and born for Cha’al (Frog clan), which is her father’s clan. Her mom is from Lake Valley, New Mexico, which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation and next to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Her father is from the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. Her hometowns are Lake Valley and Zuni. “Marley Shebala's Notebook” is her website where she provides current news coverage of the Navajo government and Navajo communities on and off the Navajo Nation. She also produces Navajo Nation environmental news and political analysis of the Navajo government and legislative process. Marley hosted "Politics on the Navajo Nation," an internet news show. But due to unreliable WIFI on the Navajo Nation where she resides, the weekly news show was cancelled until she can raise funds to increase WiFi power at her residence. She is available for presentations on the benefits of a free and open press in Indian Country and how to achieve accurate and fair news coverage of the Navajo Nation and Indian Country. Marley works part-time at the Gallup Independent newspaper, which is headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico. She is the only reporter at the Gallup Independent Diné Bureau in Window Rock, Arizona, which covers the Navajo Nation. Before working for the Gallup Independent, she worked as the Navajo Times newspaper’s’ Senior Reporter specializing in investigative reporting on politics, domestic violence, law enforcement, veterans and the environment. She also covered a wide range of general interest stories. Her stories have won numerous awards from state and national organizations over the more than 30 years she has been in journalism.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Blackbird Song
    Artist: Lee Dewyze as heard on AMC’s The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 13 “Along”
    Single
    Label: January 2014 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company, exclusively licensed to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

    3. Song Title: Raglan
    Artist: Bruci Jordan
    Single: Raglan (2024)
    Label: Bruci Jordan

    4. Song Title: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
    Artist: Traffic (Steve Winwood, Producer)
    Album: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971)
    Label: Island

    5. Song Title: Ambrosia
    Artist: A Reminiscent Drive
    Album: A Reminiscent Drive (2001)
    Label: React

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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Marcie R. Rendon (White Earth Ojibwe) about her new book, “Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium,” which was recently published by the University of Minnesota Press. Marcie was included on Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 list of 31 Native American authors to read. She has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Cash Blackbear mystery series, the third volume of which, "Sinister Graves," was a 2023 Minnesota Book Award finalist. In 2020, Marcie received Minnesota’s McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2017, with poet Diego Vazquez, she received the Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women in the county jail system.

    Marcie says, “The ancestors who walk with us sing our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them audible to people today. We still exist. Our ancestors exist. Our songs exist.”

    More about Marcie can be found on her website: https://www.marcierendon.com/

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Everybody Knows
    Artist: Leonard Cohen
    Album: I’m Your Man (1988)
    Label: Columbia

    3. Song Title: Decho Drums
    Artist: Dinetah
    Album: N/A
    Label: N/A

    4. Song Title: Some of Us are Brave
    Artist: Danielle Ponder
    Album: Some of Us are Brave (2022)
    Label: FUTURE CLASSIC

    5. Song Title: All Come True
    Artist: World Party
    Album: Private Revolution (1986)
    Label: Chrysalis

    6. Song Title: Life of a Native
    Artist: Okema
    Album: Single (2019)
    Label: Mixed, Mastered and Directed by Blu Barry

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  • Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Dan Taulapapa McMullin — an artist and poet from Sāmoa i Sasa'e (American Samoa) and an expert on the subject of the colonization of Pacific cultures. Keala and Dan spend time talking about American exploitation via tiki bars, a subject that Dan explored in his film, “100 Tikis.” “100 Tikis” is a 45-minute film/video appropriation art piece, part of an ongoing installation of works on the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty. “100 Tikis” looks at Hollywood, colonialism, gender, militarism, and activism, through films, cartoons, songs, paintings, photographs, television shows, tourist ads, military propaganda, pornography, tiki bars, activist videos, home movies, and social media.

    Dan’s artist book “The Healer's Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia” (2022) was published by Pu'uhonua Society and Tropic Editions of Honolulu for HT22 the Hawai'i Triennial. Their artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Metropolitan Museum, De Young Museum, Musée du quai Branly, Auckland Art Gallery and Bishop Museum. Their film “Sinalela” (2001) won the 2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award. “100 Tikis” was the opening night film selection of the 2016 Présence Autochtone in Montreal and was an Official Selection in the Fifo Tahiti Film Festival. Dan's art studio and writing practice is based in Muhheaconneock lands / Hudson, NY, where they live with their partner, and Lenape lands in Hopoghan Hackingh / Hoboken, NJ.

    More about Dan and links to his writing, films (including “100 Tikis”), paintings and sculpture/performance works: https://www.taulapapa.com/.

    For copies of “The Healer's Wound” (2024 2nd Edition) go to: https://tropiceditions.org/The-Healer-s-Wound-2

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Pe A E Silva
    Artist: Pacific Soul
    CD: Pacific Soul (2012)
    Label: Pacific Dream Records

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  • Tiokasin speaks to two guests from Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School in Akwesasne, NY.

    Alvera Sargent is Snipe Clan of the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, a mother of two, and grandmother to four amazing grandchildren. Alvera has worked with the Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) since 1997 in various capacities until 2007. At that point, she moved on to manage the Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring a prosperous future for the students of the AFS. She has worked to revitalize our Kanienkeha (Mohawk) language and culture. The Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School staff are currently overseeing a new 15,000 square-foot building for the students and staff of the AFS. The opening is tentatively scheduled for September 2024.

    Waylon Cook from Akwesasne, is Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation. He is a graduate of a 2-year Kanien’keha Mohawk Immersion Language program and has been a lifelong learner of the Mohawk language. Upon graduating, Waylon was able to teach at the Akwesasne Freedom School to continue passing on language and culture to future generations. He currently works with the Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School to help ensure the revitalization of the Mohawk language and culture. His team is currently working towards the completion of a new school building so that Akwesasne Freedom School students have a healthy learning environment for generations to come. Waylon has dedicated his career to culture and language revitalization efforts and continue to work towards reversing the effects of colonialism to the Mohawk culture and language.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Fallen Angel (feat. Peter Gabriel)
    Artist: Robbie Robertson
    CD: Robbie Robertson (1987)
    Label: Geffen Records

    3. Song Title: Change on the Rise
    Artist: Avi Kaplan
    EP: I’ll Get By (2019)
    Label: Fantasy Records

    4. Spoken Word: Jehan - Change of Becoming
    Background Music: “Momentum” with Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Dave Eggars, Charley Buckland and Jujuba
    CD: “Akantu - The Origin Series” (2021)
    Label: Ghosthorse

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  • REPEAT SHOW. Tiokasin speaks with Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Paulette is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere. In her research, Paulette argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas. During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago. Paulette has taught Anthropology courses with a focus on Native American and First Nations histories and studies, and decolonization of academia and knowledge production at Binghamton University, Selkirk College Fort Peck Community College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mount Allison University, she is currently an Associate professor in Sociology and Anthropology.

    Paulette has stated that rewriting and un-erasing Indigenous histories becomes a part of healing and reconciliation transforming public consciousness and confronting and challenging racism. Long-standing academic denial of the deep Indigenous fosters racism and discrimination among the general or settler population.Re-writing Indigenous histories, framed through Indigenous knowledge, will create discussions that counter racism and discrimination. Dr. Steeve’s book “The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americas” was published in 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press.

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    CD: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Something has to Change
    Artist: Rodney Crowell
    CD: Triage (2021)
    Label: RC1

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  • Tiokasin is joined by two guests for the full hour. Hataałiinez Wheeler is a very modern kind of crooner: a pensive, deep-voiced troubadour whose serene surf-country songs tap into the hope and despondency of a new generation. The music he makes as Hataałii — a Navajo term that means “to sing,” a fitting diminutive of his given name — is at turns witty and world-weary, sunny but endearingly solipsistic.

    Albert Haskie is a software developer from the Navajo Nation. He is the creator of the app Adoone’é. Serving as the lead developer in the project, Albert has strived to uphold his culture and traditions as a Navajo/Diné. It is his deep-rooted belief that everyone should have access to the resources that preserve and celebrate their Navajo/Diné heritage. Albert finds great joy in tackling Navajo/Diné language and culture preservation in the 21st century. With Adoone’é he aims to contribute to his community and empower others to do the same. Albert says that “Together, we can foster a world where Navajo/Diné individuals can achieve fluency in the Navajo/Diné language.” Read.

    More about Hataałiinez Wheeler here: https://bit.ly/44LBdUI. (Photo credit: Trevas Yazzie)

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Laugh Out Loud
    Artist: Hataałii
    Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
    Label: Dangerbird Records

    3. Song Title: Standing Ovation
    Artist: Hataałii
    Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
    Label: Dangerbird Records

    4.Song Title: Midnight Soldier
    Artist: Hataałii
    Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
    Label: Dangerbird Records

    5. Song Title: Story of Francisco
    Artist: Hataałii
    Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
    Label: Dangerbird Records

    6. Song Title: Pain in Popejoy’s Hand
    Artist: Hataałii
    Album: Singing into Darkness (2023)
    Label: Dangerbird Records

    7. Song Title: Fusion (Live) (Internal Flight variation)
    Artist: Estas Tonne
    Album: Fusion (Internal Flight variation) Live in Zurich, 2022
    Label: ETMusic

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  • In this special edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Olivia Clementine interviews Tiokasin Ghosthorse for “Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine,” a podcast about relationship and consciousness: exploring wisdom in relating with ourselves, each other and our greater world. For nearly 20 years, Olivia has been immersed in the exploration of relationships and spiritual nature. She works with individuals, couples and groups to cultivate relational capacities and self-understanding. She also has a background as a four-season farmer and herbalist.

    The Love & Liberation Podcast airs in depth conversations in the fields of spirituality, ecology and relationships. Recent guests have been Bayo Akomolafe, Stephen Jenkinson, Helen Norberg-Hodge, Khandro Choying and Lama Tsultrim Allione. Listen here: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Ball and Chain
    Artist: Xavier Rudd
    Album: Jan Juc Moon (2022)
    Label: Virgin Music Label and Adult Services Australia (P&D)

    3. American Dream
    Artist: J.S. Ondara
    Album: Tales of America (The Second Coming) (2019)
    Label: Verve Forecast / Universal Music Canada

    4. Spoken Word: There’s Nothing Wrong With Us
    Artist: John Trudell
    Album: DNA: Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)
    Label: Effective Records

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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s guest for the full hour on Sunday is Chief Arvol Looking Horse. Chief Looking Horse was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. His primary responsibility is serving as the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe – a role he was given at the age of twelve making him the youngest pipe keeper in Lakota history. As keeper of the sacred Pipe he also serves as the spiritual leader to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation and advocates for the restoration of the Lakota Nation’s rights to the Black Hills—as guaranteed by the 1868 Laramie Treaty.

    Tiokasin and Chief Arvol Looking Horse talk about the white buffalo calf that was born in Yellowstone on June 4 and the significance of this birth to not only for the Lakota but other people and what it means to the world. “We knew in our ceremonies that something was going to happen (on June 4) because they say that when you follow the spirit, the spirit will meet you halfway... This is a very powerful time. All my life, I heard this in ceremony but I never thought my whole life that this was going to happen. I feel her (Mother Earth's) spirit is very strong and we need all people all over the world to stand with us and protect her. That’s the message — when the white buffalo calf with black nose, eyes and hooves, many white animals will be born all over the world. The elders said we need to protect all the white animals being born. We need to protect the peace leaders because we’re in a very powerful time right now that every person – to find peace within yourself and then peace to the world because what is happening is not good.” — Chief Arvol Looking Horse

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: Kothbiro
    Artist: Ayub Oganda
    Album: The Constant Gardiner (1993)
    Label: Real World Records

    3. Song Title: What’ve I Done to Help?
    Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
    Album: Reunions (2020)
    Label: Southeastern Records

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  • Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Max Wilbert, who is a frequent guest on "First Voices Radio." Max is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been part of grassroots political work for 20 years and is the founder of Protect Thacker Pass. Max is the author of two books, most recently "Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It," published by Monkfish in 2021. He is currently studying for a Masters in Degrowth. Max's work has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, BBC and elsewhere. Tiokasin and Max discuss Max's June 14, 2024 column on Max's Substack, "120 Questions About Offshore Wind Energy." Find Max's column here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-145624811. Check out Max's new website, Protect the Coast PNW: https://www.protectthecoastpnw.org/

    "There is so much momentum behind wind turbines and the federal government wants them to be built fast. They're ignoring opposition, they're ignoring concerns from the public, and they're ignoring the fact that the Yurok Tribe, Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw, and the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation have all called for the government to stop offshore wind energy projects. The National Congress of American Indians have called for a stop, a moratorium on them." - Max Wilbert

    Production Credits:
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
    Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
    Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
    Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
    Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

    Music Selections:
    1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
    Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
    Album: Tahi (1993)
    Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

    2. Song Title: This is not America (Remaster)
    Artist: David Bowie and Pat Metheny Group
    Album: Best of Bowie (2002)
    Label: Virgin Records


    3. Song Title: The 1975
    Artist: The 1975
    Album: Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2023)
    Label: Dirty Hit

    4. Song Title: American Dream
    Artist: Ondara
    CD: Tales of America (2019)
    Label: Verve Forecast Records

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