02/19/23 - Professor Angelique W. EagleWoman, Tiffany Midge
In the first half-hour, Professor Angelique W. EagleWoman, (Wambdi A. Was’teWinyan), is a law professor, legal scholar, Chief Justice on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Supreme Court, and has served as a pro tempore Tribal Judge in several other Tribal Court systems. As a practicing lawyer, one of the highlights of her career was to serve as General Counsel for her own Tribe, the Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate. She is a citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation and has Rosebud Lakota heritage. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Political Science, received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law with distinction, and her L.L.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Law with honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law.
As a law professor, she has taught in the areas of Aboriginal Legal Issues, Indigenous Legal Traditions, Tribal Nation Economics & Law, Native American Law, Native American Natural Resources Law, Tribal Code Drafting Clinic, Contracts, The Business of Law, and Civil Procedure. Angelique presents and publishes on topics involving tribal-based economics, Indigenous sovereignty, international Indigenous principles, and the quality of life for Indigenous peoples. She is currently a professor and Director of the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. https://www.angeliqueeaglewoman.com/. She and Tiokasin discuss a Feb. 12, 2023 New York Times article in which she was extensively quoted: “With a Land Dispute Deadlocked, a Wisconsin Tribe Blockades Streets.” Read the article: http://bit.ly/3YP8ZGf
In the second half-hour, Tiffany Midge is enrolled with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is a former humor columnist for Indian Country Today and currently writes for High Country News. She has published work in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, First American Art Magazine, World Literature Today, YES! Magazine, the Spokesman-Review, the Inlander, and more. Her book "Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s" was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and her writing has received a Pushcart Prize, the Kenyon Review Indigenous Poetry Prize, a Western Heritage Award, the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award, Submittable's Eliza So Fellowship and a Simons Public Humanities Fellowship. Tiffany resides in north Idaho, homelands of the Nimiipuu.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
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)
(00:00:22)
2. Song Title: Shade of History
Artist: Julian Cote feat. Pura Fe Crescioni
Album: Falls Around Her (soundtrack, 2018)
Label: Pine Needle Productions
(00:22:25)
3. Song Title: Time Not Thinking
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Single
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:26:28)
4. Song: I Can’t Give Everything Away (David Bowie Cover)
Artist: Spoon
Single, 2022
Label: Headz, under exclusive license to Matador Records
(00:54:48)
AKANTU INSTITUTE
Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.
As a law professor, she has taught in the areas of Aboriginal Legal Issues, Indigenous Legal Traditions, Tribal Nation Economics & Law, Native American Law, Native American Natural Resources Law, Tribal Code Drafting Clinic, Contracts, The Business of Law, and Civil Procedure. Angelique presents and publishes on topics involving tribal-based economics, Indigenous sovereignty, international Indigenous principles, and the quality of life for Indigenous peoples. She is currently a professor and Director of the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. https://www.angeliqueeaglewoman.com/. She and Tiokasin discuss a Feb. 12, 2023 New York Times article in which she was extensively quoted: “With a Land Dispute Deadlocked, a Wisconsin Tribe Blockades Streets.” Read the article: http://bit.ly/3YP8ZGf
In the second half-hour, Tiffany Midge is enrolled with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is a former humor columnist for Indian Country Today and currently writes for High Country News. She has published work in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, First American Art Magazine, World Literature Today, YES! Magazine, the Spokesman-Review, the Inlander, and more. Her book "Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s" was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and her writing has received a Pushcart Prize, the Kenyon Review Indigenous Poetry Prize, a Western Heritage Award, the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award, Submittable's Eliza So Fellowship and a Simons Public Humanities Fellowship. Tiffany resides in north Idaho, homelands of the Nimiipuu.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
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)
(00:00:22)
2. Song Title: Shade of History
Artist: Julian Cote feat. Pura Fe Crescioni
Album: Falls Around Her (soundtrack, 2018)
Label: Pine Needle Productions
(00:22:25)
3. Song Title: Time Not Thinking
Artist: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Single
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:26:28)
4. Song: I Can’t Give Everything Away (David Bowie Cover)
Artist: Spoon
Single, 2022
Label: Headz, under exclusive license to Matador Records
(00:54:48)
AKANTU INSTITUTE
Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.
