07/02/23 - Miryam Yataco
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Miryam Yataco back to “First Voices Radio.” Miryam is a Quechua Peruvian-born language rights advocate, an expert in bilingualism, and a sociolinguist. Her work is rooted in the idea of language rights as human rights.
In Peru, Miryam worked with Quechua Indigenous Congress women as a congressional assistant in matters of language rights. Miryam is a former faculty member at New York University where she worked for 22 years. She has published on matters of language policies, Indigenous language/territory reclamation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization of knowledge and power. Miryam is currently a research associate at the Linguistic Department within Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and she is a founder member of a group of Indigenous scholars and activists forwarding the aims of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
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)
(00:00:22)
2. Song Title: Iron Sky
Artist: Paolo Nutini
Album: Caustic Love (2014)
Label: Atlantic Records
(00:29:40)
3. Song Title: Land Rights
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: White Moth (2007)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D)
(00:45:05)
4. Song Title: Mind Control
Artist: Stephen Marley
Album: Mind Control (2007)
Label: Tuff Gong
(00:51:15)
5. Song Title: States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Album: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North
(00:56:05)
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
In Peru, Miryam worked with Quechua Indigenous Congress women as a congressional assistant in matters of language rights. Miryam is a former faculty member at New York University where she worked for 22 years. She has published on matters of language policies, Indigenous language/territory reclamation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization of knowledge and power. Miryam is currently a research associate at the Linguistic Department within Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and she is a founder member of a group of Indigenous scholars and activists forwarding the aims of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
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)
(00:00:22)
2. Song Title: Iron Sky
Artist: Paolo Nutini
Album: Caustic Love (2014)
Label: Atlantic Records
(00:29:40)
3. Song Title: Land Rights
Artist: Xavier Rudd
Album: White Moth (2007)
Label: Virgin Music Label and Artists Services Australia (P&D)
(00:45:05)
4. Song Title: Mind Control
Artist: Stephen Marley
Album: Mind Control (2007)
Label: Tuff Gong
(00:51:15)
5. Song Title: States I’m In
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Album: Bone on Bone (2017)
Label: True North
(00:56:05)
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
