First Voices Radio

This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with linda manyguns about a recent article, "Calgary professor won't use capital letters unless it's to acknowledge Indigenous peoples."

dr. linda manyguns is a Blackfoot woman born on the tsutina nation, now registered at siksika. she is the grandmother to five children.

linda grew up in europe as an airforce brat. in her early years she worked as a high steel construction worker, a red seal chef, and was a union leader for cupe (which is the canadian union of public employees).

linda has 4 degrees: (b.a. in sociology; m.a. in sociology; llb, university of ottawa and a ph.d. in Indigenous philosophy from trent university.

at law school, fellow students nominated linda for the karim green spon award for outstanding achievement. she worked at the Indian lands claims commission in Ottawa.

linda was a professor for over ten years and she is now the associate vice president of Indigenization and decolonization at mount royal university in calgary, alberta. read the article from ctv here: https://bit.ly/3nxTfbh.

In the second segment, we hear "It's Time to Get Ready" from Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Wolf Clan, Onondaga Nation. We will hear, "It's Time to Get Ready," about the "ignored warnings and how we are living in the time of a 200 year-old prophecy. It will get worse before it gets better." Get ready. Link to YouTube video (06:15): https://youtu.be/EzUpOpNR6aE.

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY

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)
(00:00:44)

2. Song Title: Surefire (radio)
Artist: Wilderado
CD: Release later 2021
Label: See above
Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xPxbfWta4Q
(00:33:45; 00:55:30)

3. Song Title: Feels Like Summer
Artist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
CD: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:46:16)

4. Song Title: What's Going On (cover)
Artist: Los Lobos
CD: Just Another Band from East L.A. - A Collection (1993)
Label: Slash Records
(00:50:50)