First Voices Radio

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

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