First Voices Radio

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the topic of land acknowledgements. The inspiration is an article that was published October 7, 2021 in The Conversation: "Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite - erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead."

Guests:

Valerie Lambert (Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma), Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists (a Section of the American Anthropological Association), and an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. Valerie's first book, "Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence" (University of Nebraska Press 2007), is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. It is the winner of the North American Indian Prose Award and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award.

Michael Lambert (Eastern Band Cherokee) is Associate Professor of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. His research has focused on francophone West Africa and American Indians. He is author of Longing for Exile: Migration and the Making of a Translocal Community in Senegal (Heinemann), and co-author (with Leonard Lambert) of Up from These Hills; Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood (U of Nebraska Press.

Elisa (EJ) Sobo, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, is a sociocultural anthropologist. She is past President of the Society for Medical Anthropology and a longstanding member of the editorial boards of Anthropology and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Dr. Sobo has published 13 books (e.g., Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research) and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Read the article and find out more about this week's guests here: https://bit.ly/3nm0D7V

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

Music and Audio 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)

Song Title: Getting Started
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD: Coincidences and Likely Stories (1992)
Label: Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI Records
(00:24:50)

3. Audio Selection
Speaker: Jahan Khalighi, Program Director at Chapter 510, a youth writing, bookmaking and publishing center, Oakland, CA. Janah is a youth educator and community arts organizer.
Background music: Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Song Title: Momentum
CD: Akantu: The Origin Series (2021)
Label: Ghosthorse
(00:48:57)