Tunes From Turtle Island

Buffalo Returning

“Not long ago, settlers attempted to kill off the buffalo as a mechanism to steal our land, and they tried to steal our land as a mechanism to colonize our people and assimilate and destroy us– but they couldn’t,” said Nick Tilsen, President and CEO of NDN Collective. “Now, coming full circle, we have reclaimed these lands and we’ve put the tatanka (buffalo) back on the land.”

NDN Collective Celebrates Buffalo Release with Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Wolakota Regenerative Buffalo Range & Wildlife Sanctuary | NDN Collective

Rapid City, SD – Today, members of NDN Collective attended the Wolakota Buffalo Release Celebration on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, where close to 100 people gathered, including local students, National Parks Service and Fish and Wildlife Service representatives, members of Native organizations including the Rosebud Tribal Council, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Land Enterprise, the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and more.

Artists on Week 42

Bear Fox – Rich Girl
Anachnid – Live Alone
Tamara Podemski – Brand New Day
Rezcoast Grizz – The Crowd
Ava Rose Johnson – Blue
Julian Taylor – 100 Proof
The Tewa – Party In My Room
Larry K – Mattmac interview
Mattmac – Status
Rebel Wise & Claudia Cuentas – Eulogy For John Trudell
Donny Lee – Hangin’
Opliam – Land Back
Bebe Buckskin – With A Little Help From My Friends
Sara Curruchich – Mujer Indiegena

Week 41 2021

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11th Oct – 17th Oct
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Cripple Creek
Grant-Lee Phillips – All That You Can Dream
N’we Jinan Artists – Come Home
Tanya Tagaq – Toungues
Connor Chee & Tex Chee – Corn Grinding Song No 1
Connor Chee & Angelica Hairston – Navajo Vocable No 10
Trent Agecoutay – My Dads Guitar
Native Roots of Jazz: Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan – Little Song, I’ve Grown Accustomed to the Bass, Baltimore Oriole
Ansley Simpson – Spirit to Soar
Redbone – Come and Get Your Love
Carsen Gray – Each Moment
Cody Blackbird & Jalen Ledet – Resolution
Cody Coyote – Revolution
Emma Stevens – I Want to Rise
Donny Parenteau – These Days
Jimi Hendrix – Cherokee Mist

Broadcast on FM by Resonance (UK), radio AGORA (AT) , Radio Freequenns (AT), Radio Onde Furlane (I) – and as a podcast from Pantheon Podcasts every Friday. Google Podcasts, iTunes, Deezer, Stitcher, iHearRadio, Megaphone.

Francis Pegahmagabow

A Canadian First Nations soldier, Francis Pegahmagabow was the best sniper on either side of World War I. But when he went back home to Canada, he still had no rights.

Meet Francis Pegahmagabow, The Most Decorated Indigenous Soldier In Canadian History

Francis Pegahmagabow crawled through the trenches of France, survived a chlorine gas attack, and kept fighting after a bullet tore through his leg. Raised by an Ojibwa elder after his father died and his mother fled the reserve, Pegahmagabow learned to hunt as a boy.

Emma Stevens

great track and vid from Emma Stevens

“I Want to Rise” was created to help bring awareness to the more than 4000 missing and murdered First Nations women and girls from across Canada and the many thousands more #MMIW in the United States of America, and, as well, to help empower First Nations youth to rise above the many challenges they face being indigenous youth in Canada today.

“I Want to Rise” was created in memory of Cassidy Bernard of We’koqma’q First Nation (Nova Scotia, Canada) who was murdered at the age of 22 in 2018. #justiceforcassidy

Indigenous made short wins awards

The film shines a light on the violence and discrimination many Indigenous women face and the thriller incorporates a mysterious element through the spiritual power of the northern lights.

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/power-of-northern-lights-tapped-in-new-indigenous-thriller/

Week 40 2021

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4th Oct – 10th Oct
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Adrian Sutherland – Scared
Myles Bullen & Blake Rules & Kuf Knots – Anatomy
Highest Conspiracy – Love Is
Nimkish – Rational
Nimkish – YSB
Crown Lands – Inner Light
Larry K – Leonard Sumner interview
Leonard Sumner – Dream Catcher
Uyarakq & Raquel Rawn – Midnight Sun
Digging Roots – Cut My Hair
Street Pharmacy – Femme Fatele
The Legacies – Lagu Cinta
Dave Brubeck – Take Five

Tanya Tagaq

New video for new single off the forthcoming album expected early 2022

Buffy Sainte-Marie

A new documentary film about Buffy Sainte-Marie, the first and only Indigenous person to win an Academy Award, has begun production and will be helmed by director Madison Thomas

Documentary About Indigenous Oscar Winner Buffy Sainte-Marie Begins Production (EXCLUSIVE)

A new documentary film about Buffy Sainte-Marie, the first and only Indigenous person to win an Academy Award, has begun production and will be helmed by director Madison Thomas.

Logging protests

For over 12 months, activists have set up blockades to prevent the logging of old growth forests in the Fairy Creek watershed on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. More than 1,100 people have been arrested as part of the largest act of civil disobedience in recent Canadian history.

Canada: win for anti-logging protesters as judge denies firm’s injunction bid

A provincial court in Canada has refused to extend an injunction against protesters demonstrating against old-growth logging, ruling that police conduct has been so troubling that to extend the order would place the court’s own reputation at risk.

from Tiger Tiger to Spencer Battiest and Doc Native

Family Affair: Seminole musicians in the spotlight

Sandra Hale Schulman Special to Indian Country Today From the Florida swamplands to the stages of Woodstock and the Hard Rock cafes, the Seminole and Miccosukee nations continue to make their marks on the music world.

Killers of Flower Moon

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is based on David Grann’s best-selling book of the same name. It’s the story of the Osage Reign of Terror and the FBI investigation into the ring of criminals who systematically murdered Osages for their oil wealth in the 1920s.

Filming wraps on the set of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Filming has officially wrapped for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The presence of background extras in costume, 1920s automobiles and the ever-present film crew wearing N95 face masks are gone. The sightings of the film’s all-star cast will have to wait for the premiere, which is most likely to be in the fall of 2022.

Week 39 2021

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27th Sept – 3rd Oct
Emma Stevens & Morgan Toney & Shift from tha 902 – Wela’lin (Thank You)
Nathan Cunningham – Smokin
SHiFT FROM THA 902 & DJ IV & JRDN – What An Age To Be
Jerry Alfred and the Medicine Beat – The Warrior Song
Sharon Burch – Cradel Song
Edwin Felter – Simply You
Edwin Felter – Nakotah
Lyla June & Oliver Enjady – Water Is Life
Native Roots of Jazz: Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell – Deuces Wild
Pee Wee Russell – 28th and 8th
The Tewa & Jacob Shije – With You
Las Cafeteras – Oxaca Love Song
Mattmac – Status
Brother Mikey – Like I
Mahihkan Music – Dead Wrong
Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Wa’wais
Skoden – Bass Movement
Broadcast on FM by Resonance (UK), radio AGORA (AT) , Radio Freequenns (AT), Radio Onde Furlane (I) – and as a podcast from Pantheon Podcasts every Friday. Google Podcasts, iTunes, Deezer, Stitcher, iHearRadio, Megaphone.

Rainforest Flying Squad

The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of resistance such as locking their bodies to the logging road and police responded by beating, dragging and pepper-spraying demonstrators – has surpassed the previous record of arrests set in the 1990s at the anti-logging protests dubbed the “War in the Woods”.

Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience

A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.

Walking Eagle News

Described as “purveyors of only the finest Indigenous news”, Walking Eagle first began as a comedy project for Tim Fontaine in 2017. After leaving a career in Canadian journalism that spanned nearly two decades, Fontaine turned to satire in an effort to provoke debate and capture the myriad frustrations felt by Indigenous peoples across the country.

Canada turns to satirical Indigenous website to interpret grim news

ays after the statues of two British monarchs were toppled in the province of Manitoba amid growing fury over the legacy of Canada’s residential school system, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for much of the 20th century, the website Walking Eagle News had its own take – not so much on the grief and outrage, but on the fixation with statues.

TESTAMENT – Native Blood

Chuck Billy (vocalist) became the first Native American to be permanently featured in the memorabilia display at the Hard Rock Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2013. He is also recognized in the National Museum of the American Indian exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution titled “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture”, which was on display in 2011.