Tunes from Turtle Island in Catalunia

Tunes from Turtle Island in Catalunia

From this Sunday Tunes From Turtle Island can now be heard on the Catalonian English language streaming station TopCat Radio. Every Sunday at 9am and will repeat on Thursdays at 6pm (GMT/UCT +2)

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aka NormanJ Singer-songwriter, radio producer, broadcaster and author. Born 28 December 1949 in Salford, Lancashire. At the age of 16 he formed The Normans – a guitar-vocal duo with friend, Norman Green. The duo made appearances at over 100 northern clubs (chauffeured by Jay’s dad, Arnold) before disbanding.

Stop Line 3

Stop Line 3

with an amzing array of artists on it

Week 18 2021

Week 18 2021


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3rd May – 9th May
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Aasiva – Piqatiikka
Ya Tseen & Nick Hakim & Iska Dhaaf – A Feeling Undefined
G.R. Gritt – Shebahonaning
Ozomatli – Juana la Cubana
Donny Parenteau – Don’t Forget To Fish
Larry K – Jace Martin interview
Jace Martin – Without Love
Night Shield & Maniac: The Sioupernatural – The Devils Bandit
Greybuffalo – I’m Alright
Max Roach – Long Tall Dexter
Sheila Jordan – If You Could See Me Now
Darryl Buck – Hope
Pleasure-X – Wah Hey
Jimmy Carl Black – Heliocentric Funk
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.

Red Dress

Red Dress

How Red Dresses Became a Symbol for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

In downtown Nelson, British Columbia, just outside of Nelson City Hall, about a dozen red dresses currently hang from the tree branches leading up to the main building: off-the-shoulder maxidresses, minidresses, and long-sleeve styles. Their bright red hues certainly stand out against the stark, industrial surroundings.

Cooperation like it should be

Cooperation like it should be

The tribe received vaccine allotments both from the Montana health department and the federal Indian Health Service, leaving some doses unused. With an expiration date fast approaching, it turned to other nations in the Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes the Blackfeet and three tribes in southern Alberta that share a language and culture.

Native American tribe gives surplus vaccines to First Nations relatives in Canada

The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana has provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines to its First Nations relatives and others in Canada, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the US and its norther neighbor are distributing doses. While more than 30% of adults in the US are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3%.

Cinco de Mayo playlist

Cinco de Mayo playlist

Las Cafeteras have made a playlist to celebrate Cinco de Mayo (5th of May).

On May 5th, 1862, the Mexican forces (primarily Indigenous) defeated the French invaders. So boom, Natives sending colonizers back where they come from? We already love it. Now once news of the victory arrived in California, Californios celebrated the first documented Cinco de Mayo celebration. But why?

For California Latinos, the Battle of Puebla was a win for two wars. They knew both the Confederate South & the French invaders were allied to expand slavery throughout the continent. These Californios & Latinos from Chile to El Salvador who arrived during the gold rush; they knew if the South won the civil war, what little rights they did have in California would soon disappear. France was like the Confederate Army’s big older brother. So the French loss on May 5th was a sign for Latinos in the U.S. that the Confederates could be beaten.

Cinco de Mayo in Cali

Listen on Spotify: Celebrate Cinco the way it was meant to be celebrated.

More on the history of this celebration here

Week 17 2021

Week 17 2021


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26th April – 2nd May
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A Tribe Called Red & John Trudell & Northern Voice – We Are The Halluci Nation
The Red Shadow Singers – Ghost Dance Song
Sandy Scofield & Kinnie Starr – Faith
Princess Nokia – Earth Is My Playground
J25 – First Nations
Blue Flamez & Tanaya Winder – Warrior
Peter La Farge – The Tourist/Hey Mr President
Willie Dunn – I Pity The Country
Rellik & Joey Stylez – Hourglass
Samian & Mashtan Newashish – Anishinabe
Fawn Wood – Hope
Supaman – Know Better Do Better
The C-Weed Band – Love Of The Game
Donny Lee – Small Towns
Tomahawk Bang – Water Moccasin
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.

Supaman – Decleration of Independence

Supaman – Decleration of Independence

A hard truth exposed by the 27th grievance—and its racist depiction of Native Americans as “merciless Indian savages” In this way, the 27th grievance helped lay the foundation for an American nationalism that would demonize the continent’s indigenous people, especially when they resisted American aggressions.

The Shameful Final Grievance of the Declaration of Independence

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British-it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance. Professor of history at University of Oregon “We hold these truths to be self evident.”

3rd birthday

3rd birthday

Its now 3 years since the first episode of the show was broadcast in the UK by the wonderful Resonance 104.4fm. A big thank you to all who have helped especially all the artists who sent me their amazing music to play on the show. A big shout out to the stations who have taken it since then and put it out in their respective countries Radio Agora 105.5, Radio Onde Furlane, Radio Freequenns and to Pantheon Podcasts for the podcast side of things. THANK YOU ALL

This is the first ever episode

Tracks on the show
Supaman -Why
Anno Domini Beats feat. Russell Means – We Are All Related
T-Rhyme feat. Sierra Jamerson – Golden
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Caribou – Ghosts and Untold Stories
Neon Nativez – Do you love
Neon Nativez – Justice (For Standing Rock) NODAPL
Drezus – Warpath
Drezus Music – Red Winter
DJ Shub – Come on Over feat. Northern Cree Singers
Frank Waln feat. Kodi DeNoyer – Victory Song
The StyleHorse Collective – We Shall Remain
Mob Bounce – Vision Quest
Tanya Tagaq – Growl
Carrielynn Victor (aka Numinous) – Water War
A Tribe Called Red feat. John Trudell & Northern Voice – The Halluci Nation

Indigenous Gardening

Indigenous Gardening

Because these wild-looking forest gardens don’t fit conventional Western notions of agriculture, it took a long time for researchers to recognize them as a human-created landscape at all.

Pacific Northwest’s ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people

For decades, First Nations people in British Columbia knew their ancestral homes-villages forcibly emptied in the late 1800s-were great places to forage for traditional foods like hazelnuts, crabapples, cranberries, and hawthorn. A new study reveals that isolated patches of fruit trees and berry bushes in the region’s hemlock and cedar forests were deliberately planted by Indigenous peoples in and around their settlements more than 150 years ago.