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First Person Radio-Erdrich and Huenemann-May 4, 2011

May is Minnesota American Indian Month and First Person Radio presents several programs featuring Native leaders and a play by Laura Waterman Wittstock – The Visitor. This week, Laura and cohost, Richard LaFortune (with Andy Driscoll) talk with Poet Heid Erdrich and Indian Community Development leader, Justin Huenemann. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of[...] Read More »
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First Person Radio (2011-04-27)

First Person Radio hosts Laura Waterman Wittstock and Richard LaFortune with Andy Driscoll on April 27th as we talk with Kris Rhodes and Joy Rivera of the American Indian Cancer Foundation. We will discuss the many challenges confronting the Indian community in cancer areas where prevalence is high and growing. Kris was a long-time researcher at[...] Read More »
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FirstPersonRadio-JohnEchohawk-2011-04-20

John Echohawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, was a co-founder of the Native American Rights Fund in 1970 and has been its Executive Director since 1977. The Native American Rights Fund has been involved in most of the major Indian rights litigation since 1970. John serves on many national boards and has received[...] Read More »
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First Person Radio (2011-04-13)

Albert McLeod is a fifth generation descendent of the Cree and Scottish families who worked in the Hudson Bay Company fur trade from 1832 to 1980. He was raised in Cormorant and The Pas in northern Manitoba during the 1960s and 70s. Albert was one of the founders of the Manitoba Aboriginal AIDS Task Force where he was[...] Read More »
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First Person Radio (2011-04-06)

First Person Radio hosts Laura Waterman Wittstock and Richard LaFortune (with Andy Driscoll) talk with Clyde Bellecourt and Chief Terry Nelson of Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Tribe of Manitoba, Canada. Clyde Bellecourt is a founder of the American Indian Movement in 1968. The Movement was founded in Minneapolis and although it became a worldwide activity, Clyde stayed and lived in Minneapolis, to make permanent change right here in[...] Read More »
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First Person Radio (2011-02-23)

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota. He is the host of First Voices Indigenous Radio on WBAI NY – Pacifica Radio. Tiokasin has been described as “a spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator and a community activator.” One reviewer called him “a cultural resonator in the key of[...] Read More »
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