First Person Radio-Weds, Sept 21@9:00AM: DOUG AND RACHEL LIMóN: Native Artists and Art Activists-LISTEN BELOW

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First Person Radio’s Laura Waterman Wittstock with Andy Driscoll talks with husband and wife artists Doug and Rachel Limón. Their work has won awards all over the Upper Midwest Region. And their art has also become part of significant collections. Doug’s recent cradleboard project to create four new cradleboards received matching funds needed to complete the project (one cradleboard[...] Read More »

First Person Radio-Sep 7: JUDY PASTERNAK: Yellow Dirt Author -Audio Below

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From Judy Pasternak’s Website: A craggy mesa once housed Monument No. 2, the hottest, richest, most productive uranium mine in the Navajo homeland, in a remote desert near the Arizona-Utah line. To the families who have dwelled for generations in the spring-fed valley below, the mesa is the wounded center of their world. They and the hundreds[...] Read More »

First Person Radio Aug 31: BRENDA CHILD, PhD, MIGUEL VARGAS: UofM Indian Studies and Boarding School Author-AUDIO Below

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Laura Waterman Wittstock (with Andy Driscoll) talks with Professor Brenda Child, Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and the Department’s Community Outreach Coordinator, Miguel Vargas.  At the University of Minnesota, Child was recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service. She was born on and remains a citizen of the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota. Dr.[...] Read More »

First Person Radio Aug 24: NATIVE AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY: Funding Self-Determination – AUDIO and LINKS BELOW

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HELP US BRING YOU THESE IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST – PLEASE DONATE HERE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First Person Radio’s Laura Waterman Wittstock (with Andy Driscoll) talks about philanthropy in the American Indian community. The foundations represented by our guests have committed their resources to fostering Native self-determination, empowerment, education, leadership and community development. We’ll hear from program[...] Read More »

First Person Radio, Aug 17: DIANE WILSON: Dakota Author, Native Food Grower-Audio is UP BELOW

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Laura Waterman Wittstock talks with Diane Wilson, operations director of Dream of Wild Health Farm, is the author of Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, which won a Minnesota Book award. She is a Mdewakanton descendent; her mother was enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation. Andy Driscoll co-hosts.

First Person Radio-August 3: MIGIZI’S NEW PATHWAY: Community Media Teams-AUDIO BELOW

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MIGIZI’s New Media Pathway completed a total of 32 media projects in the last three years, including documentary videos  and new media projects shown on YouTube and Facebook. The highlight of the program over its first three years of operation has been the emergence of the Community Media teams as a training ground and revenue center for[...] Read More »
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