First Person Radio: April 20: JOHN ECHOHAWK: Native American Rights Fund-Audio Below

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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 »

First Person Radio: Apr 13: ALBERT MCLEOD: Two-Spirit AIDS Advocate-AUDIO UP

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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 »

First Person Radio -April 6: CLYDE BELLECOURT & CHIEF TERRY NELSON: Roseau River First Nation meets AIM Founder

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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 »

AUDIO HERE: First Person Radio: Feb 2: CORINE FAIRBANKS: AIM’s Work in California

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CHANGE: Tiokasin Ghosthorse ran into the Chicago storm and will join FPR another day. Corine Fairbanks is Oglala Lakota and is the Director of Development for the American Indian Movement Santa Barbara Chapter.  Fairbanks has been involved in social, cultural, and political organizing for most of her life, having first been involved with the American Indian[...] Read More »
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