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-Apr 27: KRIS RHODES & JOY RIVERA: American Indian Cancer Foundation-AUDIO BELOW

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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 »

First Person Radio March 23@: TOM GOLDTOOTH: Organizing for Equity – Audio File Below

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First Person Radio hosts Laura Waterman Wittstock and Richard LaFortune with Andy Driscoll talk with Tom Goldtooth, internationally acclaimed organizer and activist for indigenous environmental equity. He has also worked extensively on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network based[...] Read More »

TTT May 12: A Conversation with Mary Lethert Wingerd – Author, North Country: The Making of Minnesota

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Truth To Tell (2010-05-12)

Mary Lethert Wingerd, author of North Country: The Making of Minnesota, the untold history of how the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State of Minnesota. This is an all-new a new history of our fair state, but beginning way back there when this was a land stewarded by our indigenous predecessors, the Ojibwe and Dakota (Sioux),[...] Read More »