Due to one technical difficulty after another as well as when I have time to make it to KBOO there aren't any computers available with Audio, I will no longer be podcasting "Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People." I apologize for any inconvenience. The frustration of one technical setback after another has finally gotten to me, and I have given up on the idea for now.
After a caller called in and told us of the occupation at
Glen Cove in Northern California near Vallejo, Shusli did some leg work and got an interview with Corrina to discuss the situation. A group of people are blocking the construction of a park that will desecrate a shell midden and burial site.
Here is a link to the video of
Arvol Looking Horse discussing the white buffalo calf prophecy. Arvol is the 19th generation keeper of the white buffalo calf pipe.
Here is a link to a Quese IMC
video and his
website. Quese is an award winning seminole hip-hop artist and activist.
Future shows we have lined up:
July 14th, Sara Libby will be with us to discuss the upcoming Housing Fair being offered by the
Native American Youth and Family Center.
July 21st, Redwillow has arranged for us to have Joy Harjo live at KBOO.
Joy Harjo is a Muskogee Creek musician, poet, and author of many amazing works.
July 28th, we will be having a diabetes special with two employees of the
Native American Rehabilitation Association to discuss the health issues and services for diabetes. Diabetes is a rampant problem in Indian Country which is about 4 times higher than the national average. I read that 70% of one tribes members in the Southwest has diabetes.
Other shows we are working on with no set date yet:
We are working on an interview with Quese IMC.
We will sometime soon have a local activist and musician on, Tony Garcia.
We are trying to get Dr. Dale Walker and Michelle Singer from the
One Sky Center to come down and talk about Native health conferences that are happening in the Portland area this summer and fall.
We are trying to get someone from the Yakama Nation to talk to us about their
buffalo restoration program and other habitat restoration programs they are working on.
This Thursday, July 21st, Joy Harjo will be joining "Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People." Joy Harjo won a NAMMY (Native American Music Award) for Best Female Artist in 2009. Joy is a talented saxaphone player, poet, author and so much more. She has a new CD out titled "Red Dreams: a Trail Beyond Tears."
On Thursday, March 24, Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People interviewed Umatilla tribal member Gabe Sheoships from the Streamnet Library, part of the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, to discuss the library and native fishing along the Chewana (Columbia River) and the issues effecting it today.
On Thursday, February 24, Tillicum Wawa interviewed Bill Young of KCUW. KCUW is the Umatilla Reservation community radio station, all of 100 watts...currently. Bill produces a program of story telling called "Good Night Rez." We plan on making continued connections with this radio station. To listen to the podcast, click on the here.
On Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People, on Thursday, February 17, we interviewed Carol Sutterlict (st?) about the fires that happened in and around the town of White Swan on the Yakama Indian Reservation on February 12. It started with a chimney fire in one house and quickly spread with a wind storm that average 50 mph and up to 100 mph according to some reports. This fire destroyed 20 homes, but many homes were also damaged by the winds. About the only kind of donations they can't use are clothing. They are really looking for construction materials, paint, cleaning materials, and gas cards for the residents. You can send donations to:
We also interviewed Felix about the work he is doing to help with the Inca in Ecuador, of which he is a member. If you wish to help him out in his local organizing of benefits for this work, e-mail him at fdescultchaskis@yahoo.com. It is helpful if you speak Spanish.
Shusli made a updated our audience about John T. Williams, a Native carver shot by Seattle police officer, Ian Birk. Ian has resigned, but there is seemingly no justice in this case. John was told by Ian to drop his knife and within 10 seconds of the officer confronting John, who was walking down the street carving a piece of wood with said knife, the officer fired on him five times, killing him instantly. John Williams was deaf. It is said that the officer, Ian Birk, had numerous contact with John, knew who he was, and knew he was deaf. Sounds like murder to me, but then again, when cops commit murder, they often get away with it.
