Native Circles

16/08/2024

"With the Ancestors" Native Circles episode featuring Dr. Mel Fillmore who shares her journey to working on public policy addressing Murdered and Missing Indigenous Persons (MMIP): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/15592069

17/07/2024

Listen to our new episode with Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Ellis about her new book "The Great Power of Small Nations" at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/15412560

15/06/2024

Listen to Dr. Joshua Nelson talk about his work on a documentary about two Native American Medal of Honor awardees, Ernest Childers and Jack Montgomery of the 45th Infantry Division, known as the "Thunderbirds," during World War II on podcast at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/15254403.

16/05/2024

Listen to Fry Bread Stories with award-winning author and scholar Kevin Maillard, PhD and JD, on the new episode at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/15078456.

Dr. Kevin Maillard shares key insights about his children’s book Fry Bread with co-hosts Dr. Farina King and Dr. Davina Two Bears. Dr. Maillard is Professor of Law at Syracuse University, a contributor to the New York Times and an author of children’s literature. He has written for The Atlantic and has provided on-air commentary to ABC News and MSNBC. He is the debut author of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, a picture book illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, which won the Sibert Medal and the American Indian Youth Literature Honor. An enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, he is based in Manhattan, New York.

16/04/2024

New Episode with Skylar Begay-

In this episode co-hosted by Dr. Davina Two Bears, Eva Bighorse, and Dr. Farina King, Skylar (“Sky”) Begay shares insights from his life and work with Conservation, Native representation in new spaces, the Great Bend of the Gila, Save History, Archaeology Southwest, LandBack, and the Conservation Corps (specifically ancestral lands conservation corps). Sky identifies as an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and is also Mandan and Hidatsa. He grew up in the Navajo Nation and in Flagstaff, Arizona. He currently resides in Tucson, Arizona where he works as the Director of Tribal Collaboration in Outreach in Advocacy for Archaeology Southwest.

Listen at https://bit.ly/SkylarBegayepisode

17/03/2024

In this new episode, Dr. Davina Two Bears and Eva Bighorse talk with Dr. Farina King about her book, "Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Experiences in the Twentieth Century" that the University Press of Kansas published through the Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures (2023). Diné dóó Gáamalii, which means “Navajo and Mormon” in Diné bizaad (the Navajo language), focuses on oral histories and experiences of Diné Latter-day Saints.

You can listen now at
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/14699970

16/02/2024

Listen now to Oliviah Walker (she/her) who highlights "healing-centered approaches" to public health based on her work with Indigenous communities in our episode co-hosted by Eva Bighorse and Davina Two Bears: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/14514243

17/01/2024

Listen to our new episode featuring Dr. Derek Taira who discusses Native Hawaiians and American schooling histories and introduces us to his forthcoming book, "Forward without Fear," that comes from the phrase "Imua, Me Ka Hopo Ole."

See https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/14310215 and https://nativecirclespodcast.com/2024/01/14/season-2-episode-5-derek-taira-on-native-hawaiians-and-american-schooling/

16/12/2023

"We are thriving"- Dr. Veronica E. Tiller about Native Nations and their significance

episode at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/14156341

16/12/2023

Dr. Veronica E. Velarde Tiller shares insights from her extensive work and experience, in this episode with co-hosts Dr. Farina King and Eva Bighorse, recognizing ways that Native Nations thrive. Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/14156341

16/11/2023

Listen to Season 2 Episode 3, featuring Cherokee playwright and attorney, Mary Kathryn Nagle, and the 2023 New York premiere of her play "Manahatta" at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13973292 on . You can order tickets to "Manahatta" showings at the Public Theater, Anspacher Theater, for November 16 - December 23, 2023. As we learn about Manahatta with Mary Kathryn and the characters of her play such as Jane, we come to better understand how and why recognizing Indigenous peoples and their connections to their homeland matter.

01/11/2023

Meet our new co-hosts Eva Bighorse and Davina Two Bears in this episode featuring Eva and Native American rights to healthcare: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13606483

31/10/2023

Listen to our most recent episode featuring Diné author Lorinda Martinez and her new book at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13799413

18/10/2023

Episode 1 of Season 2 introduces our new co-host Eva Bighorse who talks about Native American healthcare needs

Learn more at

Eva Bighorse Click this link to listen to Season 2 Episode 1 featuring Eva Bighorse and Native American rights to healthcare. In this first episode of Native Circles season 2, we welcome our new co…

18/10/2023

Season 2 Episode 2 of is now available to listen to:

Listen to our conversation with author Lorinda Martinez, getting to know her and her new book Running with Changing Woman (2023) that she wrote especially for young adults. Lorinda works with youth as an educator, and Running with Changing Woman is her first novel that tells the coming-of-age story of a Diné young woman named Samantha who prepares for the Diné womanhood ceremony, Kinaaldá. We discuss the significance of Diné girls and women and Lorinda's contributions to Native American children and youth literature, which is a gift for all readers.

Lorinda is Lók’aa’ Dine’é (the Reed People Clan) born for Táchii’nii (Red Running into the Water Clan). The Tábąąhí (Water’s Edge Clan) are her maternal grandfathers and the Tódích’íí’nii (Bitter Water Clan) are her paternal grandfathers. She lives in the four corners area with her husband, son, and dogs. She was raised in the Navajo Nation areas of Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico and Shonto, Arizona. She attended Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Education.

Lorinda Martinez Click this link to listen to Season 2 Episode 2 featuring Diné author Lorinda Martinez and her new young adult novel, Running with Changing Woman (published in 2023 by Salina Books…

16/08/2023

Learn more about Dr. Liza Black's work as a featured guest on the podcast at https://wordpress.com/post/nativecirclespodcast.com/1532

Listen to the full episode at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13414233

16/08/2023

Announcing Episode 26 of podcast now available featuring Dr. Liza Black.

Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13414233

In this episode, Dr. Liza Black shares her insights about how depictions of Native Americans in media, such as film and television, affect Indigenous peoples and communities. She underscores the impacts of misrepresentations and lack of understanding Native Americans by drawing connections between her first book Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (2020) and her manuscript in-progress “How to Get Away with Murder,” which is a transnational history of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Dr. Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and an Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies and history at Indiana University. She examines the motivations of territory and the intersections of representation and violence. Dr. Black developed a lifelong interest in studying Native identity and struggle and in advocating for protecting Native people from violence and exploitation. In “Native TV in 2021: Putting the I in BIPOC,” Dr. Black was featured in Perspectives on History discussing the recent surge of Native-centered television representation in Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs. Her work has appeared in more than 20 academic and non-academic outlets.

18/07/2023

Listen to Episode 25- "Looking Back: Two-Year Anniversary of the Native Circles Podcast" at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13228190

This episode features a conversation between Dr. Farina King and Sarah Newcomb about their first two years with the Native Circles Podcast, coming changes, and looking towards the future.

Learn more about the podcast at https://nativecirclespodcast.com/. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram ().

20/06/2023

In the most recent episode, Dr. Yuka Mizutani highlights her approaches and efforts to diversify narratives of the United States and Japan through Indigenous studies. Listen and learn more at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13058571 and on the podcast website at https://wordpress.com/post/nativecirclespodcast.com/1451

19/06/2023

Dr. Kumiko Noguchi emphasizes the significance of working and learning with Indigenous communities. She has worked with the Tule River Tribe, especially with her book "A California Indian History the ‘Invisibles’ to a Federally Recognized Tribes" (Tokyo: Sairyusha Publication, 2015). Listen and learn more at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13058571 and on the podcast website https://wordpress.com/post/nativecirclespodcast.com/1451

18/06/2023

Listen to the newest episode of featuring two Japanese professors, Dr. Kumiko Noguchi and Dr. Yuka Mizutani. They share insights from their experiences and work with Native American and Indigenous communities, which underscore the significance of Native American Studies in Japan and throughout the world: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/13058571
Check out the website with recommended sources at https://wordpress.com/post/nativecirclespodcast.com/1451

16/05/2023

In this Native Circles podcast episode, Dr. Elizabeth Rule talks with Dr. Farina King about her work with the Guide to Indigenous DC, a digital map and mobile app featuring sites of importance to Native peoples across the Nation’s capital, and her new affiliated full-length book, Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital (Georgetown University Press, 2023). Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/12862938. Learn more at https://nativecirclespodcast.com/2023/05/16/episode-23-indigenous-dc-and-guides-to-native-lands-with-elizabeth-rule/.

01/05/2023

Sasha Maria Suarez joins us on Native Circles Podcast and she shares her thoughts and research about expanding what Native activism looks like. Suarez is a direct descendant of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe and is the second generation from her family to be born and raised as an urban Ojibwe in Minneapolis. She is an assistant professor of history and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on Ojibwe gender history, Indigenous social movements, and urban Indigenous history. She is currently working on her first book tentatively titled, "Making a Home in the City: White Earth Ojibwe Women and Community Organizing in Twentieth Century Minneapolis." Listen to this episode at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/12654568.

22/03/2023

Listen and share our most recent podcast episode featuring a conversation with Dr. Meredith McCoy and Dr. Matthew Villeneuve and OU students in Dr. Farina King's class on American Indian Education: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/12443596

Learn more about it at https://nativecirclespodcast.com/2023/03/14/episode-21-reconceiving-school-through-indigenous-education-with-meredith-mccoy-and-matthew-villeneuve/

16/02/2023

Listen to the newest episode featuring the series editors, Farina King, Kiara Vigil, and Tai Edwards, of a new university press series related to Native American Studies: https://nativecirclespodcast.com/2023/02/15/the-lyda-conley-series-on-trailblazing-indigenous-futures/

The University Press of Kansas is launching The Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures, which King, Vigil, and Edwards highlight. This is one of the first press series named after a Native American woman.

Lyda Conley’s life and experiences are inspirational as one of the first Native American women known to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which she did in defense of her Indigenous ancestors and people. Her case was also one of the first in which “a plaintiff argued that the burying grounds of Native Americans were entitled to federal protection.” One of Farina King’s students, Sarah (Wood) Fite James, brought Lyda Conley to Farina’s attention in her class research project, which the Museum of Native American History features on its website.

Please contact UPK senior editor David Congdon if you have any questions about the series and want to submit a proposal: [email protected].

Here is the link to the series episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/12247278

24/01/2023

Ryan Lee (Diné) shares insights from his life journey in higher education and his efforts to support Native American students. Listen to the full episode on at https://nativecircles.buzzsprout.com/1811701/12044488-ryan-lee-on-community-and-support-for-indigenous-students

24/01/2023

Listen to Episode 19 with Ryan Lee! He highlights his life journey as a Diné and his work with the American Indian Programs and Services and the American Indian Student Association at the University of Oklahoma. Go to https://nativecircles.buzzsprout.com/1811701/12044488-ryan-lee-on-community-and-support-for-indigenous-students

16/12/2022

Listen and share our new episode 18 featuring Crystal Lepscier, Ed.D. via https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/11870495

In Episode 18 with Crystal Lepscier, Crystal talks about how the history of education and racism tied to historically government sanctioned assimilation and similar genocidal practices ties into our traumas and experiences within the institution that is 'school.' This is profound when we think about Racial Battle Fatigue. This term explains the physiological and psychological harm that is a result of long term microaggressions, racism, and intergenerational trauma. This term carries a weight that, when confronted, has the potential to also help us open the doors to understanding and healing, which sets us on a better path to our human selves.

17/11/2022

Join us on episode 17 with Ernestine Berry as she shares about her journey as she has sought the history of her people – the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. This episode includes guest co-host Evelyn Cox (Chamorro) from the Native Nations Center at the University of Oklahoma.

Check out the episode at https://nativecirclespodcast.com/2022/11/14/episode-17-ernestine-berry-on-seeking-the-history-of-her-people-the-united-keetoowah-band-of-cherokees/

To learn more about Ernestine, see NativeCirclesPodcast.com

Resources:
John Hair Cultural Center and Museum – https://www.ukb-nsn.gov/john-hair-cultural-center-museum
Native Nations Center at University of Oklahoma - https://www.ou.edu/nativenationscenter
THPO with Sheila Bird (Podcast) - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1922460

17/10/2022

Listen to Teagan Dreyer's episode on at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/11504973