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PLEASE, DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES. Jun 03, 2018

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The interests and aggression of Oil and Gas companies to capitalize everything in their path is known all too well. Thier effect on Native American tribes and the First Nations of Canada vary. Some embrace the companies, seeing them as potential revenue sources for their impoverished communities. Others say they bring irreversible harm to the planet. In this episode, we look at why Canada intends to pay Kinder Morgan billions of dollars over 20 years for the trans-mountain pipeline. Plus Native News.
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NATIVE OPINION SPECIAL: Past Interviews May 27, 2018

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Looking Back May 20, 2018

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While the hosts take a much-needed Vacation, please enjoy this special “Look Back” At some moments from the past episodes of our show. We will be back on June 1st with the live show and new podcast content.
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WHY IS THERE A DESIRE TO DESTROY OURSELVES? May 15, 2018

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In this episode of Native Opinion, we focus on some First Nation news stories this week. Discussions include Kahnawake's controversial 'marry out, get out' policy, Canadian Senators delaying cannabis bill and Canadian banks eye Indigenous investment in pipeline expansion. Plus listener feedback.
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WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? May 07, 2018

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Native Opinion Episode 126 WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? How To Reach Our Show: E-Mail: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook: facebook.com/nativeopinionpodcast/ Our Website: nativeopinion.com Our Youtube Channel: https://www.Youtube.com/c/NativeOpinion Leave us a voicemail. Call us! 860–381–0207 Listen LIVE every Friday night, 9pm Eastern Standard Time Through Our Website or via the SPREAKER APP Our Podcast is available: I-tunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, i-Heart Radio, and Spotify…or wherever you get your favorite podcasts from… GUESTS IN THIS EPISODE: Lorraine Gray, founder of Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute, and her two sons, Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, and, Skanahwati Lloyd Gray to our show. Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute was established to address the needs of indigenous communities around the globe. In essence, our “four bridges” reach out in all directions to establish a network of people to address global issues in all of our communities. We are accomplishing this by first addressing the poverty, and lack of healthy sustainable living practices in these communities. Their mission: We are a diverse group of people dedicated to preserving and sharing our cultures and restoring a healthy way of life through a collective effort of farmers, educators, healers, youth, elders, and spiritual leaders. Lorraine Gray, founder of Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute is also the mother of the two young men accosted by the police at Colorado State University. PLEASE SUPPORT Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture By visiting their Go Fund Me page at: https://www.gofundme.com/eagle-meets-condor-cultural-exchang Articles Featured in this episode: ARTICLE 1: ** Author: The Guardian ** TITLE: They don’t belong’: police called on Native American teens on college tour ARTICLE 2 TITLE: 911 call, lapel video of Native American teens pulled from campus tour released ARTICLE 3 Author: Chris D’Angelo and Travis Waldron Bureau Of Indian Affairs Director Resigns After Just 6 Months On The Job ARTICLE 4 Author: Brian Lightfoot Brown TITLE: WHY WON’T YOU RECOGNIZE THAT WE’RE STILL HERE TOO? ARTICLE 5 Author: Saqib Shah TITLE: First-ever ocean plastic cleaner will tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch ARTICLE 6 Author: Gilbert King TITLE: An Apology in Lake County RESOURCES: Cultural Survival Haskell Indian Nations University Teaching Tolerance The Indigenous Lifeways Podcast TOMAQUAG MUSEUM Rhode Island’s ONLY Native American Museum
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THE LIGHT WILL GET BRIGHTER Apr 30, 2018

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Native Opinon Episode 125 THE LIGHT WILL GET BRIGHTER How To Reach Our Show: E-Mail: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook: facebook.com/nativeopinionpodcast/ Our Website: nativeopinion.com Our Youtube Channel: https://www.Youtube.com/c/NativeOpinion Leave us a voice mail. Call us! 860–381–0207 Listen LIVE every Friday night, 9pm Eastern Standard Time Through Our Website or via the SPREAKER APP Our Podcast is availible: I-tunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, i-Heart Radio, and Spotify…or wherever you get your favorite podcasts from… Articles Featured in this episode: ARTICLE 1: TITLE: Swamp politics aids MGM in clash with tribal casinos Author: The Day Editorial Board ARTICLE 2 Author: Brian Hallenbeck TITLE: New revelations have tribes looking to Interior probe ARTICLE 3 Author: SAMANTHA RAPHELSON TITLE: The Man Who Stopped the Waffle House Gunman Was Shot at and Burned. He Still Says He’s Not a Hero ARTICLE 4 Author: SAMANTHA RAPHELSON title: Trump administration wants american indians to be considered a race rather than sovereign nations MUSIC FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE: ARTIST: Evangilina TRACK: More Than The World More of Evangilina’s Music: EXTRA ARTICLES DISCUSSED: Unappetizing and racist’: Internet rips Whole Foods for opening Asian-themed restaurant called ‘Yellow Fever’ Spanish Farmer Gains Fame for Her Likeness to Trump Ousted Chaplain Says Ryan Told Him ‘Stay Out Of Politics’ After Tax-Bill Prayer
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WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR…….THE RICH. Apr 22, 2018

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In this episode of Native Opinion, we deconstruct the "Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act" and how Democrats failed to uphold Native American tribal Sovereignty rights. Why did Senate Democrats choose to put Labor Union money above our Indigenous rights? Also, we discuss The Inhuman Treatment and Injustice of Tribal Elder Vernon Traverse, who was physically assaulted by a male Rapid City Hospital nurse. All this and more in Episode 124...
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Just Thoughts Apr 15, 2018

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Another Native Mascot problem in a Chicago Highschool, Swinomish holds a March on Drugs, How will Trumps Trade War affect Indian country? A high school teacher arrested after leaving a gun in the bathroom. Music by 1st nations Derek Miller.
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TRAUMA AND THE LACK OF HEALTHCARE. Apr 10, 2018

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Native Opinon Episode 121 TRAUMA AND THE LACK OF HEALTHCARE. How To Reach Our Show: E-Mail: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook: facebook.com/nativeopinionpodcast/ Our Website: nativeopinion.com Our Youtube Channel: https://www.Youtube.com/c/NativeOpinion Leave us a voice mail. Call us! 860–381–0207 Listen LIVE every Friday night, 9pm Eastern Standard Time Through Our Website or via the SPREAKER APP Our Podcast is availible: I-tunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, i-Heart Radio, and Spotify…or wherever you get your favorite podcasts from… OUR GUEST: MJ Pettengill **BIO: ** **Mj Pettengill is an author and social historian with a focus on cultural narrative and traditions, collective and intergenerational trauma integration, and social welfare development. As a freelance writer, she has contributed to numerous magazines and is a facilitator of creative writing and transformative arts workshops. Mj is a musician; her interests include living histories, Civil War Era performance on her vintage E Flat cornet. She is also a cellist. She lives on a farm in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where she is also a wildcraft herbalist, aligned with her passion for nature and exploring the ancient healing traditions, customs, and folklore of her ancestors. She works out of her woodland studio. Mj Pettengill is the author of The Etched in Granite Historical Fiction Series. In addition to earning undergraduate degrees in social history, psychology, and music, Mj received an MFA in creative writing. ** Order Her Book: Etched In Granite The Angels’ Lament: Etched in Granite Historical Fiction Series - Book Two (Volume 2) Native Author Suggestion: Rebecca Roanhorse is an Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo/African-American writer and a VONA workshop alum. She is also a lawyer and Yale grad. She lives in northern New Mexico with her daughter, husband, and pug. Her debut novel, Trail of Lightning, is slated for publication with Saga Press (Simon & Schuster) summer 2018. Her recent nonfiction work can be found in the upcoming Invisible 3, and her article Decolonizing Science Fiction and Imagining Futures: An Indigenous Futurisms Roundtable can be found in Strange Horizons. Find her on Twitter @roanhorseBex EXAMPLES OF HER WORK: SOURCE: Postcards From The Apocalypse SOURCE: Welcome To Your Authentic Indian Experience Hakai Magazine Podcast SOURCE: When Whales And Humans Talk Articles Featured in this episode: ARTICLE 1: TITLE: Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives’ Inherited Pain ARTICLE 2 Author: Vincent Schilling TITLE: The Native History We Are Never Taught In School ARTICLE 3 Producer: Connie Walker for Canadian Broadcasting Company TITLE: Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo About the Host: Connie Walker is a senior investigative reporter whose most recent work focuses on unsolved cases and root causes of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. She was nominated ‘Best Host in a Web Program or Series’ by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television in 2018 for her work on Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams? ARTICLE 4 Author: Mark Trahant TITLE: Who Should Run The Indian Health Service? This Is No Longer the IHS We Grew Up With ARTICLE 5 Author: KYLA MANDEL Zinke’s Interior Department reassignments disproportionately targeted Native Americans and women
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WARNING, WARNING, WILL ROBINSON! THE EARTH NEEDS HELP! Apr 02, 2018

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In this episode of the Native Opinion radio show & podcast, our discussion includes: a first nations teen tells the United Nations to "Warrior Up", The pope refuses to Apologize For Church's Role In Residential Schools, and why are so many conservatives Bashing teens for wanting safer schools? and more!
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