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A common historical myth is that Native Americans were an “oral people” who didn't engage in literacy. But one scholar argues that Native Americans...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
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Uncovering and interpreting age-old documents and written records--what do they tell us about the people who produced them?

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:53:22
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Woo boy another big show comes your way! This time we speak with historian, curator, author and lecturer, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis. Credited with virtu...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Jim Northrup's "Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer"
Syndicated columnist and author, Jim Northrup, talks with Heidi Holtan on a whole range of topics from his column "Fond Du Lac Follies" to his expe...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Taos Pueblo tribal member Erik Lujan, Credit: Tristan Ahtone
New Mexico has one of the largest Native American populations in the nation with over 200-thousand registered tribal members… and it’s estimated th...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Five Roads to Doomsday, Credit: 1946 Popular Science article on the Hayden Planetarium
On this episode: moments when we thought the game was about to be all over. The History Guys look at why apocalyptic visions gain traction from ti...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WRPI, and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sage Davis
Sage Davis is a 23 year old Anishinaabe woman and the mother of a two year old who lives in Onigum on Leech Lake. In this essay, Sage tells us abou...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
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The Indians pay the grizzly great respect. He is part of the master story of the Modoc and Shasta Indians. He is considered a paternal kin

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:34
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Two stories from the Indian Why stories collected by Frank Bird Linderman.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the 14th episode of the RPM Podcast, host Ostwelve speaks with two musical architects of the Mexican Indigenous revival - Yaotl of Aztlan Underg...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
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In Episode 13, RPM looks at Indigenous motherhood and music.

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
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In Episode 12 of the podcast, RPM looks at the Indigenous language revitalization movement. Half of the world’s languages have disappeared in the p...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 22:56
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In our 11th episode, we talk with one of the hardest working musicians on Turtle Island – Mohawk blues-rocker Derek Miller.

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:40
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In episode nine, RPM turns up the volume on Indigenous rock music, from metal to punk.

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 20:32
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In our eighth episode, the great oral tradition of our Indigenous cultures thrives in 21st century song.

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:37
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Hip-hop is one of the most popular musical genres in Indian Country. In our seventh episode, we explore why the art of hip-hop is such a strong for...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
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Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora. In our sixth episode we look at the music from the Six Nations.

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
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In our fourth episode, RPM looks at New Traditional, beginning with the question: What is it? And how can something be new and traditional at the s...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Taika Waititi, San Francisco, CA 3/15/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Taika Waititi talks childhood, hero worship, and whether or not the Maori are one of the lost tribes of Israel.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2012
  • Length: 11:55
Caption: Brian Truglio
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Brian Truglio about his new film entitled Racing the Rez.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 14:36
Caption: "Rez Life" by David Treuer
Leech Lake Indian writer, David Treuer, has a new book, “Rez Life”. The author of three novels and one collection of essays, “Rez Life” is his firs...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with communications manager Debra Krol. The museum is dedicated to the sensitive and acc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Chris Bashinelli
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Chris Bashinelli.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 15:41