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WELCOME

NSN 1 - October 1996
Why Native solidarity radio?
· Opening welcome to Mohawk Territory by Frank Natawe of CKRK Kahnawake
· Rebroadcast of "5 Years Since the Siege of Kanehsatake" produced by CKUT with archives from CKHQ Kanehsatake


QUICK! DO SOMETHING...

NSN 264 - November 2001
The cancer wave is not accidental, and not acceptable!
· with Shawna Larsen of Alaska Community Action on Toxics (Palmer, AK)

NSN 245 - July 2001
A critique of the proposed First Nations Governance Act
· with Arthur Manuel (Neskonlith, B.C.)

NSN 167 - January 2000
Stop the Din'eh deportation from Big Mountain! (part 9)
· with Bahe Katenay (Flagstaff, AZ)

NSN 184 - May 2000
Land and life for the Cree of Lubicon Lake (part 10)
· with Kevin Thomas of the Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto)

NSN 126 - March 1999
Blood is spilled for oil and water in Colombia (part 2)
· with Cecilia Rodriguez of the Colombia Support Network (Madison)
· with Charon Asetoyer of the Indigenous Women's Network (Rapid City, SD)

NSN 241 - June 2001
AIDS awareness up close and personal
· with Harvey Michel of Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness (Montreal)


WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT GLOBALIZATION?

NSN 250 - August 2001
Aaah! Genetically engineered free-trade trees!
· with Jason Ford and Brian Tokar of the Native Forst Network (Burlington)

NSN 191 - June 2000
Free trade and investment take on the world
· with Andrea Carmen of the International Indian Treaty Council (Palmer, AK)

NSN 253 - September 2001
How "eco" - or equitable - is tourism?
· with Julie Trupke of the Rethinking Tourism Project (St. Paul)

NSN 159 - November 1999
Agribusiness and pharmacy take on the world
· with Pat Roy Mooney of Rural Advancement Foundation International (Winnipeg)

NSN 134 - May 1999
On environmental racism
· with Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network (Bemidji, MN)

NSN 201 - August 2000
Golf and tourism take on the world
· with Deborah Maclaren of the Rethinking Tourism Project (St. Paul)
· Readings from "Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel" by Deborah Maclaren (Kumarian Press)
· Excerpts from "The Golf War" (video) by Jenn Schradie and Matt DeVries (Anthill Productions)

NSN 207 - October 2000
Forestry companies take on the world
· with Ann Petermann of ACERCA - Action for Community and Ecology in the Rainforests of Central America (Burlington)

NSN 155 - October 1999
Mining and oil companies take on the world
· with Danny Kennedy of Project Underground (Berkeley)

NSN 180 - April 2000
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank take on the world
· with Pamela Foster of the Halifax Initiative (Ottawa)
· with Aviva Imhos of the International Rivers Network (Berkeley)


LISTEN TO THE MUSIC

NSN 216 - December 2000
The music of Florant Vollant
· with Florant Vollant (Maliotenam)
· Music from "Nipaiamianan" by Florant Vollant (Avanti Stella)
· Music from "Akua Tuta" by Kashtin (Sony)

NSN 53 - October 1997
Conscious Native hip-hop
· with Chris LaMarr of without Rezervation (Susanville, CA)
· with Julian B (Denver)
· Music from "Are You Ready for W.O.R.?" by without Rezervation (Canyon Records)
· Music from "Once Upon a Genocide" by Julian B (Warrior)

NSN 158 - November 1999
The music of Sharon Burch
· with Sharon Burch (California)
· Music from "Yazzie Girl" and "Touch the Sweet Earth" by Sharon Burch (Canyon Records)


WOMEN ARE THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE

NSN 163 - December 1999
Reproductive rights
· with Charon Asetoyer of the Indigenous Women's Network (Rapid City, SD)

NSN 239 - May 2001
Multimedia aboriginal artists
· with Alanis King of Native Earth Performing Arts (Toronto)
· with Star Nayea (New Mexico)

NSN 242 - June 2001
Aboriginal midwives free the people from medical patriarchy
· with Ruby Miller and Dawn Martin of the Six Nations Birthing Centre (Ontario)

NSN 123 - March 1999
Support the shelter!
· with Jean Davidson and Valerie Lavern of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal
· Readings from "American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in North America" by Annette Jaimes and Theresa Halsey, in "The State of Native America" (South End Press)


RESTORING RESPECT FOR TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE

NSN 92 - July 1998
Native pride is still alive! (part 1)
· with Natalie Lloyd of the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal
· with Ron Rowell of the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (San Francisco)

NSN 148 - August 1999
Native pride is still alive! (part 2)
· with Beverly Little Thunder (Minneapolis)


YOUNG ARE THE HEARTS OF THE ELDERS

NSN 246 - July 2001
Youth rise up!
· with Tania Willard of the Native Youth Movement (Vancouver)

NSN 225 - February 2001
Support urban elders!
· with Joan Stromberg of the Indian Council of the Elderly (Milwaukee)

NSN 251 - August 2001
with the West Coast Warriors
· with KeyWay and Ghost Dog of the West Coast Warriors Society (Vancouver)


SOVEREIGN AIRWAVES

NSN 196 - July 2000
A history of aboriginal radio in Canada
· with Sally Benedict of CKON-FM Akwesasne
· with Amos Key of CKRZ-FM Six Nations
· Readings from "The Canadian Alternative: A Brief History of Unlicensed and Low-Power Radio" by Charles Fairchild, in "Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook" (AK Press)

NSN 199 - August 2000
New national aboriginal media
· with Jennifer David of the Aboriginal Peoples' Television Network (Ottawa)
· with John Gregg of AIROS - American Indian Radio On Satellite (Lincoln, NB)


INTERNATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY CONNECTIONS

NSN 262 - November 2001
Basque liberation... live from Canada
· with Ion Etxebarria of the Basque Political Prisoners' Support Committee (Montreal) and Koldo Gorostiaga of the European Parliament (Brussels)

NSN 230 - March 2001
Rise up in West Papua!
· with John Rumbiak of the Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (West Papua)

NSN 103 - October 1998
Free Hawai'i!
· with Pu'uhonua "Bumpy" Kanahele of the Nation of Hawai'i (Waimanolu)

NSN 190 - June 2000
The S‡mi are more than a skeleton in Europe's closet
· with Nanna Borchert (Oestersund, Sweden)

NSN 125 - March 1999
The Ainu survive Japanese genocide
· with Oki Kano (Hokkaido, Japan)
· Music from "Kamuy Kor Nupurpe" by Oki Kano (Chikar)
· Readings from "The Japan We Never Knew" by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa (Stoddart)

NSN 116 - January 1999
Five years of Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and beyond (part 14)
· with Katie Coughlin of the Mexico Solidarity Network (Montreal)

NSN 169 - January 2000
We're not your gypsies!
· with Ronald Lee of the Roma Community and Advocacy Centre (Toronto)

NSN 119 - February 1999
Native, Black, and Puertorican liberation
· with Safiya Bukhari of the Jericho Movement (Syracuse)

NSN 144 - July 1999
Colonialism is also made in Taiwan
· with Niwa aka Yuchen Hu (Glen Cove, NY)
· Music by Niwa


RE-TEACHING HISTORY, FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

NSN 153 - September 1999
In honour of Crazy Horse
· with Seth Big Crow Jr. (South Dakota)

NSN 228 - March 2001
Genocide: A shared history and resistence
· with Roland Chrisjohn of St. Thomas University (Fredericton)
· with Jim Craven of Clark College (Vancouver, WA)

NSN 182 - April 2000
Who says we don't exist? - A Sinixt story
· Excerpts from "Keeping the Lakes Way" (CD) produced by Marilyn James (Winlaw, B.C.)

NSN 174 - February 2000
Who killed Anna Mae Aquash? (part 2)
· with Robert Pictou-Branscombe (Rimrock, AZ)
· Rebroadcast of "Anna Mae Aquash" produced by Reiko Cyr (CKUT)

NSN 131 - April 1999
Residential school un-cover-up
· with Roland Chrisjohn (Ottawa), co-author of "The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Residential School Experience" (Theytus Books)

NSN 60 - December 1997
No thanks(giving)! (part 1)
· with Mahtowin Munro of United American Indians of New England (Boston)

NSN 17 - February 1997
Finally, a Mohawk-written Mohawk history!
· with Arlette van den Hende of the Kanehsatake Education Centre
· Readings from "At the Woods' Edge: A History of the People of Kanehsatake" by Arlette van den Hende and Brenda Doxtater


STORY TIME!

NSN 188 - May 2000
A social history of the buffalo
· with Clarence Rock Boy (South Dakota)

NSN 118 - January 1999
Louise Halfe, writer
· with Louise Halfe (Regina)
· Readings from "Blue Marrow" by Louise Halfe (Press Gang Publishers)

NSN 175 - February 2000
A peculiar take on Mohawk history
· with Frank Natawe (Kahnawake)

NSN 91 - July 1998
D.L. Birchfield, writer
· with D.L. Birchfield of the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
· Readings from "The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test" by D.L. Birchfield (University of Oklahoma Press)

NSN 132 - May 1999
Alunik speaks
· with Ishmael Alunik (Inuvik, N.W.T.)
· Readings from "Call Me Ishmael: Memories of an Inuvialuk Elder" by Ishmael Alunik (Oa-Kue)


IS ANYTHING STILL SACRED?

NSN 185 and NSN 223 - May 2000 and January 2001
The commodification of the sacred
· with Debra Harry of the Indigenous Peoples' Council on Biocolonialism (Nevada)

NSN 154 - October 1999
Boycott cultural appropriation!
· with Phyllis Frederick and Bob Goff of the Crazy Horse Defense Project (River Falls, WI)

NSN 52 - October 1997
Framing Indians (part 1)
· with Martin Loft of the National Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (Kahnawake)
· Readings from "The Face Pullers" edited by Brock Silversides (Fifth House)
· Readings from "Copying People" edited by Daniel Francis (Fifth House)

NSN 165 - December 1999
Framing Indians (part 2)
· with Elizabeth Sackler of the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation (New York)

NSN 105 - October 1998
The Human Genome Diversity Project
· with Jeannette Armstrong of the En'owkwin Centre (Penticton, B.C.)


THE ANIMALS ARE THE HEART OF THE EARTH

NSN 106 - November 1998
Bring Back the Buffalo!
· with Rosalie Little Thunder of Buffalo Nations (South Dakota)

NSN 157 - October 1999
The caribou are the heart of the Gwich'in
· with Norma Kassi (Yukon)


THE FISH ARE THE HEART OF THE WATERS

NSN 203 - September 2000
Treaties are more than hype for the Mi'kmaq of Burnt Church
· with Karen Somerville (Burnt Church, N.B.)

NSN 101 - September 1998
A Chippewa fish story
· with David McLaren of the Saugeen and Nawash Ojibwe Communication Society (Owen Sound, Ontario)


IMAGEWEAVERS

NSN 34 - June 1997
Eddy Malenfant, filmmaker
· with Eddy Malenfant (Montreal)
· Excerpts from "Diary of an Innu Child" by Eddy Malenfant

NSN 76 - April 1998
Alanis Obamsaw'in, filmmaker (part 1)
· with Alanis Obamsaw'in (Montreal)
· Discussion of "Spudwrench", "My Name is Kaheni:osta", and "Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistence" by Alanis Obamsaw'in

NSN 206 - October 2000
Alanis Obomsaw'in, filmmaker (part 2)
· with Alanis Obomsawin (Montreal)
· Excerpts from "Rocks at Whiskey Trench" by Alanis Obamsaw'in

NSN 44 - August 1997
Shirley Cheechoo, filmmaker
· with Shirley Cheechoo (Montreal)

NSN 81 - May 1998
Maurice Bulbulian, filmmaker
· with Maurice Bulbulian (Montreal)
· Excerpts from "The Nitinaht Chronicle" by Maurice Bulbulian

NSN 194 - July 2000
Carlos Ferrand, filmmaker
· with Carlos Ferrand (Montreal)


A FLOOD OF RESISTANCE TO HYDRO DEVELOPMENT

NSN 100 - September 1998
The Igorot of the Philippines damn the flood
· with Randy Kinaud of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (Baguio City, Philippines)

NSN 161 - November 1999
The Cree of Cross Lake damn the flood
· with Colin Gillespie (Winnipeg)
· with Tommy Monias (Cross Lake, Manitoba)

NSN 146 - August 1999
Three Gorges: The biggest hydro project ever
· with Doris Shen of the International Rivers Network (Berkeley)

NSN 98 - September 1998
The Cheslatta of British Columbia damn the flood
· with Mike Robertson (Burns Lake, B.C.)

NSN 41 - August 1997
The Mapuche of Chile damn the flood
· with Jessica Falkenhagen of the South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (Oakland)


WHAT'S A TREATY WORTH?

NSN 263 - November 2001
Sovereignty or extinguishment for First Nations in Canada?
· with Kevin Thomas of the Firends of the Lubicon (Toronto)

NSN 150 - September 1999
The trail of broken treaties
· with Andrea Carmen of the International Indian Treaty Council (Palmer, AK)

NSN 232 - April 2001
The new world's oldest treaty?
· with Armando Navarrete of the Mapuche Nation Support Group (Montreal)

NSN 27 - April 1997
The gains and losses of the British Columbia treaty process
· with Wisixs (New Hazelton, B.C.)

NSN 128 - April 1998
The gains and losses of Nunavut
· with Abe Tagaliq of Television Northern Canada (Iqaluit, Nunavut)


THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM

NSN 171 - February 2000
Free Leonard Peltier! (part 7)
· with Leonard Peltier (Leavenworth, KS)
· Readings from "Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance" by Leonard Peltier and Harvey Arden (St. Martin's Press)
· Readings from "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" by Peter Matthiessen (Penguin)

NSN 211 - November 2000
Free Leonard Peltier! (part 8)
· with Jean Day of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (Lawrence, KS)

NSN 114 - December 1998
What are the alternatives to prison?
· with Bevin Sceritt of Waseskun House (Montreal)

NSN 19 - March 1997
Norma Jean Croy
· with Bernadette Sombrano of the Norma Jean Croy Defense Committee (San Francisco)
· Excerpts from "Shasta Woman" (video) produced by the Defense Committee

NSN 236 - May 2001
The Eddie Hatcher story
· with Caitlen Cruz (Watertown, NY)

NSN 179 - March 2000
Reining in the Saskatoon police
· with Lawrence Joseph of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (Saskatoon)

NSN 198 - August 2000
Systemic abuse in Australia's prisons
· with Murray Jones of the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (Perth, Australia)


WE ARE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

NSN 187 - May 2000
270 plus 10 years of Mohawk resistance in Quebec (part 1)
· with Marie David, Denise David, and Ellen Gabriel of the Kanehsatake Spiritual Gathering and Traditional Powwow

NSN 87 - June 1998
Why was Dudley George killed at Ipperwash? (part 2)
· with Pierre George (Stoney Point, Ontario)

NSN 121 - February 1999
What was Gustafsen Lake all about? (part 5)


ELSEWHERE ON THE SOVEREIGNTY FRONT

NSN 209 - October 2000
Why run for office?
· with Winona LaDuke of the Green Party (Minnesota)

NSN 112 - December 1998
It's not my border!
· with gkisedtanamoogk (Burnt Church, N.B.)


ENOUGH EXPLOITING THE EARTH!

NSN 136 - June 1999
Shell sets Nigeria on fire
· with Chief M.A.M. Tornwe III J.P. of MOSOP - Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (Edmonton)

NSN 86 - June 1998
The Cambior Guyana gold mine disaster (part 2)
· with Dermod Travis of the Guyana Legal Defense Fund (Montreal)

NSN 204 - September 2000
No more clearcutting the Algonquins of Barrière Lake!
· with Geneviève Saumier and Roberto Nieto of the Mexico Solidarity Network (Montreal)

NSN 111 - December 1998
Nuclear fuel's cycle of destruction (part 1)
· with Priscilla Settee of the Indigenous Women's Network (Saskatoon)

NSN 170 - January 2000
Nuclear fuel's, cycle of destruction (part 2)
· with Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Defense Project (Crescent Valley, NV)

NSN 107 - November 1998
What do they want from the Innu? (part 3)
· with Gerry Pascal of the International Campaign for the Innu and the Earth (Montreal)


LANGUAGE IS THE HEART OF THE GENERATIONS

NSN 140 - June 1999
A Hawai'ian immersion success story
· with Namaka Okalani Rawlins of the Aha Punana Leo School (Hawai'i), produced by Pierre Loiselle of CHSR Fredericton

NSN 166 - December 1999
The cycle of death and rebirth through language
· with Inee Yang Slaughter of IPOLA - Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas (Santa Fe)

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