Federal Court Considers Major Challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act
This week, a panel of three federal judges in the 5th Circuit court of appeals will hear oral arguments about whether the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is unconstitutional. The law, passed in 1978,...
View ArticleReligious Liberty at Stake in Native American Lawsuit
The Ramapough Lenape Nation has used a parcel of land it owns in Mahwah, New Jersey for religious ceremonies for generations, but the gated community next door have taken issue with the noise and...
View ArticleDespite Criticism, Atlanta Braves Are Resistant to Change
Last night, the Atlanta Braves were eliminated from the Major League Baseball postseason but not without some controversy.Less than a week ago, Ryan Helsley, a rookie pitcher for their opponent, the...
View ArticleHow the Alcatraz Occupation of 1969 Sparked the Native American Civil Rights...
Fifty years ago this month, a group of Native American activists launched a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. They were protesting the government’s mistreatment of...
View ArticleDegrees Of Change: How Native American Communities Are Addressing Climate...
How Native American Communities Are Addressing Climate ChangeIndigenous peoples are one of the most vulnerable communities when it comes to the effects of climate change. This is due to a mix of...
View ArticleThe Border Wall Could Cut Native Tribes in Half
Last week, the Pentagon announced it is transferring $3.8 billion from various weapons programs to pay for President Trump’s border wall. Meanwhile, construction for that wall in Arizona is damaging...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Film Festival: 'Gather'
Director Sanjay Rawal discusses his documentary “Gather,”which explores the indigenous food sovereignty movement across North America. The film is available to stream June 11th through June 20th as...
View ArticleBreaking Down the McGirt Decision
Rebecca Nagle, journalist, Cherokee Nation citizen and host of the Crooked podcast This Land, joins us to discuss the Supreme Court's McGirt decision.
View ArticleTommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich
Tommy Orange joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Years of My Birth,” by Louise Erdrich, which appeared in a 2011 issue of the magazine. Orange’s first novel, “There There,” was published in...
View Article[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett
As a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer joins science’s ability to “polish the art of seeing” with her personal, civilizational lineage of listening to plant life...
View ArticleRecapping RNC Day 1; The Latino Vote in 2020; Conservative Activists, Trump...
Coming up on today's show: David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times and the author of The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019), discusses the first night of speeches...
View ArticleFrom Environment to Missing and Murdered Women and Girls: What Matters to...
This summer, the Supreme Court stunned advocates when it ruled that the United States must recognize the eastern half of Oklahoma as tribal territory, siding with Native groups.Already hit with...
View ArticleHow To Honor Indigenous Peoples Day and Italian Heritage Too
In a pluralistic society, can we honor people from our history who some consider a hero, and others consider a genocidal monster?On Today's Show:The Mellon Foundation plans to re-imagine monuments over...
View Article152 — Winona LaDuke—First Born Daughter
For Winona LaDuke the best part of running for Vice President in 1996 and 2000 on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nadar was meeting so many people who really want to see a democracy that works—who...
View Article[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett
The U.S. election will be over soon but this year has surfaced deep human challenges that remain our callings — and possibilities for growth — for the foreseeable future. So this week and next, we’re...
View ArticleWhat Deb Haaland's Appointment Would Mean for Native Americans
Julian Brave NoiseCat, vice president of policy and strategy with Data for Progress, narrative change director of the Natural History Museum, and a fellow of the Type Media Center, NDN Collective, and...
View ArticleCOVID-19 News Update; What Haaland's Appointment Would Mean for Native...
Coming up on today's show:Dara Kass, MD, emergency medicine physician at Columbia University Medical Center and Yahoo News medical contributor, talks about the latest numbers and the latest on vaccine...
View ArticleBL Weekend: Deb Haaland; Delivery Workers; Down Syndrome Disappearing
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.What Deb Haaland's Appointment Would Mean for Native Americans (First) | Food Delivery Workers Are Demanding Better Treatment. Will...
View ArticleAmerica Are We Ready for the First 100 Days?: Native American Tribal...
Airing LIVE Thursday, March 4th, 8-9pm ET.Join the national conversation with host Brian Lehrer as the Biden/Harris administration starts its work. President Biden’s nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D,...
View ArticleCan Biden Repair The Nation-To-Nation Relationship With Tribal Communities?
President Biden’s nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D, NM) to be Secretary of the Interior would put a Native American (Laguna Pueblo) in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the first time ever...
View Article[Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett
Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire...
View Article"This Land" Tackles Potential Threat to the Indian Child Welfare Act
This month marks the season two debut of the award-winning, documentary podcast “This Land” which is produced by Crooked media. Host Rebecca Nagle will join us to discuss the new season which centers...
View ArticleThe Two Lives of Asa Carter
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter, is an iconic best-selling book, with a message about living in...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Give Away Our DNA?
Just as the Navajo researcher Rene Begay started to fall in love with the field of genetics, she learned that the Navajo Nation had banned all genetic testing on tribal land. Now she is struggling to...
View ArticleThey Didn’t Call Themselves Pilgrims and Other Actual Thanksgiving Stories
This Thanksgiving, we wanted to bust some of the myths surrounding the holiday's origin, and the lessons we can learn from the real story.On Today's Show:Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much...
View ArticleIndigenous Children are Overrepresented in Minnesota's Foster Care System...
Indigenous Children are Overrepresented in Minnesota's Foster Care SystemOver the course of eight months, Jessica Washington, a reporter with the Fuller Project spoke with Native families, lawyers, and...
View ArticleNative American Activist Leonard Peltier Pleads from Prison Amid Pandemic
For the past 45 years, Leonard Peltier has been behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit. The Native American activist was accused of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on Pine Ridge...
View Article[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett
Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a...
View ArticleThe Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New...
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise a Thanksgiving performance that’s respectful of Native peoples, historically accurate (while not too...
View ArticleThe Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New...
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise a Thanksgiving performance that’s respectful of Native peoples, historically accurate (while not too...
View ArticleChange Is Coming To Schools With Native 'Mascots' and Team Names
Many school districts across the country choose to represent themselves using mascots that dehumanize native cultures and derive pride from harmful stereotypes about them.On Today's Show:John Kane,...
View ArticleThey Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare agencies that separate mothers from their newborns....
View ArticleA New Collection of Lenape Folklore
A new collection of Lenape folklore contains some stories published together in a book for the first time. Camilla Townsend, a professor of history at Rutgers, and Nicky Kay Michael, Interim President...
View ArticleJoan Baez on New Doc 'I Am A Noise'; Grounded in Clay; Indigenous Americans...
The new documentary, "Joan Baez I Am A Noise," follows the legendary singer-songwriter on her farewell tour while exploring her decades-long career of music and activism. Joan Baez joins us, and takes...
View ArticleReservation Dogs' Sterlin Harjo
This September, the groundbreaking FX series "Reservation Dogs," which focused on a group of indigenous teenagers living in Oklahoma, came to a close. Writer, director, and executive producer Sterlin...
View ArticleSterlin Harjo's Reservation Dogs; How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe;...
[REBROADCAST FROM Sept. 27, 2023] This September, the groundbreaking FX series "Reservation Dogs," which focused on a group of indigenous teenagers living in Oklahoma, came to a close. Writer,...
View ArticleLenape Folklore In One Comprehensive Collection
[REBROADCAST FROM Oct 5, 2023] A new collection of Lenape folklore contains some stories published together in a book for the first time. Camilla Townsend, a professor of history at Rutgers, and Nicky...
View ArticleJUNO-Winning William Prince's New Album
[REBROADCAST FROM May 3, 2023] Canadian and Peguis First Nation singer-songwriter William Prince created his latest album, Stand in the Joy, with the help of country super-producer Dave Cobb. The...
View ArticleThe Native Americans Who Witnessed A 'Savage' Europe
[REBROADCAST FROM Oct 9, 2023] A new book flips the narrative of "discovery" on its head, and investigates the history of the first Indigenous Americans to arrive in Europe, what their lives were like,...
View ArticleAbigail Echo-Hawk On The Importance Of Indigenous Data
Abigail Echo-Hawk, the director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, shares updates on her longstanding work to gather data on missing and murdered Indigenous women, and discusses how accurate metrics...
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[Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett
The Oglala Lakota poet. “I wanted as much as possible to avoid this nostalgic portraiture of a Native life.” The reward and joy of patience. The difference between guilt, shame, and freedom from...
View ArticleWarren's DNA Test Perpetuates Stereotypes, Native Communities Say
In a video released this week, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren backed up her long contested claim that she has Native American ancestry, with results from a DNA test and a telling of...
View ArticleMonumental Lies
Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” We team up...
View ArticleWhat the Deerfield Massacre Represents in US History
After discussing the new adaptation of his book Manhunt, author and historian James L. Swanson sticks around to talk about his new book, The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and...
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