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Native America Calling - Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – Native in the Spotlight: Tina Kuckkahn

For more than three decades, Tina Kuckkahn‘s work has centered on supporting Native culture and the arts. The Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe citizen is the new head of the Native artist non-profit organization, the First Peoples Fund. She previously directed s’gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ: House of Welcome (The Evergreen State College Longhouse) and most recently helped build NDN Collective’s philanthropic infrastructure and grantmaking programs. She is in the process of organizing a canoe journey through the Great Lakes, retracing her ancestors’ historic migration. Tina Kuckkahn joins us as this month’s Native in the Spotlight to talk about the state of Native art, Ojibwe culture, and motorcycles.

Ernie Stevens (Photo: courtesy the Indian Gaming Association)

We’ll also look back at the life of Indian Gaming Association chairman Ernie Stevens Jr., who just walked on.

GUESTS

Tina Kuckkahn (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), president and CEO of the First Peoples Fund

Jason Giles (Muscogee), executive director of the Indian Gaming Association

Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), publisher and editor of Native News Online and Tribal Business News

 

Break 1 Music: ABE (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album)

Break 2 Music: Fancy Dance (Song) Yellow Hammer (artist) Yellow Hammer (album)

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You're Wrong About - The Auralyn with Blair Braverman

Are you a survival pessimist or a survival optimist? Blair Braverman surprises Sarah with a harrowing, heartening, and sometimes hilarious tale of love and endurance in the face of certain death, but you’ll have to listen to find out the seemingly impossible circumstances our subjects had to overcome. Digressions include Sarah’s flight simulation skills, David Goggins' morning routine, and the best way to design your character in The Oregon Trail computer game.

More Blair Braverman:

Blair's new picture book, "The Day Leap Soared"

Advice for Sarah from Blair

Blair on Instagram

More of Blair's work

More You're Wrong About:

Bonus Episodes on Patreon
Buy cute merch
YWA on Instagram

Sarah's other show, You Are Good

Support the show

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: The Forced Assimilation of Native People

For centuries the U.S. government conspired to persecute, attack and marginalize the native population. When open warfare became too expensive, some factions of the government proposed a different approach -- what if, they wondered, we erase native culture? This inspired a massive industry of forced assimilation. Thousands of children were forced into boarding schools where they were taught to act more 'European' while being abused, exploited and placed into forced labor. Tune in to learn more about the conspiracy of forced assimilation, and how its long-reaching consequences affect the country in the modern day.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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It Could Happen Here - Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel

Mia talks with CAW writer and editor Vicky Osterweil about Republican unpopularity, Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney’s history of fascism

 

Links: 

https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/

 

Sources:
https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority

https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset

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Native America Calling - Monday, September 29, 2025 – How will Native Americans fare in state-by-state redistricting push?

The action by Republican Texas lawmakers to redraw congressional voting boundaries to favor Republican candidates has clear implications for the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas. The new contorted boundaries put the tribe at least four times the distance away from their elected representative’s base of operation. The Texas move has also spurred other states to do that same and voting advocates worry about losing hard-fought ground for Native voter representation at the polls. We’ll look at what the latest potential problem areas are and how it relates to the midterm elections.

Also, we’ll talk with a New Mexico District Attorney Bernadine Martin (Diné). She is fighting to keep her job amid allegations of incompetence and misconduct. Martin is the only female Native American district attorney in the state. She says she is being unfairly targeted.

GUESTS

Cecilia Flores (Alabama-Coushatta), tribal council chairwoman of the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas

Nita Battise (Alabama-Coushatta), tribal council member of the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas

Lenny Powell (Hopland Band of Pomo Indians), Native American Rights Fund staff attorney

Daniel McCool, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Utah

Bernadine Martin (Diné), McKinley County District Attorney

 

Break 1 Music: Red Dust Rising (song) Blue Moon Marquee (artist) Scream, Holler, and Howl (album)

Break 2 Music: Fancy Dance (Song) Yellow Hammer (artist) Yellow Hammer (album)

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: A Terrifying New York Mystery, Peeing in Theaters, Pentagon Wiling Out, and More

As world leaders convene for the United Nations General Assembly, the US Secret Service uncovers a massive telecom conspiracy -- and has no idea who created it. People are out here peeing in theatres, it's Fat Beer Week as we record, and the Pentagon declares journalists must tow the party line. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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This Machine Kills - 425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)

We are joined by Thea Riofrancos — author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism — to chat about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. How do we understand a system that is oxymoronic in its contradictory nature? How do we trace the political economies, material infrastructures, and extractive industries that are in the process of defining a planetary path dependency? Why do we need to spend a lot more time thinking about lithium? With the help of Thea’s sharp analysis, we answer these questions and more. ••• Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism | Thea Riofrancos https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324036760/about-the-book ••• Thea’s work at Climate + Community Institute https://climateandcommunity.org/bio/thea-riofrancos/ ••• Thea’s recent op-eds at the FT https://www.ft.com/stream/32daf017-8140-454c-8735-9c9947edc301 Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s new book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social)
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It Could Happen Here - SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Frontline

Prop's friend, Tanjint Wiggy aka Tristian is the the elected Union negotiator for the health workers in the Inland Empire of California. We talk to him about the highs and lows of negotiating with the state, ICE raids, the jailing of David Huerta and how we can stand in solidarity with them.

@tanjint

Itsonlyempire.com 

@famlikley

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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar

Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.

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