WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) and Museums
Program Topic:THPO duties
Key Discussion Points:
a) Duties as Museum Educator
b) Mystic Museum, Pequot Museum, Bangor Historical and Abbe
c) Various Programs and projects
Guests: Jennifer Pictou, Member Aroostook Band of Micmacs and Tribal THPO
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Current issues fro the Penobscot Nation and the Wabanaki Tribes in Maine
Program Topic: Present Tribal State Relations
Key Discussion Points:
a) History of current controversial issues
b) A discussion of the River Case, Elvers Issue, CDC case
c) Involvement of the AG/What should we do?
Guest: Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Indian Nation
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Program Topic: Cultural Historic Preservation Projects for the Penobscot Nation
Key Discussion Points:
a) Tribal Preservation Officer’s responsibilities
b) Preserving old Photos and Stories that go with them
c) Recreation of the Ancient Tribal Chief’s Cuffs and Collar and headdress and their meaning.
Guests:
James Francis, Director of the Cultural Historic Preservation Department/Penobscot
Chris Sockalexis, Tribal Preservation Officer
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: National level issues
Program Topic: Major issues facing the Penobscot Nation on a National level
Key Discussion Points :
a) Background of Federal/ State and Land Claims of the Penobscot Nation
b) Efforts to improve the self- determination of the tribe
c) Maine Indian Land Claims controversial issues
d) Federal Indian Law is not being applied in Maine
Guest:
Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Program Topic: Update of TRC project and International implications
Key Discussion Points :
What has happened since Oct 16,2012
How visible is this project on an international level
Is Genocide accurate in describing what happened to Native people in the US?
How can we be allies?
Guests:
Esther Attean, Passamaquoddy Tribal Member/Staff member for Muskie Institute and a convening member of the Tribal/State Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Bennett Collins, Research Assistant, University of St. Andrews Scotland, writing a research paper about the Wabanaki TRC process with Professor Alison Watson and Professor Sioban McEvoy-Levy to be presented at the International Studies Association Conference In Toronto Canada next year.
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Historic Novel Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Program Topic: Abandoned and Homeless Children from 1854-1929
Key Discussion Points :
a) Children were boarded on trains and sent west to live with adopted families for labor or to be part of the family but most of the children were adopted to work on the family farms etc.
b) Thousands of children were sent out west without any contact or communication with their birth parents, mostly as a result of parental loss or neglect.
c) Majority of Children were Irish Immigrants
d) Christina Baker Kline talks about writing and some ways to put your ideas on paper
Guest:
A) Christina Baker Kline is a Novelist, her book Orphan Train was on the NY Times Best Seller List for six weeks and in the USA Today best seller list for over twenty weeks
To find out more about Christina Baker Kline you can go to the following sites:
http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/christina-baker-kline
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Economic equality
Program Topic: Major issues facing the Penobscot Nation in the area of economic progress
Key Discussion Points :
a) Background of economic state of the Penobscot Nation
b) Efforts to improve the economic condition of the tribe
c) Gaming as the biggest and most controversial issue
d) Gaming in Maine today and where are the tribal interests
Guest: Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Program Topic: Poems written by Wabanaki youth
Key Discussion Points :
a) Cultural differences in expression
b) Teachers need to understand the differences
c) Wabanki youth write from a different perspective
d) Teachers need to be open to learn other ways of learning and writing
Guests:
Roger Paul, Teacher at Indian Island School and the University of Maine, Malanie Ruark, Teacher at Old Town High School, Students Kahlan Newsom, Sarah Fields