Category: Wabanaki Windows

Wabanaki Windows 2/19/13

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice, Global effects and effects here in Maine

Key Discussion Points :

a) Global Indigenous resource issues and Environmental Justice issue how they connect

b) How both issues effect the US, Canada and Maine

c) Specific environmental projects here in Maine and their potential effects

d) What we can do to address these issues

Guests:
Sherri Mitchell esq. Penobscot Nation Tribal Member and Director of the Land Peace Foundation
Maria Girouard, Native Rights and Environmental Activist and Penobscot Nation Tribal Member

Wabanaki Windows 11/20/12

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Holidays and Native American Stereotypes

Program Topic: October and November Holidays Columbus Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month
a) What is the image of Native People projected by these holidays
b) What is the myth about Thanksgiving
c) What lessons can we learn from this

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Dr. Darren Ranco, Chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine Orono
B) Jamie Bisonnette, Chair of the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission
C ) Dr. Alex Wilson, University of Saskatchewan Canada

Wabanaki Windows 10/16/12

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Wabanaki/ State Truth and Reconciliation Commission appointments
Program Topic: Duties of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners

Key Discussion Points:
a) Historic background
b) Application process/how the commissioners will be chosen
c) The commissioners Qualifications/ job description and expectations

Guests:
A) Esther Attean
B) Arla Patch

Call In Program: No

Wabanaki Windows 8/21/12

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Duties of a Tribal Chief/ Contemporary issues of the Penobscot Nation

Key Discussion Points:
a) Chief’s oath of office
b) Past challenges
c) Penobscot Nation’s future

Guest: Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation

Call In Program: No

Wabanaki Windows 7/17/12

Host: Donna Loring
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Higher Education and issues surrounding it for Native People

*Importance of Education for Native People and their communities
*Life lessons and experiences leading to decision to seek a higher education
*Barriers faced within the educational system and being able to overcome them
*Importance of weaving native ways of thinking into educational papers and policy

Guest:
Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson, Member of the Penobscot Nation and faculty member at the University of Alberta Canada

Call In Program: No

Wabanaki Windows 6/19/12

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Wabanaki Youth writers

Program Topic: Wabanaki Youth Writers Project

Key Discussion Points:
a) History Reading Group’s writings and lessons learned
b) Poetry readings of Youth’s work
c) Suggestions to teachers of Wabanaki Youth

Guests:
gkisedtanamiook, Adjunct faculty member University of Maine
One of the Program mentors and advisers
Paul Frost Retired University of Maine faculty member
Mentor and advisor

For more information about the project contact: gkisedtanamoogk@umit.maine.edu

Resource article:
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3147 This URL should take you to an article titled Indian Education for All: Grounded in Place and Culture, published on the National Writing Project website. If the link fails, Google will not.

Wabanaki Windows 2/28/12

Program Name: Wabanaki Windows
Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Native American Holocaust in Canada and the United States

Key Discussion Points:
a) Influence of Doctrine of Discovery on the creation of residential schools
b) Genocide and it’s meaning
c) What is happening today to bring the perpetrators to justice

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Clergyman Kevin Annett

Who has spent many years researching and interviewing traumatized Native students of these schools.

Call In Program: No

Resources:
www.KevinAnnett.com
www.itccs.org
www.hiddennolonger.com (includes documentary film Unrepentant)
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

And see this Introductory video on Genocide in Canada: