<br><br>SEASON FOUR BEGINS THIS WEEK<br>Please note that this season, fresh episodes will air<br>on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. In between<br>those weeks, WESU will air encore presentations of <br>selected past programs on "Indigenous Politics."<br>~~~<br>Indigenous Politics: From Native New England, and Beyond<br>Tuesdays 4-5pm EDT/1-2pm PST/10-11amHST<br>88.1 fm, Middletown, CT<br>Listen online LIVE: www.wesufm.org<br>~~~<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On September 9th, join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for a</p><p class="MsoNormal"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cjkauanui%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->program that features a recent talk by Winona LaDuke, "Indigenous <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thinking about a Post Carbon, Post Empire Economy" delivered for</p><p class="MsoNormal"> the 2008
student welcome on Wednesday, September 3<sup>rd</sup> at Wesleyan <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">University
to inaugurate the new academic year.<span style=""> </span>Winona
LaDuke is <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anishinabe from the Makwa Dodaem (Bear Clan) of the Mississippi <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Band
of the White Earth reservation in northern <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:state></st1:place>. LaDuke is <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">the author of the novel
<em>Last Standing Woman</em> (1997), the non-fiction <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">book <em>All our Relations:
Native Struggles for Land and Life</em> (1999), <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">and <em>Recovering the Sacred:
the Power of Naming and Claiming</em> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">(2005), a book about traditional beliefs
and practices.<span style=""> </span>She is the <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Executive
Director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">with Indigo Girls
in 1993. The Native-led organization's mission is "to create <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">awareness and
support for Native environmental issues and to develop <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">needed financial and
political resources for the survival of sustainable <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Native communities. Honor
the Earth develops these resources by using <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">music, the arts, the media, and
Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">our joint dependency on the Earth
and be a voice for those not heard."
</p><p class="MsoNormal">~~~<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">This is part one of a two-part episode. Part-two will feature an interview</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">of LaDuke by Kauanui, which will air on Tuesday, September 23rd.<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">~~~</span><br>Seasons One & Two & Three now archived online:<br>www.indigenouspolitics.com<br>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>"Indigenous Politics" is now syndicated weekly on <st1:city w:st="on">Pacifica</st1:city>-affiliate station<br>105.3
FM--WETX-LP, "The independent voice of <st1:place w:st="on">Appalachia</st1:place>" each Thursday<br>at 8pm (EDT).<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>