[nativestudies-l] Tuesday on Indigenous Politics

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond
Tuesdays 4-5pm EDT/1-2pm PST/11am-12noonHST
88.1 fm - Middletown, CT
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On  Tuesday's show, December 2nd, hear a talk recently delivered by Wilma
Mankiller at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.  Her presentation was
part of a daylong conference, "The Declaration of Human Rights 60 Years
Later: A Look at Indigenous and Gender Issues."  Mankiller served as the
first woman principal chief of the Cherokee Nation who served from 1985 to
1995.   She has authored two books: Every Day is a Good Day, published by
Fulcrum Publishing in 2004, and Mankiller: A Chief and Her People,
published by St. Martin's Press in 1993.

Producer and Host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor
of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University. "Indigenous
Politics" is syndicated weekly on other Pacifica-affiliate stations: 
WNJR, 91.7 FM, "Washington & Jefferson College Radio" in Washington, PA,
and WETX-LP, 105.3 FM, "The independent voice of Appalachia," which
includes a region encompassing 12 states and 20 million people: east
Tennessee, southwest Virginia, west Kentucky, all of West Virginia, most
of Pennsylvania, south New York, west Maryland, west North Carolina, west
South Carolina, north Georgia, north Alabama, and northeast Mississippi.
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