[nativestudies-l] Tuesday on "Indigenous Politics"

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Tuesday, October 14th:

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Indigenous Politics: From Native New England, and Beyond
Tuesdays 4-5pm EDT/1-2pm PST/10-11amHST
88.1 fm, Middletown, CT
Listen online LIVE: www.wesufm.org
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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode that will focus on the
politics of Columbus Day and the Papal Bull, "Inter Caetera," of 1493 .
This decree was issued by Pope Alexander IV to Christopher Columbus by the
Roman Catholic Church on his second voyage to the Americas along with the
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which sought to establish Christian dominion
over the world and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and
seizure of their lands.  The decree, which granted rights to land
throughout North and South America to Spain, under girds much of
international law today, as well as the Doctrine of Discovery that is
enshrined in US federal Indian policy.  This program includes interviews
with Castanha - a Jibaro activist with indigenous roots in Puerto Rico-who
organized the event, and is project director of the indigenous peoples
delegation that went to the Vatican in 2000 calling for the revocation of
the 1493 papal bull "Inter Caetera."  As part of an anti-Columbus
Day event honoring Indigenous Peoples resistance, Castanha organized an
11th annual Papal Bull burning in Hawai`i.  This year's event on October
12, 2008 took place in front of the Walmart in Honolulu to bring attention
to the desecration of Native Hawaiian remains in a legal suit involving
the construction of the store. Also hear from Paulette Ka`anohi Kaleikini
who is a cultural descendant laying claim to these ancestral remains that
are currently stored in boxes under the ramp of the store due to a lawsuit
contesting their re-internment.
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Please note: this season, fresh episodes will air on the 2nd and 4th
Tuesday of each month.  In between those weeks, WESU will air encore
presentations of  selected past programs on "Indigenous Politics."
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Seasons One & Two & Three now archived online:
www.indigenouspolitics.com
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"Indigenous Politics" is now syndicated weekly on 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 13 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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J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor of American Studies
and Anthropology at Wesleyan University. For more information, see:
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/