[nativestudies-l] TODAY at 4pm EST: "Indigenous Politics" Radio: African-Native American Lives in Massachusetts

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond Radio
Program ~

African-Native American Lives in
Massachusetts

Tuesday, January 3, 2011 at 4-4:55pm EST on WESU, Middletown, CT
(88.1), USA

Listen online while the show airs: www.wesufm.org

Join  your host, J KÄ“haulani Kauanui, for an episode that features
Ramona  Peters (Nosapocket) and Rae Gould speaking about their historical
and  contemporary community relationships with African American
communities,  and contemporary Native identity in New England. Peters and
Gould each  gave at an event held at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and
Research  Center in conjunction with a traveling exhibit from the
Smithsonian  Insitution called “IndiVisible: African-Native American
Lives in the  Americas.”  Rae Gould, Ph.D. is a member
of the Nipmuc Nation. She has  worked for her tribe as tribal
historic preservation officer, NAGPRA  (Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act) representative  and in the service of their federal
acknowledgement efforts. She  currently holds the position of repatriation
coordinator at the  University of Massachusetts Amherst and teaches
Anthropology courses in  their Native Studies program. Ramona
Peters (Nosapocket) is from the  family of the Bear Clan—she’s
a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe  and lives in Mashpee on
Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  Peters is currently  the NAGPRA Director
for her tribe. She is a Board member of the NGO  Cultural Survival, an
international organization devoted to the  promotion and protection of
indigenous people’s human rights.

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This  show airs on WESU on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesday of each month,
and  is syndicated on these select stations: WRFN, Nashville, TN; WAZU, 
Peoria, IL; KUCR, Riverside, CA; WPKN in Bridgeport, CT and Montauk, NY; 
WNJR, in Washington, PA, WETX-LP, "The independent Voice of 
Appalachia," which broadcasts throughout the Tri-Cities region of
East  Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and northwest North Carolina; WBCR-lp
in  Great Barrington, MA and WORT in Madison, WI.

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All past episodes are archived online: www.indigenouspolitics.com.

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The producer and host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, is an
Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan
University. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the
Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity  (Duke University Press,
2008). Kauanui served on the founding steering  committee for the Native
American and Indigenous Studies Association and  is currently serving on
its inaugural council.

 



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