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116 Yellowstone bison relocated to Fort Peck Indian Reservation

The National Park Service and the Animal and Plant Inspection Service moved 116 Yellowstone National Park bison to Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar.The re

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Fort Peck tribes receives $5M grant for bison conservation

Fort Peck Indian Reservation received a four-year $5 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for bison conservation.The funding will also b

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Maryland SPCA Pet of the Week

Today the Maryland SPCA brought in Cree!She is a 9 and a half year old Terrier and American Pitbull mix.Cree lives happily with kids, other pets and she's hou

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Montana Dept. of Commerce enrolls 13 native students to production assistant program

The Montana Department of Commerce in partnership with AcclerateMT has enrolled 13 tribal students into the Production Assistant media training and certificatio

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Saginaw unveils Native American Land Acknowledgement Marker on National Indigenous Peoples Day

The City of Saginaw, in partnership with the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculputure Museum, hosted a special unveiling of a new Native American Land Acknowledgement

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Air Quality Alert issued for the area through Wednesday morning

(Undated)--The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an Air Quality Alert through Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. for most of western Minnesota. Officials say that the Air Quality Index (AQI)

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Upper Sioux police looking for missing woman

(St. Paul, MN) -- The Upper Sioux Community Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in locating 35-year-old Helene Weatherwax. She was seen on July 15th at a family residence

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Missing woman found

(St. Paul, MN) -- A woman from The Upper Sioux Community who had been reported missing has been found, safe. The Upper Sioux Community Police Department has requested the public’s

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Let's explore the indigenous. Is a singer who is preserving her language through music her 2017 e.p. Which combined. With traditional throat singing. For best radio single at the Indigenous Music Awards and indigenous artist of the year at the Western Canadian Music Awards continues to showcase culture and her own stories of life love in connection with her $21000.00 debut album. Leg. Was. out was. That's a tribe called Red in collaboration with Texas d.j. . And black bear the song combines their signatures genre bending sound with l. Dusty's Southern coon be a influence with the powerful Powell vocals of black bear that was tunnel. Adrian Sutherland from the band to midnight shine with politician man what you say from once a tree and we opened with music from. I'm your host Alexis silly and you're listening to him. The latest in indigenous music this week we're chatting with vocalist and mc from Squamish Washington Cleena Lawrence growing up on the port Madison Indian reservation she. Took a Lishka new journeys every year with the music of her culture at the beginning of her path as an artist now based out of San Francisco Her debut album epicenter was released in 2018 exemplifying her soulful voice and passion for uplifting younger generations we caught up with Cleena Lawrence at her home in Sequoia Miche What is the community like how would you describe the people out here there's definitely a communal sense and so common that has been passed on for generations it is a really beautiful place to grow up and participate in culture participate in sports and to spend time with each other we try to have as many yearly events that we can have just based off of different maybe different holidays or different seasons it has a complex amount of time and makes I guess would you say that the cultural roots here are strong. I think that we have really come to a time where we're being tested and the reason I say that is we're still trying to find our ground from the generational and historical trauma that has occurred in so many different places in especially here in the Northwest are a canoe culture our sailors culture wasn't really revived until the late ninety's and so were kind of a couple of decades into really grounding ourselves in like finding a way to bring our 2 worlds together and we go through seasons of people who are able to step up and carry the songs and carry the teachings and teaching our younger generations so we still have a lot of work to do in like their areas of our language we have a few people who are working on preserving and teaching the language and we have more and more people becoming interested in just leaning on culture for healing right you know in any indigenous community who is always trying to find that line between our colonised selves that have to go to war again can't always be as active culturally as we wish to be and those who are really trying to focus on spreading and strengthening our cultures so we have a rich culture therefore they have opportunity to I think expand and embrace it that you know last night you talked a lot about your history in the foster system how do you feel like that experience has really changed who you are in your experiences today and the messages you put out there. Well I had a really really really challenging and traumatic childhood because of that for most of my childhood I was very guarded I didn't have a lot of outlet to process through the trauma that I had gone through and also just the anxiety of separation from my parents and from my siblings not really knowing how to convey that and so so I had to learn how to can textual lies my struggle the reason that I had to do that in my opinion was survival right because as many people who have grown up in that reality have experiences like not just why me but why am I not worthy or why why is the substance of choice for my parents more important than being present in my life in those are the types of questions that I asked myself growing up that I never always had answers to so growing up in the foster care system is definitely a huge part of my identity and it's also a testament to me because one of the things that I had to figure out was I could either make decisions and learn from them and or I could learn from other people's decisions and I think that that was one of the things that I got to do too in a way that was like I was able to see what I wanted for myself and what I didn't want for myself and trying to do that in a nonjudgmental way but in a way that was saying Ok I see the consequences of those decisions and I don't want those for myself and always giving myself like autonomy in what I chose to like focus my time and energy on. Vocalist and mc Collina Lawrence joins us today this is her track generations. Thing. And where you. Live and Harriet there's nothing. In. The movement that is. Expressed. The words of the silent. So tell us about this track generations so generations came to life through Actually this social media campaign that was started by my friend Joey Montoya he is the founder of urban native area which is based out of San Francisco we're trying to figure out creative ways to implement our indigenous teachings which in many of our indigenous cultures thinking of future generations in the decisions that we make now is crucial and necessary and what we see in a lot of us culture and Colonial society is a lack of thinking of what decisions that are going to be made are not including what could possibly take place for people 2 or 3 generations down the road and so how do we use the different our media that we have to reach out to those who might not know right what the depth of that type of actually like very profound thought is thinking of generations that are coming next then our ancestors and our leaders have always spoken about that and you know you can go back in history and you can read she Seattle speech are the words of other chiefs in different regions and all of them speak to that so the hash tag was think of the generations and a lot of us were contributing like what does it mean to think of generations ahead of us when we decide to build the pipeline doesn't have to be that simple but what can we do now that will impact them in a way that strengthens their identity I took that actual hash tag think of the generations and I played with it like melodically and I'm like I think they're going to really make a song to this to see. Be to it and why we're making it such a big deal to think about young people is because this is going to be their country when we're gone and it's going to be their kids kids country when they're gone so think of the generations who will inherit this nation and not only that but what are their thoughts on the decisions were making right are they in the room when we're making these decisions on a policy level and just on a household level in a classroom school setting their input matters we've been kind of conditioned to think of youth as being naive and they don't have enough life experience to know what they're talking about when that's entirely false I think that's like one of the biggest myths that exist in our society and a lot of times they're underestimated but in my experience of working with youth that's where so much brilliance is that's where so many social movements have started is with young people so I came up with the and I was living with my peer who went to university with me and also a sister in the struggle we were saying that our apartment in Oakland and she has a 14 year old daughter who at the time when I shared the hook with her I think she was 12 or 13 and I was saying it's her and I said you're going to be on this song and she's like No I'm not ready and I'm like yes you are because she was like really coming into her voice as a singer and also as a poet but I was like you got a rap you have to rap with me so she was pretty shy at 1st but she's also very she's very outspoken she's very capable of saying exactly how she feels and she knows everything systemically that has impacted marginalized. Eddies and a verse is pretty oppressors is so she elevated the song in a way that I mean I knew but I had no idea what she was really going to do with it I set out to make this song with every intention to amplify her voice and actually make it really not about me I think that song was really about her her name is De a by the way. But her stage name is day and she. She did it by beyond expectations and fall I had to do is give one verse to one young person and watch that grow and watch that blossom However she envisioned that for herself like regardless of what I would like for her to do and that's kind of what it comes down to so generations was my introduction to I think hip hop culture as an established artist Ray is the 1st verse that Iroh it was a newer kind of sound Collina Lawrence joins us today we've got more conversation and music coming up from her so stay tuned Check out in did you find music on Instagram or find us on Facebook to keep up to date on your favorite indigenous music if you heard a song earlier in the show didn't catch the name or who the artist was you can find a full playlist of today's show at in did you fight dot org stick around after the break we've got a lot more music ahead I'm Alexa Salie and you're listening to indigent 5 brought to you by native voice one. Thank you for listening to and. We're back with our featured artists this week Collina Lawrence featuring Deseret heart Don't count me out. But. Religion. Can be a. Small business in. Israel . These things are going. To. Transcend the physical plane still. Giving people. Some good. Leadership. To turn. Against the World. And the lives. Of. The global for. The strength inside the truth of the self. We're joined by Colleen a Laurence today tell us about this song Don't count me out it was really interesting because I had started that verse like when I 1st wrote that 1st it was way completely different in a structured way differently it was actually less personal but more focused on the systemic ways that we are set up to live that reality right and I focused my lyrics a lot on both like self accountability and how were responsible in our own ways to make those decisions but it's also important to recognize the ways we've been set up systemically to be put in the positions that we are in contemporary Indigenous communities but as I really sat with it more and more I sat with the hook right no more surviving it's time to thrive I thought about the ways that I've always not just tried to survive but I've actually chosen survival instead of choosing to thrive when I registered to me that I didn't have to accept the ways that society usually abandons foster children or the ways that we are let down that often times are beyond repair and so I was able to dive deeper into the verse from a more personal perspective and say these are all the things that I've been through that could have easily defeated me but I also have that self will and the choices to not accept that here's another one off her album epicenter from Katrina Lawrence this is assimilate. Native. Language then man then. Values don't work too well the English and show restraint will. Just start. Just stops and when will men through the. Justice must come to think you refused to. Play. Traditions will never seem liason No we are not gone these English words are just. Come to. Transform we are the children of those lines you could. Read and reason to. Read. So in a simile I include words from like the definition of a simile in the dictionary and then are also tired to like the actions Our taken against our people in order to enforce assimilation the direct attack is our language like the fact that we're speaking English as our 1st language so then we see the world in English and that already is like the main contribution to controlling our identity in a lot of ways and so I think that I'm going to be able to kind of use that frustration as motivation to 2 other people who are still trying to can text your lies their struggle to it's less of an uplifting song and more of just like Ok we see through the tactic we see through the strategy so just know that we we understand that and also we're not going to succumb to that right and in that song too I talk about the youth and how native people have resisted the negative impacts of colonialism since the inception of not just our country but since this whole entire continent has been invaded and what does that mean to have the young people who went through the boarding school heiress the boarding school trama and our languages still came through that our songs still live on our cultural teachings we stay for the most part still have access to because there had to have been some young people who were like Ok I'm going to learn English because I know I need to what I'm not going to forget in the hour. Lot of instances where our culture our ceremonies like went underground for a while or they had to shift in order to fit the definition of colonial religion an organized religion like we found ways to preserve and also still adapt in order to survive our ancestors did that so I also talk in the song about not just knowing what assimilation is but now we're also deliberately choosing not to and not only are we not assimilating in the same ways but were like being very proactive in indigenous ing different areas of our lives to so assimilate I think is going to be a track on my album that will resonate with people and I think it's also going to be a different side of me that's going to kind of tap into just really revealing that irony that exists in our country Yeah it's a great song I want to give you an opportunity as someone who has overcome so much and their life is a message you have for you through people that might be struggling out there so for people who are shuddering you know 1st and foremost I'm very sorry for that it's not easy to watch someone go through a hard time but at the same time I know that you're only going to gain so much knowledge and so much strength through that heartache and near building your resilience and you're also building on to the resilience of your ancestors and the people who came before you who have also sacrificed and really pushed through times when they might not have wanted to so not to be afraid of the information that comes with the struggles and not to be afraid of the act of feeling because that's what makes us human. That's a quote vocalist and mc Collini Lawrence you can follow her on Instagram at Collina Lawrence or her website Collina Lawrence dot com for a full playlist of today's show go to and did you fight dot org There you'll find more information on today's featured artist more music on the way we've got tracks from Tara Williamson Rezko strip is and is square now music from Anishinaabe a Oneida hip hop artist Tall Paul in this track he pays homage to indigenous n.f.l. Hall of Famer Jim Thorpe who he looked up to as a youth and helped him aspire to achieve greatness this is someone great who looked like me. There came a sound machine reminiscent everything was so Thomas saying that he was a bubble with change that appears to bend it in the not what you see the day when I'm proud about the status that Dad degree that I just based on the job with the spoken up side is nice to Jim to open on the back of the beast to get the paper like the stock a piece of the snake a ball on the likeness a plea. Because the best the piece that was the victim up of feet was somewhat of a man among the last the beasts are going to from a feast like a full gamut see Jim Thorpe isn't in the public not to speak of a scene is black and white I'm told it's my life you know but it's cheesy but the longest season I was such a senior like. I was that you could see the same by the D.V.D.'s given me I just needed someone playing like me seem to. Think that with the dicks in a comic like this I'm involved in the case of the blood. On the gas so Bobby 10 am saying this in the days of the good people. To the people to do great animated playing which way to steal the bus the dentist say that one got to keep one of the. Songs you want to now because even though we've done without knowing most of that just about what they never said about them now. With Tyson Jackson enjoyed it in many of the places on top of that identity crisis I'm not even spotless I mean he is my life is young made of no one what I was told no one must decide it was out you didn't have a date a couple weeks to think it's wrong Mr What is this about the foster home is the modern day. Ended in a stalemate you know the men a Back Home Depot it's a good life from us I'm a dog. That if we get like a white kid some time we just missed it in the streets a bit about the ability for a start the great versatility if you don't go to the games because the k. Is not the send a big competition can you rest. 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Thing I was that you would see the same by getting them in media gift even on the bench if the Honestly to someone who are you going to do it you could be Monument Valley of thing that was the kitchen of God like back in the me in the individual is like she is not there would not be so down to the store be to me when I'm on the gas so Bob just empty Mr know they'd come like you would be putting money to join clubs not it would be a good thing for me to do right now to dish out a way to when it's going to start make them a stink no one got to be difficult if you want to be nice Should we. You because. You had me went around you fink I was on your. Feet singing songs. For you. Wind. John. Just. To tell. You are you gonna trip baby you. Really. 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This week from Superman. Small time Giants Alisa p. Boogie the beach and Simon Lynch also speak with pocket frailing our featured artist. I'm Alexa Salit inviting you to stay with us. From her Olympic gold Olympic gold the Olympics the Olympics the list the Olympic. Gold. Lynette Music from Rita off her album tattoo an album that features songs all sung in her native Nick took language before that we heard heart beats a broken heart from Greenlanders small time Giants Super Man with his single why and we opened with a mix of frailties from initial knob a singer songwriter Ansley Simpson that's off her album break wall I'm Alexa Salit And you're listening to earth songs the latest in modern indigenous music this week we're speaking with our guest Palko frailing thank you for being with us all thanks for having me Yeah absolutely and you know give us a little history on yourself as an artist I know this is your debut album or listening to today but you know tell us how you got to this point in your life when did you start creating music well at the age of 5 started taking piano lessons fortune enough to have parents that really promoted music my dad was very active musician and saw they set me up with piano lessons from 5 till age 13 I remember when I was younger started writing a few songs and nothing serious but you know I remember playing around with that idea and then I had 4 years as a violin and kind of took a break from age 13 to $16.00 wanted to step away from classical music and so I took a couple year break and when I was 16 I started playing out with my dad and I picked up the bass guitar and that was my 1st introduction really playing out live and just fell in love with it and so today as we mentioned we're playing music from your debut album Letting Go tell us about this album title in where the name comes from. About a year and a half ago I was doing a 40 fast spiritual fast and a lot of messages came surrounding the theme of letting go and it was about letting go of things that were weighing me down personally and spiritually so other doors would open up my last child was moving out of the home and going to college and that was a milestone in rewarding but difficult at the same time for me so I saw things surrounding that involved letting him go and holding things back that might be beautiful in the moment can actually cause him to wither you don't allow them to go and I thought more about letting our loved ones go and it's their time to walk around and even ourselves walking on money give our final breath to The Creator and walk on so it was kind of a full circle message for me and so that's one of the main songs on this album for me and wanted to include then pedal but also just letting things go has helped me free up time for music at this point in my life and music brings a lot of healing to me and hopefully to other people listening to this and this album you know there are some subjects you hit on this far is alcoholism homelessness and via mental activism there are some subjects you like to touch on on this album why was it important to include these in this album for you. Well most of the songs in the album are pieces of me they were inspired by dreams or relationships that I had most There's very few songs I've written about 24 songs and there be 12 of them on this 1st cd most of them are coming from a deep connection at some level memory a dream that I've had and so I kind of feel like that's where some of my strongest songs and messages come from and each one of them was had a different point in my life what was going on then so I kind of write him as they come to me. Well you know let's get into the album. Joins us this week for his debut album Letting go this is woman in water. As our featured artist this week on earth songs we just heard women in water tell us about this track. Well this is actually one of the highlights of my career so far was the song and getting to record it with Michael butcher I'm sure you know Michael butcher he's a great musician and he's been off for a little while due to his accident but I had the fortune of playing with him at a show in 2014 November I believe and we really hit it off with each other and struck up a friendship and then I lost touch with them a little bit not knowing that he had had an accident and lost some fingers and so that put him out of music for a while so when I realized that I reached out to a woman and I said Mike we should write a song someday you know and not sure where that was going to go but I threw it out there and maybe a year went by and all sudden one day I got an email from almost half of a song and this idea and it had a nice melody put to it and so I really put my heart into it and where the next week or 2 wrote the other half to the song and it's because another probably 5 or 6 months but we finally went to the studio and recorded it and thought it turned out as great we're both very concerned about the water and that fact that's where we met was a woman a water symposium in the quarter a reservation we've connected on a lot of environmental issues like Standing Rock and things like that so we're very concerned about protecting the water and understand the spiritual aspects of the water so this song you know helps promote that message and you work with other artists in creating the music on this album yeah it's it's kind of a full band sound most of us songs for example on women in water Mike was playing guitar and vocals along myself I was playing some native flute band cable on the drums and Charlie Strong in the bass and this particular song was produced at the White House Productions by Marty taken and myself in months. Palko frailing joins us today we've got more music coming up from him and we'll be right back to continue our conversation visit with songs music on Instagram or find us on Facebook to keep up to date on your favorite indigenous music if you heard a song earlier in the show and didn't catch the name or who the artist was you can find a full playlist of today's show at songs dot net stick around after the break we've got a lot more music ahead I'm Alexis Salie and you're listening to earth songs brought to you by native voice one. Thank you for listening to earth songs I'm Alexis Salie We're back with our featured artist this week Palko Frey like from his album Letting go this is where were you. A. That's where were you off the album Letting Go tell us about the song well where were you was inspired by a dream they have in 2008 of Walter percent he was a native activist from Redcliffe reservation in Wisconsin I believe you are tribe I'm from elect viable tribe and Ojibwe we're going through a challenging period at that time politically and he came to me during those difficult times with some messages and I had never really been a so-called activist but he was showing me things ahead of time and I took it to heart and became more involved in trying to protect a tribe lot of things transpired around those dreams and one of them was somebody dropped a cd off of my dental office his full time and it said my codes on it and I didn't know if we dropped it off or what it meant plenty of time to look at it long story short I came to realize that Walter besets name was Macoutes the spirit name and it was the story about Walter set in some of his political speeches he gave in one was said to protect their earth gathering and he was talking about someday our grandchildren are going to be able to rise up and start asking questions like Where were you when they poisoned my rivers where were you when I can eat the fish no more and he said we will be too feeble to run we're running out of time and so I took all of those emotions and I remembered the words from that speech and what I had seen in my dreams and put it together in this song you know that kind honors Walter beset and all the work that he did protect the Earth mining in the Lake Superior so to carry on his legacy a bit and also to carry on his message through the song it as were you when they damn the rivers were you when I can eat the fish no more it's a song that I guess it would be a political folk song but with a native contemporary thing. Yeah this is a great track and so who would you say are some of your influences when you are working in music or when you started creating your own music who were some of your major influences Well of course my dad he's been my number one influence musically and I grew up with music in the house even when I was in a woman before I could play I was always surrounded by music so when I was 5 and he started me on piano lessons I realized they could play by ear and I could play hundreds of songs that I had already put in my memory bank like Brian Stone cowboy and things like that just because of being surrounded by me Dad but then I guess I was older country way on Jennings Johnny Cash will hate beard when Nelson those trying to songs and when I got into college start of us into playing more Harry tape in Don McLean and things like that and a little bit of everything at that point well you definitely hear those influences in your music yeah and I say lately I actually try not to listen to a lot of radio because artistically I want to try to be original and ironically what comes out I mean it's not that we don't Jenning songs and classic country songs that I really love that it doesn't seem to be what comes out of me in fact I never quite know what's going to come out of me I just let it flow. Exactly yeah well let's check out another one from the album like joins us this week this one's called homeless man. 2 2 2 long. Live is a much better it's a rainy night. In the city. That's homeless man from Palko félix are featured artists this week on earth songs he joins us today as we check out some music from his debut album letting go So what's the story behind this track. Well in 2016 in March as visiting my daughter out in Seattle and we were walking around downtown I was just taken aback by how many homeless people were on the streets and I used to sing that in northern Wisconsin I think partly the climate is more conducive to it there but I just felt heartbroken at how many people where I was taking it all in there was a man I remember he's carrying everything he owns backpack and he had to pack it all up because he didn't know what park bench he was going to be sleeping on the next night and I watched him as he had to pack everything up and I remember all the signs and this one sign said I feel invisible and I would try to give a little money as they couldn't but I watch most people they would not even take time to make eye contact with those people during our stay there there was a homeless man that claimed this 4 story tree and he stayed up there for over 24 hours in protest and he caused quite a disturbance to the traffic flow and actually was on national t.v. But he finally did come down safely and what the end result was they filed a restraining order against him in the tree so I thought they missed the mark on our last night there we went out to a really nice restaurant and we left there with a dog you beg and one of the ladies we were with have a doggy bag so we walked out of the restaurant and there was a black person that came out of the left in the darkness and if they reached out to his hands it looked like a worn leather gloves I had never seen hands that look like that and all these mental images and motions were collecting in me and that night I went to bed and I could tell it was a song trying to come out and by 2 30 in the morning I finally got up and by 530 morning a wrote the song homeless man had a way to get back to Wisconsin to play at the you know the guitar but I had 4 minute song in my head so it's a really beautiful song. Yeah well some of the songs that we listen to today are you know it seems like your indigenous culture plays a part in your songwriting you know is it important for you to share your native roots in your music oh yeah definitely my father's non-native my mother's native I grew up off the reservation but close to it and it was until I was 37 now I'm 49 that I started waking up spiritually in my native roots kicked in and I started having lots of vivid dreams and it really changed of course in your life and put me on a more spiritual path that has changed my music it's changed the reasons for man music it's definitely part of who I am and I don't just write native songs but I don't shy away from sharing that side of me so you know yeah well you know I'm so happy that you were able to join us today and share your music with our listeners and you know want to thank you for being on earth songs today and sharing your music well thank you this is quite an honor for me want to find out more about a lick his music can be found on cd baby dot com or by visiting Palko félix dot com for a full playlist of today's show go to Earth songs dot net there you'll find more information on today's featured artist earth songs bringing you the latest in modern Indigenous Music Up ahead we've got tracks from Simon Lynch buggy the beat and Cilla and rise now from Elisa p. 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