The State of Indian Nations

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Tex G. Hall, President of the National Congress of American Indians, will deliver the third annual State of Indian Nations Address this week. He joins us today to outline some of the major issues facing American Indians. Next, trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas discusses the connection he feels towards the rural mountain culture he celebrates in his new album, Mountain Passages. Then, Sherill Tippins recreates the time when W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee all lived under one roof. Finally, William Powers discusses struggling to fight poverty and save the environment as an aid worker in Liberia: Blue Clay People.

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