Sterlin Harjo's Reservation Dogs; How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe; William Prince's New Album; Pueblo Pottery; Lenape Folklore
[REBROADCAST FROM Sept. 27, 2023] This September, the groundbreaking FX series "Reservation Dogs," which focused on a group of indigenous teenagers living in Oklahoma, came to a close. Writer, director, and executive producer Sterlin Harjo joins us to discuss the finale, and the show as a whole.
[REBROADCAST FROM Oct 9, 2023] A new book flips the narrative of "discovery" on its head, and investigates the history of the first Indigenous Americans to arrive in Europe, what their lives were like, and what their impressions were of European society. Author and historian Caroline Dodds Pennock joins us to discuss her book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe.
[REBROADCAST FROM May 3, 2023] Canadian and Peguis First Nation singer-songwriter William Prince created his latest album, Stand in the Joy, with the help of country super-producer Dave Cobb. The JUNO-winning musician brings his rich baritone to our studios for a live performance.
[REBROADCAST FROM Oct 9, 2023] A new exhibition features more than one hundred historical, modern, and contemporary clay works. It's titled, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, and it's the first community-curated Native American exhibition in the history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), the associate curator of Native American Art at The Met, and visual artist Michael Namingha (Ohkay Owingeh-Hopi) joins us to talk about the show on display through June 4, 2024.
[REBROADCAST FROM Oct 5, 2023] A new collection of Lenape folklore contains some stories published together in a book for the first time. Camilla Townsend, a professor of history at Rutgers, and Nicky Kay Michael, Interim President of Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a member of the Delaware tribe, join us to discuss their work on the collection, On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren.
