Keala is a Kānaka Maoli award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, podcaster, writer and activist living on Hawai‘i Island. Her works address the critical links between cultural, environmental and spiritual survival in the movement for Hawaiian self-determination, and Indigenous peoples’ struggles for territorial and political autonomy. She is an outspoken advocate for Indigenous self-representation in mass media. Keala is the author of “Our Rights to Self-Determination: A Hawaiian Manifesto,” which was published in 2022. For more information about Keala and her work, visit annekealakelly.com. For background: Keala published the 2016 column, “The Unflattering Cultural Poaching of ‘Moana’ is a Threat” about the first Moana film and everything she wrote back then still rings true today: https://bit.ly/402Mp0a

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Orlando DuPont, Radio Kingston

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor

Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:

1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

Album: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

2. Song Title: Speak to Me of Justice (2012)

Artist: Legends & Lyrics

Album: N/A

Label: N/A

3. Song Title: Carnival (2005 remaster)

Artist: Natalie Merchant

Album: Retrospective: 1995-2005 (Greatest Hits album, 2005)

Label: Elektra Records and Warner Strategic Marketing

4. Song: Shooting the Statues

Artist: Amine Bouhafa

Album: Timbuktu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2014)

Label: EmArcy Records

About First Voices Radio:

”First Voices Radio,” now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence: Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse