Returning guest and longtime “First Voices Radio” friend Doug George-Kanentiio (Akwesasne Mohawk) was born and raised at the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne.  Doug attended school on and near  the reservation before enrolling at Syracuse University and then the Antioch School of Law. Doug was a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association (now the Indigenous Journalists Association) before serving the Mohawk Nation as editor of the journals Akwesasne Notes and Indian Time. He worked with the late Vine Deloria, Jr., on the Traditional Knowledge conferences before joining the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Doug is vice-president for the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge, a non-profit higher learning facility that is based on Iroquois principles. He resides on Oneida Iroquois Territory.

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, 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: Ablaze

Artist: Tartie

Album: The Quiver (November 2023)

Producer: David Baron, Sun Mountain Studios, Boiceville, NY

3. Song Title: Mercy Mercy Me (the ecology song0

Artist: Marvin Gaye

Album: What’s Going On (1971)

Label: Tamia

4. Song Title: In the Anthropocene

Artist: Nick Mulvey

Album: In the Anthropocene (2019)

Label: Fiction Records

5. Song Title: S.O.S. (Mother Nature)

Artist: Will. I. Am.

Album: Songs About Girls (2007)

Label: Interscope Records

6. Song Title: Feels Like Summer

Artist: Childish Gambino

Album: Summer Pack (2018)

Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music

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. History: "Indian Voices" hosted by Gary Wessels-Galbreath started airing in February 1986 on KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia, WA. Tiokasin renamed the show "View From the Shore” while serving as co-host until 1992 when he was given his own show, “Exposing the Apologetic Predator,” which later became “Primal Minds.” Tiokasin left KAOS in 2003 and “First Voices Indigenous Radio” (now “First Voices Radio”) was born shortly afterward at WBAI 99.5 in New York City. Over the years, “First Voices Radio” has also broadcasted from WPKN 89.5 in Bridgeport, CT and WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury, NY.

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