Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with regular guest Dr. Tink Tinker. Dr. Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and has been an activist in urban American Indian communities for four decades. He joined the faculty at IliffSchool of Theology in 1985 and brought an American Indian perspective to this predominantly euro-christianschool. Dr. Tinker is committed to a scholarly endeavor that takes seriously both the liberation of Indian peoples from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of euro-christian (White) Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples, whose self-narrative typically avoids naming the violence committed against Indians in favor of a romance narrative that justifies their euro-christian occupancy of Indian lands. Rocky Mountain PBS has produced a fine documentary in which Dr. Tinker is featured. The documentary has won a regional Emmy award (a Heartland Emmy): A new chapter: Coming to terms with a gruesome legacy (rmpbs.org)
Production Credits
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Orlando DuPont, 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: Heart of Darkness
Artist: Michael Brunnock
Album: The Land (2024
Label: Michael Brunnock
3. Song Title: Vuoi Vuoi Me
Artist: Mari Boine
Album: Idjagiedas - In the Hand of the Night (2006)
Label: By Norse Music
4. Song Title: Look at Us
Artist: John Trudell
Album: Tribal Voice (1993)
Label: Effective
5. Song Title: C’est La Vie
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Album: Works, Vol. 1 (1977)
Label: Atlantic Records
About "First Voices Radio"
”First Voices Radio,” now in its 33rd 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.
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