Bridging the gap # 20: Question for Pete Sands, a Diné (Navajo) performer, artist, musician, filmmaker, and activist...

Bridging the gap # 20: Question for Pete Sands, a Diné (Navajo) performer, artist, musician, filmmaker, and activist... ••• Pete Sands is a Diné (Navajo) performer, artist, musician, filmmaker, and activist. He is the creator of ‘Navajo Highways’, a puppet show starring Ash and Sadie, two fictional characters, teaching and discussing Navajo language, traditions, and culture. In 2020, he was recognized by Time Magazine as one of its ‘Guardians of the Year’ for creating the Utah Navajo Health System’s COVID-19 Relief effort to deliver food, firewood, and water to thousands on the Navajo Reservation. ••• https://www.playingforchange.com/artists/pete-sands https://www.youtube.com/user/Peteyweiser https://nativenewsonline.net/arts-entertainment/navajo-puppeteer-pete-sands-captures-imaginations-in-phoenix ••• Denise Lajimodiere is an Ojibwe poet and the author of Stringing Rosaries (North Dakota State University Press, 2019). She is among the founders of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She lives on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, in North Dakota. In 2023, she was appointed poet laureate of North Dakota, 2023 – 2025. ••• https://poets.org/poet/denise-lajimodiere https://www.firstpeoplesfund.org/denise-lajimodiere https://www.amazon.com/Books-Denise-Lajimodiere/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ADenise+Lajimodiere ••• In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK ••• Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, April 2024 At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken… It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’… ••• Radio Aula Mundi Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Centerhttps://radioaulamundi.bandcamp.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-aula-mundi/id1584156605 https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker Spotify YouTube https://castbox.fm/channel/Let's-talk-about-it%2C-anywhere-in-the-world...-id4725033?country=us BreakerPlayer FM Facebook https://www.paypal.me/radioaulamundi https://offtherecord.pe/ (Periodismo de Verdad) •••