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American Indian Airwaves
by American Indian Airwaves
American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacrAmerican Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.
Episodes
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Mexico’s Constitutional Reforms Expand State & Cartel Violence Against Indigenous Peoples
Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), our guest provides an extensive update on Mexico’s recent Constitutional reforms between June and July 2025, the February 2025 threat of the Trump Administration listing certain Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and possibly US military...
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The Vatican’s Transition, the Doctrine of Domination, & Possession of Indigenous Sacred Items/Cultural Patrimony
On May 8th, 2025, at the Vatican, the Conclave elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the 267th Bishop of Rome. Known as Pope Leo XIV, he succeeds Pope Francis, and inherits a long, violent and unresolved legacy of the Vatican’s role in committing intergenerational settler colonial violence…
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NAGPRA, Protecting Sacred Sites from Ocean Mining in Green Capitalism’s Expanded Violence
Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), listeners will hear our special guest discuss the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), its history and January 2024 modifications along with its implications for Native Americans. In addition, our guest will provide an in-depth...
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Defending Mother Earth, No False Solutions, & Uplifting Indigenous Communities and Nations
Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), listeners will hear from the Climate Justice Organizer of the Pueblo Action Alliance, an Indigenous women and femme-led grassroots organization, which has been actively building both a community and a movement to resist false solutions being pushed across...
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Bad Actors, & Treaty & Trust Doctrine Violations in Trump 2.0
Trump 2.0 is causing mass anxiety throughout “Indian Country” and across Turtle Island so far in 2025. As of mid-June 2025, the Trump Administration’s proposed Fiscal 2026 federal budget calls for nearly $1 billion in cuts to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and other federal…
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Indigenous Art, Resistance, & Rebellion, Trump 2.0 & the Rise of US Authoritarian Fascism
Today on American Indian Airwaves, listeners will hear extensive update on the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) newest and creative forms of resistance and rebellion throughout the Chiapas, Mexico region. The EZLN recently underwent internal changes to reflect a more localized…
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War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance on Mother Earth
Today on American Indian Airwaves, tune in and hear William I. Robinson speak on his book, War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), the systematic militarization against immigrants in the United States, global capitalism’s crisis and how the transnational capitalist class structures…
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Defending the Remaining Pre-Colonial, Genetic Buffalo Relations
Today’s program (originally broadcasted on 2/20/2025) is on Protecting the Remaining Pre-Colonial, Genetic Buffalo Relations. Listen for the hour as our guest provides listeners with an extensive update on the last remaining buffalo relations in and around the Yellowstone National Park region...
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Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights & Artists with Georgianna Valoyce-Sanchez on 'A Light To Do Shellwork By'
Today on American Indian Airwaves, an in-depth interview with distinguished elder, storyteller, activist, cultural bearer, educator and more, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez on her recent book A Light to do Shellwork By,” Indigenous poetry, Chumash family history, sovereignty storytelling, memory...
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Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artist with Laura Shamas
The interview with today’s guest, Laura Shamas (Chickasaw Nation) on her world premiere play Four Women in Red happened several days before the Los Angeles Fires (i.e., Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Kenneth Fire, and the Hurst Fire). The play was originally scheduled to premiere on January 17th,...
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The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) 31st Anniversary Suspended: Cartel & State Violence Escalations in Chiapas
Today on American Indian Airwaves, listeners will hear extensive update on why 31st Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion, the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) on January 1st, 1994, against the colonial state of Mexico and global capitalism…
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Wounded Knee, 134 Years Later: Spirit, Resistance, and Remembrance
December 29th of every year marks another anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890, and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopping Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers...
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Decolonize Native Art International Exhibit in the Chumash Nation
John Kush has been a part of the Chumash community's ongoing expression of unique art and culture since his early childhood. Our guest lives and works within the Chumash ancestral homelands as personal and professional artists and previously worked on several important projects for the Northern...
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Wampanoag Voices: Demystifying the Legacy of the Thanksgiving Day Holiday Propaganda
Since President Abraham Lincoln established observing the Thanksgiving Day holiday in 1863 to heal a fractured country amid the American Civil War (1861-1865). Consequentially, Americans for generations have believed in and centralized their national identity within several mythologies, including...
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The Origins of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary and its Failed Mechanisms
On Indigenous Peoples Day in October 2024, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) designated the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary off the California coast. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary makes it America’s 17th national marine sanctuary, the sixth off...
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An Apology meaning What? The United States Violent Legacy of Operating Native American Boarding Schools
On October 25th, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian...
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The Contradictions of Indigenous Peoples Day
The idea of Indigenous Peoples Day originated in 1977, in Geneva, at the first International NGO Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the America. The conference was attended by Indigenous peoples throughout world and by the conclusion of the conference, a list of...
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Climate Resilience through Ecocultural Stewardship: The 2024 Fires and California Indigenous Peoples
As of September 10th, 2024 (Tuesdays), estimates are that the 2024 fires have burned 2,247,356 acres with seventy-one (71) large active fires presently active across Turtle Island (the United States) such as in the politically defined borders of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming. In...
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Southern Alaska Native Nations’ Intervention: Stopping the Mining Industry & Protecting Futures
“Southern Alaska Native Nations’ Intervention: Stopping the Extractive Mining Industry from Maiming and Extinguishing Life” Today on American Indian Airwaves, we go to southeast Alaska and British Colombia (B.C.), Canada, to discuss the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission…
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Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists with DeLanna Studi & Native Voices
“Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists with DeLanna Studi & the 30th Anniversary of Native Voices at the Autry” 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary for the Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity Theatre in the country developing and producing plays written by Native American...
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On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean....
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Update on the Northern Route: Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024
The “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an indigenous and First Nation ceremonial run that invites the participation of Native and non-Native individuals committed to the survival of Native American cultures, nations, and the uniting of the indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (North, Central and...
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Plastic Colonization: Indigenous Nations Survivance in the Arctic Circumpolar Region
Today we go to the state of Alaska which is home to 229 federally recognized Native American nations. Our guest joins us for the hour to share her experiences at the United Nations Environmental Programme 4th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (April 23rd-29th, 2024)…
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Under Threat, Desecration, and Protecting Shalawa in the Chumash Nation
Today on American Indian Airwaves we go to the Barbareño band of the Chumash Nation in the Santa Barbara County area to a Chumash sacred site respectfully known as Shalawa. Approximately three-acres of Shalawa remains and to non-Native American peoples, the place is commonly referred to as...
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Israel’s War and Genocide on Palestine and Palestinians: Over 200 Days Later
As of 4/23/2024 at least 34,183 Palestinians have been killed; 77,143 wounded have been wounded; over 8,000 Palestinians are missing, and over 50% of all Palestinian homes have been destroyed as a result of the Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Meanwhile, common diseases such as hepatitis...
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Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024: In the Spirit of the Eagle and Condor Prophecy
The “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an indigenous and First Nation ceremonial run that invites the participation of Native and non-Native individuals committed to the survival of Native American cultures, nations, and the uniting of the indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (North, Central and...
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“Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights & Artists with Diane Fraher of The Heart Stays (2024)”
With Hollywood film production costs easily exceeding millions of dollars per film, and given the constant marginalization, erasures, and stereotypes about Native Americans and Indigenous peoples for more than a century, as well as the film industry’s chronic unwillingness to unconditionally...
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U.S. Policy Mismanagement in Denying the Lives of the Buffalo Relations
Once numbering at least 40-60 million, settler colonial men once hunted the buffalo through the train windows for sport – who had the most kills. By 1890, however, there were less than 1,000 buffalo with only 23 surviving in Yellowstone’s Pelican Valley. Today, in Yellowstone National Park, the...
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The Lahaina Fires, Toxic Waste Removal & Pollution in Olowahu, and Defending Sacred Sites
In a coordinated effort between several federal and local government agencies and private contractors, more than 400,000 tons of toxic and hazards waste are planning to be removed from Lahaina and transported to the temporary debris storage site in Olowalu. The toxic and hazardous waste includes...
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From Here to There, Past & Present: Settler Colonialism Against Native American Nations & Palestine
How does history relate to the present? What is settler colonialism? How are the two related to each other and what is the connection between the past to the present? What is Zionism? What is the Doctrine of Discovery/Dominion? Moreover, how does this relate to Indigenous peoples across Turtle...
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Defiling Mother Earth: Stopping the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)
Thursday, 01/25/2024, on American Indian Airwaves “Defiling Mother Earth: Stopping the Mountain Valley Pipeline” Today on American Indian Airwaves listeners will hear an update the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline construction struggles and how the Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, a joint...
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The EZLN 30th Anniversary Gathering: Resistance, Reflections, and Growth in Chiapas
Today on American Indian Airwaves, we will hear highlights on what happened at the 30th Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion, the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) on January 1st, 1994, against the colonial state of Mexico and global…
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Defender of the Sacred: Memorial, Remembrance, and Respect for Dine’ Klee Benally
Diné ‘defender of the sacred, artist, activist, musician, author, land defender, Warrior,’ Klee Benally Walks On or transitioned on the morning of December 31, 2023. He was 48 years old and from what the place of many houses in what is known as Flagstaff, AZ. He was from the Tódích’íi’nii (Bitter...
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Wounded Knee, 133 Years: Spirit, Resistance, and Remembrance
December 29th of every year marks another anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890 and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopped Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers…
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Indigenous Musicians Across Turtle Island: New Music, Acknowledgements, and Accomplishments
So far, 2023 has been a remarkable year for Indigenous musicians across Turtle Island. Many Native Americans bands, First Nation’s musicians, and Indigenous peoples from the Siberian region have released new music over the past several months, and two different First Nations bands from Australia...
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National Day of Mourning 2023 Highlights
Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies annually gather on Cole's Hill in Plymouth, MA to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native American peoples do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. In fact, the settler colonial...
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Indigenous Futures: Treaty & Water Rights Together in Protecting the Living Colorado River
With Lake Mead, Lake Powell, and the Colorado River decades-plus declining water levels with a one-year reprieve last year, and an ever-increasing demand for the water in the living Colorado River over the centuries by the states of California, Nevada, and Arizona, agricultural businesses and…
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The Buffalo Relations: Yellowstone National Park, States, & Ranchers Violence
With 1,272 Buffalo relations killed in 2023 so far in part due to the Yellowstone National Park Service buffalo management practices, the Yellowstone National Park Service just released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Buffalo Management which will be more detrimental to the Buffalo....
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Respecting Women, Struggles, and Resistance: 52 Years at the Teatro at Centro
Both guests for today’s program chronicle the historical legacies of Indigenous/Latine’ struggles and experiences in the Kumeyaay traditional territories now known as San Diego, CA. Both guests discuss theater, Spanish settler colonialism, the Indigeneity, the dismantling and resistance of…
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Cartel Carnage and State Colonialism in the Lacandon Area of Chiapas, Mexico: Indigenous Survivance
In the region of the Lacandon forest in Chiapas, Mexico, Indigenous peoples throughout the region continue experiencing even more escalated state-military-cartel violence within systemically and vehement capitalized world. The cartel-state-corporate violence has increased substantially over the...
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Bolivia’s Indigenous Peoples Survivance: Operation Condor 2.0 (2019 U.S.-Backed Coup), Lithium, More
On June 10th, 2022, a Bolivian court sentenced former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, to 10 years in prison. Áñez assumed power during a violent and illegal coup in November 2019 that ousted the country’s popular Indigenous president, Evo Morales, sending him into exile, and killing...
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The Living Histories of Lahaina and Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush
Thursday, 8/31/2023, on American Indian Airwaves on KPFK, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) “The Living Histories of Lahaina and Self Determination for Hawaiian Nation and Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush” Part 1: The living histories of Lahaina are told through the intergenerational means of passing...
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The Lahaina Fire in the Hawaiian Nation and Moving Beyond Legacy Capitalism and Settler Colonialism
On August 8th, 2023, a deadly fire swept through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, destroying nearly everything in its path. The number of lives taken has reached at least 115 as of 8/22/2023, more than 800 people are still missing, and more than 2,000 structures were destroyed. Eight hours before a...
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The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni and the Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism across Mother Earth
One day before International Indigenous Peoples Day, President Joe Biden created on August 8th, 2023, a new national monument in Arizona covering close to a million acres of lands surrounding the Grand Canyon important and sacred to nearby Native American nations. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni...
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Freedom from the Injustices of State Violence: Free Leonard Peltier Now!
Today on American Indian Airwaves, a renewed effort towards seeking freedom for international, political Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier, who since 1977 wrongfully continues serving two consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary despite ongoing severe health issues, plus more here…
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MMIW2S+, Justice for Nicole Smith, & the State-Military-Cartel Carnage in Chiapas, Mexico
Part 1: In the United States, American Indian/Alaskan Native and Native American peoples experience higher rates of violence than any other demographic. In fact, Native American women and girls are disproportionately affected by the violence. For example, a 2016 study by the National Institute of...
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The Skyhorse-Mohawk Case Revisited, FBI COINTELPRO, and the Legacy of Injustice
During the Red Power Movement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as part of its COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program), actively surveilled, infiltrated, and attempted to neutralize Native American activists and the American Indian Movement (AIM). With the establishment of the Los...
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Protecting Mother Kuskokwin & Stopping the Donlin Gold Mine Project
Over the past several months under the Biden Administration, several fossil fuel mega projects or “carbon bombs” have been approved with a mega gold mining project currently under proposal and in opposition by numerous Alaska Native organizations, communities, and nations. For instance, on March...
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Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother…
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Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change
”United Nation Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 22nd Session: 17-28 April 2023 Highlights on Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach” Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25%…
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American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacrAmerican Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.
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