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Radio Aula Mundi
by Radio Aula Mundi
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’…
Episodes
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Bridging the gap #71: between Roberta Tom, Navajo, Keith Secola, Ojibwe, and Joanna Hopson, Iñupiaq
Joanna Hopson is an Iñupiaq Arctic games coach and athlete who competed in the annual Arctic Winter Games, held this year in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. In addition to common winter events like curling and figure skating, the games include traditional indigenous competitions including single foot...
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Bridging the gap #70: between Pete Sands, Navajo, and Roberta Tom, Navajo...
Roberta Noell Tom is a Diné (Navajo) artist and children’s book author. She is Áshįįhí born for Nát’oh Dine’é Táchii’nii, and a U.S. Navy veteran and aerospace professional. ‘Bebe Bear and Her Dream Adventures at Masani’s’ is written and illustrated by Roberta Noell Tom. It is her debut…
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Keith Secola: “What’s the coolest sound you’ve heard recently...?”
Keith Secola is an Anishinabe (Ojibwe) artist, garnering awards and accolades as a musician, a singer, a songwriter, a composer and a producer. He is highly skilled with the guitar, flute, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, and piano, and has played in venues from the halls of the Chicago Urban Indian...
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Joanna Hopson: "Why bother?"
Joanna Hopson is an Iñupiaq Arctic games coach and athlete who competed in the annual Arctic Winter Games, held this year in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. In addition to common winter events like curling and figure skating, the games include traditional indigenous competitions including single foot...
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Bridging the gap #69: between Pete Sands, Navajo, and Michael Yellow Bird, Mandan Hidatsa Arikara...
Michael Yellow Bird is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is an enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota, USA. His research interests focus on the effects of colonization and methods of decolonization, decolonizing…
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Bridging the gap # 68: between William A. Rodriguez, instrument maker, and Karen Harryman, poet...
William A Rodriguez is an indigenous Taino multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, composer, and performer. As an active member of the Taino/Arawakan community, he makes ceremonial tools for a variety of cultures. He lives on a sustainable farm in rural Georgia, United States. •••...
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Bridging the gap # 67: between Lucy Smith, creator and musician, and Byron Graves, author...
Lucy Smith is a Chicago-based musician and singer-songwriter who likes to explore and present jazz, folk, gospel, blues, and more. At the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States' Declaration of Independence, Lucy Smith performs a special repertoire of traditional and original...
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Bridging the gap # 66: between Byron Graves, author, and Joey Clift, screenwriter and playwright...
Byron Graves is Ojibwe and Lakota and was born and raised on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, where they played high school basketball. When they aren’t writing, they can be found playing retro video games, spending time with their family, or cheering on their beloved Minnesota...
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Byron Graves, Ojibwe and Lakota author: “Why bother?”
Byron Graves is Ojibwe and Lakota and was born and raised on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, where they played high school basketball. When they aren’t writing, they can be found playing retro video games, spending time with their family, or cheering on their beloved Minnesota...
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Bridging the gap # 65: between Kiliii Yüyan, photographer, and Daniel H. Wilson, author...
National Geographic Photographer Kiliii Yüyan is a visual storyteller, and Nat Geo Explorer, whose work has brought him to some of the world’s harshest environments. Chinese-American and Nanai/Hèzhé (indigenous East Asian), he has traveled across the polar regions working with indigenous…
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Lucy Smith, musician and creative, does an a cappella performance of ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Prize’
Lucy Smith is a Chicago-based musician and singer-songwriter who likes to explore and present jazz, folk, gospel, blues, and more. At the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States' Declaration of Independence, Lucy Smith performs a special repertoire of traditional and original...
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Bridging the gap # 64: between Dominic Pacyga, , Virginia Sneve, and Kevin Schultz...
A round table around midnight featuring... ••• Dominic A. Pacyga is professor emeritus of history in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago,...
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Bridging the gap # 63: between Chris Neville, musician, and Jim Bachor, artist...
Chris Neville is a lifelong musician and composer, playing across many genres and styles. He is the long time musical director of Chicago phenomenon Tributosaurus, and is a current member of several bands including The Meadowlark Lemons. The Meadowlark Lemons are a gritty funk, soul and jazz...
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Bridging the gap # 62: between Viola Waghiyi, Yupik, and Rebecca Jim, Cherokee …
Viola ‘Vi’ Waghiyi is a Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen, mother, and grandmother. Since 2002, she has worked with Alska Community Action on Toxics (‘ACAT’) and serves as Environmental Health and Justice Director. She is a nationally recognized environmental justice leader...
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Josh Chicoine, musician, and singer-songwriter: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
Josh Chicoine is the creative force behind Cult Canyon, a Chicago-based band that has recently released a debut album, ‘Smoke Tricks’. Cult Canyon's music has been described as California-Style Folk Rock. The band features strings and other orchestrations to bring fullness to its pop stylings. As…
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Bridging the gap # 61: between Todd Kessler, a singer-songwriter, and Daisychain, a rock band…
Todd Kessler is a singer-songwriter and recording artist in the Chicago area. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Todd Kessler was always singing. He began playing the trumpet at 9 years old, but by 12, he’d fallen in love with the guitar and began writing his own songs. •••...
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Michael Hanna, musician, and singer-songwriter: “Why bother?”
Michael Hanna is the vocalist of Naked Brunch, a Chicago-based Slut Rock band. Slut Rock is a fusion between Funk and Glam Rock with the purpose of getting into the rhythm of your own body. In 2026, the Chicago Reader, one of the city’s most important cultural magazines nominated Naked Brunch…
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Bridging the gap # 60: between David Carlson, a bookstore clerk, and Sepultura, a heavy metal band…
Sepultura (Portuguese: [sepuwˈtuɾɐ], ‘grave’) is a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in Belo Horizonte in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera. They were a major force in the groove metal, thrash metal and death metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s. After 40 years of existence...
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Question for several Americans: "How free do you feel?"
All interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker in New York City, New York, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ashland, Oregon, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, including with Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Kevin Schultz... ••• Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the...
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Bridging the gap # 59: between David Koepsell, a philosopher, and Karen Harryman, a poet…
K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in 2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic, 2007). The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South. She is originally from...
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Robert Madden, author and archaeologist: “What was your favorite children’s game?”
Robert Madden is an author and archaeologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. For many years, he sifted through existing records of Native American artifacts to look for the oldest dice in the United States. His research led him to the conclusion that dice, games of chance, and...
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Vi Waghiyi: “What kind of a grandmother are you?”
Viola ‘Vi’ Waghiyi is a Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen, mother, and grandmother. Since 2002, she has worked with Alska Community Action on Toxics (‘ACAT’) and serves as Environmental Health and Justice Director. She is a nationally recognized environmental justice leader...
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Todd Kessler: “How do you deal with the blue note?”
Todd Kessler is a singer-songwriter and recording artist in the Chicago area. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Todd Kessler was always singing. He began playing the trumpet at 9 years old, but by 12, he’d fallen in love with the guitar and began writing his own songs. •••...
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Question for: Joanna Hopson: “What has been your most recent athletic performance?”
Joanna Hopson is an Iñupiaq Arctic games coach and athlete who competed in the annual Arctic Winter Games, held this year in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. In addition to common winter events like curling and figure skating, the games include traditional indigenous competitions including single foot...
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Michael Yellow Bird: “Where do you draw the line between science and spirituality?”
Michael Yellow Bird is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is an enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota, USA. His research interests focus on the effects of colonization and methods of decolonization, decolonizing…
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Devon Mihesuah reads an excerpt from ‘Blood Relay’, one of her most recent novels…
Devon Mihesuah is a historian and writer and a previous editor of the American Indian Quarterly. She is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, and a Chickasaw, Norwegian, French…
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Kiliii Yüyan: “Please, close your eyes, and take a picture of what you see…”
National Geographic Photographer Kiliii Yüyan is a visual storyteller, and Nat Geo Explorer, whose work has brought him to some of the world’s harshest environments. Chinese-American and Nanai/Hèzhé (indigenous East Asian), he has traveled across the polar regions working with indigenous…
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Chad L Yellowjohn, an indigenous artist, discusses two of his paintings…
Chad ‘Little Coyote’ Yellowjohn comes from a Shoshone-Bannock/Spokane ancestral line. Chad was raised in Ione, Washington, and, at a young age, was mute, speaking only gibberish. Over the years, his imagination began to extensively blossom on paper, thus gaining a heavy interest in free hand...
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Chris Neville, Chicago musician: “How much Chicago would listeners recognize in your music?”
Chris Neville is a lifelong musician and composer, playing across many genres and styles. He is the long time musical director of Chicago phenomenon Tributosaurus, and is a current member of several bands including The Meadowlark Lemons. The Meadowlark Lemons are a gritty funk, soul and jazz...
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Michael Gebert, food writer, critic, and author: “Why bother?”
Michael Gebert is a James Beard Award-winning freelance copywriter based in Chicago. His most recent publication, ‘The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining’, explores how Chicago evolved into a world-class dining destination, featuring stories from renowned chefs and food professionals....
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Joey Clift, an indigenous comedy writer, discusses his cultural roots…
Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based comedian, TV writer, director, Emmy-nominated producer, and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, and Comedy Central. As a television writer Joey has written for shows…
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Dominic A. Pacyga, historian: “When you are writing a story, what are you thinking?”
Dominic A. Pacyga is professor emeritus of history in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago, and, most recently, Clout City. •••...
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Hannah Frank: "Why bother?"
Hannah Frank is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, musician, and performer whose style blends blues, traditional folk, roots, spoken word, jazz, and rock. ••• https://hannahfrankmusic.com/ https://BloomSchoolofJazz.com ••• Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker...
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Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve: “Please tell us something we might not know about your ancestors…”
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (born February 21, 1933) is a Native American author. She has written children’s books with the intention of dispelling stereotypes and negative images of Native Americans. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, Virginia was a teacher/counselor in Pierre,...
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Bridging the gap # 58: between Karen Harryman, a poet, and Hannah Frank, a Chicago-based musician…
Hannah Frank is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, musician, and performer whose style blends blues, traditional folk, roots, spoken word, jazz, and rock. ••• https://hannahfrankmusic.com/ https://BloomSchoolofJazz.com ••• K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in 2023...
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Bridging The Gap # 57: between Sondra Segundo, Haida, and Esther Belin, Navajo...
Sondra Segundo is a multidisciplinary artist and Haida language activist. She is a regalia maker, traditional and contemporary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, singer-songwriter, and keeper of ancestral songs. Sondra is the lead female vocalist of the Seattle-based tribal funk...
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Bridging The Gap # 56: between Daniel H. Wilson and Preston Singletary...
Bridging The Gap # 56: between Daniel H. Wilson, a Cherokee author, and Preston Singletary, a Tlingit artist... ••• Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and the multiple New York Times bestselling author of techno-thrillers such as ‘Robopocalypse’, ‘The Clockwork Dynasty’, and ‘The Andromeda...
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Bridging The Gap # 55: between Sunburnt Stone, a Navajo rock band, and Karen Harryman, a poet...
Sunburnt Stone is a band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their music combines various influences and genres between country, blues, rock, and Americana. All the band members, Andrew Wilson, Daryl Young, and Nichole Tsosie, are Diné, members of the Navajo Nation. Their songs generally reflect...
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Bridging The Gap # 54: Felicia Pichette answers a question coming from Nicaela León...
Felicia Pichette is an indigenous language student and teacher at the Spokane Language House in the state of Washington, in the United States. Its mission is to create a new generation of fluent speakers of Np’oq͗ ínišcn, the Spokane language, which is a dialect of Salish. In turn, the Salish...
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Bridging The Gap # 53: Terry White answers a question coming from Carol C...
Terry White’s career as a musician started in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, where he began teaching himself guitar as a teenager. After graduating from highschool, he started a band, Modern Day Saints, and they moved to Los Angeles, where they enjoyed a rabid LA following as…
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Question for 4 Americans: "What are your two most opposite influences?"
All interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker in Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, New York City, New York, and Ashland, Oregon. https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, January 2026…
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Roberta Noell Tom: "Why bother?"
Roberta Noell Tom is a Diné (Navajo) artist and children’s book author. She is Áshįįhí born for Nát’oh Dine’é Táchii’nii, and a U.S. Navy veteran and aerospace professional. ‘Bebe Bear and Her Dream Adventures at Masani’s’ is written and illustrated by Roberta Noell Tom. It is her debut…
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Terry White: “Why bother?”
Terry White’s career as a musician started in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, where he began teaching himself guitar as a teenager. After graduating from highschool, he started a band, Modern Day Saints, and they moved to Los Angeles, where they enjoyed a rabid LA following as…
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Bridging The Gap # 52: Jerod Tate answers a question from Karen Harryman...
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture, and language. Among many recent premieres, Tate’s highlights include commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Turtle Island Quartet. On August...
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Bridging The Gap # 51: Hattie Lee Mendoza, a Cherokee artist, answers a question asked by Jim Bachor
Hattie Lee Mendoza, a member of the Cherokee Nation whose art is inspired by her native ancestry, but also by a rural Kansas upbringing, answers a question coming from Jim Bachor, a graphic designer and mosaic artist based in Chicago... ••• Hattie Lee Mendoza is a member of the Cherokee Nation...
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Bridging The Gap # 50: Chris Valillo answers a question coming from William A Rodriguez...
Chris Vallillo is a singer-songwriter and roots musician, who makes the people and places of ‘unmetropolitan’ America come to life in song. Having spent dozens of years in the rural Midwest, he has a natural affinity for American roots music. ••• https://www.chrisvallillo.com/...
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Daniel H. Wilson: “What's your cultural heritage like?”
Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and the multiple New York Times bestselling author of techno-thrillers such as ‘Robopocalypse’, ‘The Clockwork Dynasty’, and ‘The Andromeda Evolution’ (an authorized sequel to the Crichton classic). He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon…
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Estevan Rael-Gálvez: “Why bother?”
Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of ‘Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery’, leading a global team in the goal to document indigenous slavery across the Western Hemisphere. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and indigenous slavery scholar, Dr. Rael-Gálvez has...
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Sondra Segundo: “What was your favorite children’s song or nursery rhyme?”
Sondra Segundo is a multidisciplinary artist and Haida language activist. She is a regalia maker, traditional and contemporary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, singer-songwriter, and keeper of ancestral songs. Sondra is the lead female vocalist of the Seattle-based tribal funk...
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Bridging The Gap # 49: Sunburnt Stone answer a question coming from Daniel Gunderson...
Sunburnt Stone is a band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their music combines various influences and genres between country, blues, rock, and Americana. All the band members, Andrew Wilson, Daryl Young, and Nichole Tsosie, are Diné, members of the Navajo Nation. Their songs generally reflect...
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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’…
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