Resistance Radio with John and Regan

According to the "Handbook on Federal Indian Law", Native people came under US authority by force and by treaty. They would have been more honest if it had said by force and by fraud! 

The vast majority of US holidays are some celebration of war. Memorial Day is just one of many. But it kicks off the Summer season and revs us up for the 250th celebration of the United States' first war; the war for independence! But still no justice for all and still no "all men are created equal."

I am not an "Indian" and I am not a "member" of a "tribe." Not my words and not my identity!

We spend the hour promoting our station and discussing Hawaii and our connections.

We continue to wreak havoc on the planet as we pretend 250 years of this behavior is something to celebrate.

DNA cannot determine ethnicity, origin stories or nationality. and why is it romantic for country singers to sing about refusing to sell land to developers. THAT was one of the reasons the US claimed for taking our lands.

Allegiance is literally in the definition of "citizen." But left out of the processes in the 14th Amendment, the takeover of Hawaii and the Indian Citizenship Act! I try once again to explain why more should be outraged over Native people being cast as a subclass of human existence in the US. That is exactly what "ward" status is! 

Native People were NOT made citizens under the Constitution!

Being a "citizen" is about having an allegiance to a government in exchange for protections. Freedom is not in the definition of citizenship. 

the USCCR has pushed to ban Native mascots for going on three decades!

All three of us have had U.S. citizenship imposed upon us!

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The entire Me Too movement, every clergy sex abuse claim and everyone in the Epstein files can't come close to the number of children abused in 150 years of "Indian Boarding Schools!"

The Seneca people organized, researched and educated each other to rise up and oppose the policing agreement that their "leaders" entered into. They forced the Seneca Nation to rescind the agreement!

Some have suggested that our Kaianerehkowa (Great Law of Peace) was the foundation and basis for the US Constitution. Well, I'm here to say NOT EVEN CLOSE! Our ways rejected hierarchies! Yours created them based purely on being a rich white man. Ooh! What a coincidence! That's EXACTLY what you have now! Don't blame us! You didn't listen!

As Native communities struggle with their autonomy, the symbol of the Haudenosaunee autonomy is the Two Row. But many of our communities struggle to stay on our path.

Trump and his ED Secretary don't really care if these mascots stay or go. Their presence here on this issue is strictly performative. This is about political alignment. It's about the base! It's about votes, congress, campaign contributions; it's about securing footholds at the school and community levels.

From a holy book covered in human flesh to both the North and the South engaged in the American Holocaust, the US and Americans refuse to own their true history.

Ross was the co-producer and he funded the production of THE LONG HOPE, our full length documentary. We discuss the film and its growing relevance in these trying times.

We are literally only one week into the New Year and the news cycle is INSANE. Trump hasn't even logged in a full year yet!

My emphasis in 2026 will be regarding Native identity; defending it, promoting it, defining it and protecting it.

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If you take a racist bigot who abuses his wife, is angry and feels like his white privilege is under constant assault and make him rich and evil, you just turned Archie Bunker into Donald Trump. The trouble is that MANY Americans are fine with that.

We live in troubling times but much of it is history repeating itself. There is NOTHING happening now that hasn't been going on for a very long time. We must remember that.

2025 has proven to be an incredible year by almost any measure. 2026 may be an even bigger run off the cliff or a tipping point. This show is more important than ever in the world we are now living in.

The effort to dismantle the illegal doctrines of the US legal and legislative system is quite simply about rejecting being singled out simply for being Native people and cast as wards of the government. We are NOT incompetent! We are NOT inferior! We will NOT beheld in some twisted state of perpetual political and legal purgatory! But some are scared of taking such a bold stance. Some believe the current status somehow protects us. This isn't protection! It's a protection racket designed to oppress us.

Sam Alito has questioned this power and now Thomas and Gorsuch are challenging its constitutionality and general legality. To be clear the UN has called doctrines, policies and practices like this, racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust. So where are Kagan, Jackson and Sotomayor?

Last Tuesday was the 231st anniversary of the Canandaigua Treaty! Why celebrate broken promises. And don't get me started on the Washington belt.

In town for a screening of THE LONG HOPE so I had a chance to broadcast Resistance Radio from the WBAI studio this week, We do a little catch up and go to callers.

The Long Hope is our film that we are in the early stages of rolling out. I talk about why we made the film ans why we hope people will watch it.

The US has been more tyrannical and authoritarian than the king they revolted from Day 1 to the present. Trump or no Trump!

Almost twenty hours of Amtrak and the LIRR to get out to Hofstra and back but it was all worth it!

WPFW in Washington DC was kind enough to offer me a two-hour slot not only for Indigenous Peoples Day but to kick off their Fall Fund Drive. Call 800-222-9739 or go on-line to www.wpfwfm.org to donate!

Conquest, wards of the government, free checks, free college... yeah! Let's debunk some of this crap!

These special days and acknowledgements miss the mark. They blur what should be our message. We know what you did and we are fighting to make it right!

Only Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas have questioned the Trust Doctrine and Plenary Powers Doctrine. They all call themselves "justices", so where is the justice and where are Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor?

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery was literally cited in a federal court ruling less than four weeks ago!

Tiana Morano is Shinnecock and lives in the Connetquot School District. She joins me to discuss the settlement agreement between the school district and NYSED over their use of T-Birds for their mascot.

I the early 60s while Kennedy and Nixon were locked in a tight race for the White House, both needed Pennsylvania badly. So both viewed the Senecas as a sacrifice they were willing to make. As a result, ten thousand acres of Seneca land were condemned to a flood plain by a dam constructed to solve flooding problems for Pittsburgh.

We must reject the narratives we have been spoon fed. The answer to the cognitive dissonance we have been forced to live with is changing our behavior and rejecting what has been drilled into our heads for generations. 

Trump has taken over DC with the military. 35 years ago Canada tried that on my hometown.

From Dick Wilson and his FBI backed GOON Squad to land claims and bad gaming compacts, we see more and more that real change comes from the people.

The mascot issue is easy to point to in this regard. The fact is that many believe they own us and our images, and they have every right to mock or portray us as their mascots. But it doesn't end there.

Trump is trying to force the Washington NFL team to restore its previous racial slur of a name and is threatening to kill their stadium deal if they don't.