Indigenous

Killing Salmon to Lose Money

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on May 6, 2024   The Willamette River Basin once supported tremendous salmon runs. Today, less than 10,000 wild Chinook salmon return each year to the Upper Willamette River basin, approximately a 97% reduction of the historic estimates. An... Read more

The Yoga of Ancient Space

Airs at: Fri, 07/26/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
  Join Ender Black on another cosmogonic, histrionic, supersonic and highly tonic episode of Squirrels Know!  We take a moment to breathe in and breathe out; we recognize our childhood behaviors we now want to let go of, and we embrace a process of adulthood within an ever... Read more

12th Annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, Quilt's Coffeehouse, and a Tribute to John Trudell

Airs at: Wed, 07/24/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  The 12th Annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival will be this Saturday, July 27 at the Columbia Park Annex from 12 to 5 p.m. Later that evening will be a Tribute to John Trudell at the Alberta Abbey, featuring Quiltman, long-time singer with Trudell, and Mark Shark, guita... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 22, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features the following segments:   Left & the Law: Kamala Harris Vice President Kamala Harris faces renewed scrutiny as calls intensify for Joe Biden to step down from the presidential race. Whatever the outcome of DNC jockeyi... Read more

Criminalizing Columbia River Indians

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Celilo Wy’am guest Mole Lana Jack interviews Yakama fisherman and fishing rights activist Andy Sohappy about resisting and navigating a gauntlet of colonial agencies, jurisdictions, and police that collectively criminalize, impoverish and imprison Native fishers exercisi... Read more

The Great River: The Making & Unmaking of the Mississippi

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For thousands of years Native peoples made their homes in the Mississippi watershed, that spans nearly half of what is now the United States. They respected the “great river” and lived peaceably alongside it. But when European settlers arrived they upended Native lives and ... Read more

Review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's Sing, Wild Bird, Sing on the Irish famine

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Irish Famine: Larry Bowlden brings a review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's novel about the 1849 famine in Ireland, Sing, Wild Bird, Sing, a story of leaving and finding the Oregon Territories and a different sort of wanderer. The novel is sad and lovely, informative and enter... Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee for June 16th 2024

Airs at: Sun, 06/16/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee
  In this episode we wish all you dads a happy father's day while also honoring all you single, step, foster, and other complex examples of modern parenting through the lens of The Man In The Yellow Hat–and a whole lotta great music!   Life is hard but life is oh so good... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 17, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride Month. Our show includes the following segments: Dam Removal on the Klamath: Over the past decade, Tribal Nations have led a global movement for dam removal as a vital part of re... Read more

Dam Removal on the Klamath

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2024 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Over the past decade, Tribal Nations have led a global movement for dam removal as a vital part of responding to the climate crisis.  Jan Haaken talks with Cynthia Coleman, professor of communication at Portland State University, about her case study of the campaign to remo... Read more