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Climate Justice: An Indigenous-Led Discussion
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Hear an Indigenous perspective on climate change! Pueblo, Diné, and Chicano social justice leaders and Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-NM) speak about...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 45:29
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Gabriel Scarlett Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that powerful photojournalism can drive public policy to protect public health and promote social and environmental justice? Join Foo...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Listening to the Arctic
From: Richard Paul
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When you hear those statistics that tell you the oceans are warming and you wonder where those numbers come from, this is where: From scientists me...

Bought by KMXT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, KUT, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
World in Progress 06/20/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The power of indigenous people - Indigenous climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa talks about the 'historic moment' for i...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Hartweg’s Sundrops
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon and through the night. Som...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:45
Gotta Save That River
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Caption: The photo is mine and that’s Ms. Mesquitey along the San Pedro River. The bird song along that riparian corridor is unbelievable and we spent some time trying to identify certain calls and songs.
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
Penstemon in Arizona
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Caption: The photos of Penstemon fendleri are mine and taken at our little homestead.
Well, I was a little worried, but I was pretty close on the number of Penstemon species in Arizona. There are close to forty. Arizona Flora lists t...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
Water is Life: Tradition and transition in the Navajo Nation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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About 30% of residents of the Navajo Nation don't have access to running water, and even for those who do, much of the water is contaminated with u...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WDBM


  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 2
Slow Moving Moister
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Snow is such an exciting event for those of us living in southern Arizona and when it does snow the local jabber is always about famous snow falls ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
Tyto alba
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 04:57
Amen Anemone
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:02
Lesquerella and Eshscholzia, the law firm
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Lesquerella is named in honor of Leo Lesquereaux and Wikipedia reminds me that he was a “Swiss bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany.” S...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 10:00
Tan My Hide with Rumex
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, it was a cold winter, but as I sit and write this blurb it is 75 degrees outside with overnight lows in the low 30s. Now that is classic sout...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
Minnesota Native News: What Will You Do for the Water?
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Josephine Mandamin began a movement of praying for the water., Credit: motherearthwaterwalk.com
This week on Minnesota Native News we get the latest on legal maneuvers to stop the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement and Sharon Day remembers the be...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KVSC, KKWE Niijii Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 12
Trip to the Cascabel Fair
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains. Park L...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:48
Native Plants Gigs
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Road trips with a truck load of native plants are a lot of work, but are especially satisfying when you head home with very few plants in the truck...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 06:16
Arizona Yellow Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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think I talked more about Toumey oak (Quercus toumeyi) than yellow bells. It is an awfully sweet little native oak. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t occ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:20
Western Soapberry Tree
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Western soapberry is Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii and is in the family Sapindaceae. In the soapberry family there are around twelve species. ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:45
Black-tailed Jacks, Mexican Elderberry and Vegan Cowboys
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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For goodness sake, I forgot to mention the black-tailed jackrabbit’s ears! The large ears are magnificent parabolic reflectors that keep them well ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:30
Living Planet 12/28/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How will Christmas change as the world gets increasingly warmer? We take a look at how reindeer are affected, whether a re...

Bought by KVSC, WNMU-FM, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk — Native land, native sovereignty
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes speaks with Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk councilwoman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Three Arctic Roads and a Melting Sea Highway
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: From "The Sea Ice is Our Highway: An Inuit Perspective on Transportation in the Arctic" a contribution to the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment, Credit: Inuit Circumpolar Council, CANADA
The first Arctic highway was the sea: a moving, shifting, frozen system that allowed its inhabitants to be sustained for generations. Since 1974, t...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:57
Native-American Basketmaker Kelly Church--keeps tradition alive and vibrant
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kelly Church, Credit: Richard Church, Pottawatomi and Ottawa
2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is an Anishanabe basketmaker who combines a traditional craft with a contemporary eye.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:56
Minnesota Native News: A Good Week for Harvesting Resources
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News, hard work is underway to address the housing crisis – and the wild rice harvest begins.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMOJ-FM, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 13
Minnesota Native News: New Ways to Honor Old Traditions
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Sharon Day completes this year's Nibiwalk along the Wisconsin River., Credit: Chas Jewett
This week on Minnesota Native News we get a round up of tribal election news, we hear about the latest Nibi walk along the Wisconsin River and lear...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KVSC, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 12

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