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The environmental movement has made something clear: For the health of the planet, humans need to stop using so much fossil fuel. Period. Many effo...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Wampum & Fiber Artist and 2023 National Heritage Fellow Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) discusses her artistic practi...
- Added: Aug 01, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Thousands of people are heading to Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, the annual U.N. Climate Change Conference, and among them are two local indigenous ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in t...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 22:30
- Purchases: 1
For many of us, the story of the American wilderness begins when Europeans arrived on these shores and began conquering it. The wide open spaces of...
Bought by Colorado Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
For many of us, the story of the American wilderness begins when Europeans arrived on these shores and began conquering it. The wide open spaces of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 58:58
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Was all the work to try to keep the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines from being built done in vain now that Donald Trump occupies the White ...
Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Standing Rock Water Protector Loki talks about his experience at the Front dealing with new arrivals and the prospect of Violence
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: :34
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Standing Rock Water Protector Loki explains the Sacred Ground at the Front called Turtle Island
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 01:10
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Tim Giago talks about the elders and their thoughts on the mix of peace and violence at the front
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 02:00
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Tim Giago Talks about the Standing Rock Water Protectors and how Trump and Obama could effect the outcome of the Pipeline
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 02:58
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Standing Rock Water Protector Loki reflects on our place in America
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: :36
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Standing Rock Water Protector Loki talks about his experience learning from the Elders at the Front
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: :27
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
Standing Rock Water Protector Loki talks about his extraordianry experience at the Front
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 01:26