Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month Podcast Recommendations

October 31, 2021

Five episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

Audio Lab Presents: Podcasting for Thought LeadersEarBuds founder Arielle Nissenblatt is co-teaching a five-week podcasting course. Students will learn about the best equipment, how to format a podcast, how to plug into the larger audio industry, and much more. Scholarships are available.💡🎧💡The application deadline is November 10th. Apply today!

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Curator: 

Why did you choose this theme? 

November is Native American Heritage Month so we wanted to highlight some of the amazing shows surrounding indigenous culture, history, and mythology in America.

Podcast Picks:

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Coin TrickHerding Frogs

Coin Trick is a narrative podcast series that follows 12-year old Cassidy and the flute-playing mischief-maker Kokopelli – aka, Koko – on their adventures through a fantasy world, based on the Indigenous mythology of the American Southwest.

Young and IndigenousBeing IndigenousEliza Julius (who plays Cassidy in Coin Trick) co-hosts this illuminating podcast that highlights issues facing Lummi and other young Native peoples across America.

All My RelationsThanksTaking or ThanksGiving?

Hosts Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Desi Small Rodriguez (Northern Cheyenne) delve into different topics facing Native American peoples today. This episode talks with Wampanoag scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, who tell us the real story of Thanksgiving, from an Indigenous perspective.

Coffee with Ma

First Nations actress Kaniehtiio Horn shares coffee and laughs with her hilarious mother Kahentinetha Horn (Mohawk), a "radical activist" whose life has led her on some unbelievable adventures. In this episode, Kahentinetha talks about traveling to Europe as an exchange student, only to get stuck on a year-long odyssey that involves a raid at an Algerian belly dancing club in France and being interrogated by Russians in Berlin!

Metis in SpaceIndian in the Cupboard

Molly Swain and Chelsea Vowel finally watch the most requested movie of their existence as podcasting duo - The Indian in the Cupboard, where a boy receives a wooden cupboard, antique keys, and an Iroquois warrior figurine for his birthday. The figurine comes to life overnight in the cabinet.

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FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on Feedback...It's Susan Hanson and Shelley Morningsong week. They join Arielle to discuss their podcast picks for this week's theme on Native American Heritage Month.

Also, our spotlight on Weird Studies, and more podcast thoughts and opportunities.

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COMMUNITY:

đź“°Lauren Passell's 'Podcast The Newsletter,' The Rapa Nui Islands (The Easter Islands) hold great mystery, but the full story is layered and surprising. As each minute ticked by in this episode of Outside/In, an entirely new layer of the island’s history was revealed.

🧑‍🏫Aclass: Indigenous Voices will feature two sessions where Indigenous creators including Falen Johnson, Ryan McMahon, and Natalie Welch will share their experiences of using podcasts as storytelling, and what it’s like to work in the industry. November 3rd, 1:00pm ET. Learn more and RSVP.✨Congrats to Alexandra Cohl (POD.DRALAND) on her first live show for The Pod Broads. Photographic evidence of a good time had đź‘‡đź‘‡

PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Stop Podcasting Yourself

Submitted by Emerson Dameron 

Professor Phil Ford and writer/filmmaker J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."

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