GoodShield Aguilar is of Oglala lakota and Pasqua Yaqui origin. he has been a visual artist as long as he can remember, but discovered music as a teenager and he has made music and art a grounding point from which cultural identity could be expressed and environmental causes could be addressed, particularly with the yellowstone Buffalo (www.buffalofieldcampaign.org). Aside from playing as a solo acoustic artist, beating a driving bass drum while strumming a guitar and singing original song with native “chants” and spoken word, he can also be seen around the country (and recently, across the great pond) with drummer, Johnnie Martinez and flautist, Mignon Geli. In this instrumental arrangement, they can range from Funk, Rock, Reggae, Latin Soul and anywhere in between the 7 generations….
Dr. Aleticia Kyle Silverwood Tijerina, joined the Red Nation movement in 1983 as a young woman. Leaving the East Coast where she was writing plays and performing, she headed to the southwest to pursue the dream of performance art with her own indigenous peoples. Settling in Flagstaff, Arizona, she created the El Quetzalcoatl Teatro theater troupe and became involved in the political struggle of the Dine people living in Big Mountain Arizona who were in the fight of their lives to resist relocation off their traditional lands. In 1983, she committed to dance for four years at the Sun Dance ceremony on Big Mountain that was hosted by the family of Louise Benally. The Chief of the Big Mountain Sun Dance is Lakota Chief Leonard Crow Dog. The Lakota dance was being conducted to help bring strength to the grandmothers and 100 families at Big Mountain who were being forced off their land by the US government.
Today, Dr. Tijerina continues to commit herself to social justice issues which impact her own indigenous peoples through organizational development projects. In 2014, she created the Big Mountain Sustainable Housing and Land Development Project that is raising money to support green housing on the Navajo reservation. Louise Benally was chosen as a recipient of a broader green housing initiative led by Community Rebuilds who is spearheading a project to support indigenous social activists and others through the green housing initiative.
Che Jim (Dinéh/Odawa) was born in1989 and raised in Flagstaff Arizona, son to Alan Jim and Aleticia Tijerina and a father of 2. He has been involved in traditional native ceremonies his entire life, including the Big Mountain Sundance on the land of Louise Benally. Che, along with his mother and sister, Asdzaanazbaa, formed the project in order to build eco-friendly housing to those living on the reservation.
Che is currently working as a consultant for rehabilitation programs promoting sobriety for native people through native culture and traditional teachings. He and his family travel multiple times a year to different communities around the country to help in various spiritual events and show support to those in need.
I am Māori who links to Te Arawa and Ngati Kahungnunu tribes on the North Island of New Zealand.
I have a background in Corporate IT, HR and Government services on three continents. Born in New Zealand, I spent my formative years in Australia and now live in Canada. I currently travel between Canada, Australia and New Zealand following my ancestors calling.
6 years ago my ancestors called me back to New Zealand to live and that is how I was shown the current healing work that I do. I have been an energy healer for all of my life and this ability has been active in me throughout my business career as well. By following the calling of my heart space most of my healing today is remote or distant healing. I am able to shift energies from people and land that includes trauma in this lifetime and past lives, release Family and tribal trauma passed down through generations, remove Kehua (evil spirits) from the environment and bring harmony and peace to what I connect to.
Since my early twenties I’ve connected with and studied many alternative therapies. Two were significant — LomiLomi (Hawaiian Massage) and Romiromi (Traditional Māori Healing). Both powerful Polynesian healing modalities. My Remote Healing work came about as an extension of my Traditional Māori Healing practise in New Zealand.
Traditional Māori Healing is centuries old and has been passed down from generation to generation in the form of Romiromi and Mirimiri bodywork and ancient Māori teachings. Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand and have a rich and deep cultural heritage based on their connection to the land and their spiritual beliefs. Romiromi and Mirimiri are physical bodywork treatments that focus on removing blocked energy at a cellular level, creating more space and freedom in the body. Stimulation of pressure points and deep tissue massage removes toxic waste and synchronizes the central nervous, lymphatics, cardio vascular and endocrine systems within the body. Romiromi also balances male and female energies and most importantly balances the mauri (life force) with the wairua (spirit). Blocked energy on any level can create imbalance in the body which can lead to disease. This extraneous energy can sometimes be held in the DNA or be an accumulation of held emotions in this lifetime.
Join us on “Make No Bones About It.” February 8th, 2015 at 5pm for the on air reunited after 29 years to the date we hear from GW Galbreath & Michael Lane.
GW Galbreath & Michael Lane – the original co-hosts of Indian World (1986) GW Galbreath & Michael Lane – which became the Indigenous Peoples Network which became View From The Shore. Michael is back at Evergreen teaching in the MPA program.
Tune into KAOS Sunday Jan. 25th, 2015 from 4-6pm on “Make No Bones About It” with Raven Redbone for a LIVE performance of Métis music with fiddlers Sono Hashisaki of Seattle & Jamie Fox of Montana.
Will also be joined by Alex Lamoureux , Metis from Canada
Alex has been following his mom Patti around to old time dances growing up, and has always had a fiddle in his hand for as long as he can remember. Alex is currently the 4 time Manitoba fiddle Champion, 5 time Manitoba Metis fiddle champion, 2013 Grand North American fiddle champion, and has placed in the top 10 four times at the Canadian Grand Masters. Alex loves to teach, and perform regularly across Canada, and in 2010 performed at the First Medal Ceremony at the Olympics in Vancouver.
Canadian artist Roy Henry Vickers is best known around the world for his limited edition prints. He is also an accomplished carver, design advisor of prestigious public spaces, a sought-after keynote speaker, and publisher and author of several successful books.
In addition, he is a recognized leader in the First Nations community, and a tireless spokesperson for recovery from addictions and abuse.
Roy has received many awards and honours for his art and community involvement. Among them are a hereditary chieftainship and several hereditary names he has received from Northwest Coast First Nations.
In 1994, Maclean’s magazine included Roy as the first artist ever in its Annual Honour Roll of Extraordinary Canadian Achievers. In 1998, the Province of British Columbia appointed Roy to the prestigious Order of B.C. and in 2003, Roy received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. In 2003, a video featuring Roy was part of the successful Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid.
In 1987, at the Commonwealth Summit in Vancouver, the original of Roy’s painting A Meeting of Chiefs was the official gift of the Province of British Columbia to Queen Elizabeth II. Limited edition prints of the painting were presented to the 48 Commonwealth Heads of State.
During their Vancouver Summit in 1993, former Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin and former U.S. president Bill Clinton received artist’s proofs of Roy’s print The Homecoming as the Province’s official gift.
Roy’s work can be found in private and public collections and galleries around the world including the National Museum of Man (Ottawa, Ontario), University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinburg, Ontario) and the National Museum of Japan (Osaka).
Roy Henry Vickers was born in June 1946 in the village of Greenville, in northern British Columbia. Roy has stayed on the northwest coast of British Columbia ever since, residing at various times in Hazelton, Kitkatla, Tofino and Victoria.
Roy’s love and respect of the magnificent natural beauty of this area is clearly evident in his art. His boldly colourful sunsets, subdued misty rivers and peaceful winter scenes reflect the essence of the west coast of Canada.
Roy’s father was a fisherman with the blood of three northwest coast First Nations’ Tsimshian, Haida and Heiltsuk flowing in his veins. Roy’s mother was a schoolteacher whose parents had immigrated to Canada from England. This unusual mixed heritage has had a strong influence on Roy’s art.
Roy studied traditional First Nations art and design at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art in Hazelton.
Using these building blocks Roy, through hard work and intensive research, created his authentic and personal style of expression – a harmonious fusion of traditional and contemporary, old and new, personal and universal.
In many of his pieces, Roy uses superimposed ‘shadow images’ that add another layer of depth, history and myth to his clear, clean images. His signature Eagle Moon and various suns appear on many pieces as well.
The resulting art touches deeply and is accessible to people all over the world regardless of their background, age, beliefs or traditions.
Born amongst humble means and a multiracial family I arrived in 1952 in the cityof Santa Barbara, CA. Where my Father and Mother started their own bakery for the people of Santa Barbara. I have two older and one younger sibling. Lived inSanta Barbara until age five and then moved on to Anderson, CA where my father worked with family, at a bakery, there and later took a managerial baker position with the Safeway Company in Redding, CA.
An opening to a new store came about three years later and so at age nine we
moved to Paradise, CA where I literally grew up. I was a child of the woods and
nature and spent every opportunity wondering the canyons and woods near my
home. Active in scholastics, sports and spiritual pursuits. Graduated from H.S.,
accepting a scholarship to UCLA. Was an athlete and fraternity member during
my short stay.
Volunteered for the US Army in late 1971. I entered the service, back then, as a
36C-Telephone Installer and Construction Lineman. It seemed according to my
recruiter the only job open!!! Got to basic and soon found out I was the old man
at 20! Graduated from Basic and went to my Advanced Individual Training at Ft.Gordon, GA.
There fate intervened in the form of Airborne Recruiters wanting to know if some of us wanted to jump out of perfectly good airplanes? Well, being the curious lad
I am, I ended up volunteering to do just that. The Army sent me to Ft. Benning, GA where I graduated from Airborne training. While I was there, another curious thing happened, Special Forces Recruiters showed up at Jump School and asked if we wanted to be, the best of the best? Well, my sense of adventure got the best of me.
I volunteered for Special Forces training where I was immediately sent to Ft. Bragg, NC to begin my, best of the best, training. Several months later I was fortunate enough to walk across the stage and receive my hard earned Green Beret. I was assigned to a unit in 7th Special Forces Group. I asked my Sergeant Major if it was possible to get to Southeast Asia before everything was over. Knowing my curious self I didn’t want to waste all this training and not to have used it!
He said he could get me there, if and only if, I went to Ranger School. So, being
me, I said sign me up! Spent two and a half months back in Georgia at Ft.
Benning and earned my Ranger tab. Got back to Bragg and my ticket was waiting. Thus, starting a 27 year military career. Placed my footprints all across this Earth. Only one continent, I never managed to tread, Antarctica. Flown over it, never placed my foot on it.
I am one of those natives that has actually been walking the road all along but
never realizing it until my awakening! Always knew I had several tribes in my
background. Until a little research showed I have Comanche, Cherokee,
Yaqui and Mayan. I was blessed and honored to be asked to join the VA Sweat
Lodge Elder Council a few years ago. Our Chief, Warren Guhl, has been on your
Show discussing the Inipi and our work there. I am forever grateful for his asking, so, here we are!
Welcome! It is an honor to contribute and give another voice to the “The First Peoples” of our world.
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"I appreciate your work in giving voice to our peoples. Blessings to you." Grandmother Mona Polacca
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Yes, our life energy must be a gift for our future. Your life, my life, everybody’s life must follow your given path. So pray or meditate. Follow your inner path and learn just how powerful you are and learn that you are a leader for your people, your family, your children, and the Mother Earth.
-Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota
Roy’s work can be found in private and public collections and galleries around the world including the National Museum of Man (Ottawa, Ontario), University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinburg, Ontario) and the National Museum of Japan (Osaka).
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