Conversations with Indigenous Writers

[REBROADCAST FROM March 30, 2021] Musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie joins us to discuss her remarkable life and career. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography, by Andrea Warner, is now out in paperback. [REBROADCAST FROM August 31, 2021] Since the premiere of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” the popularity of social justice-minded horror has increased. Author Stephen Graham Jones has been writing in that tradition for years. He joins us to discuss his novel, The Only Good Indians, which follows four Indigenous American men in a struggle for their lives against a spirit bent on revenge. [REBROADCAST FROM April 30, 2021] Tommy Pico, a queer poet and Kumeyaay Indian joins to discuss Feed, his 2019 book-length poem about what it means to hunger and to be nourished spiritually as a colonized person in America. Feed is the fourth and final book in his "Teebs Cycle," which uses scenes from the poet's life in New York City as gateways into deeper explorations of authenticity, heritage, love and striving. [REBROADCAST FROM June 22, 2021] Reporter and host of multiple investigative podcasts, Connie Walker, joins us to discuss her experience being an Indigenous journalist covering the treatment of Indigenous communities, as well as the history of residential schools in Canada. [REBROADCAST FROM March 22, 2021] Journalist Connie Walker joins us to discuss her podcast from Gimlet Media titled, Stolen: The Search for Jermain, about the search for Jermain Charlo, a 23-year-old woman from the Flathead Reservation in Montana who was last seen in Missoula, Montana in 2018. [REBROADCAST FROM April 30, 2021] On the last day of National Poetry Month, we spoke with United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo about the anthology, Living Nations, Living Words, as well as her latest album, I Pray for My Enemies.