Dawnland Signals 7/16/20: Tribal Sovereignty

Producers/Hosts: Maria Girouard, Esther Anne
Production assistance: Jeffrey Hotchkiss

Dawnland Signals: Critical conversations of truth, healing, and change in the Dawnland

Program Topic: Tribal Sovereignty
-What is tribal sovereignty?
-What does it look like for tribes to practice sovereignty?
-What can Mainers do to respect tribal sovereignty?

Guests: Mark Chavaree, Penobscot Nation; Michael Corey Hinton, Passamaquoddy Tribe; Penthea Burns, REACH Board Co-chair

About the hosts:

Esther Anne, Passamaquoddy from Sipayik, joined the Muskie School of Public Service in 2003 where she works on projects that engage and benefit tribal communities including facilitating the Maine tribal-state Indian Child Welfare Act workgroup and creating child welfare resources with the Capacity Building Center for Tribes. She had a primary role in the creation and establishment of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Maine-Wabanaki REACH. Esther now serves as secretary for the REACH Board of Directors and on the REACH Communications Committee. Esther lives on Indian Island and her family includes adult children and a grandbaby.

Maria Girouard bio to follow

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/16/20: Living a Covid Digital Life

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

We’re all trying to adapt to living safely with Covid-19, and that includes all sorts of industries. One way to see how different businesses and industries are adapting is to take a look at publications aimed at folks in those business sectors. Today let’s look at some articles from some of those specialty publications to see how technology is affecting them, and through them, all of us.

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Let’s Talk About It 7/14/20: Many Survivor Voices

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Technical assistance: Alex Wilder
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Guests:
Jeannine Oren, Amber Hatch, Olivia Chilles, Patrisha McLean, Milli, Autumn Saldena, Bekah Martinez, Judy Godwin, and Betsy Thurston. All survivors on the Finding Our Voices domestic-abuse awareness posters throughout Maine.

Topics include:
The full range including physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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BoatTalk 7/14/20: Charles Lagerbom, author of Whaling in Maine, boatyard news, lobster boat races

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

Interview with Charles Lagerbom, author of Whaling in Maine, boatyard news, lobster boat races have begun with limitations, Jon Johnansen has been carefully visiting a few boatyards

Guests:
Charles Lagerbom author of Whaling in Maine
Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow

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