Wabanaki Windows 7/15/14

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Murdered and Missing Aboriginal Women in Canada

Key Discussion Points:
a) Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report
b) Meaning of Report Statistics
c) Is a national inquiry needed?

Guests:
Assistant Professor Rebecca Sockbeson, Penobscot Tribal member University of Alberta Ca
Associate Professor Alex Wilson, Cree Tribal member Manitoba Ca, University of Saskatchewan Ca

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Wabanaki Windows 4/15/14

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Joel Mann

Issue: Wabanaki /State TRC Progress

Program Topic: TRC REACH and The Commission

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is REACH/Meaning of the word
b) The Commission and the experience of being a TRC Commissioner
c) What lessons can were learned from this

Guests:
Esther Attean, Passamaquoddy Tribal member/ staff member of Muskie Institute USM and REACH
Maria Girouard, Penobscot Tribal/Council member and REACH Wellness Coordinator
Mathew Dunlap/ Secretary of State of Maine/Commission member

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Wabanaki Windows 2/18/14

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Current issues fro the Penobscot Nation and the Wabanaki Tribes in Maine

Program Topic: Present Tribal State Relations

Key Discussion Points:
a) History of current controversial issues
b) A discussion of the River Case, Elvers Issue, CDC case
c) Involvement of the AG/What should we do?

Guest: Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Indian Nation

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Wabanaki Windows 1/21/14

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Cultural Historic Preservation Projects for the Penobscot Nation

Key Discussion Points:
a) Tribal Preservation Officer’s responsibilities
b) Preserving old Photos and Stories that go with them
c) Recreation of the Ancient Tribal Chief’s Cuffs and Collar and headdress and their meaning.

Guests:
James Francis, Director of the Cultural Historic Preservation Department/Penobscot
Chris Sockalexis, Tribal Preservation Officer

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Wabanaki Windows 9/17/13

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: National level issues

Program Topic: Major issues facing the Penobscot Nation on a National level

Key Discussion Points :
a) Background of Federal/ State and Land Claims of the Penobscot Nation
b) Efforts to improve the self- determination of the tribe
c) Maine Indian Land Claims controversial issues
d) Federal Indian Law is not being applied in Maine

Guest:
Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation

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Wabanaki Windows 8/20/13

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Update of TRC project and International implications

Key Discussion Points :
What has happened since Oct 16,2012
How visible is this project on an international level
Is Genocide accurate in describing what happened to Native people in the US?
How can we be allies?

Guests:
Esther Attean, Passamaquoddy Tribal Member/Staff member for Muskie Institute and a convening member of the Tribal/State Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Bennett Collins, Research Assistant, University of St. Andrews Scotland, writing a research paper about the Wabanaki TRC process with Professor Alison Watson and Professor Sioban McEvoy-Levy to be presented at the International Studies Association Conference In Toronto Canada next year.

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