Wabanaki Windows 7/17/12

Host: Donna Loring
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Higher Education and issues surrounding it for Native People

*Importance of Education for Native People and their communities
*Life lessons and experiences leading to decision to seek a higher education
*Barriers faced within the educational system and being able to overcome them
*Importance of weaving native ways of thinking into educational papers and policy

Guest:
Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson, Member of the Penobscot Nation and faculty member at the University of Alberta Canada

Call In Program: No

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Wabanaki Windows 6/19/12

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Wabanaki Youth writers

Program Topic: Wabanaki Youth Writers Project

Key Discussion Points:
a) History Reading Group’s writings and lessons learned
b) Poetry readings of Youth’s work
c) Suggestions to teachers of Wabanaki Youth

Guests:
gkisedtanamiook, Adjunct faculty member University of Maine
One of the Program mentors and advisers
Paul Frost Retired University of Maine faculty member
Mentor and advisor

For more information about the project contact: [email protected]

Resource article:
www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3147 This URL should take you to an article titled Indian Education for All: Grounded in Place and Culture, published on the National Writing Project website. If the link fails, Google will not.

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Wabanaki Windows 2/28/12

Program Name: Wabanaki Windows
Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Native American Holocaust in Canada and the United States

Key Discussion Points:
a) Influence of Doctrine of Discovery on the creation of residential schools
b) Genocide and it’s meaning
c) What is happening today to bring the perpetrators to justice

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Clergyman Kevin Annett

Who has spent many years researching and interviewing traumatized Native students of these schools.

Call In Program: No

Resources:
www.KevinAnnett.com
www.itccs.org
www.hiddennolonger.com (includes documentary film Unrepentant)
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

And see this Introductory video on Genocide in Canada:

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Wabanaki Windows 12/20/11

Broadcast Time: 10:00AM

Program Topic: Peace and reconciliation between Maine Native People and the European Invaders
Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) History Reading Group’s writings and lessons learned
b) Dramatic Readings
c) White Privilege

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Christina Baker, Senior College Instructor, former Maine State Legislator
B) Anne Stebbins Funderburk/ Baskets
C) Bettye Worcester/ Portage
D) BarbaraMcLeod/ My Portage
E) Judy DeLongTraveling Light
F) Bill and Sue Clark/ Red Girl’s Reasoning
G) Anne Stebbins Funderburk/ White Privilege
H) Debby Messer/ Contemporary Issues
I) Paul Frost/ Dual Words

Bibliography
Unpacking the Knapsack of White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh (on the internet)
Indian Country Today a Native American News Paper updated daily on the internet
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Louwen
The Peoples History of The US by Howard Zinn
Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride
Out of the Depth by Isabelle Knockwood
Invisible (video) available at the Penobscot Nation Cultural Center on the internet
Voice of the Turtle:American Indian Literature, 1900-1970 ed. By Paula Gunn Allen, Ballentine Books, 1994

Contact for the group Portagers: [email protected]

Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No
Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Joel Mann

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Wabanaki Windows 8/16/11

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topics: Native American Wabanaki Scholarship Center at University Maine Orono
What is the new structure of the Wabanaki Center: How has the scholarship for Native American people changed? WHat is the goal of the new program?
Guests: Professor Darren Ranco, John Bear Mitchell, Coordinator of Native American and Wabanaki Center
Not a call-in show

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