{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Live Free Ride Free with Rupert Isaacson","title":"America Within America: Tribal Advocacy, Sovereignty & the Future of Native Nations | Jeff Tomhave | LFRF 48","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/54de8faa\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7148,"description":"✨ “Once people release the trauma, we can start dreaming about possibility.” – Jeff Tomhave\n✨ “It’s not rocket science. It’s telling a compelling story to a receptive audience.” – Jeff Tomhave\n\nJeff Tomhave is a Native American attorney and tribal advocate who has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of federal policy, infrastructure development, healthcare access, and tribal sovereignty.\nIn this episode of Live Free Ride Free, Rupert Isaacson sits down with Jeff for a far‑reaching conversation about what it means to live in “America within America.” From federal land trust systems and underfunded reservations to cancer treatment access and tribal disenrollment, Jeff offers a rare inside look at how Native nations navigate – and challenge – the structures imposed upon them.\nJeff shares how his own path to law was less about becoming a courtroom attorney and more about gaining the tools to advocate for tribal communities at the highest levels of government. Together, he and Rupert explore invisibility, historic trauma, cultural survival, gaming revenues, sovereignty, and Jeff’s long‑term dream of training the next generation of tribal advocates.\nThis is not just a conversation about law. It is about survival, adaptation, sovereignty, healing, and what the future of Native America could look like.\nWhat You’ll Learn in This Episode:What You’ll Learn in This Episode:\nJeff’s tribal background (Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk) and how boarding school history shaped modern Native identity [00:06:00]\nWhy he chose to earn a law degree without intending to practice traditional law [00:10:00]\nHow the federal trust system prevents many tribes from owning their own land [00:12:49]\nWhy property taxation limitations impact essential services on reservations [00:16:27]\nHow infrastructure advocacy actually works in Washington, DC [00:25:00]\nThe Navajo Mountain road project and how paving 14 miles changed an entire school system [00:25:46]\nHow...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/edefuo9BicUw7iv3tBYu0A0WPDz35rwksjCWzqzh4lQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQwOTg5LzE2ODIz/MzM0MzYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}