First Voices Radio

Debra Utacia Krol returns to “First Voices Radio” for the full hour. Debra is an award-winning Indigenous affairs reporter at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. She is a citizen of the Xolon SalinanTribe. Debra’s current coverage area — which is supported by the Catena Foundation and the Water Funder Initiative — is the intersection of climate, culture and commerce. Debra has more than two decades of expertise in reporting on Native issues for publications large and small, with an emphasis on environmental and science issues, and has been a contributor to two books on Native traditions. Debra has been doing excellent reporting on the issue of Indigenous peoples’ water rights in Arizona.

In the first half of the show, she and Tiokasin will be discussing her recent investigative report in The Arizona Republic: “Arizona loses more of its Colorado River water allocation under new drought plan” (Aug. 16, updated Aug. 19, 2022).

In the second half, they will discuss another of Debra’s recent investigative articles for The Arizona Republic: “Poachers cash in on sage craze, imperiling the plant’s survival for Native cultural needs” (Aug. 28, updated Sept. 1, 2022).

Read the articles here: https://bit.ly/3CXaNFk; https://bit.ly/3KIG14M
 
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
 
Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)
 
2. Song Title: It Feels Like Summer
Artist: Childish Gambino
Album: Summer Pack (2018)
Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music
(00:26:32)
 
3. Song Title: By the River Side
Artist: Matthew O’Neil
Album: Songs of Connection (2022)
Label: Underwater Panther Coalition
(00:42:04)
 
4. Song Title: What About Me
Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album: What About Me (1970)
Label: Capitol Records
(00:47:17)
 
5. Song Title: Circles
Artist: Post Malone
Album: Hollywood’s Bleeding (2019)
Label: Republic Records
(00:54:34)
 
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What is First Voices Radio?

“First Voices Radio,” now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.