Pow wow

Then, roaming labor correspondent Willie Terry shares recordings from the Capital District Area Labor Federation Labor Day picnic.

Later on, with the Homelands Powwow taking place this weekend, October 3rd and 4th, we listen back to the experience from last year.

Finally, we hear from a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee community about the trauma of not being allowed to speak one's own language.

But first, here are the headlines.

ACRA, W- WSPN 91.1 FM Saratoga Springs, and streaming online at mediasanctuary.org.

This program comes from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York.

This weekend, the Homelands Powwow is taking place on October 3rd and 4th in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Listener, as you know, we start every show with our land acknowledgement.

And to see all of the different people involved, the whole thing is very, it's an entertaining and also enlightening film.

We're joined today by the director of this wonderful film, Pow Wow People, and that would be Sky Hopinka.

Sky, welcome to Cinemaphile.

Thank you so much for having me.

I

just want to quickly remind our listeners we're speaking with Sky Hopinka.

He is the director of a wonderful documentary film called Pow Wow People.

It is out.

Everyone's welcome.

Welcome at the Pow Wow as well.

And then you guys, so then let's go to Thursday.

If we can make it to Thursday, we're almost there.

Grand Chief Jerry Daniels, one final invite to the community.

We absolutely encourage all Winnipeggers, Manitobans to participate in SCO's sixth annual Orange Shirt Day Healing Walk and Pow Wow.

All are invited.

And it was just so rewarding and the best day, and they rocked that song.

They ended up recording a song that they had been doing at Pow Wow's for many, many years.

I can't remember.

It wasn't a newer one, but it was one they'd been doing for a while, and it's Monday morning.

Are they okay? Do they suck? You gotta read the book to find out, you know, um...

Yeah, there's a series of chapters called This Person Is Not Invited to the Pow Wow featuring specific reasons why, like, Christopher Columbus and Andrew Jackson suck.

And it's like...

He's on the cover saying, it's my fault for everything.

The Sierra Club has warned that this project would be burning biomass at an unproven scale, and it would also add more noise, construction, and clear-cutting in the area.

Organizers of the Wilco Pow Wow say their two-day gathering is meant to display the beauty and pageantry of Native cultures.

The dance competition in Wilson County draws entrants from many tribes all over the U.S. Cindy Yehola says local attendees are primarily

spectators.

I've always had, well, I've always been involved in community.

My parents, you know, they really brought myself and all my siblings into the community, volunteering, being involved with the Longhouse, with the Pow Wow, with different community events.

And even then, like I was really shy in my youth.

And my dad said, I knew since I was eight years old, I wanted to be a teacher.

I started.

So all my high school, I did public speaking.

And my family, we go around the Pow Wow Trail.

My dad's Mohawk worker, been involved in some politics, you know, growing up in the community with Caledonia, Alcanostado, Land Back Lane, but just really the sense of pride about being Mohawk.

She's an enrolled citizen of the Muskogee Nation, which was known as the Creeks when it was here in Tennessee.

She's the organizer of the Wilco Pow Wow later this month, which was also started by her father.

Welcome to This is Nashville.

Thank you.

Thank you for having

me.

And on the phone from Oklahoma, Rob Daugherty, a full-blooded citizen of the Cherokee Nation, a retired educator who now travels the country as an emcee of Big Pow Wows, including the upcoming Wilco Gathering.

Welcome to the show.

Because I'm more a hot dog guy than I am a sandwich guy.

In fact, I was at the Little Shell Pow Wow two weekends ago and I had a Chippewa dog.

And what a Chippewa dog was, was a hot dog with fry bread and totally encasing it kind of like a...

Oh, they fry the whole

The outer fry bread wrapping was seamless.

So they must have...

If you get those at the Pow Wow in Arlie, they're called Rez Dogs.

But up at the Little Shell Pow Wow in Great Falls, they were called Chippewa Dogs.